Symbol
1 Har Sinay St., Tel Aviv, 6581601, Israel
Overview
Symbol invests $500k to $3.5M in the first funding round of exceptional Israeli entrepreneurs from all backgrounds, building pre-consensus companies. We are a generalist, sector-agnostic fund, investing in B2B, consumer, and enterprise tech startups. We’re excited about meeting founders as early as possible and accompanying them throughout ideation, validation, and team building. Post-investment, we strive to provide personalized support to help them get from zero to one. Yuval Ariav, Symbol’s founder and Managing Partner, is an early investor in companies like Fundguard, NextSilicon, Assured Allies, Sightful, and Approve (acquired by Tipalty). Priorly, he was co-founder and CTO at Fundbox and led Product at Onavo (acquired by Meta).
- Total investments
- 3
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 1
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Jiga
Participated · Series A · Nov 2025
Jiga brings the entire custom-parts sourcing workflow into a single AI-driven platform where engineers upload drawings, receive instant matches to vetted manufacturers, and order parts directly through Jiga as the vendor of record. Its manufacturing AI extracts requirements from drawings, structures documentation, flags production risks, and facilitates real-time supplier communication, collapsing quote times from weeks to hours while lowering costs. The platform already processes thousands of RFQs every month for customers such as NASA and Siemens and is used broadly across aerospace, defense, and robotics firms. Jiga claims profitability even before its latest fundraise. With fresh capital, the company plans to expand premium production capabilities, deepen AI-based quality assurance for mission-critical parts, and scale enterprise infrastructure to cover additional manufacturing categories. Founders Adar Hay (CEO), Yonatan Wolowelsky (CTO), and Assaf Geuz (COO) position the product as a remedy for the hardware supply-chain bottlenecks slowing AI-hardware development. By eliminating administrative burdens, Jiga aims to let engineering and supply-chain teams focus on design and strategy rather than chasing quotes and emails.
- Nilus
Participated · Seed · Dec 2022
Nilus provides an AI-powered cash management platform designed to give fast-growing companies real-time visibility into cash flow, AI-driven forecasting, and automated reconciliation. The product is positioned to help finance leaders optimize liquidity, manage working capital, and plan for growth. The company highlights customers including Alloy, Taboola, Made In Cookware, and Planned Parenthood. Nilus was founded by Daniel Kalish (ex-PayPal) and Daniel Shaul (ex-Fundbox). The company said it will use the new capital to accelerate development of its platform and to enhance AI-driven forecasting and streamline cash management for finance teams. The latest financing brought the companys total capital raised to $18.6M. Nilus offers a no-code, plug-and-play payments operations platform that automates reconciliation, reporting and payment workflows for finance teams. The product uses pre-built data connectors and algorithms to clean and analyze messy payment data across processors, banks and ERPs, giving finance teams a real-time view of cash, risk mitigation and audit readiness. Founders Daniel Kalish and Danielle Shaul built the company after experiencing the problem in prior roles at PayPal and Fundbox; Nilus was founded last year. Target customers include fintechs, financial-services firms, marketplaces and vertical SaaS companies with embedded payments. Nilus says it is working with customers processing hundreds of millions of dollars and currently has 18 employees. The company’s go-to-market team is based in New York while the technical team operates out of Tel Aviv.
- CardinalOps
Participated · Series A · Mar 2022
CardinalOps, founded in 2020 by security experts, offers a SaaS platform that incorporates an attacker viewpoint and machine learning to enhance threat detection. Its technology automates processes and optimizes the use of existing detection tools. The platform is positioned to address gaps between the current cybersecurity market and its potential by improving detection resilience. The company emphasizes automation and ML-driven workflows to detect and respond to sophisticated attacks. According to the article, the investment will support the company's commercial expansion amid a growing and increasingly complex threat landscape. CardinalOps offers a cloud-based, AI-powered analytics platform that continuously recommends best-practice detection rules and queries mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and tailored to an organization’s risk priorities. The platform delivers recommendations in the native query languages of widely used security analytics solutions such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM QRadar and CrowdStrike, enabling faster, lower-error detection engineering. By automating the work of skilled detection engineers, CardinalOps helps teams close high-risk threat coverage gaps and maximize existing SIEM/XDR investments. The company launched in early 2021 and protects several large, complex organizations, including a Fortune 50 consumer products company, a top 10 U.S. law firm, a top 10 cable operator, and a leading MDR/MSSP. Leadership includes CEO Michael Mumcuoglu and CMO/Vice President of Cyber Defense Strategy Phil Neray. The advisory board features industry figures such as Anton Chuvakin, Dan Burns and Randy Watkins.
Team
Yuval Ariav
Founder and General Partner
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