Mangrove V

Mangrove V is a venture capital fund managed by Mangrove Capital Partners, founded in 2000 and headquartered in Luxembourg, with additional offices in Berlin and Tel Aviv. Launched in 2017, Mangrove V focuses on early-stage investments primarily in the software sector, targeting technology companies across Europe and Israel. The firm aims to support the growth of its portfolio companies by providing financial backing, strategic advice, and leveraging industry connections. Mangrove Capital Partners specializes in various areas within the technology landscape, including internet services, e-commerce, gaming, and mobile applications, among others. Its investment strategy is centered on fostering innovation and helping startups realize their potential in a competitive market.

Willibrord Ehses

Partner

Michael Richard Jackson

Chief Operating Officer and Partner

Nikolas Krawinkel

Partner & Early Stage Investor BEI e.ventures

Lior Krengel

Associate

Yannick Oswald

Partner

Roy Saar

Partner

Hans-Jurgen Schmitz

Managing Partner

Mark Tluszcz

Co-Founder, Managing Partner & Chief Executive Officer

David Waroquier

Operating Partner

Past deals in Western Asia

Proggio

Series A in 2022
Proggio is a startup company, set to revolutionize the project management world. Proggio developed a new application for project management, based on a new approach called “Projectmap”. The application introduces several first-ever features: amazing project plan visualization, team collaboration in one easy click, patented automatic analysis and process improvements. Founded in 2016 by Yaniv Shor (CEO) and Barak Schiby (CTO), the company is headquartered in Kfar Saba, HaMerkaz, Israel.

Brain.space

Seed Round in 2022
Brain.space is a data company focused on brain mapping, aiming to support researchers, medical professionals, and software developers in interpreting and analyzing brain activity. The company offers a comprehensive and affordable technology stack that includes noninvasive brain activity mapping and monitoring, along with validated big data interpretation and insights. This platform enables users to develop innovative products and services that leverage brain activity data, facilitating advancements in various fields related to neuroscience and mental health.

Affogata

Seed Round in 2022
Affogata, based in Bnei Brak, Israel, specializes in acquiring external data and transforming it into actionable insights for businesses. By leveraging this data, Affogata enables enterprises to enhance their operations and decision-making processes. The company positions itself as a key player in integrating open big data into enterprise resource planning, providing organizations with the tools needed to effectively utilize vast amounts of information for improved performance.

Lightico

Series B in 2021
Lightico Ltd is a company that has developed a cloud-based mobile customer communication platform designed to enhance customer interaction during critical stages of their journey. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, the platform allows customers to enter a virtual private room in their browser, where they can view catalogs, fill out forms, verify their identity, exchange documents and photos, make payments, and sign contracts in real time. By facilitating these processes during phone calls with contact center agents, Lightico aims to streamline sales and service operations while significantly improving the overall customer experience.

CYREBRO

Series B in 2021
CYREBRO is a cybersecurity service provider that operates security operation centers as a service. Established in 2013 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with an additional location in New York, the company specializes in delivering cybersecurity assessments and hacking simulation services. Its solutions are crafted by a team of elite Israeli cybersecurity experts, including hackers, defenders, and investigators with extensive experience at both state and corporate levels. CYREBRO aims to enable businesses to grow while maintaining a secure working environment through practical and active defenses. The company caters to a diverse range of industries, including financial services, retail, telecommunications, and energy, serving clients from Fortune 500 companies to small and medium-sized enterprises.

Affogata

Seed Round in 2021
Affogata, based in Bnei Brak, Israel, specializes in acquiring external data and transforming it into actionable insights for businesses. By leveraging this data, Affogata enables enterprises to enhance their operations and decision-making processes. The company positions itself as a key player in integrating open big data into enterprise resource planning, providing organizations with the tools needed to effectively utilize vast amounts of information for improved performance.

Lightico

Venture Round in 2020
Lightico Ltd is a company that has developed a cloud-based mobile customer communication platform designed to enhance customer interaction during critical stages of their journey. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, the platform allows customers to enter a virtual private room in their browser, where they can view catalogs, fill out forms, verify their identity, exchange documents and photos, make payments, and sign contracts in real time. By facilitating these processes during phone calls with contact center agents, Lightico aims to streamline sales and service operations while significantly improving the overall customer experience.

K Health

Series C in 2020
K Health, Inc. develops and provides a health application that provides personalized and data-driven information about their symptoms and health. The company was formerly known as Kang Health, Inc. and changed its name to K Health, Inc. in November 2018. K Health, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Israel.

