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The Garage

Yehuda ha-Levi St 9, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Overview

The Garage builds and invests in early-stage startups that tackle the world's biggest challenges in fintech, AI and cyber. Founded by a team of special intelligence forces veterans with over 60 cumulative years of experience in R&D, tech, and strategic global operations, The Garage boosts its abilities through a powerhouse network of leading figures in finance and investing. Together, we place disruptors at the core of legacy institutions, accelerating their access to global markets and success.

Total investments
6
Lead investments
4
Investments · 12mo
2
Active investors
2

Sector focus

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Cyber Security
  • FinTech
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Investment portfolio

  • AironWorks

    Participated · Seed · Feb 2026

    AironWorks is building an enterprise cybersecurity platform that tackles the growing wave of generative-AI-enabled spear-phishing and social-engineering threats. Its multi-layered solution combines highly realistic phishing simulations, just-in-time micro-training, an always-on AI assistant for employees, and automated detection that blocks attacks before they spread. The company operates across Japan and Israel, two markets with deep cybersecurity talent pools, and intentionally bridges expertise from both regions. Investors say AironWorks’ approach prepares workforces while simultaneously hardening technical defenses, creating a full-cycle response to human-centric cyber risks. Earlier backing from Salesforce Ventures, SBI, and All Star SaaS Fund has now been supplemented by new institutional supporters. With its latest capital, the team plans to accelerate product development and expand enterprise reach. Although the firm has not disclosed revenue or user counts, the $13 million seed round marks a significant step toward scaling its offering.

  • Gain

    Led · Seed · Sep 2025

    Gain develops virtual AI employees that combine advanced reasoning engines, domain-specific models, and orchestration layers to work together as a secure, high-performing team inside customer environments. Each AI employee is tailored to the client through training camps, simulations, and live feedback until it surpasses human benchmarks, adheres to compliance requirements, and delivers measurable ROI. Key product attributes include predictable pay-per-outcome pricing, optional human-in-the-loop oversight, deep industry and geographic tuning, and end-to-end encryption with enterprise-grade security. The company plans to add new AI employee roles, expand its product teams, and boost go-to-market efforts across the United States and Europe. Gain’s seed-stage balance sheet has been strengthened by $12 million in new capital, providing resources for continued R&D and commercial expansion. No revenue, user, or other operating metrics were disclosed in the article.

  • Vayu

    Led · Seed · Feb 2025

    Vayu offers a no-code platform that automates billing, converts usage and event data into real-time billing rules, and delivers revenue insights for B2B companies. Its proprietary data metering technology processes tens of millions of events daily. The product supports hybrid and hyper-dynamic pricing models—usage-based, subscription tiers, and outcome-based contracts—so finance teams can iterate on pricing without engineering resources. Clients report faster operations (75% faster time-to-bill, 80% faster reporting, 65% faster revenue visibility) and include Au10tix, Mesh Payments, and Vi. Vayu was founded by fintech and data veterans Erez Agmon, Shenhav Avidar, and Shai Gross who bring experience from PayPal, Melio, and WSC Sports. The company plans to use the new funding to accelerate platform development and expand into global markets.

  • Crowded

    Participated · Series A · Feb 2025

    Crowded offers a fintech platform tailored to nonprofits, providing multi-chapter banking, payment processing, expense management, and AI-powered tax filing services. The platform is designed to help nonprofits shift focus from administrative tasks to community-focused work. Crowded is used by over 35 institutional customers, including Harvard Athletics, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, and leading councils of Girl Scouts of the USA. The company has offices in Tel Aviv and is led by CEO Daniel Grunstein. It plans to use the new funding to expand operations and accelerate development efforts. The article does not disclose revenue figures or other financial metrics beyond customer count and funding. Crowded provides a mobile banking and member-management app tailored to club treasurers, enabling digital dues collection, tax reporting, and linked bank accounts. The platform offers physical and virtual debit cards and forgoes subscription fees, instead earning interchange revenue and charging roughly 3% (or $5) per member payment. After launching a year ago with five customers, Crowded has grown to 300 chapter customers and holds letters of intent with another 1,200 chapters. The company says it is on its way to $1 million in annual recurring revenue. Crowded was founded in June 2021 by Daniel Grunstein, Dvir Hanum, Darryl Gecelter and Dor Kleinmann. Management plans to expand features (including automation and self-service), open the platform beyond closed beta, enter new markets and grow its college and broader nonprofit customer base.

  • Atlas Invest

    Led · Equity · Dec 2024

    Atlas Invest operates as a commercial real-estate bridge-lending platform that blends human underwriting expertise with proprietary AI and a fully integrated infrastructure stack. Its technology streamlines the entire loan process for borrowers seeking short-term financing on properties in prime U.S. markets. On the capital side, the platform opens the asset class to institutional and accredited investors, packaging the loans into income-producing portfolios secured by real-estate collateral. The company is led by co-founders Tal Shahar (CEO), Roni Peled (Chairman), and Nir Peled (CRO). Atlas Invest positions itself as both a tech provider and direct lender, aiming to scale originations and investor participation simultaneously. With fresh institutional capital, management plans to accelerate operational expansion and support the next growth phase for its borrowers and investors. No operating metrics such as loan volume, revenue, or user counts were disclosed in the article.

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