Cerca Partners

Cerca Partners, established in 2014, is a venture capital firm headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel. It specializes in seed and early-stage investments, focusing primarily on Israeli technology startups. The firm leverages its strong network of successful tech entrepreneurs and industry executives to gain unique insights and access to promising investment opportunities. By providing both expertise and mentorship, Cerca Partners aims to support and guide its portfolio companies in the fast-paced international market.

Amit Ashkenazi

Venture Partner

Nir Falevich

Principal

Ronnie Zahavi

Partner

Haleli Barath

Co-Founder and General Partner

Past deals in Israel

FundGuard

Series B in 2022
FundGuard Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-powered, cloud-based platform for investment management and administration. The FundGuard platform is designed to assist asset and fund managers in overseeing investments across various categories, including mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, insurance, and pension funds. Utilizing advanced AI and cloud technology, the platform automatically detects financial anomalies, resolves exceptions, and offers recommendations to enhance operational performance. By providing real-time transparency, FundGuard enables asset managers and fund administrators to transform their product offerings into more efficient digital experiences. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel.

HiBob

Series C in 2021
HiBob Inc. is a developer of a cloud-based human resources management system designed to modernize HR technology for contemporary workplaces. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with additional offices in New York and London, HiBob offers its flagship product, Bob, which serves as an integrated human resource information system. This platform facilitates various HR functions, including attendance tracking, time-off management, employee records, compensation management, and performance evaluation. With an intuitive, data-driven design, Bob is tailored for the needs of globally distributed and collaborative work environments. Since its launch, HiBob has experienced significant growth and has become the preferred HRIS for over 1,000 midsize and multinational companies, helping them enhance employee engagement and retention through effective talent management.

Juno Journey

Series A in 2021
Juno Journey is a company founded in 2017 by Dor Nachshoni, headquartered in Herzliya, Israel. It offers a platform aimed at guiding and supporting employees through personal growth and skill optimization. The platform utilizes advanced artificial intelligence to enhance personal development processes and improve employee engagement. It also identifies relevant internal career opportunities by aligning the aspirations of employees with organizational objectives. By connecting individual development with company goals, Juno Journey empowers employees to grow professionally while contributing to the overall success of the business.

Salto

Series B in 2021
Salto Labs Inc. specializes in business application configuration, providing a comprehensive dashboard for companies to manage their applications and services. Founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Salto offers a unique solution that employs an Open Source and an Enterprise SaaS product to facilitate multi-application configuration. At the core of its technology is NaCl (Not Another Configuration Language), which allows for the automatic extraction and declarative representation of configurations from various business applications, including Salesforce, NetSuite, and HubSpot. This innovative approach enables collaborative editing and deployment of configurations, with capabilities for testing, tracking, and rolling back changes as needed. Salto's structured language enhances usability by allowing text searches, re-use of configurations, inline documentation, and easy auditing of changes, ultimately streamlining business operations and reducing errors. The company is backed by notable investors and has expanded its presence with offices in both Tel Aviv and San Francisco.

Granulate

Series B in 2021
Granulate Cloud Solutions Ltd. is an Israeli company established in 2018, specializing in AI-powered optimization software. Its platform focuses on enhancing the performance of applications by optimizing machine processes at the kernel and operating system levels. The Granulate solution offers real-time, continuous optimization for specific and repetitive tasks, ensuring high performance and scalability. The software’s agents can be installed on any Linux server and are compatible with various architectures, including data centers and multi-cloud environments. By analyzing resource usage patterns, these agents intelligently adjust resource allocation to alleviate performance bottlenecks, ultimately enabling businesses to improve application performance while reducing operational costs.

HiBob

Series B in 2020
HiBob Inc. is a developer of a cloud-based human resources management system designed to modernize HR technology for contemporary workplaces. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with additional offices in New York and London, HiBob offers its flagship product, Bob, which serves as an integrated human resource information system. This platform facilitates various HR functions, including attendance tracking, time-off management, employee records, compensation management, and performance evaluation. With an intuitive, data-driven design, Bob is tailored for the needs of globally distributed and collaborative work environments. Since its launch, HiBob has experienced significant growth and has become the preferred HRIS for over 1,000 midsize and multinational companies, helping them enhance employee engagement and retention through effective talent management.

