Participated · Equity · Aug 2020

K2View offers a DataOps platform (K2View Fabric) that provides real-time, holistic access and control to enterprise data across many systems using patented logical unit technology. The platform delivers the right data to the right person in milliseconds and supports use cases such as test data management, customer data hubs, cloud enablement, and compliance. K2View says its solution reduces time-to-market from months to weeks and helps organizations cut costs while accelerating innovation. Since launching the platform in 2015, the company has worked with some of the world’s largest firms to tackle complex data challenges. K2View reported rapid growth, including over 75% CAGR in revenue and a strong first half of 2020. The company plans to use new funding to support go-to-market efforts and expand into sectors such as telecom, financial services, healthcare, insurance, and logistics.

Participated · Series E · Sep 2018

Sisense builds enterprise business analytics software designed to make big data accessible via visualizations in desktop and mobile apps and through voice platforms like Alexa, leveraging machine learning and AI and a cloud‑native platform. The product emphasizes embedding analytics across workflows and presenting digestible data to nontechnical users. The company serves roughly 2,000 customers, including Tinder, Philips, Nasdaq and the Salvation Army, and reports annual recurring revenue of over $100 million. Sisense has pursued inorganic growth, notably acquiring Periscope Data last year for about $100 million. It says it will use the new funding to continue building its technology and to expand sales, marketing and development efforts. CEO Amir Orad has framed the company’s approach as simplifying access to data and embedding analytics in every logical place. Sisense builds a data analytics and business intelligence platform that helps customers understand and visualize data across multiple sources. Its platform focuses on simplifying access to complex data, embedding analytics across screens, desktops, smartphones and voice assistants like Amazon Alexa. The company reports over 1,000 customers, including Expedia, Oppenheimer and Phillips, and powers Nasdaq Corporate Solutions' investor-relations system. Launched in 2010, Sisense employs nearly 500 people across offices in New York, Tel Aviv, Kiev, Tokyo and Arizona. Financially, Sisense announced an $80 million Series E that brings total funding to close to $200 million. The company plans to expand its international presence, add headcount in customer success and field engineering, and is open to acquisitions when the right opportunities arise. Sisense offers business analytics software that enables everyday business users to manage, analyze and visualize large, disparate data sets within a single‑stack environment on low‑cost commodity machines. Its signature In‑Chip analytics processes data up to 100X faster than competing approaches, reducing the need for extensive data preparation, large operational budgets, or specialized IT skills. The company reported revenue growth of more than 100% for the fifth consecutive year, added hundreds of new customers in 2015, and serves more than a thousand direct and indirect clients in over 50 countries. Sisense has delivered consecutive quarters of greater than 100% net renewal from its existing customer base, signaling strong retention and expansion within customers. Notable customers include Motorola, Skullcandy and eBay, and the company has received multiple industry awards. Sisense plans to continue investing in innovation and rapidly expand business operations to support global growth. SiSense builds business intelligence software that surfaces big-data analytics to ordinary business users through easy-to-understand dashboards. Its signature technology, branded In-Chip Elasticube processing, shifts work into in-chip processing rather than relying solely on in-memory systems so users can process terabytes on machines with less memory. The product is aimed at non–data-scientists and joins peers such as Looker, Origami Logic and Tableau in consumerizing data analytics. Customers mentioned include eBay, ESPN and Carlsberg. Founded in 2004 in Tel Aviv, SiSense already has an office in New York, plans a Silicon Valley office by early next year, and makes about 70% of its sales in the U.S. The company is not yet profitable but is growing quickly, expects sales to triple year-over-year, and forecasts profitability by 2015; CEO Amit Bendov has said he is eyeing an eventual IPO. SiSense provides an analytics platform centered on Elasticube, a high-performance analytical database that maximizes machine RAM, CPU, and disk use. Its Prism business-intelligence solution targets non-technical users and includes a columnar database, ETL tools, and web visualizations. The company says it can analyze 100 times more data than traditional in-memory solutions at a fraction of the cost and can analyze on one node what normally requires 20 nodes. SiSense serves customers in 49 countries, including Target, Merck, Wix, and Uber. Led by CEO Amit Bendov and based in San Francisco, the company completed a $10M Series B and intends to use the capital to increase adoption of its solution.

Participated · Equity · May 2018

Sckipio Technologies, led by CEO David Baum, is a Ramat Gan, Israel-based provider of Gfast chipsets and develops standards-compliant Gfast modems used to enable ultra-broadband access and mobile backhaul. The company partners with more than 30 companies globally on Gfast and is one of the contributors to the ITU-T standard. It raised $10M in a funding round led by MegaChips, bringing total funding to date to $50M. The round included participation from Intel Capital, Pitango Venture Partners, Genesis Partners, Gemini Israel Ventures, Amiti Ventures, Aviv Ventures, CIRTech Fund and Axess Ventures. Sckipio intends to use the funds for the global rollout of Gfast with tier-1 service providers. Sckipio is a fabless semiconductor company that develops standards-compliant G.fast modems to enable ultra-broadband access and mobile backhaul. The company says it partners with more than 30 companies globally and is a leading contributor to the ITU‑T G.fast standard. Sckipio has delivered several industry firsts, including a 16-port Distribution Point Unit, running UHDTV across G.fast, demonstrating SDN over G.fast with AT&T, and delivering 1Gbps at 300 meters. The company intends to increase technology investments to accelerate innovations in the broadband access market following the new investment. Financially, this financing represents Sckipio’s third round of funding; previously it raised $27 million from Amiti Ventures, Aviv Ventures, Genesis Partners, Gemini Israel Ventures and Pitango Venture Capital. Sckipio was founded in 2012 and is based in Ramat Gan, Israel. Sckipio Technologies develops G.fast modem chipsets and bundles them with software to deliver ultra-broadband over existing copper using Fiber-to-the-distribution-point (FTTdp) architectures. The company provides complete G.fast solutions for access and mobile backhaul based on the ITU G.fast G.9700 and G.9701 standards, to which it is a leading contributor. Sckipio says it intends to extend its leadership in the G.fast market and to scale production to meet rising demand. Management states the additional capital will help the company move faster, enhance its product offering, and provide working capital to scale production. The market for G.fast is cited as expected to reach $2.9B by 2020, underscoring commercial opportunity. Sckipio is backed by venture investors and operates out of Ramat Gan, Israel.

