Participated · Series B · Apr 2024

Magnus Metal has developed a "digital casting" process that slices designs into layers and creates ceramic forms 4–20 mm thick into which molten metal is dripped and built up layer by layer. Each new layer melts the previous one to bond material and allow impurities to float out, yielding parts the company says have fewer defects and are 10%–20% stronger than traditionally cast parts. The system is positioned as faster than 3D printing, able to use customer-specified materials, and its ceramic bases can be reused for a finite number of parts. Magnus says the approach removes the need for expensive tooling used in sand casting, making lower-volume, complex parts more cost-effective while acknowledging simple parts will still favor sand casting. The company plans to sell both machines and proprietary ceramic feedstock, targeting $500,000 to $1 million of recurring revenue per machine. Magnus Metal has raised a $74 million Series B to support industrialization this year and to begin beta testing at the start of next year.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2022

Lendai provides an online financing platform that enables foreign non‑resident borrowers investing in the US residential market to obtain mortgages without US credit history or residency. Its proprietary platform uses an AI‑driven Triple Digital Underwriting System that simultaneously underwrites US properties and foreign investors' creditworthiness. The end‑to‑end digital process allows investors to complete financing from their home countries. Lendai has built a global network of hundreds of real estate service providers and agencies across Australia, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the UK, Canada, and the US. The company is led by Co‑Founder and CEO Yair Benyamini and is based in Miami, Toronto, and Tel Aviv. It plans to use new funding to expand services, increase loan size, bolster offerings, and grow its footprint in the $1T+ underserved foreign investor market.

Participated · Equity · Nov 2021

TriEye builds SWIR-based sensors and a proprietary illumination source (branded sedar) intended to provide imaging and depth information for advanced driver assistance and autonomous systems. The company says its engineering breakthroughs have driven down SWIR costs to compete with conventional cameras and to outperform existing sensors in adverse conditions. TriEye uses CMOS semiconductors and is working with major foundries to scale production toward millions of units per year. The company is engaging major OEMs to commercialize sedar on specific vehicle models, while also targeting industrial use cases like food sorting, materials identification, biometrics and surveillance. CEO Avi Bakal emphasizes cost savings relative to cameras and lidar as key to mass-market adoption. TriEye has built on over a decade of research led by CTO Uriel Levy at Hebrew University. TriEye focuses on short-wave infrared (SWIR) imaging to address poor-visibility driving conditions such as fog, rain and dust. The company says it has developed an HD SWIR camera that is smaller, higher-resolution and cheaper than existing alternatives, based on advanced nano-photonics research by co-founder and CTO Uriel Levy. TriEye claims a unique semiconductor design that enables manufacturing SWIR HD cameras at a fraction of current costs. The camera was due to launch in 2020, and the company plans to use new funding for product development, operations and hiring. The team includes expertise in deep learning, nano-photonics and semiconductor components. TriEye was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Israel.

Participated · Series A · Apr 2021

LocusView Solutions Inc. announced a $64 million Series A round on April 28, 2021. The round was led by Israel Growth Partners, a new investor in the company. Other participants included new investors Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings Ltd. (TASE:CLIS), Discount Capital, and Leumi Partners Ltd., alongside existing investors. The reporting describes the financing specifically as a Series A round. The company has raised $80 million in total funding to date.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2019

nsKnox provides bank account validation and B2B payment security through its PaymentKnox Payment Security Platform, aimed at preventing fraud and ensuring compliance for corporations and banks. Its core technologies include patented Cooperative Cyber Security (CCS) and the Bank Account Certificate for global account validation, master data security, and automated payment transaction scanning. The platform is designed to detect and prevent finance and operations infrastructure attacks, social engineering, business email compromise (BEC), insider fraud, and other advanced persistent fraud attacks. nsKnox works with some of the world’s largest enterprise companies and recently secured tens of new global corporate customers while growing total ARR by more than 125%. The company said it will use the new funding primarily to scale its go-to-market infrastructure and to expand its product suite to corporations and banks. nsKnox positions itself to help organizations avoid significant financial losses, heavy fines, and reputational damage by verifying account ownership and the true entity of senders and receivers for both outgoing and incoming payments. nsKnox provides a real-time corporate payment protection platform that defends organizations against cyber‑fraud, internal fraud, social engineering and data manipulation throughout the payment journey. The platform validates payment authenticity, verifies sender and receiver, and identifies and prevents manipulations across enterprise, bank, and supplier touchpoints. Its Cooperative Cyber Security (CCS) technology combines multiple cybersecurity systems from several organizations to secure both outbound and inbound payments. Founded in 2016 by Alon Cohen and led by CEO Nir Tenzer, the company operates from Boston, MA and Tel Aviv, Israel. nsKnox intends to use the funds from its Series A to expand its global customer base and further develop its corporate payment protection platform. In February 2019 it completed a $15m Series A.