Participated · Series D · Feb 2022

Gauzy Ltd. focuses on research, development, manufacturing, and marketing of vision and light-control technologies, including smart glass and ADAS solutions. The company positions its products to support safe, sustainable, comfortable, and agile user experiences across multiple industries. Gauzy serves leading brands in over 50 countries through direct fulfillment and a certified and trained distribution channel. It is headquartered in Tel Aviv and maintains subsidiaries and entities in Germany, France, the United States, Canada, China, and Dubai. The article describes Gauzy as a world leader in smart glass and ADAS technologies. Gauzy develops and manufactures vision and light-control technologies—applying nanotechnologies like polymer dispersed liquid crystals and microscopic light-absorbing particles in films or directly on glass and polycarbonate. Its technologies enable modulation of transparency, opacity and translucency, and can help manage temperature to reduce energy costs. The company serves customers in construction, automotive, and aeronautics, and positions itself across R&D, design, production and final delivery. Gauzy also markets award-winning ADAS products, including next-generation camera-based smart mirrors, motion sensors, and optimized safety gates to improve visibility and blind-spot management. The company emphasizes sustainability, safety, comfort and wellbeing in its product applications. The article notes Gauzy is in a Series D funding round and received an initial investment from Hamilton Global Opportunities. Gauzy develops and manufactures suspended‑particle device (SPD) light‑control film and related enabling hardware (branded LCG®/SPD‑Smart) used to instantaneously change window tinting and create display functionality. Its products are sold through a distribution channel of over 70 certified industrial partners and direct fulfillment, and the company reports approximately $50 million in 2021 revenues. The combined Gauzy/Vision Systems entity holds over 60 patents, 20 product categories, five manufacturing sites, 14 global offices and about 480 employees. Key production assets include a material synthesis facility in Israel and an 11,000 sqm SPD production site near Stuttgart, Germany with capacity to produce 1,000,000 sqm of SPD material yearly. Gauzy’s customers and integrations include automotive OEMs, aircraft and marine OEMs, LG Display, Avery Dennison, BMW and others, and the technology has been used in tens of thousands of vehicles. Going forward Gauzy plans to expand architectural and mobility deployments, integrate Vision Systems’ electronics and control systems capabilities, and add greater intelligence to control systems and ADAS/APAS offerings. Gauzy develops and manufactures two commercial active light-control technologies—SPD (suspended particle device) and LC (liquid crystal)—which are embedded into LCG (Light Control Glass) for dynamic, user-controlled light control. The company operates a material synthesis facility in Israel and a custom SPD production line in Stuttgart, Germany, producing SPD emulsion and light-control film for automotive, aircraft, and architectural industries. Gauzy’s German production site is set within an 11,000 sqm property and is dedicated to producing 1,000,000 sqm of SPD material yearly. The company reports a global distribution network of over 60 certified partners and sales, marketing, and distribution sites in multiple US cities and China. Gauzy positions SPD as providing up to 99.5% light blocking for shading while maintaining view, and highlights reduced costs and shortened delivery times from its production techniques. The company plans to use advances in product development and high-volume production to expand serial implementation of LCG technologies by industrial players.

Led · Series A · Oct 2014

Xplenty is a Tel Aviv-based cloud data-integration platform that offers a graphical ETL interface aimed at non-technical analysts while preserving flexibility for data scientists. Its product includes over 100 data-source integrations covering relational databases, NoSQL tools like MongoDB and cloud services such as Salesforce, Zendesk, Google Analytics and Google AdWords. The company charges users based on the compute power they use rather than limiting integrations or data volume. Xplenty serves over 100 customers, up from 15 customers at the time of its first raise in 2014. It recently acquired Driven, a cloud-monitoring startup; both run on Hadoop, and the acquisition brings new performance-management functionality. New North American investors are expected to help build out sales and marketing infrastructure in that region. Xplenty provides a cloud-native, graphical data-processing platform designed to let non-Hadoop programmers build data flows, transform, normalize, and clean data for analytics without writing code. The product runs on AWS, Rackspace, IBM SoftLayer and can also be installed on-premises. The company positions itself as fully cloud-based in contrast to legacy on-premise competitors. Xplenty charges customers based on computing power used and currently serves 15 paying customers. Financing will be used to expand product features and invest in U.S. sales and marketing. The company emphasizes making Hadoop-based big data processing accessible to data professionals who are not Hadoop experts.