L1ght

Seed Round in 2020
L1ght is an algorithm-driven innovator, designed to solve the crisis of online toxicity and how it impacts children. We brighten the dark side of the new digital world.

Lightico

Venture Round in 2019
Lightico Ltd is a company that has developed a cloud-based mobile customer communication platform designed to enhance customer interaction during critical stages of their journey. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, the platform allows customers to enter a virtual private room in their browser, where they can view catalogs, fill out forms, verify their identity, exchange documents and photos, make payments, and sign contracts in real time. By facilitating these processes during phone calls with contact center agents, Lightico aims to streamline sales and service operations while significantly improving the overall customer experience.

CYREBRO

Venture Round in 2019
CYREBRO is a cybersecurity service provider that operates security operation centers as a service. Established in 2013 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with an additional location in New York, the company specializes in delivering cybersecurity assessments and hacking simulation services. Its solutions are crafted by a team of elite Israeli cybersecurity experts, including hackers, defenders, and investigators with extensive experience at both state and corporate levels. CYREBRO aims to enable businesses to grow while maintaining a secure working environment through practical and active defenses. The company caters to a diverse range of industries, including financial services, retail, telecommunications, and energy, serving clients from Fortune 500 companies to small and medium-sized enterprises.

K Health

Series B in 2018
K Health, Inc. develops and provides a health application that provides personalized and data-driven information about their symptoms and health. The company was formerly known as Kang Health, Inc. and changed its name to K Health, Inc. in November 2018. K Health, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Israel.

First

Venture Round in 2018
First is a leading digital assets group in Europe, specializing in developer-driven stablecoin payment solutions that facilitate cryptocurrency transactions for merchants. The platform allows businesses to seamlessly implement cryptocurrency payments, gaining control over transaction management, treasury operations, and compliance measures such as anti-money laundering and Know Your Customer protocols. First's approach enables quick onboarding for merchants through payment processors, allowing them to offer both local currency and cryptocurrency payment options. The group's expertise is rooted in a team of Fintech and Cyber Security professionals, focusing on the incubation of innovative financial products, direct investments in blockchain companies, and partnerships with major financial institutions to drive participation in the evolving digital landscape.

Proggio

Venture Round in 2018
Proggio is a startup company, set to revolutionize the project management world. Proggio developed a new application for project management, based on a new approach called “Projectmap”. The application introduces several first-ever features: amazing project plan visualization, team collaboration in one easy click, patented automatic analysis and process improvements. Founded in 2016 by Yaniv Shor (CEO) and Barak Schiby (CTO), the company is headquartered in Kfar Saba, HaMerkaz, Israel.

Lightico

Venture Round in 2018
Lightico Ltd is a company that has developed a cloud-based mobile customer communication platform designed to enhance customer interaction during critical stages of their journey. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, the platform allows customers to enter a virtual private room in their browser, where they can view catalogs, fill out forms, verify their identity, exchange documents and photos, make payments, and sign contracts in real time. By facilitating these processes during phone calls with contact center agents, Lightico aims to streamline sales and service operations while significantly improving the overall customer experience.

K Health

Series A in 2018
K Health, Inc. develops and provides a health application that provides personalized and data-driven information about their symptoms and health. The company was formerly known as Kang Health, Inc. and changed its name to K Health, Inc. in November 2018. K Health, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Israel.

prooV

Series B in 2017
prooV, Inc. operates a Pilot-as-a-Service platform designed to streamline the proof of concept (PoC) process for software vendors and startups. Founded in 2015 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, prooV's platform facilitates engagement between technology providers and enterprises by offering a comprehensive ecosystem for identifying collaboration opportunities and evaluating new technology solutions. Users can quickly configure and integrate multiple PoCs, significantly reducing the time required to complete these evaluations from months to days. Additionally, prooV provides testing environments that support the demonstration and assessment of various solutions from pre-screened vendors, thereby enhancing the decision-making process for enterprises seeking to adopt innovative technologies.

K Health

Corporate Round in 2017
K Health, Inc. develops and provides a health application that provides personalized and data-driven information about their symptoms and health. The company was formerly known as Kang Health, Inc. and changed its name to K Health, Inc. in November 2018. K Health, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Israel.

