Participated · Series A · Apr 2025

Hi Auto develops a SaaS conversational voice platform that automates drive-thru order-taking for quick-service restaurants. Its system delivers over 96% order accuracy and over 90% order completion rate, using advanced noise-cancellation and a specialized language model tuned to chaotic drive-thru environments. The product includes dynamic upselling that recommends add-ons based on store inventory, daypart, and weather, helping boost average ticket sizes. Customers include Bojangles, Checkers & Rally's, Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken, Burger King New Zealand, and Popeyes UK, and the company is running multiple paid pilots with top-tier QSR chains in the U.S. and abroad. Founded in 2019 by Roy Baharav, Eyal Shapira, and the late Zohar Zisapel, Hi Auto employs about 100 people worldwide. The company plans to use new funding to expand its footprint, refine its product, and scale deployments with leading QSR brands.

Participated · Series A · May 2024

XSQUARE Technologies is a Singapore-based intelligent warehousing automation company offering a suite of autonomous forklifts and an intelligent warehouse orchestrator that simplifies warehouse operations without extensive reconfiguration. Its products are deployed across Asia Pacific and beyond, with clients including Coca-Cola, GSK and Katoen Natie. XSQUARE recently partnered with Mitsubishi Logisnext to co-develop a new line of AGVs and to distribute its existing products through ML's global distribution network. Led by CEO Jens Bohnwagner, the company plans to use proceeds from its latest round to accelerate regional growth and product development. The company raised S$10.5M in a Series A led by Wavemaker Partners, with participation from SEEDS Capital and Goldbell Corporation.

Participated · Seed · Feb 2024

Rider Dome offers an AI-driven safety solution designed to reduce motorcycle accidents and enhance rider safety, with a focus on large motorcycle fleets. Its technology addresses the needs of sectors that use motorcycles operationally, including logistics fleets, delivery services, motorcycle rental, ride-sharing, and emergency services. The company serves large fleets globally and counts clients such as Coca Cola, Singapore Post (SingPost) and the City Council of Barcelona. Rider Dome was founded by Yoav Elgrichi, Kineret Karin and Guy Ron. In June 2024 the company raised $2.3M in Seed funding. The round included participation from private angel investors, Goldbell and Radha Rani Holdings Family Office. Rider Dome plans to use the funds to expand operations and accelerate development efforts.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2020

Vicarius provides an AI-driven platform that automates discovery, prioritization and remediation of software vulnerabilities, including a text-generating tool, vuln_GPT, to help write detection and remediation scripts. The company augments its product with a community of security researchers who share scripts and earn virtual currency, and it uses that community dataset to train its models. Vicarius says it applies “in-memory protection” to secure apps when patches are not available and validates all AI-generated scripts before customer rollout. The startup reports 5x year-over-year growth and a customer base that recently surpassed 400 brands, including PepsiCo, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Equinix. It currently has a 43-person team and plans to double headcount, invest in its product roadmap, integrate with ticketing platforms like ServiceNow and Jira, launch educational courses and let researchers spend community currency on products. Vicarius aims to expand further in North America and Europe and enter new markets in the Asia Pacific region. Vicarius offers an autonomous, cloud-based platform that consolidates the vulnerability remediation process and analyzes proprietary and third-party applications for vulnerabilities. The company aims to eliminate friction between security teams and IT operations by speeding remediation timelines that currently take four to six months from disclosure to deployment, reducing risk from supply-chain style attacks. Vicarius operates a research center that publishes information about vulnerable software and plans to build a social platform to help security engineers, offering free guidance for fixing CVEs even to noncustomers. As of the article, the company has 150 customers, including the U.K.'s National Health Service and Ingram Micro. The startup raised $24 million in a Series A led by AllegisCyber Capital, JVP and AlleyCorp, two years after a $5 million seed round. Vicarius says it will use the funds to triple headcount and expand its go-to-market strategy. Vicarius provides a proactive cybersecurity platform that predicts and mitigates software vulnerabilities in real time using machine‑learning driven Vulnerability Assessment (VA) technology and its TOPIA offering. The platform detects exposures before hacks occur and supplies immediate, built‑in remediation options plus prioritization via a risk‑snapshot dashboard. Vicarius emphasizes pre‑emptive protection and interim threat controls to reduce operational risk from reboots and delayed patching. The company plans to expand its product offering and make it available to more clients across multiple industries. The seed funding will accelerate its international growth and operating scale and support buildout of its Tel Aviv and East Coast US offices. The US team will be based out of the JVP International NYC Cyber Center to support deployments for cities, banks, utilities, healthcare systems, and other clients.

Participated · Series A · Oct 2019

Waycare is a Tel Aviv-based, AI-powered cloud SaaS platform that provides connected mobility solutions for transportation agencies. It ingests data from GPS navigation apps, connected vehicles and infrastructure to deliver actionable, predictive insights that identify roads where future crashes are likely to occur. The company’s first commercial deployment was with Southern Nevada in 2017, and it has since expanded to Florida, Ohio and other U.S. states. Waycare was founded in Israel by Noam Maital and Shai Suzan and also operates a Los Angeles office. The company plans to expand services in Europe and Israel in 2020 and will use recent funding to drive expansion in North America and Europe and to enhance its cloud-based platform. In April 2019 it raised a $7.25M Series A. Waycare offers a cloud-based AI-driven transportation management platform that integrates historical and real-time data—traffic light timing, major events, weather, vehicle location, speeds, acceleration/deceleration, counts and occupancies—to produce predictive analytics and actionable insights. The platform gives municipal agencies a full mobility map of their roads regardless of existing infrastructure and helps identify dangerous driving conditions before incidents occur. Waycare is led by CEO Noam Maital and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Palo Alto, CA. The company raised $2.3M in seed funding to support its growth. Waycare plans to expand its Israel-based software development team and support upcoming engagements with cities across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. It also intends to continue growing data partnerships with OEMs, telematics providers, and navigation-solution companies.