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Maccabee Ventures

150 Columbus Avenue, Suite 19F, New York, 10023, United States

Overview

Maccabee Ventures is a NYC based, early-stage venture capital fund dedicated to investing in exceptional entrepreneurs and outstanding teams in North America and Israel. Maccabee Ventures offers a distinctive investment strategy drawing upon the decades of successful investment experience of its managing members, Moshe Bellows and Bruce Taragin, investing into B2B SaaS, Converging Technologies (AI, ML, and NLP), Cybersecurity, FinTech, PropTech, Digital Health and SilverTech™ (enhancing the lives of seniors and their caregivers). As a strategic investor, Maccabee Ventures cultivates meaningful relationships with founders, providing a "Trifecta of Added Value," including extensive networking/customer acquisition opportunities, introductions to top talent, and access to valuable co-investors. Now investing out of Fund II, notable companies from Fund I include industry disrupters such as Jiga, Gloss.ai, FundGuard, Eleos Health, Cyabra and Agora. Dedicated to educating the next generation of financial professionals with moral clarity, Moshe and Bruce developed and teach a year-long Angel and Venture Capital Investing curriculum at Yeshiva University, Sy Syms School of Business. Through the year-long, experiential venture capital curriculum, students at the Yeshiva University Sy Syms School of Business gain comprehensive exposure to the venture ecosystem.

Total investments
11
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
2

Sector focus

  • Cyber Security
  • Enterprise Software
  • FinTech
  • Health Care
  • SaaS
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Investment portfolio

  • Materialspace

    Participated · Seed · Jan 2026

    Materialspace builds a single, AI-driven software platform designed to replace the fragmented, spreadsheet-heavy workflows that dominate interior construction planning and procurement. The system ingests blueprints, product catalogs, and pricing data, then structures and optimizes that information so teams can move seamlessly from cost estimation through design and ordering. By unifying these steps, the company targets delays and inefficiencies that are exacerbated by skilled-labor shortages and increasing project complexity. Since launching its product less than a year ago, Materialspace reports rapid adoption and expansion, fueled mainly by distributors and manufacturers eager to scale without adding headcount or sacrificing margins. Co-founders and twin brothers Yoash and Nadav Palmor bring experience from manufacturing consulting and AI startups, respectively, to drive product development and market penetration. The firm positions its technology as a catalyst for fundamentally changing customer economics once critical workflows become continuous and intelligent. To support this vision, Materialspace has secured $7 million in Seed financing, its first publicly disclosed funding round.

  • Marqii

    Participated · Equity · Nov 2024

    Marqii provides a digital operations platform for hospitality businesses, centered on review management that lets multi-unit operators track and respond to Yelp, Google, Facebook, OpenTable, GrubHub, Uber Eats, and ezCater reviews. The platform centralizes guest feedback to help operators save time, rank higher in search results, attract more guests, and learn what matters most to customers. More than 12,000 hospitality businesses of all sizes use Marqii. The company plans to use the new funding to continue hospitality-specific product development, hire additional team members, and further expand its network of partners and integrations. Marqii was founded in 2017 by Avi Goren, Evan Perlmutter, and Bryan Rutcofsky and is based in Austin, TX.

  • GlossAI

    Participated · Seed · Feb 2023

    Dig builds AI-powered social intelligence to analyze videos, images, and text across social platforms and flag reputational risks such as disinformation, deepfakes, and counterfeit promotions while accounting for humor and sarcasm. Founded in 2021 in Tel Aviv, the company pivoted from repurposing marketing video content to detecting influencer-driven disinformation amid escalating geopolitical conflicts. It uses in-house large language models to reduce compute costs, claiming analysis can be up to 100 times cheaper than commercial APIs and that its models can identify 90% of relevant social posts about a brand. Dig serves around 70 clients and generates revenue via monthly subscription fees with usage-based pricing; it also offers a chatbot for real-time queries and reports. The company has about 50 employees across Tel Aviv, New York, and London and emphasizes speed of analysis as a competitive edge. Dig plans to use recent funding to invest in sales and marketing and grow those teams. GlossAi builds AI tools that take long, verbal-content-rich media and automatically produce many short, platform-tailored artifacts — 15-second clips, highlight reels, blog posts from transcripts, slide decks, e-books and social content. The company positions itself between pure generative systems and intelligent clipping, relying on its own multimodal models and tunable settings for length, voice and imagery. GlossAi focuses specifically on “verbal content-rich” media such as webinars, presentations and interviews rather than home movies or more creative video. Its target users include content producers seeking more reach and ROI from long-form material and corporate teams that want condensed versions of internal trainings and presentations. The approach is intended to make long content discoverable across formats and platforms while also raising concerns about increased low-effort amplification or spam. GlossAi recently reinforced its financial runway by raising an $8 million seed round.

  • Shabodi

    Participated · Series A · Dec 2022

    Shabodi is a Toronto-based platform that enables enterprises, system integrators, and telcos to build next-generation, network-aware applications in multi-vendor 5G and LTE environments. Founded in 2020 by Vikram Chopra and former Cisco and Juniper Networks CTO Harpreet Geekee, the company focuses on helping customers tap into 5G, Advanced LTE, WiFi 6 and 6G capabilities. Its product targets enterprises and service providers looking to accelerate development and deployment of network-aware applications. Shabodi recently raised $10.3M in a Series A to expand its business reach and support global expansion. Ramesh Kaza joined earlier this year as President & Chief Commercial Officer to support the company’s global expansion. The company has also added veteran telecom entrepreneur Joe Beatty to its board alongside investors Bruce Taragin and Vishal Makhijani. Shabodi builds an application enablement platform that abstracts 5G network complexity and exposes simple APIs so developers can create Industry 4.0 and enterprise applications. The company targets enterprises, system integrators and telecommunications firms aiming to monetize 5G deployments and accelerate return on investment. Founded in 2020 by telecom veterans Vikram Chopra and Harpreet Geekee, Shabodi positions itself as a bridge between 5G infrastructure and application developers. It is already working with customers and is in talks with about a dozen enterprises. The startup has 15 employees and holds two patents, with a third patent expected next year. Shabodi plans to use new funding to build out product and sales teams and to ready its first product for public consumption by the end of this year.

  • Yes Hearing

    Participated · Series A · Nov 2022

    Yes Hearing operates a patient-centered delivery model that combines audiologist-led telehealth with hands-on professional hearing care delivered in patients' homes. The company operates in all 50 states through a network of more than 500 mobile audiologists and hearing care specialists and offers prescription hearing aids at roughly 40% less than typical clinic prices. Founded in 2019, Yes Hearing focuses on increasing adoption, usage, and ongoing care for individuals with hearing loss in a large, underserved market. With the new financing the company plans to advance growth and scale its direct-to-consumer operations and accelerate development of a proprietary home care technology platform. Yes Hearing intends to further strengthen its market, product, and service offerings and to develop partnerships with payers, providers, organizations, and large-scale healthcare groups. The company will also add Todd Walrath to its board to drive nationwide growth and partnership development.

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