K Health

Seed Round in 2016
K Health, Inc. develops and provides a health application that provides personalized and data-driven information about their symptoms and health. The company was formerly known as Kang Health, Inc. and changed its name to K Health, Inc. in November 2018. K Health, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Israel.

prooV

Series A in 2016
prooV, Inc. operates a Pilot-as-a-Service platform designed to streamline the proof of concept (PoC) process for software vendors and startups. Founded in 2015 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, prooV's platform facilitates engagement between technology providers and enterprises by offering a comprehensive ecosystem for identifying collaboration opportunities and evaluating new technology solutions. Users can quickly configure and integrate multiple PoCs, significantly reducing the time required to complete these evaluations from months to days. Additionally, prooV provides testing environments that support the demonstration and assessment of various solutions from pre-screened vendors, thereby enhancing the decision-making process for enterprises seeking to adopt innovative technologies.

Pops

Venture Round in 2012
Pops is an Android application that enables mobile users to personalize their phone alerts, including new email, SMS, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, WhatsApp & more in a fun and innovative way. Pops created the first technology that enables the capture of any incoming notification on a mobile device operating system or cloud-based service, then customizes the notification with a new kind of media: Pops media. Pops media is a 5 second animation or video clip that precedes or wraps the notification itself. Pops maintains a gallery of 1000s of animations and clips to choose from.

Wix

Series D in 2011
Wix provides a platform for the development of cloud data services for millions of registered users worldwide. It specializes in web development and management that provides an easy-to-use powerful cloud-based platform of products through a freemium model. Its core products consist of three web editors: the Wix Editor, intended for users with basic technological skills, Wix ADI, intended for novice users and Wix Code, intended for more tech savvy users. It builds its web development technology based on HTML5 and offers HTML5 compatible capabilities, web design and layout tools, domain hosting, and other marketing and workflow management applications, and services. The geographic segments include North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia as well as other regions.

Wix

Series C in 2010
Wix provides a platform for the development of cloud data services for millions of registered users worldwide. It specializes in web development and management that provides an easy-to-use powerful cloud-based platform of products through a freemium model. Its core products consist of three web editors: the Wix Editor, intended for users with basic technological skills, Wix ADI, intended for novice users and Wix Code, intended for more tech savvy users. It builds its web development technology based on HTML5 and offers HTML5 compatible capabilities, web design and layout tools, domain hosting, and other marketing and workflow management applications, and services. The geographic segments include North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia as well as other regions.

Wix

Series B in 2008
Wix provides a platform for the development of cloud data services for millions of registered users worldwide. It specializes in web development and management that provides an easy-to-use powerful cloud-based platform of products through a freemium model. Its core products consist of three web editors: the Wix Editor, intended for users with basic technological skills, Wix ADI, intended for novice users and Wix Code, intended for more tech savvy users. It builds its web development technology based on HTML5 and offers HTML5 compatible capabilities, web design and layout tools, domain hosting, and other marketing and workflow management applications, and services. The geographic segments include North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia as well as other regions.

Nimbuzz

Series B in 2008
What is Nimbuzz? Nimbuzz is a new-generation mobile communication & entertainment platform, designed for the online generation. The multi award-winning Nimbuzz application enables people to enjoy free & low cost mobile phone calls, free Video Calling, free instant messaging, social networking and other rich communication features like social games, using the internet capabilities of the their mobile device. Nimbuzz has over 150 million users globally and enjoys a current growth rate of over 210000 new registrations each day (that’s a new Nimbuzz user every 1 second!), and an international user footprint of more than 200 countries, covering every corner of the globe. Nimbuzz users enjoy the freedom of communicating with friends between any internet enabled device, from mobile to mobile, mobile to PC/Mac and vice versa, harnessing the power of the Internet to create the most versatile communication system in the world. Social networks & communities supported by Nimbuzz include Facebook®, GoogleTalk™ and Twitter. Company background: Nimbuzz, a pioneer and an established brand in IP based communications, is based out of Gurgaon with regional offices in Dubai and Netherlands. Team Nimbuzz is close to 100 people across it various offices. Vikas Saxena is the Chief Executive Officer of Nimbuzz and is responsible for the overall business strategy and operations of the brand across the world. Nimbuzz is backed by Mangrove Capital Partners and Naspers group. Features: Following a free of charge, simple download & installation, Nimbuzz empowers users to rethink the way they use their mobile device and discover the full potential of the mobile Internet.

Wix

Series A in 2007
Wix provides a platform for the development of cloud data services for millions of registered users worldwide. It specializes in web development and management that provides an easy-to-use powerful cloud-based platform of products through a freemium model. Its core products consist of three web editors: the Wix Editor, intended for users with basic technological skills, Wix ADI, intended for novice users and Wix Code, intended for more tech savvy users. It builds its web development technology based on HTML5 and offers HTML5 compatible capabilities, web design and layout tools, domain hosting, and other marketing and workflow management applications, and services. The geographic segments include North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia as well as other regions.

