Participated · Series C · Sep 2024

Intezer offers an AI platform that treats every security alert like a high-priority investigation, using a DNA-style "security genome" to identify origins, permutations and connections among threats. The product automates triage and investigation, claiming to reduce human investigation time from 30–240 minutes to about two minutes. Its stack combines in-house analysis and remediation with third-party technology (including use of OpenAI APIs for natural-language signals) and integrates with vendors such as Palo Alto Networks, Wiz and CrowdStrike. Intezer has a track record of attribution and discovery work (e.g., identifying WannaCry origins and discovering malware families) that underpins its detection models. The company says roughly 4% of an organization’s alerts become escalated red alerts, while overall alert volumes can range from 4,000 to 11,000 per day, which motivates its automation focus. Management plans to expand the business following recent strong growth and the Series C; the company coordinated its fundraise news with a large CrowdStrike user conference. Financially, Intezer raised a $33M Series C and has $60M raised to date; it is based out of New York with deep roots in Israel and is not disclosing valuation. Intezer builds 'genetic malware analysis' software that maps code reuse to identify, track and help eradicate malware. Its core commercial products are Intezer Protect and Intezer Analyze (the latter without remediation). The technology treats binary code like genetic material to uncover the origins of threats and detect code similarities across malware families. Customers include Fortune 500 companies, late-stage startups and elite government agencies. Notable successes cited by the company include identifying WannaCry's North Korean origin, linking the DNC breach to Russian actors, and discovering the Linux-focused HiddenWasp malware family. Led by CEO and co-founder Itai Tevet (formerly of Israel's IDF CERT) alongside co-founders Alon Cohen and Roy Halevi, Intezer plans to use funding to expand customers and apply its model to other binary-code–driven devices such as drones, medical devices and smartphones; the company has raised $25M to date and did not disclose a valuation. Intezer is a cybersecurity startup that applies concepts from the biological immune system to map and identify the "DNA" of every piece of code to detect malware and code reuse. Its core product performs fast code‑DNA mapping to improve malware detection and accelerate incident response. The company has demonstrated success tracing major global threats, including WannaCry, Turla and NotPetya. Intezer is led by co‑founder and CEO Itai Tevet and is based in San Francisco. Financially, Intezer announced an $8 million Series A to support growth. The company plans to use the funding to expand global sales efforts and pursue opportunities in targeted markets. Intezer provides a virtual “security camera” that displays a visual map of all the software running in an organization at any given moment, down to the single code-fragment level in memory. Its platform is aimed at medium to large organizations and is designed to enable security teams to detect and respond to sophisticated cyber attacks regardless of malware behavior or signature. The company was founded in 2015 by Roy Halevi, Itai Tevet and Alon Cohen and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. On December 16, 2016 Intezer raised $2M in seed funding. The company intends to use the funds to grow its team. The article does not disclose additional operating metrics or revenue figures.

Participated · Equity · Oct 2023

ScyllaDB develops a NoSQL database platform optimized for high-throughput, low-latency workloads across multi-cloud, hybrid and on-premises deployments. Its technology automatically tunes I/O and CPU, co-locates workloads under a single server cluster, and claims millions of operations per second with single-digit millisecond latency. The company reports more than 400 customers, including Discord, Epic Games and Palo Alto Networks, and says revenue has grown 800% since its founding in December 2012. ScyllaDB employs a 168-person team and plans to use new capital to accelerate momentum and expand headcount. To date the company has raised $103 million in venture capital. ScyllaDB provides a real-time big data database fully compatible with Apache Cassandra. Its platform is used by companies including Comcast, Starbucks, Ola Cabs, Samsung, IBM, Grab, MediaMath, AppNexus and Investing.com. The company has launched a DynamoDB-compatible API to enable DynamoDB users to migrate to ScyllaDB’s free open-source database. Management says it will use new funding to further develop the DynamoDB-compatible API, expand its engineering team, and double its global sales and marketing organization. Led by CEO Dor Laor and based in Palo Alto, ScyllaDB has raised $60M in total to date. The article does not disclose revenue or user metrics. ScyllaDB builds a real-time big data database that is fully compatible with Apache Cassandra. Led by CEO Dor Laor, the company's Scylla open-source database is used as a key-value store, time-series database, large blob store and graph database backend. Customers include AppNexus, AdGear, CERN, Discord, IBM, Nauto, Ola Cabs, Samsung and Ytel. The company partners with industry players such as Qualcomm, IBM Compose and Samsung SDS. ScyllaDB plans to use the new funding to accelerate its entry into the database-as-a-service (DBaaS) market, leveraging early success of Scylla and the acquisition of DBaaS intellectual property in October of last year. The company is based in Palo Alto, California. ScyllaDB builds an open-source NoSQL database engineered in C++ as a drop-in replacement for Apache Cassandra, targeting very low latency and high throughput. The product is used in production by customers including IBM, AppNexus, CPI Card Group and Investing.com. Led by founder and CEO Dor Laor, the team includes technologists from the company behind the KVM hypervisor and open-source specialists from 13 countries. The company plans to accelerate sales and marketing and expand both its open-source and enterprise product features using the new funding. ScyllaDB is based in Herzelia, Israel and Palo Alto, California.

