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The Dock

45 Derech Ha'atzmaut, Haifa, 3303323, Israel

Overview

theDOCK is a vertical Venture Capital firm investing in and providing industry expertise to startups developing technologies for Maritime, Supply Chain, and Offshore sectors. theDOCK's ecosystem is made of three communities of stakeholders - entrepreneurs, corporates, and investors. Through tight cooperation with all three communities, theDOCK ties the knot between global leading corporates and creative startups, introducing digital innovation aimed at making the world cleaner, safer, and more efficient. Investors benefit from the performance of a diverse portfolio of startups seeking to change the maritime and supply chain universe.

Total investments
7
Lead investments
1
Investments · 12mo
2
Active investors
2

Sector focus

  • Cyber Security
  • Financial Services
  • Logistics
  • Marine Technology
  • Ports and Harbors
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Voltify

    Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

    Voltify develops in-motion charging technology for rail systems, positioning itself as the "Tesla of rail." The company targets the $11 billion diesel market by enabling electrified charging for trains and other rail vehicles while in operation. Voltify plans to deploy its charging systems across rail networks to reduce diesel use and upgrade energy infrastructure. The article notes the company is Israeli but does not provide a founding year. Financially, the company announced a $30 million Seed round to support technology advancement and operational expansion. No revenue, user metrics, or prior funding details were disclosed in the article.

  • Olea Global

    Participated · Series A · Dec 2025

    Founded in 2022, Olea Global operates a digital infrastructure platform that connects institutional capital with trade and supply-chain opportunities worldwide. The company holds a Capital Market Services licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore and has already delivered more than $3 billion of financing to suppliers and buyers across over 70 trade corridors. Olea’s core product blends risk-management tools with AI-driven analytics and Web3 capabilities, including tokenised and stablecoin-enabled trade flows, to streamline and de-risk trade finance. Future plans include further investment in AI, embedded finance features, and expansion of its origination network in high-growth markets throughout Europe, the United States, Latin America, and Asia. Strategic partnerships with institutions such as BBVA, SC Ventures, and XDC Network will be leveraged to build digital supply-chain solutions and advanced risk-analytics offerings. The company’s vision centres on using technology, data intelligence, and diverse liquidity pools to unlock trade financing, particularly in emerging Asian markets.

  • Harbor Lab

    Participated · Series A · May 2024

    Harbor Lab builds a platform to streamline port-call disbursements and port-call expenses, replacing spreadsheet-driven workflows across ports. The company says its product can reduce invoicing errors and overpayments from roughly 20% to about 3% per port call. Port-call costs are a major line item for vessels—about $2.2M per vessel per year—and the global cost from port calls exceeds $220 billion annually, which frames Harbor Lab's market opportunity. Founder Antonis Malaxianakis was an early user who manually reviewed over 20,000 disbursement accounts, and the team focused engineering resources against a strict roadmap after seed funding. Harbor Lab already counts Great Eastern Shipping, Oldendorff, Veson Nautical, and 90POE among its clients and partners. The company is emphasizing stronger KYC on counterparties (it sanctioned about 100 participants overnight amid geopolitical events) and sees new environmental rules and geopolitical crises increasing urgency for its product. Harbor Lab, launched in March 2020 in Athens, Greece, provides a SaaS disbursement-account analysis platform for the maritime industry. Its software collects official port tariffs from port authorities and uses an internally developed algorithm to calculate and evaluate port expenses in real time. The platform claims to reduce port call expenses by approximately 6% per port call and to cut administration costs by up to 75%. Harbor Lab secured €6.1 million in funding to further develop the product. The company operates in the estimated $200 billion annual maritime disbursements market. Management has said it plans global expansion into major maritime hubs such as Copenhagen and Singapore and to develop the product further with machine learning capabilities.

  • Wisor

    Participated · Seed · Feb 2023

    Wisor AI offers an advanced, plug-and-play freight booking platform that automates the aggregation of pricing data and optimizes shipping routes across air, ocean, trucking and rail. The software enables freight forwarders to generate quotes and communicate with clients automatically, reducing booking times from hours or days to minutes or seconds. Wisor's algorithms continuously optimize pricing in the background, even after bookings are placed, which the company says can cut costs and improve margins. The platform is designed to integrate into existing systems and workflows without requiring freight forwarders to fundamentally change operations. Wisor positions itself to expand into additional value-added services such as payments, financing and insurance as it digitizes routing, pricing and quoting. The company targets a large, fragmented market of roughly 300,000 global freight forwarders handling approximately $23.3 trillion in goods.

  • Hoopo

    Led · Series A · Aug 2022

    Hoopo develops asset and fleet visibility solutions that track and monitor unpowered assets using power-efficient tracking technology. The company produces long-lasting, highly durable, and affordable tracking units designed to last for an asset’s entire lifetime and provide item-level visibility. Its intelligent location technology is deployed across complex logistics operations, including transportation, aviation, and waste management. Hoopo says customers improve asset utilization, cycle times, and operational efficiency while identifying bottlenecks. The company plans to use new funding to grow in transportation, aviation, and waste management and to develop a maritime tracking solution to transform dry containers into smart, manageable fleets. Hoopo is led by CEO Ittay Hayut and is based in Glil Yam, Israel; to date it has raised $17m. hoopo develops a patent-pending, triangulation-based geolocation solution tailored for low-power wide area (LPWA) IoT networks. Its product suite includes low-cost LPWA gateways and devices plus a management platform that delivers real-time notifications, on-demand geolocation, geofences, and movement alerts. The technology aims to deliver GPS-like precision without the cost or battery consumption of GPS, supporting battery life of up to 10 years in the field. Target use cases highlighted include ports, vehicle dealer yards, parking lots, cattle ranches, and other asset-dense environments. The company launched publicly and announced $1.5 million in funding to further grow the business. hoopo is based in Ra'anana, Israel, and has a presence in Santa Monica, California.

Team

  • Nir Gartzman

    Managing Partner & Co-Founder

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  • Hannan Carmeli

    Managing Partner & Co-Founder

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