Cardumen Capital

Cardumen Capital is a venture capital and asset management firm based in Tel Aviv, Israel, with a presence in Europe. Founded in 2017, it specializes in early-stage investments across a variety of sectors, including artificial intelligence, big data, software, hardware, the Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, developer tools, cybersecurity, deep tech, business-to-business solutions, and agrifood technology. With €250 million in assets under management, Cardumen Capital aims to actively support world-class founders and entrepreneurs, leveraging its extensive experience in key tech ecosystems. The firm emphasizes a culture of collaboration and accessibility, and it is backed by prominent institutional investors.

Rocío Boza

Analyst

Nimrod Brandt

Partner

Enrique Burguillos

CFO

Paula Bermúdez de Castro

Associate

Nadav Charnilas

Principal

Ignacio de Diego

Associate

Dana Kleiman

Associate

Shamay, Noa

Associate

Igor de la Sota

Founder and Managing General Partner

Juan Vidri

Associate

52 past transactions

Brandlight

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Every day, millions of consumers turn to AI engines for answers, recommendations, and decisions. These AI answers are influencing customer decisions and shaping how your brand is perceived - and they’re doing it without your input. Brands must meet their customers at their new environment - and influence the AI narrative.

TastyUrban

Series A in 2025
TastyUrban is in the process of developing a new generation of restaurant usage and strategy.

bananaz

Seed Round in 2024
bananaz is an AI-powered design management platform revolutionizing how mechanical engineering teams collaborate and manage product development. Specializing in design change tracking, validation, and risk mitigation, bananaz serves industries like aerospace and medical devices, enabling teams to bring safe, compliant, and market-ready products to life faster. With secure cloud-based tools and AI-driven insights, bananaz reduces late-stage errors, streamlines workflows, and helps companies achieve the highest standards of product quality. Trusted by leading organizations, bananaz is shaping the future of efficient and innovative design processes.

Alison AI

Seed Round in 2024
Alison is a leading AI-powered platform specializing in video analysis for creative advertising. It offers a software-as-a-service solution that enables businesses to identify the most effective elements of their video content, access comprehensive performance data, and conduct insightful competitive analysis. By streamlining the process from ideation to production, Alison helps clients create videos that have a higher likelihood of success, eliminating guesswork and focusing on data-driven results. This platform is designed to enhance the overall effectiveness of video advertisements, ensuring that clients can optimize their creative strategies effectively.

Verax AI

Seed Round in 2024
Verax AI is focused on providing enterprise-grade trust solutions for generative artificial intelligence. The company aims to address key concerns related to trust, transparency, and control, allowing large organizations to confidently adopt AI technologies. By offering these services, Verax AI helps businesses enhance innovation, optimize operations and decision-making, and personalize customer experiences. This approach positions organizations to gain a competitive advantage in their respective markets while fostering a responsible and secure integration of generative AI into their operations.

Nagish

Series A in 2024
Nagish is a company focused on making communication accessible for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. The firm has developed a platform that allows users to engage with call centers and enterprises through text-based communication, enabling them to make phone calls without relying on voice. By prioritizing accessibility, Nagish aims to bridge the communication gap for those with hearing challenges, facilitating a more inclusive experience in various professional and personal interactions.

illumex

Seed Round in 2024
Illumex focuses on enhancing structured data for use in generative AI analytics, emphasizing strong governance. The company's platform automates the analysis of metadata to uncover and label data, enriching it with semantic meaning and business context while preserving the integrity of the original data. By providing a generative semantic fabric, Illumex enables organizations to effectively map, interpret, and govern their data and analytics. Its domain-specific AI engine is designed to deliver a reliable and customized language model tailored to the needs of businesses, facilitating improved decision-making and promoting data democratization. Through this approach, Illumex aims to empower organizations to leverage Big Data effectively, enhancing trust and maximizing return on investment.

NeuReality

Venture Round in 2024
NeuReality is a semiconductor start-up focused on creating AI-as-a-service infrastructure to meet the demands of AI deployment across cloud, edge, and fog systems. The company specializes in purpose-built AI-centric architecture, offering a server-on-chip solution that reconfigures inference technologies like computer vision, natural language processing, and recommendation engines. This innovative approach simplifies the implementation of these technologies for companies that may lack extensive technical expertise. By replacing traditional CPU-centric models with its advanced architecture, NeuReality enables clients to reduce both costs and energy consumption, making AI more accessible and efficient for a broader range of users.