Wiz

Series A in 2020
Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing enterprises with a platform that enables them to identify security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Wiz's innovative solution offers a comprehensive, cloud-native visibility tool that analyzes the entire cloud environment, delivering a 360-degree view of security risks across various platforms, including clouds, containers, and workloads. The platform utilizes actionable, graph-based analysis to facilitate in-depth risk assessment and root cause analysis without the need for agents, allowing organizations to enhance their security posture effectively.

Tipalti

Series D in 2019
Tipalti, Inc., established in 2010, specializes in accounts payable automation and global mass payments. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an additional office in Israel, the company offers a comprehensive software solution that streamlines and automates the process of paying suppliers, partners, and publishers worldwide. Tipalti's platform covers all aspects of the payables workflow, including supplier onboarding, invoice processing, global funds disbursement, tax compliance, and payment reconciliation. By utilizing Tipalti, businesses can significantly reduce their supplier payment workload, strengthen financial controls, ensure regulatory compliance, and improve partner payment experiences, enabling them to focus on strategic growth.

HiBob

Series A in 2019
HiBob Inc. is a developer of a cloud-based human resources management system designed to modernize HR technology for contemporary workplaces. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with additional offices in New York and London, HiBob offers its flagship product, Bob, which serves as an integrated human resource information system. This platform facilitates various HR functions, including attendance tracking, time-off management, employee records, compensation management, and performance evaluation. With an intuitive, data-driven design, Bob is tailored for the needs of globally distributed and collaborative work environments. Since its launch, HiBob has experienced significant growth and has become the preferred HRIS for over 1,000 midsize and multinational companies, helping them enhance employee engagement and retention through effective talent management.

At-Bay

Series A in 2018
At-Bay, Inc. is a cyber insurance provider based in Mountain View, California, with an additional research and development center in Tel Aviv, Israel. Founded in 2016 and formerly known as Cyberjack Inc., At-Bay offers tailored cyber insurance policies that cover a range of risks, including information privacy, network security, cyber extortion, and financial fraud. The company combines advanced technology with insurance services, focusing on proactive risk management and comprehensive risk assessment to help businesses manage their cyber risks effectively. At-Bay serves nearly 40,000 businesses in the United States, protecting up to $800 billion in collective revenue. In addition to its insurance offerings, At-Bay provides proprietary cybersecurity solutions, enabling clients to safeguard their digital operations against evolving threats.

Tipalti

Series C in 2018
Tipalti, Inc., established in 2010, specializes in accounts payable automation and global mass payments. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an additional office in Israel, the company offers a comprehensive software solution that streamlines and automates the process of paying suppliers, partners, and publishers worldwide. Tipalti's platform covers all aspects of the payables workflow, including supplier onboarding, invoice processing, global funds disbursement, tax compliance, and payment reconciliation. By utilizing Tipalti, businesses can significantly reduce their supplier payment workload, strengthen financial controls, ensure regulatory compliance, and improve partner payment experiences, enabling them to focus on strategic growth.

Prospera Technologies

Series B in 2017
Prospera Technologies Ltd. specializes in the development of computer vision technologies designed to monitor and analyze plant health, growth, and stress. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Tel-Aviv, Israel, the company captures climate and visual data from agricultural fields, providing actionable insights to growers through mobile and web platforms. The team comprises computer scientists, physicists, agronomists, and experienced agri-business leaders, all working collaboratively to enhance agricultural practices and optimize food production.

HiBob

Series A in 2017
HiBob Inc. is a developer of a cloud-based human resources management system designed to modernize HR technology for contemporary workplaces. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with additional offices in New York and London, HiBob offers its flagship product, Bob, which serves as an integrated human resource information system. This platform facilitates various HR functions, including attendance tracking, time-off management, employee records, compensation management, and performance evaluation. With an intuitive, data-driven design, Bob is tailored for the needs of globally distributed and collaborative work environments. Since its launch, HiBob has experienced significant growth and has become the preferred HRIS for over 1,000 midsize and multinational companies, helping them enhance employee engagement and retention through effective talent management.

