Hanaco Ventures
Hahoshlim St. 5, Building A, 2nd floor, Herzliya, Israel
Overview
Hanaco Venture Capital is a technology company with visionary and passionate entrepreneurs. Hanaco was founded by Alon Lifshitz, Lior Prosor, and Pasha Romanovski in 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Total investments
- 75
- Lead investments
- 27
- Investments · 12mo
- 4
- Active investors
- 7
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Hemispheric
Participated · Equity · Jul 2026
Hemispheric developed Descartes, a 6-billion-parameter NeuroAI foundation model trained on a proprietary multimodal EEG and behavioral dataset of more than 250,000 hours from over 100,000 participants. Descartes is designed to translate brain electrical activity into objective measures that can detect disease earlier, distinguish disorder subtypes, and guide treatment selection. The company deploys a lightweight dry EEG headset worn for about 15 minutes while users interact with an app to capture brain activity without surgery or lengthy protocols. Hemispheric has built dedicated data-collection labs and model-training infrastructure and demonstrated its platform to the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health while pursuing a broad regulatory strategy. Its initial clinical applications target conditions including PTSD, mTBI, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer’s disease. The company has a 112-person interdisciplinary team and announced a $52 million early-stage financing to accelerate deployment, grow its data network, and advance regulatory and commercial efforts.
- Milestone
Led · Seed · Nov 2025
Milestone offers an enterprise-grade platform that ingests data from codebases, project-management systems, team structures, and code-generation tools to create a comprehensive “GenAI data lake.” This enables engineering leaders to see which teams use AI assistants, measure feature-delivery speed, trace bugs to AI-generated code, and make informed decisions about tool deployment. Current customers include Kayak, Monday, and Sapiens, validating Milestone’s focus on large enterprises while it deliberately turns away smaller prospects. The company partners with vendors such as GitHub, Augment Code, Qodo, Continue, and Atlassian to keep pace with the rapidly evolving AI tooling landscape. Founded by CEO Liad Elidan in Israel with CTO Professor Stephen Barrett collaborating from Ireland, the fully distributed team emphasizes academic rigor and enterprise-grade security to access customer codebases. Milestone plans to remain focused on engineering efficiency rather than expanding into other corporate functions. Its $10 million seed financing gives it the capital to deepen product capabilities and scale enterprise go-to-market efforts, although revenue and user figures have not been disclosed.
- SpotitEarly
Participated · Equity · Oct 2025
Founded in Israel in 2020, SpotitEarly is building an at-home screening kit that lets users collect a breath sample and mail it to the company’s lab, where 18 specially trained beagles and an AI platform work together to detect cancer-specific volatile organic compounds. Cameras, microphones and heart-rate monitors track each dog’s behavior, and machine-learning software validates their responses, producing a digital result that can be shared with physicians. In a double-blind clinical study of 1,400 participants published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, the system identified breast, colorectal, prostate and lung cancers with 94 % accuracy. SpotitEarly plans to launch single-cancer tests priced around $250 and a discounted multi-cancer panel that undercuts rivals such as Grail’s $950 Galleri test. The company is beginning U.S. operations and intends to use dogs and AI as complementary biosensors, emphasizing animal welfare and employee “dog-friendly” culture. Backed by $20.3 million in venture funding, management is focusing the new capital on expanding clinical studies—starting with breast cancer—and preparing to distribute kits through a physicians’ network next year.
- Quack
Led · Seed · Sep 2025
Quack has built an operating system that turns customer support from a reactive cost center into a proactive growth engine by integrating AI agents directly into existing CRM workflows. The platform allows CX teams to train the agents topic-by-topic—mirroring how a human rep is onboarded—so the bots can tackle complex, contextual queries at scale. Quality-assurance tools cover both AI and human interactions, continuously improving agent performance and reliability. The company says dozens of global brands such as Artlist, Yotpo, WalkMe and Hologram already rely on its technology. With a global presence in Tel Aviv, San Francisco and New York, Quack intends to funnel new capital into U.S. go-to-market efforts and further product innovation. Founded by Nadav Kemper and Aviram Roisman, Quack positions itself to help companies reduce support costs while boosting customer satisfaction.