Substrata

Venture Round in 2024
Substrata is a developer of social signal intelligence software that focuses on optimizing B2B sales and high-value deal-making. The platform analyzes various layers of communication, including verbal and nonverbal cues, to provide actionable insights into the dynamics of deal-related interactions. By continuously assessing the dealmaker's position, Substrata enhances win rates, reduces sales cycles, and improves goal achievement. Utilizing advanced deep-learning technology, the software uncovers hidden intentions, emotions, and power dynamics that influence sales conversations. It delivers transformative insights into factors such as social status perceptions, seller competence, and contextual elements like urgency and relevance. Additionally, Substrata offers tailored recommendations for deal-closing strategies based on specific market conditions and relationship histories, empowering dealmakers to navigate complex negotiations more effectively.

Munch

Seed Round in 2023
Munch is a technology company that specializes in AI-driven automation for social media marketing and content creation. Launched in 2023, the platform is designed to simplify the complexities of social media management for businesses of all sizes. Munch enables companies to capture customer attention by transforming audio and video content into well-written text, such as blog posts, through the use of artificial intelligence. This innovative approach not only facilitates the creation and distribution of engaging content but also provides actionable insights that help foster customer relationships. With over one million businesses served, Munch aims to empower brands in the digital landscape, allowing them to focus on their core activities while the platform efficiently manages their social media needs.

SaolaAI

Pre Seed Round in 2023
SaolaAI is the go-to platform for zero-maintenance, maximum-coverage quality, powered by real user behavior insights. With over 30 million user sessions recorded, SaolaAI stands at the forefront of autonomous quality, trusted by hundreds of engineering teams to catch critical issues throughout the application lifecycle, ensuring top-notch product quality with ease.

Tomato.ai

Seed Round in 2023
Tomato.ai specializes in artificial intelligence-based voice clarity software that enhances the intelligibility of offshore agents during calls. By softening accents and implementing advanced noise cancellation solutions, the company aims to improve communication between agents and clients, fostering trust and understanding. This technology not only facilitates more effective conversations but also enables businesses to hire a larger pool of offshore agents, ultimately leading to increased savings and sales while reducing agent churn. Through its innovative approach, Tomato.ai seeks to enhance the overall efficiency of agent interactions.

IVIX

Series A in 2023
IVIX is a platform that helps authorities prevent and reduce tax evasion. IVIX builts an AI-driven platform that can automatically synthesize both tax authorities’ internal data and publicly available information to identify instances of tax evasion.

Vendict

Seed Round in 2023
Vendict is a company that specializes in enhancing privacy and compliance within organizations by offering a vendor management platform powered by artificial intelligence and natural language processing. The platform automates the tracking of personal data flows and streamlines the process of responding to security questionnaires, enabling security experts, including Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and risk management professionals, to address compliance challenges more efficiently. Vendict's technology provides detailed responses and supporting evidence for security assessments, validates vendor compliance, and facilitates faster onboarding processes. By simplifying data mapping and document uploads, Vendict not only reduces costs but also helps organizations identify validated vendor alternatives, ultimately empowering security teams to operate more effectively within their companies.

illumex

Venture Round in 2023
Illumex focuses on enhancing structured data for use in generative AI analytics, emphasizing strong governance. The company's platform automates the analysis of metadata to uncover and label data, enriching it with semantic meaning and business context while preserving the integrity of the original data. By providing a generative semantic fabric, Illumex enables organizations to effectively map, interpret, and govern their data and analytics. Its domain-specific AI engine is designed to deliver a reliable and customized language model tailored to the needs of businesses, facilitating improved decision-making and promoting data democratization. Through this approach, Illumex aims to empower organizations to leverage Big Data effectively, enhancing trust and maximizing return on investment.

