Takwin

Takwin is a venture capital fund and incubator, making early-stage investments in hi-tech companies run by Arab entrepreneurs in Israel. We nurture the startup spirit in the Arab Israeli communities and empower Arab entrepreneurs to build successful companies. Founded by Imad Telhami, Takwin is a unique and first-of-its-kind cooperative venture between Israel’s two largest funds – Pitango (run by Chemi Peres) and JVP (run by Dr. Erel Margalit). We are the first VC located in the northern region of Israel, and Takwin Labs is the first venture infrastructure created for northern entrepreneurs and startups. With a proactive investment approach, we help brilliant entrepreneurs build their companies even prior to investment. By providing help with the business plan, product, strategy, and more, we aim to harness our know-how of the startup journey and embark on that journey with our entrepreneurs.

4 past transactions

Soos Technology

Venture Round in 2020
SOOS develops an incubation system that affects the sex development process in poultry embryo and turns genetic males into functional female chicks. The company's solution is an incubation system (AI-driven software controlling a customized incubation cell) that controls the sex development process in chicken embryos and uses genetic male layers to produce functional female layers that can lay eggs.

Imagry

Venture Round in 2017
Imagry is an Autonomous Driving software provider that has created a mapless driving system. Our bio-inspired technology combines real-time vision-based perception and imitation-learning AI for a driving decision-making network. Imagry’s software enables the autonomous vehicle to understand the road as it goes and reacts to dynamic contexts and environments, just like a skilled human driver. Imagry has been operating passenger vehicles that drive autonomously on public roads since 2019. We supply our Perception and Motion Planning L3 software stacks to automotive Tier-1 suppliers and OEMs like yourselves with Tesla’s FSD. We are currently driving in the U.S., Germany, Israel, and Japan (we are the only autonomous driving software company that can operate vehicles for both left- and right-hand drive roads). We also partner with bus manufacturers to offer fully integrated L4 autonomous buses for urban routes. We have launched multiple autonomous bus projects in Israel and are now moving into Europe and Japan with that offering. Imagry was selected as an “Autonomous Transport System Vendor” by Transdev (the world’s largest public transportation operator, working in 21 markets), and was also awarded two “Best Practices” awards by Frost & Sullivan, one for Enabling Technology Leadership for AV solutions and the other as a Customer Value Leader. We have offices in San Jose, CA (HQ) and Haifa, Israel.

OlfaGuard

Seed Round in 2016
OlfaGuard is a bio-nanotech startup in food safety developing an E-nose capable of smelling pathogens on food. OlfaGuard is in the R&D phase of building specific target sensors based on licensed technology based on four patents from the Technion and Professor Hossam Haick that can identify Microbial Volatile Organic Compounds (MVOC). It has been able to identify the different MVOC'S of Salmonella and E.coli with our sensors in the Lab and hasidentified the pathogens on food samples.

Imagry

Seed Round in 2015
Imagry is an Autonomous Driving software provider that has created a mapless driving system. Our bio-inspired technology combines real-time vision-based perception and imitation-learning AI for a driving decision-making network. Imagry’s software enables the autonomous vehicle to understand the road as it goes and reacts to dynamic contexts and environments, just like a skilled human driver. Imagry has been operating passenger vehicles that drive autonomously on public roads since 2019. We supply our Perception and Motion Planning L3 software stacks to automotive Tier-1 suppliers and OEMs like yourselves with Tesla’s FSD. We are currently driving in the U.S., Germany, Israel, and Japan (we are the only autonomous driving software company that can operate vehicles for both left- and right-hand drive roads). We also partner with bus manufacturers to offer fully integrated L4 autonomous buses for urban routes. We have launched multiple autonomous bus projects in Israel and are now moving into Europe and Japan with that offering. Imagry was selected as an “Autonomous Transport System Vendor” by Transdev (the world’s largest public transportation operator, working in 21 markets), and was also awarded two “Best Practices” awards by Frost & Sullivan, one for Enabling Technology Leadership for AV solutions and the other as a Customer Value Leader. We have offices in San Jose, CA (HQ) and Haifa, Israel.
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