Screaming Sports

Series A in 2007
Screaming Sports is a social networking service catering to fantasy sports players. The site provides news, player alerts, insider advice, and forums in addition to standard social networking features (friends, pictures, blogs), and also aggregates users' fantasy sports teams. While some users will no doubt like the social networking features and the ability to converse with other fans in an open forum on fantasy sports, perhaps the most useful feature of the site for users is the ability to access all their fantasy sports teams from one location- the Fantasy Sports Dashboard. Users can update lineups and see those changes reflected in the hosting site, automate roster changes, and access and change rosters over wireless devices. Screaming Sports also offers a Facebook application, allowing users to manage their fantasy teams from their Facebook accounts. Also in the realm of fantasy sports startups are [DraftMix](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/draftmix) and [Fleaflicker](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fleaflicker).

Nimbuzz

Series A in 2007
What is Nimbuzz? Nimbuzz is a new-generation mobile communication & entertainment platform, designed for the online generation. The multi award-winning Nimbuzz application enables people to enjoy free & low cost mobile phone calls, free Video Calling, free instant messaging, social networking and other rich communication features like social games, using the internet capabilities of the their mobile device. Nimbuzz has over 150 million users globally and enjoys a current growth rate of over 210000 new registrations each day (that’s a new Nimbuzz user every 1 second!), and an international user footprint of more than 200 countries, covering every corner of the globe. Nimbuzz users enjoy the freedom of communicating with friends between any internet enabled device, from mobile to mobile, mobile to PC/Mac and vice versa, harnessing the power of the Internet to create the most versatile communication system in the world. Social networks & communities supported by Nimbuzz include Facebook®, GoogleTalk™ and Twitter. Company background: Nimbuzz, a pioneer and an established brand in IP based communications, is based out of Gurgaon with regional offices in Dubai and Netherlands. Team Nimbuzz is close to 100 people across it various offices. Vikas Saxena is the Chief Executive Officer of Nimbuzz and is responsible for the overall business strategy and operations of the brand across the world. Nimbuzz is backed by Mangrove Capital Partners and Naspers group. Features: Following a free of charge, simple download & installation, Nimbuzz empowers users to rethink the way they use their mobile device and discover the full potential of the mobile Internet.

Nimbuzz

Angel Round in 2005
What is Nimbuzz? Nimbuzz is a new-generation mobile communication & entertainment platform, designed for the online generation. The multi award-winning Nimbuzz application enables people to enjoy free & low cost mobile phone calls, free Video Calling, free instant messaging, social networking and other rich communication features like social games, using the internet capabilities of the their mobile device. Nimbuzz has over 150 million users globally and enjoys a current growth rate of over 210000 new registrations each day (that’s a new Nimbuzz user every 1 second!), and an international user footprint of more than 200 countries, covering every corner of the globe. Nimbuzz users enjoy the freedom of communicating with friends between any internet enabled device, from mobile to mobile, mobile to PC/Mac and vice versa, harnessing the power of the Internet to create the most versatile communication system in the world. Social networks & communities supported by Nimbuzz include Facebook®, GoogleTalk™ and Twitter. Company background: Nimbuzz, a pioneer and an established brand in IP based communications, is based out of Gurgaon with regional offices in Dubai and Netherlands. Team Nimbuzz is close to 100 people across it various offices. Vikas Saxena is the Chief Executive Officer of Nimbuzz and is responsible for the overall business strategy and operations of the brand across the world. Nimbuzz is backed by Mangrove Capital Partners and Naspers group. Features: Following a free of charge, simple download & installation, Nimbuzz empowers users to rethink the way they use their mobile device and discover the full potential of the mobile Internet.

Kyriba

Series A in 2001
Kyriba Corp. develops cloud-based treasury management software solutions tailored for CFOs, treasurers, and financial professionals. The company offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that provides visibility and reporting to help optimize cash management, control bank accounts, manage liquidity, and ensure compliance. Kyriba's solutions include tools for financial risk management, working capital optimization, and a global multi-bank payment system for treasury and supplier payments. Additionally, Kyriba facilitates bank relationship management, payment management, and trade solutions to enhance operational efficiency. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Diego, California, Kyriba serves a diverse clientele ranging from mid-sized organizations to Fortune 500 companies, with offices in major global cities, including New York, Paris, London, Tokyo, and Dubai. The company focuses on automating financial operations, reducing the risk of fraud, and enabling better decision-making through advanced analytics.