Alison AI

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Alison is a leading AI-powered platform specializing in video analysis for creative advertising. It offers a software-as-a-service solution that enables businesses to identify the most effective elements of their video content, access comprehensive performance data, and conduct insightful competitive analysis. By streamlining the process from ideation to production, Alison helps clients create videos that have a higher likelihood of success, eliminating guesswork and focusing on data-driven results. This platform is designed to enhance the overall effectiveness of video advertisements, ensuring that clients can optimize their creative strategies effectively.

Raftt

Seed Round in 2022
Raftt takes out developers' frustrations from working in local environments – the tedious setup, rot, drift, and limited collaboration options. Raftt solves this by creating instant remote dev environments while keeping the tools and experience of local environments, making it easy to work with multiple environment branches, develop and debug containerized services, and open new ways to collaborate.

MagicYard

Pre Seed Round in 2022
MagicYard is a social gaming platform based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2022. The platform enables users to engage in recreational gaming with friends or strangers, fostering social interaction and competition. It offers a diverse range of games, including casual, party, and sports games, allowing players to chat and connect while enjoying their gaming experience. MagicYard aims to create a fun and interactive environment for its users, enhancing the social aspects of gaming.

Peech

Seed Round in 2022
Peech is transforming the content creation landscape with its innovative automatic video editing and management platform. Utilizing artificial intelligence and natural language processing, Peech empowers content creators to produce high-quality and engaging video content efficiently, significantly reducing both time and costs. The platform allows users to tailor its automatic features to align with their brand guidelines, marketing objectives, and visual assets. This capability fosters seamless collaboration among content and marketing teams, enabling them to create professional videos in mere seconds.

NeuReality

Series A in 2022
NeuReality is a semiconductor start-up focused on creating AI-as-a-service infrastructure to meet the demands of AI deployment across cloud, edge, and fog systems. The company specializes in purpose-built AI-centric architecture, offering a server-on-chip solution that reconfigures inference technologies like computer vision, natural language processing, and recommendation engines. This innovative approach simplifies the implementation of these technologies for companies that may lack extensive technical expertise. By replacing traditional CPU-centric models with its advanced architecture, NeuReality enables clients to reduce both costs and energy consumption, making AI more accessible and efficient for a broader range of users.

Kahoona

Seed Round in 2022
Kahoona is a San Diego-based company founded in 2021 that specializes in a privacy-conscious audience data platform designed for digital publishers, e-commerce merchants, and brands. The company focuses on collecting accurate and scalable first-party user data without the need for personal information, enabling clients to enhance their understanding of user behavior while respecting privacy rights. By utilizing advanced artificial intelligence and deep behavioral insights, Kahoona's platform transforms user interactions into actionable audience segmentation data. This approach not only helps clients reduce customer acquisition costs but also supports their efforts to boost sales in an evolving digital landscape.

DoControl

Series B in 2022
DoControl is a developer of a no-code security platform designed to enhance security and operational efficiency for enterprises using SaaS applications. The platform offers automated, self-service tools for data access monitoring, orchestration, and remediation, addressing the challenges of labor-intensive security risk management and data exfiltration prevention. By automating these processes, DoControl alleviates the workload and complexity faced by Security and IT teams. The company's approach emphasizes a customer-centric philosophy, involving all employees in the security framework to foster a collaborative and effective security culture that balances security needs with business enablement.

MagicYard

Convertible Note in 2022
MagicYard is a social gaming platform based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2022. The platform enables users to engage in recreational gaming with friends or strangers, fostering social interaction and competition. It offers a diverse range of games, including casual, party, and sports games, allowing players to chat and connect while enjoying their gaming experience. MagicYard aims to create a fun and interactive environment for its users, enhancing the social aspects of gaming.

Lendai

Seed Round in 2022
Lendai is a fintech company based in Miami, Florida, established in June 2019, that aims to innovate the US residential real estate financing market for global investors. By leveraging artificial intelligence and a unique online platform, Lendai provides a streamlined digital financing process tailored for non-US residents. The company employs a triple digital underwriting system to address the information gap in global financial services, making it easier for foreign investors to access financing for real estate investments in the United States. Through its technology-driven solutions, Lendai seeks to help clients achieve their financial objectives efficiently and effectively.