Participated · Equity · Aug 2023

Allseated builds a platform for immersive event and venue planning featuring 3D visualization, floor-plan design tools, virtual tours and digital twins. The product includes collaborative tools to showcase and sell venues, design detailed floor plans to scale, and provide comprehensive analytics. Its technology leverages real-time data analysis, predictive insights, and advanced simulations to improve sales, marketing opportunities, and operational efficiency. Led by CEO Yaron Lipshitz, the company emphasizes precision, accessibility, and multi-stakeholder collaboration in event planning. Alongside its core platform, Allseated is spinning out a Meetaverse division focused on immersive virtual events and corporate environments. The company plans to use the new funding to expand operations and scale its platform. Allseated grew out of event visualizations and focuses on creating photorealistic digital twins of physical events delivered over a web browser. The platform emphasizes video avatars and 3D experiences designed for corporate and B2B use rather than consumer-facing metaverse platforms. Its web-based approach gives brands control over user engagement, data, content and levels of inclusion. The company plans to scale its platform and expand beyond events into broader corporate use with the new funding. Allseated says the market for metaverse-style platforms is being called a $1 trillion opportunity and expects continued growth despite real-world events returning toward normal. The company has grown headcount from 40 employees to 120 worldwide. AllSeated provides event-planning professionals with 3D visualization and real-time collaboration technology that brings venues, caterers, planners and vendors together. Its suite includes guest lists, more than 200,000 to-scale 2D and 3D floorplans, CAD tools, seating charts, timelines and mobile check-in. Led by CEO and founder Yaron Lipchitz, the platform enables the entire event ecosystem to collaborate with clients and hosts. The company operates in San Francisco, New York, the UK and Germany. It raised $4.4M in financing from Liquidity Capital. The company plans to use the funds to continue expanding across North America and Europe. AllSeated operates a network that connects event industry players — venues, planners, caterers, vendors and DIY users — to meet and collaborate on event creation. Its Network functionality includes floor plan management, table layouts, guest lists, seating arrangements, timelines and reports. The platform’s users include leading brands such as Hilton, Marriott, The Ritz Carlton and The Plaza. The company is led by CEO Yaron Lipshitz and was co-founded by Daniel Anisman and Sandy Hammer. AllSeated raised an undisclosed amount of funding and intends to use the proceeds to expand its network.

Participated · Series A · Sep 2022

Pente Networks provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) to promote the introduction of private LTE/5G networks for enterprises. The company has developed products such as Orchestrator, which automates network operation and management, and Service Portal, a network management screen with strong operability and visibility. Pente also enables devices and base stations to be interoperable. The firm positions its private LTE/5G IaaS as contributing to the advancement and promotion of communication and social infrastructure. Pente received an investment from Mitsubishi Electric’s ME Innovation Fund and intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts. The amount and specific instrument of the deal were not disclosed in the announcement. Pente Networks develops an enterprise-grade LTE/5G Mobile Core & Management Platform for service providers and enterprise customers. The platform is positioned to serve MVNOs, WISPs, MSPs and system integrators and supports deployments using CBRS and other unlicensed spectrum to augment or replace traditional enterprise networks. Founded in 2015, the company has built a partner ecosystem with system integrators, service providers, and equipment manufacturers to deliver end-to-end wireless communications solutions. Pente recently raised a $10M Series A, bringing total investment to date to over $15 million, and has established a North American headquarters in Hackensack, New Jersey while expanding its original headquarters in Petach Tikva, Israel. Leadership changes include Avi Cohen joining as CEO, Jonathan Schwartz serving as CTO, and Roy Timor-Rousso as CMO. The company plans to expand its core technology development team in Israel while focusing strategy, business development, customer success, sales, and marketing in the U.S., and is actively recruiting U.S.-based sales, pre-sales engineering, customer success, and marketing professionals.

Led · Equity · Mar 2022

Cura Deuda offers free legal and financial advice alongside personalized repayment and savings plans to help users liquidate debt. The company acts as an intermediary between debtors and creditors, creating strategies to recover users' credit scores faster and reintegrate them into the credit system. Founders say Cura Deuda helps people pay off debt with discounts of around 70% of what they owe and provides a savings plan to make repayment achievable. Its product combines negotiation, legal guidance, and savings planning aimed at enabling financial freedom for users. Cura Deuda recently raised $1.3 million from Magma and Anteris and plans to use the funds to further develop its technology and expand services across Latin America. The business was founded by Daniel Carvallo and Javier Ruiz Galindo, with Ruiz Galindo serving as co‑CEO.