Demisto

Series B in 2017
Demisto, Inc. operates a security orchestration, automation, and response platform designed to enhance the efficiency of security teams. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with additional offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Tel Aviv, Israel, the company focuses on streamlining incident management and interactive investigation processes. Its platform integrates intelligent automation through a ChatOps interface, allowing teams to manage security incidents more effectively while leveraging existing security investments. Demisto's automated incident response capabilities, powered by an AI-driven bot, facilitate collaboration and enable organizations to efficiently execute playbook-based workflows and threat hunting operations. As a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks, Demisto continues to evolve its offerings to address the growing challenges in cybersecurity.

Alooma

Venture Round in 2017
Alooma Ltd. is a data platform provider that enables users to build and manage data pipelines efficiently. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with an additional office in California, the company allows data teams to integrate various data sources into a centralized data warehouse in real-time, primarily facilitating migration to Google Cloud services. Alooma supports numerous popular data sources and features a fault-tolerant, distributed architecture, providing users with visibility into their data pipelines, including monitoring of throughput, latency, and error rates. The platform also offers web and email notifications to alert users of any issues within their data pipelines, enhancing the overall data management and migration experience. As of March 2019, Alooma operates as a subsidiary of Google LLC.

Wochit

Series C in 2016
Wochit Inc. operates an online video creation platform tailored for publishers, newsrooms, media companies, and brands seeking to enhance audience engagement through social videos. Founded in 2012 and based in Yehud, Israel, the platform provides users with tools to create short-form videos using a real-time, license-cleared media collection. This enables organizations to produce and share videos across various social and digital platforms with ease. Wochit's solutions are designed to be accessible for all businesses, allowing them to develop socially-optimized video content at scale. By facilitating the creation of compelling on-brand videos, Wochit helps brands, nonprofits, and commercial organizations connect with their audiences in innovative ways.

SafeBreach

Series A in 2016
SafeBreach Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in breach and attack simulation (BAS). Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with an additional location in Tel Aviv, Israel, SafeBreach offers a platform that enables organizations to proactively assess their security posture. The platform utilizes a comprehensive Hacker's Playbook, which includes real-world breach methods, to simulate potential attacks across various network segments, cloud environments, and endpoints. By mimicking the tactics of virtual hackers, SafeBreach helps businesses identify vulnerabilities and improve their security controls before actual breaches occur. The platform integrates seamlessly with security information and event management systems, ticketing systems, and automation vendors, allowing for enhanced incident response and remediation. Funded by notable investors, SafeBreach continues to innovate in the field of cybersecurity, providing vital insights to strengthen enterprise defenses against evolving threats.

HiBob

Seed Round in 2016
HiBob Inc. is a developer of a cloud-based human resources management system designed to modernize HR technology for contemporary workplaces. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with additional offices in New York and London, HiBob offers its flagship product, Bob, which serves as an integrated human resource information system. This platform facilitates various HR functions, including attendance tracking, time-off management, employee records, compensation management, and performance evaluation. With an intuitive, data-driven design, Bob is tailored for the needs of globally distributed and collaborative work environments. Since its launch, HiBob has experienced significant growth and has become the preferred HRIS for over 1,000 midsize and multinational companies, helping them enhance employee engagement and retention through effective talent management.

Demisto

Series A in 2016
Demisto, Inc. operates a security orchestration, automation, and response platform designed to enhance the efficiency of security teams. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with additional offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Tel Aviv, Israel, the company focuses on streamlining incident management and interactive investigation processes. Its platform integrates intelligent automation through a ChatOps interface, allowing teams to manage security incidents more effectively while leveraging existing security investments. Demisto's automated incident response capabilities, powered by an AI-driven bot, facilitate collaboration and enable organizations to efficiently execute playbook-based workflows and threat hunting operations. As a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks, Demisto continues to evolve its offerings to address the growing challenges in cybersecurity.