Vendict

Seed Round in 2022
Vendict is a company that specializes in enhancing privacy and compliance within organizations by offering a vendor management platform powered by artificial intelligence and natural language processing. The platform automates the tracking of personal data flows and streamlines the process of responding to security questionnaires, enabling security experts, including Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and risk management professionals, to address compliance challenges more efficiently. Vendict's technology provides detailed responses and supporting evidence for security assessments, validates vendor compliance, and facilitates faster onboarding processes. By simplifying data mapping and document uploads, Vendict not only reduces costs but also helps organizations identify validated vendor alternatives, ultimately empowering security teams to operate more effectively within their companies.

Second Nature AI

Series A in 2022
Second Nature transforms the way people engage in conversations with its AI-driven role plays tailored to any customer interaction. The Second Nature platform enables seamless onboarding, learning, practice, and certification at scale, preparing customer-facing teams for real-world scenarios. By enhancing training efficiency, driving sales growth, and empowering teams, Second Nature ensures consistent excellence in any customer interaction. Leading companies such as Adobe, SAP, GoHealth, and Oracle NetSuite are slashing onboarding times, sharpening skills, and increasing sales opportunities using Second Nature’s AI training solution.

Nagish

Convertible Note in 2022
Nagish is a company focused on making communication accessible for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. The firm has developed a platform that allows users to engage with call centers and enterprises through text-based communication, enabling them to make phone calls without relying on voice. By prioritizing accessibility, Nagish aims to bridge the communication gap for those with hearing challenges, facilitating a more inclusive experience in various professional and personal interactions.

Configu

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Configu offers a comprehensive application configuration management platform, both as open-source software and a SaaS solution. It focuses on managing environment variables, secrets, feature flags, and other configuration elements crucial to software development. The platform is designed to enhance workflows within research and development teams by providing tools for access control, collaboration, deployment configurations, and visualization services. By streamlining configuration management, Configu aims to reduce the risk of production failures often associated with traditional, manual methods.

Spotlight.ai

Convertible Note in 2021
Spotlight.ai offers an AI-powered value intelligence platform that enhances sales discovery and optimizes value positioning for both field and remote sales teams. The platform leverages machine learning to analyze data from various sources, pinpointing the most relevant information to create tailored business cases. This approach aids sales teams in closing deals more efficiently and boosting revenue, ultimately transforming how sales professionals engage with clients and present their value propositions.

block a

Seed Round in 2021
Renting apartments is expensive, and the tools are inefficient and outdated. block.a is an NYC / Tel Aviv Proptech company, combines automated marketing, AI bots, self-touring, occupied apartment touring, and big data machine learning into an end-to-end residential leasing solution. Landlords save resources and reduce days on market by over 50%, and have full visibility into their leasing data and overall performance. Renters can simply show up in the area they want to live in, tour 30 units in-person, apply and sign a lease - all within one platform, and within one single day.

IVIX

Seed Round in 2021
IVIX is a platform that helps authorities prevent and reduce tax evasion. IVIX builts an AI-driven platform that can automatically synthesize both tax authorities’ internal data and publicly available information to identify instances of tax evasion.

CoreTigo

Series B in 2021
CoreTigo Ltd. specializes in developing secure wireless network systems tailored for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, particularly in industrial settings. The company's technology facilitates machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, enhancing operations in areas such as factory automation, warehouse management, and robotics. CoreTigo's product offerings include the O Link Wireless master, which enables effective data transfer and diagnostics between devices, and an IO-Link device system on module (SoM) that manages process data for actuators and sensors. By adhering to the IO-Link Wireless global standard, CoreTigo's solutions are designed to operate in challenging environments, providing reliable connectivity for a wide range of industrial devices. Their innovations promote increased flexibility, productivity, and cost-effectiveness in manufacturing processes, ultimately leading to improved operational efficiency and reduced downtime. Headquartered in Kadima, Israel, CoreTigo serves machine builders, system integrators, and industrial equipment manufacturers worldwide.

illumex

Seed Round in 2021
Illumex focuses on enhancing structured data for use in generative AI analytics, emphasizing strong governance. The company's platform automates the analysis of metadata to uncover and label data, enriching it with semantic meaning and business context while preserving the integrity of the original data. By providing a generative semantic fabric, Illumex enables organizations to effectively map, interpret, and govern their data and analytics. Its domain-specific AI engine is designed to deliver a reliable and customized language model tailored to the needs of businesses, facilitating improved decision-making and promoting data democratization. Through this approach, Illumex aims to empower organizations to leverage Big Data effectively, enhancing trust and maximizing return on investment.