Participated · Series C · Jul 2017

Riskified provides AI-powered fraud-prevention and payments solutions that operate at the intersection of merchants, banks and consumers to optimize online and omnichannel paths-to-purchase. Its machine-learning models and chargeback-guarantee approach distinguish legitimate customers from fraudsters, boost conversion rates, increase bank authorization rates, protect customer accounts, and enable alternate payment methods. The company positions its model as an alternative to scoring-based solutions by aligning incentives with merchants through guaranteed chargebacks. Customers typically see order approval rate increases up to 20% and reductions in fraud-related costs up to 50%; Riskified analyzes transactions from 235 countries and territories. The company has experienced hyper growth (250% CAGR over the past five years), with ARR surpassing $100M in 2018 and projected high double-digit growth in 2019. Riskified employs 420+ people in New York and Tel Aviv and plans to open a Shanghai office before the end of 2019; the new funding is intended to accelerate domestic and international scaling and expand its product footprint. Riskified provides an e-commerce fraud prevention solution that leverages machine learning, behavioral analytics and its broad merchant network to detect fraudulent transactions while preserving customer experience. Its platform reviews transactions for signs of fraud and has processed hundreds of millions of transactions, approving billions of dollars of merchant revenue. Customers include retailers such as Foot Locker, Simplehuman and Macy’s. The company plans to use new funding to continue technology development, grow its teams in Tel Aviv and New York, and expand into new markets. Riskified emphasizes network-driven fraud insights to give merchants a fuller picture than in-house solutions can provide. The company opened a New York office last fall and says it will accelerate market penetration and international expansion with the new capital. Riskified provides an e-commerce fraud prevention solution that leverages proprietary behavioral analytics technology and machine learning. The platform guarantees the business of hundreds of global brands across sectors including luxury fashion, retail chains, gift card and ticket marketplaces. Led by cofounder and CEO Eido Gal, the company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tel Aviv, with U.S. offices in Boston. Riskified secured $25M in a funding round that increased its total capital raised to $31M. The company intends to use the funds to further accelerate growth and customer success. Riskified provides e-commerce companies with a proprietary risk enablement platform designed to increase sales by verifying, approving and guaranteeing high-risk transactions. Retailers determine which transactions to review and pay only when a transaction is approved. All approved transactions carry a 100% money-back guarantee. Co-founded in 2012 by Eido Gal and Assaf Feldman and based in Tel Aviv, the company intends to use its newly raised capital to grow and develop its platform. Riskified raised $1.65M in seed funding from a syndicate of investors.

Led · Series A · Jun 2016

dapulse is a SaaS-based team management platform that aims to improve work processes and create an environment of transparency in business. The product's structure is flexible, serving teams of two up to complex workplace operations of thousands across departments and time zones. The tool is fully customizable to suit any business vertical and the company plans further product integrations and vertical-specific customization. dapulse has over 10,000 paying teams in more than 125 countries, with customers including Adidas, AT&T, Discovery Channel, Samsung, Uber, WeWork, and Wix. Launched in 2014 and led by CEO Roy Mann and CTO Eran Zinman, the company will use new funding to scale international operations and accelerate product development. The $25M Series B increased the company's total funding to $34.1M. Dapulse began life as an internal communications tool at Wix.com and has since morphed into a full‑fledged project management SaaS. The product emphasizes a very visual, intuitive and customizable interface the company says "communicates with people," avoiding traditional hierarchical task lists. Co‑founder and CEO Roy Man says the company reached product‑market fit with this approach. Dapulse reports more than 4,500 paying customers across 85 countries, including WeWork, General Assembly, Uber, Wix, AOL, Adidas and Frost & Sullivan. The company says its customer base is doubling roughly every five months, indicating rapid scaling. Dapulse targets teams that have avoided traditional project management tools because of perceived complexity. daPulse offers a topic-based internal communications tool that lets employees follow "pulses" (topics) instead of individuals to reduce noise. The product was born as an internal project at Wix in 2010 and was spun out as a separate venture in February of this year. daPulse emphasizes topic-centered feeds so users see only projects, news, teams and updates relevant to them. The company reports usage in over 15 companies and by thousands of employees, though rollout has been limited so far. daPulse plans to use new funding to further develop its product and to expand marketing and customer acquisition efforts in the US and Europe. The startup is entering a crowded market that includes established players and recent consolidation, such as Microsoft's acquisition of Yammer.