- Carbyne
Participated · Series D · Jul 2025
Carbyne builds a cloud-native APEX platform that embeds AI into 911 call handling, dispatch, resource coordination, and emergency decision-making. Its AI Suite is integrated across the platform rather than as bolt-on tools, trained on proprietary datasets generated from millions of emergency interactions. Over the past year the company reported triple-digit growth, including +477% year‑over‑year growth in APEX ARR and a +105% increase in APEX platform customers. Carbyne is deployed at nearly 300 sites worldwide across 23 U.S. states and six countries, with more than 7,000 calltakers using its platform. The company processes over 250 million data points annually and reports 99.999% call handling uptime. Carbyne plans to use new capital to expand R&D and engineering, deepen AI capabilities, scale operations globally, and pursue strategic partnerships and integrations. Carbyne provides cloud-native solutions for emergency response centers, enabling emergency contact centers and select enterprises to connect with callers and connected devices via secure channels without requiring a consumer app. Its unified platform delivers live, actionable data—including video, photos, geolocation—and AI-based features to streamline operations and improve transparency. The company offers Carbyne APEX, an i3-compliant unified emergency call management solution that consolidates AI and rich media data for call takers, and Carbyne Universe, an OTT solution that delivers AI-based and rich media functionality without disrupting existing contracts or infrastructure. Carbyne intends to use the new investment to expand operations and development efforts. Led by CEO Amir Elichai and based in New York City, the company is positioning its offerings for resale through AT&T. Carbyne provides cloud-based systems used by emergency services to handle medical, public-safety, transportation and other urgent calls, including its APEX platform used by customers such as the city of New Orleans. Its technology is installed in emergency response services that cover about 400 million people and handles roughly 150 million 911 calls annually, and the company says it is on track to cover 1 billion people by 2024. Carbyne aims to make contact-center workers more effective and less stressed by investing in tools like sentiment analysis and trauma detection and by capturing richer data from callers. The company plans to expand in the U.S., establish a partner program to pursue global opportunities (it does not sell directly), and increase R&D investment. Financially, Carbyne grew revenues 400% in the last year and has raised $56 million in a Series C that values the company around $400 million. The startup was founded in Israel (R&D remains there) and is now headquartered in New York; it is primarily active in the U.S. Carbyne provides a unified, cloud-native platform that enables emergency communication centers, first responders, citizens and governments to share live actionable data to improve operational efficiency and save lives. The company is expanding its cloud-native platform into the emergency health services market and introducing an instantly deployable platform for unified flow between callers, health-related call centers, first responders, nurses and hospitals. Carbyne plans to work with Global Medical Response to develop interactive communication solutions for health and medical sectors and to build new dedicated domestic resources. To scale operations in North America, Carbyne will relocate CTO and co-founder Alex Dizengoff from Tel Aviv to the United States to grow a North American R&D center. Global Medical Response’s COO Edward Van Horne will join Carbyne’s board of directors as part of the collaboration. Financially, the company has raised a total of $73 million since its launch in 2015. Carbyne offers a cloud-based platform for emergency services that surfaces richer caller data (location, video) and enables remote telemedicine to accelerate 911 and EMS responses. Its technology no longer requires users to install an app, having integrated third-party location services to connect callers directly. The company partners with public-health providers and firms such as CentralSquare and Global Medical Response and says it is on target to cover about 90% of the U.S. market. Usage and adoption grew strongly during the pandemic: Carbyne served 250 million people before COVID and now covers roughly 400 million people, launching a new implementation every 10 days since March. In the last nine months it provided about 155 million location points and 1.3 million minutes of video; revenues doubled starting in Q2 and then grew 160% in Q3 and Q4. Carbyne aims to serve some 1.5 billion people by 2023 as it expands its technology and market footprint.