DoControl

Series A in 2021
DoControl is a developer of a no-code security platform designed to enhance security and operational efficiency for enterprises using SaaS applications. The platform offers automated, self-service tools for data access monitoring, orchestration, and remediation, addressing the challenges of labor-intensive security risk management and data exfiltration prevention. By automating these processes, DoControl alleviates the workload and complexity faced by Security and IT teams. The company's approach emphasizes a customer-centric philosophy, involving all employees in the security framework to foster a collaborative and effective security culture that balances security needs with business enablement.

NeuReality

Seed Round in 2021
NeuReality is a semiconductor start-up focused on creating AI-as-a-service infrastructure to meet the demands of AI deployment across cloud, edge, and fog systems. The company specializes in purpose-built AI-centric architecture, offering a server-on-chip solution that reconfigures inference technologies like computer vision, natural language processing, and recommendation engines. This innovative approach simplifies the implementation of these technologies for companies that may lack extensive technical expertise. By replacing traditional CPU-centric models with its advanced architecture, NeuReality enables clients to reduce both costs and energy consumption, making AI more accessible and efficient for a broader range of users.

Munch

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Munch is a technology company that specializes in AI-driven automation for social media marketing and content creation. Launched in 2023, the platform is designed to simplify the complexities of social media management for businesses of all sizes. Munch enables companies to capture customer attention by transforming audio and video content into well-written text, such as blog posts, through the use of artificial intelligence. This innovative approach not only facilitates the creation and distribution of engaging content but also provides actionable insights that help foster customer relationships. With over one million businesses served, Munch aims to empower brands in the digital landscape, allowing them to focus on their core activities while the platform efficiently manages their social media needs.

NeuReality

Seed Round in 2020
NeuReality is a semiconductor start-up focused on creating AI-as-a-service infrastructure to meet the demands of AI deployment across cloud, edge, and fog systems. The company specializes in purpose-built AI-centric architecture, offering a server-on-chip solution that reconfigures inference technologies like computer vision, natural language processing, and recommendation engines. This innovative approach simplifies the implementation of these technologies for companies that may lack extensive technical expertise. By replacing traditional CPU-centric models with its advanced architecture, NeuReality enables clients to reduce both costs and energy consumption, making AI more accessible and efficient for a broader range of users.

Loops

Seed Round in 2020
Loops is a no-code analytics platform that provides product and data teams with growth opportunities hidden in their data.

Lendai

Seed Round in 2020
Lendai is a fintech company based in Miami, Florida, established in June 2019, that aims to innovate the US residential real estate financing market for global investors. By leveraging artificial intelligence and a unique online platform, Lendai provides a streamlined digital financing process tailored for non-US residents. The company employs a triple digital underwriting system to address the information gap in global financial services, making it easier for foreign investors to access financing for real estate investments in the United States. Through its technology-driven solutions, Lendai seeks to help clients achieve their financial objectives efficiently and effectively.

DoControl

Seed Round in 2020
DoControl is a developer of a no-code security platform designed to enhance security and operational efficiency for enterprises using SaaS applications. The platform offers automated, self-service tools for data access monitoring, orchestration, and remediation, addressing the challenges of labor-intensive security risk management and data exfiltration prevention. By automating these processes, DoControl alleviates the workload and complexity faced by Security and IT teams. The company's approach emphasizes a customer-centric philosophy, involving all employees in the security framework to foster a collaborative and effective security culture that balances security needs with business enablement.

CoreTigo

Series A in 2019
CoreTigo Ltd. specializes in developing secure wireless network systems tailored for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, particularly in industrial settings. The company's technology facilitates machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, enhancing operations in areas such as factory automation, warehouse management, and robotics. CoreTigo's product offerings include the O Link Wireless master, which enables effective data transfer and diagnostics between devices, and an IO-Link device system on module (SoM) that manages process data for actuators and sensors. By adhering to the IO-Link Wireless global standard, CoreTigo's solutions are designed to operate in challenging environments, providing reliable connectivity for a wide range of industrial devices. Their innovations promote increased flexibility, productivity, and cost-effectiveness in manufacturing processes, ultimately leading to improved operational efficiency and reduced downtime. Headquartered in Kadima, Israel, CoreTigo serves machine builders, system integrators, and industrial equipment manufacturers worldwide.

