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Gefen Capital

85 Medinat Hayehudim St, Herzliya Pituach, 4676670, Israel

Overview

Gefen Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage Seed and Series A rounds. The firm invests in deep tech startups in sectors such as Enterprise Software, ML/AI, Cyber, FinTech, MedicalTech and more.

Total investments
17
Lead investments
1
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
0

Sector focus

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Investment portfolio

  • PVML

    Participated · Seed · Apr 2024

    PVML combines an AI-centric data access and analysis platform with differential privacy to let enterprises analyze sensitive data in place. The product offers a ChatGPT-like interface that uses retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to minimize hallucinations while keeping data on-premises. By applying practical differential privacy algorithms, PVML aims to remove the need for heavy redaction and reduce overhead for secure data access. The approach is intended to democratize data access across business units and could enable companies to monetize data safely. Founders Shachar Schnapp (CEO) and Rina Galperin (CTO) bring technical backgrounds in differential privacy, computer vision, AI, and NLP from roles at General Motors and Microsoft. PVML recently closed an $8 million seed round to support its development and go-to-market efforts.

  • Zenity

    Participated · Series A · Sep 2023

    Zenity builds a platform that gives security teams visibility, enforcement and response capabilities specifically for AI agents, allowing deterministic blocking, modification or allowance of agent actions by understanding intent. The company serves a majority of customers in the Fortune 500, Global 2000 and highly regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, energy and manufacturing. Zenity operates Zenity Labs, whose research has uncovered industry-defining vulnerabilities—examples include AgentFlayer and other disclosed flaws in agentic frameworks and integrations. The company has more than 230 employees, with R&D centered in Tel Aviv and go-to-market and operations led from New York. Financially, Zenity reported tripling revenue in each of the past two years and said it is on track to triple revenue again this year. Going forward, Zenity plans to use its new funding to accelerate platform innovation, expand Zenity Labs and grow its global footprint, particularly across Europe and Asia Pacific.

  • AccSenSe

    Participated · Seed · Jan 2023

    accSenSe provides Okta customers with a single enterprise-ready platform for continuous protection and real-time access management across workforce and customer IAM needs. The platform is designed to make IAM systems resilient, offering one-click recovery, constant verification of backed-up data, periodic testing to keep backups current, and the ability to identify changes between different Points in Time (PiTs). Led by CEO Muli Motola, the company focuses on business continuity for Okta deployments. accSenSe raised $5M in Seed funding to support its growth. The round was led by Joule Ventures, with participation from Gefen Capital, Fusion, and independent investors. The company plans to use the funds to expand to other IAM vendors, accelerate new market expansion, and hire additional staff.

  • Ask-AI

    Participated · Seed · Oct 2022

    Ask-AI provides a generative AI answers and insights solution that connects to more than 50 enterprise work systems, ingesting, analyzing and understanding enterprise knowledge. It integrates that knowledge into employees' workflows to boost productivity and support use cases across customer support, success, product, R&D and sales. The platform connects to systems such as Salesforce, Zendesk, Confluence, Jira, Slack, Google Drive and Teams. Customers include Monday.com, Callrail, Yotpo, HiBob, Own and Instawork. The company is led by founder and CEO Alon Talmor and currently has a 40-person team across Tel Aviv and Toronto, with plans to double headcount over the next 12 months. Ask-AI intends to use the new funding to expand operations and accelerate product development. Ask-AI combines artificial intelligence and natural language processing to analyze long texts, summarize them into single-sentence answers, and surface recurring questions and insights across an organization. The platform ingests internal and customer communication sources — including Slack, emails, chats, databases and monitored call-center recordings — to provide business, process and product answers. When it cannot find answers, the system uses those questions to learn and help drive knowledge creation, effectively becoming a central organizational knowledge base. Ask-AI operates on a SaaS model and counts Ownbackup, Yotpo, Armis, Coralogix, Claroty and WalkMe among its customers and design partners. Led by CEO Alon Talmor, the team also includes Prof. Jonathan Berant, Dafna Lavran and Eyal Medar. The company plans to use the new funding to accelerate growth and expand operations and business reach.

  • Skyline Robotics

    Participated · Series A · Mar 2022

    Skyline Robotics is a deep‑tech robotics and automation company whose flagship product, Ozmo, is a robotic‑armed high‑rise window cleaning system. Ozmo combines artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, advanced robotics, and sensors to clean building façades up to three times faster than humans while reducing risk. The company positions Ozmo as a safer, faster, and more economical alternative in the $40B window cleaning industry and aims to expand automation to other types of work at heights. Skyline is expanding internationally — including plans for NYC and London — and has a partnership with Principle Cleaning Services to deploy Ozmo in London. It has secured patents in Japan and Singapore and plans to grow its R&D team and formalize a new construction line of business. Skyline recently closed a $9.8M Pre‑Series A‑2 round (including SAFE conversions), bringing total capital raised to $19.4M; proceeds will support expansion and product development. Skyline Robotics is a deep tech robotics and automation company whose flagship product, OZMO, is described as the world’s first high-rise window-cleaning robot. OZMO combines artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision with advanced robotics and sensors to address labor shortages and worker safety in the $40B window cleaning industry. The company has been granted key patents in Japan and Singapore and has already deployed its first robots in New York City while pursuing worldwide expansion and go-to-market strategies for major cities. Skyline received a 2023 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award for Ozmo and emphasizes a safer, more efficient alternative to human window cleaners. Financially, Skyline completed a $3.35M funding round raised through a SAFE note to support its 2023 business operations plan and has raised $12M in total to date. Management stated the round was raised on more attractive terms than prior rounds, citing validated milestones and demand for the robotics solution as drivers of investor confidence. Skyline Robotics' flagship product, Ozmo, is described as the world’s first high‑rise window‑cleaning robot, combining AI, machine learning, computer vision and sensors. The company positions Ozmo as a safer, faster and more economical alternative to human window washers while aiming to create a human‑robot working partnership rather than replace jobs. Skyline is preparing for the first customer deployment of Ozmo in New York City and plans to expand its New York City team. The recent funding will support continued product development and new capabilities to "own the facade operations of the future." Skyline says it is disrupting the $40B window‑cleaning industry with its automation approach. Financially, the company closed a $6.5M pre‑Series A and has raised $9M to date. Skyline Robotics develops Ozmo, a window‑cleaning robot that uses computer vision and machine learning to map complex skyscraper geometries and create efficient cleaning paths. Ozmo uses distilled water as its only cleaning supply and is designed to remove humans from high‑risk window‑washing work. The company says Ozmo can speed traditional cleaning by about 18× — reducing a 40‑story building job that would require three cleaners each working roughly 480 hours into about one week with a single operator on the ground. Founded in 2017 by Avi Abadi and Yaron Schwarcz, the founders researched the job by getting certified and working as window washers before building the product. Less than a year after founding the team had systems deployed on several of Israel’s largest buildings, though they had not yet cleaned an entire building start‑to‑finish. Skyline plans to lease Ozmo to cleaning and maintenance companies worldwide on a revenue‑share, no‑upfront‑cost model, targeting the $10B window‑washing market and then the broader construction industry. The company also states it will implement a CSR program to fund two years of basic engineering training for displaced window washers once it begins generating revenue.

Team

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