E8 Storage

Series B in 2016
E8 Storage specializes in advanced flash storage solutions designed for enterprise and software-defined cloud environments. Founded in 2014 by industry veterans from IBM, the company offers a rack-scale architecture that delivers ten times the performance at half the cost of traditional storage products. Its flagship appliance, E8-D24, integrates the high speed of NVMe drives with the reliability of centralized storage and the scalability of scale-out systems. E8 Storage also develops a storage management application that simplifies management while ensuring reliability and availability, enabling clients to handle large and complex databases efficiently. With research and development based in Tel Aviv and sales operations in Santa Clara, E8 Storage is backed by venture capital from notable firms, enhancing its capability to innovate in the storage sector.

Fiverr International

Series D in 2015
Fiverr International Ltd. operates a global online marketplace that connects businesses with freelance talent offering a wide range of digital services. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, the platform features approximately 300 categories across eight verticals, including graphic design, digital marketing, writing and translation, video and animation, music and audio, programming and technology, business, and lifestyle. In addition to its core marketplace, Fiverr offers supplementary services such as And.Co, which assists freelancers with invoicing and task management; Fiverr Learn, an online learning platform providing courses in various fields; and ClearVoice, a content marketing platform designed for medium to large businesses. The company's clientele encompasses businesses of all sizes, while its sellers predominantly consist of freelancers and small enterprises.

PlaxidityX (Formerly Argus Cyber Security)

Series B in 2015
Argus Cyber Security Ltd. specializes in providing comprehensive cybersecurity solutions for the automotive industry, focusing on protecting connected cars and commercial vehicles from hacking threats. Founded in 2013 by cybersecurity experts, the company offers a suite of solutions designed to safeguard various components of vehicles, including in-vehicle networks, infotainment systems, and critical electronic control units (ECUs). Key products include ARGUS IN-VEHICLE NETWORK PROTECTION, which detects and mitigates attacks on in-vehicle networks; ARGUS CONNECTIVITY PROTECTION, which secures telematics and infotainment units; and ARGUS ECU PROTECTION, which fortifies crucial vehicle systems against external and internal threats. Additionally, Argus provides advisory services such as threat analysis and incident response. With its research and development center based in Tel Aviv and offices located in Michigan, Silicon Valley, Stuttgart, and Tokyo, Argus combines innovative security techniques with a thorough understanding of automotive practices to serve car manufacturers, Tier 1 suppliers, and aftermarket connectivity providers effectively.

Fiverr International

Series C in 2014
Fiverr International Ltd. operates a global online marketplace that connects businesses with freelance talent offering a wide range of digital services. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, the platform features approximately 300 categories across eight verticals, including graphic design, digital marketing, writing and translation, video and animation, music and audio, programming and technology, business, and lifestyle. In addition to its core marketplace, Fiverr offers supplementary services such as And.Co, which assists freelancers with invoicing and task management; Fiverr Learn, an online learning platform providing courses in various fields; and ClearVoice, a content marketing platform designed for medium to large businesses. The company's clientele encompasses businesses of all sizes, while its sellers predominantly consist of freelancers and small enterprises.

Adallom

Series B in 2014
Adallom, Inc. is a cloud application security company that specializes in providing cloud access security brokerage services. Founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California, with a research and development facility in Tel Aviv, Israel, Adallom offers a range of solutions designed to enhance the security and governance of cloud applications. Its platform delivers visibility and protection for various Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Google Apps, Box, Dropbox for Business, Ariba, and Jive. The company's technology is built on SmartEngine™, which employs advanced heuristics to safeguard data in the cloud, making it easy for organizations to manage and secure their information. Adallom's services are adaptable, available as either a SaaS-based or on-premises solution, catering to businesses looking to improve their cloud security posture. As of 2015, Adallom operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation.

Adallom

Series A in 2012
Adallom, Inc. is a cloud application security company that specializes in providing cloud access security brokerage services. Founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California, with a research and development facility in Tel Aviv, Israel, Adallom offers a range of solutions designed to enhance the security and governance of cloud applications. Its platform delivers visibility and protection for various Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Google Apps, Box, Dropbox for Business, Ariba, and Jive. The company's technology is built on SmartEngine™, which employs advanced heuristics to safeguard data in the cloud, making it easy for organizations to manage and secure their information. Adallom's services are adaptable, available as either a SaaS-based or on-premises solution, catering to businesses looking to improve their cloud security posture. As of 2015, Adallom operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation.
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