Second Nature AI

Seed Round in 2019
Second Nature transforms the way people engage in conversations with its AI-driven role plays tailored to any customer interaction. The Second Nature platform enables seamless onboarding, learning, practice, and certification at scale, preparing customer-facing teams for real-world scenarios. By enhancing training efficiency, driving sales growth, and empowering teams, Second Nature ensures consistent excellence in any customer interaction. Leading companies such as Adobe, SAP, GoHealth, and Oracle NetSuite are slashing onboarding times, sharpening skills, and increasing sales opportunities using Second Nature’s AI training solution.

MultiVu

Seed Round in 2019
MultiVu is a 3D imaging solution with a single lens camera, designed to advance your face authentication process. With eye safety, power saving and maximum security for your biometric data, MultiVu introduces there patented light field technology, applicable to any mobile or stationed device, with no additional hardware required. Their technology lets you take quick, 3D snap shots in broad daylight, and all at a fraction of the leading brands` costs.

CoreTigo

Series A in 2019
CoreTigo Ltd. specializes in developing secure wireless network systems tailored for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, particularly in industrial settings. The company's technology facilitates machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, enhancing operations in areas such as factory automation, warehouse management, and robotics. CoreTigo's product offerings include the O Link Wireless master, which enables effective data transfer and diagnostics between devices, and an IO-Link device system on module (SoM) that manages process data for actuators and sensors. By adhering to the IO-Link Wireless global standard, CoreTigo's solutions are designed to operate in challenging environments, providing reliable connectivity for a wide range of industrial devices. Their innovations promote increased flexibility, productivity, and cost-effectiveness in manufacturing processes, ultimately leading to improved operational efficiency and reduced downtime. Headquartered in Kadima, Israel, CoreTigo serves machine builders, system integrators, and industrial equipment manufacturers worldwide.

BlastPoint

Seed Round in 2018
BlastPoint specializes in big data solutions that enable companies to enhance revenue growth by effectively discovering, targeting, and engaging with their customer data. The company offers a predictive AI-powered platform that addresses customer engagement challenges, allowing businesses to find and satisfy their customers throughout their lifetime. BlastPoint serves a diverse range of sectors, including energy, finance, automotive, and nonprofit organizations, helping them identify trends and extract valuable insights specific to their territories or market dynamics.

Humavox

Series C in 2018
Humavox Ltd. specializes in wireless charging solutions for a variety of wearable consumer electronics and healthcare devices. Founded in 2010 and based in Kfar Saba, Israel, the company has developed its ETERNA platform, which utilizes radio frequency resonance to enable seamless wireless charging across diverse product designs. Key components of this platform include Thunderlink, the power receiver that captures RF energy, and NEST, the charging station where devices are powered. Humavox's technology caters to a wide range of applications, including headphones, smartwatches, fitness trackers, hearing aids, and medical sensors. The ETERNA Real-Time Charging Optimizer further enhances the charging experience by managing the charging process dynamically. Through its innovative approach, Humavox aims to provide a natural and flexible charging experience that adapts to the needs of various users and devices.

Humavox

Series D in 2018
Humavox Ltd. specializes in wireless charging solutions for a variety of wearable consumer electronics and healthcare devices. Founded in 2010 and based in Kfar Saba, Israel, the company has developed its ETERNA platform, which utilizes radio frequency resonance to enable seamless wireless charging across diverse product designs. Key components of this platform include Thunderlink, the power receiver that captures RF energy, and NEST, the charging station where devices are powered. Humavox's technology caters to a wide range of applications, including headphones, smartwatches, fitness trackers, hearing aids, and medical sensors. The ETERNA Real-Time Charging Optimizer further enhances the charging experience by managing the charging process dynamically. Through its innovative approach, Humavox aims to provide a natural and flexible charging experience that adapts to the needs of various users and devices.
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