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Hetz Ventures

12 Rav Aluf David Elazar St, Tel Aviv-Yafo, 6107075, Israel

Overview

Hetz Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on Israeli start-ups. The firm consists of a team of investment professionals, backed by some of Europe's connected investors. Hetz Ventures was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Total investments
54
Lead investments
19
Investments · 12mo
14
Active investors
8

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Arrakis Security

    Led · Seed · Aug 2026

    Arrakis Security has publicly emerged from stealth alongside the announcement of its $8 million seed financing. The company attracted a lead investment from Hetz Ventures and additional support from founders and cybersecurity leaders such as Tal Baron, Omer Efrat, and Ron Shani. The available information highlights strong backing from industry professionals. The announcement did not disclose details about the company’s specific products, revenue, users, founding year, or location. No information on future plans or use of funds was provided in the article.

  • Act Security

    Participated · Seed · Jul 2026

    Act Security was founded by Jonathan Langer, Itay Kirshenbaum, Stephen Goldberg, and Ilai Fallach, the team behind medical-device security company Medigate. The startup is building a platform designed to protect cloud infrastructure and on-premise data centers from cyber threats. Drawing on the founders’ experience in safeguarding connected medical devices, the company aims to extend similar rigorous security to broader enterprise environments. Act Security is already staffed by about 30 employees. Since launching, the company has attracted significant investor interest, amassing $60 million across two rounds. This capital positions the young firm to continue expanding its technology and team as it brings its platform to market.

  • Oak

    Participated · Seed · Jul 2026

    Oak offers an AI-native unified control plane for identity and access management that maps permissions to actual application usage and removes unneeded access in real time. Its product includes an AI connector framework designed to detect risk-based signals (for example, unusual login locations) and reduce manual, periodic access reviews. The company spent months consulting roughly 100 CISOs and IAM leaders during product development and launched generally available software that it says is already deployed by enterprise clients. Oak was co-founded by Shai Morag and Tal Marom and built a team of about 50 employees while in stealth; it is actively hiring, with plans for a majority of staff to be based in the U.S. The startup positions itself as a replacement for legacy IAM tools and intends to invest its recent funding heavily into R&D and growth.

  • Aligned

    Participated · Series B · Jul 2026

    Aligned pioneered the Digital Sales Room category and has evolved it into an AI Deal Workspace that enables sellers, buyers and agentic AI to work deals together in a single shared workspace. The platform is used by 70,000 sellers and 1 million buyers to run deals every month, and enterprise customers such as Deel, SimilarWeb and WordPress report 30% faster sales cycles and 15% higher win rates. Aligned says it has tripled ARR over the past 12 months and is recognized by G2 as the category leader in Digital Sales Rooms in Summer 2026. The company is headquartered in New York and Tel Aviv and was founded by Gal Aga, Gal Deitsch and Yotam Sela. Aligned's product centers on a proprietary AI Deal Brain that ingests live deal context across CRM, emails, calls and between-meeting buyer engagement to power seller and buyer agents. With the new funding, Aligned plans to expand enterprise-grade features, integrations and compliance while scaling go-to-market efforts to drive broader adoption of its agentic deal-execution layer.

  • Lama AI

    Participated · Series A · Jun 2026

    Lama AI develops an AI-agent platform that provides credit-risk assessment solutions to banks and fintech companies to speed and improve loan approvals for small and medium-sized businesses. Since launching, the company expanded support across the full lifecycle of additional credit products, including commercial and industrial lending, commercial real estate financing, and credit cards. Lama AI reports 300% year-over-year growth and says customers have achieved improvements of several hundred percent in key business performance metrics. Financially, the company has now surpassed $20 million in total funding following its $12 million Series A. The company plans to scale its go-to-market, sales, and marketing teams to meet growing demand from U.S. banks.

Team

  • Stuart Roden

    Co-Founder & General Partner

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  • Andrew Feldman

    Founder & General Partner

  • Judah Taub

    Managing Partner & Co-Founder

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  • Pavel Livshiz

    General Partner

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