Glilot Capital Partners

Glilot Capital Partners is a venture capital firm based in Herzliya Pituach, Israel, founded in 2011. The firm specializes in seed, early-stage, and late-stage investments, focusing predominantly on B2B high-tech sectors, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, SaaS, and various software applications. Glilot Capital Partners primarily invests in Israeli companies, targeting investments ranging from $5 million to $20 million. The firm aims to support innovative startups, particularly in areas such as big data, DevOps, and fintech, leveraging its founders' entrepreneurial experience to accelerate growth and success in the technology landscape.

Nofar Amikam

General Partner

Dorin Baniel

Head of Value Creation

Chad Kinzelberg

Executive Advisor

Arik Kleinstein

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Lior Litwak

Managing Partner & Head of Glilot+

Itzik Mizrachi

Investment Manager

Kobi Samboursky

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Sarit Sharabi

Chief Financial Officer

Ilanit Tseyrefman

Director of Marketing

Daniel Ziv

Investor

Past deals in Africa and Middle East

LayerX

Seed Round in 2022
AI powered security for users of web applications and SaaS. Real time anti-phishing and SaaS security monitoring.

LayerX

Seed Round in 2022
AI powered security for users of web applications and SaaS. Real time anti-phishing and SaaS security monitoring.

Cyolo

Series B in 2022
Cyolo Security Ltd, founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializes in developing security solutions that focus on identity-based connectivity and access control. The company offers a Zero Trust Access Solution that enables secure connections for both onsite and remote users to authorized assets within organizational networks, as well as cloud and IoT environments. This platform addresses the need for secure access to applications, servers, and files, regardless of the user's location, including offline networks. Cyolo aims to enhance security while facilitating seamless connectivity across various environments.

ScaleOps

Seed Round in 2022
ScaleOps provides a resource management platform. They also provide DevOps and FinOps teams with complete control over their workloads. They reduce cloud spending, free engineers from ongoing, repeated configurations, and ensure business goals.

Seemplicity

Series A in 2022
Seemplicity offers a risk reduction and productivity platform that streamlines the way security teams manage risk reduction. By orchestrating, automating, and consolidating all remediation activities into a single workspace, Seemplicity is revolutionizing the way security teams drive and scale risk reduction efforts across organizations. Seemplicity streamlines and collaboratively transforms the remediation process for developers, DevOps, and IT across the organization, assisting them in achieving complete operational resilience and establishing a truly scalable security program.

Kooply

Seed Round in 2022
Kooply is a team of proven entrepreneurs building a nextgen gaming platform.

Lightlytics

Series A in 2022
Lightlytics specializes in cloud deployment technologies that assist SRE and DevOps teams in managing infrastructure updates and developments. The company provides a continuously updated model of cloud environments by tracking behavior and configuration changes. Its technology enables teams to automatically predict, pre-empt, and prevent potential failures, downtime, and business disruptions by simulating all possible dependencies and assessing their impact on operations prior to deployment. This capability allows organizations to code and deploy configurations efficiently and securely, ensuring smooth operations from code to cloud.

ESGgo

Seed Round in 2022
ESGgo is the ESG operating platform for global companies. A group of experienced business professionals and technology experts from Facebook, Google and McKinsey as well as teams from the top Israeli army technology units gathered together with the goal of making a good impact on the world combined with a solid business impact. ESGgo is a B2B enterprise software that supports companies with a one-stop-shop for all of their ESG data needs. ESGgo proprietary and powerful data engine helps companies collect the hundreds of ESG data points from across the organization together with normalizing and standardizing them according to the different reporting frameworks. ESGgo collaborative tool simplifies the work streams and collection processes between the different departments or from the company suppliers with continuously monitoring, analyzing and presenting the ESG status. ESGgo benchmarking tool presents peers and competitors’ ESG status and compares and optimizes their ESG reporting and ESG score.

Rewire

Venture Round in 2022
Rewire Ltd., a remittance company, provides money transfer services from Israel to internationally. It offers services that enable users to create a remittance order on their mobile phone/computer; deposit money to their Rewire's account (online, cash, and post office); and get notification when the beneficiary receives funds. The company’s services allow users to send money from Israel to the Philippines, India, Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Russia. Rewire Ltd. was founded in 2015 and is based in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel.

Polar Security

Seed Round in 2022
Polar is the first Data Security Posture Management Platform (DSPM) to automate cloud data security & compliance - wherever your sensitive data is, however fast developers create it.

Ermetic

Series B in 2021
Ermetic Ltd. is a company focused on cloud infrastructure security, offering a comprehensive platform designed to protect enterprises from access-related risks and misconfigurations. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Ermetic provides solutions that enhance visibility into identities, their entitlements, and data usage. The platform combines advanced analytics with detailed insights, enabling organizations to enforce least privilege access across complex cloud environments. This functionality supports the detection of identity and access-based threats, policy enforcement, anomaly detection, and compliance monitoring. Led by experienced technology entrepreneurs, Ermetic has garnered funding from notable investors, including Glilot Capital Partners and Norwest Venture Partners.

Atmosec

Seed Round in 2021
Atmosec provides continuous security for your hyperconnected SaaS ecosystem as fast as it evolves. Our unique platform understands the contextual security settings of third-party SaaS services, monitors their behavior as they interact with each other, and automates the mitigation of actual and potential risks to protect your company’s data.

PayEm

Series A in 2021
PayEm Card Ltd operates an expense management platform designed to help employers effectively track and control spending. The platform integrates dynamic credit cards with a payment system that facilitates approval, tracking, and oversight of employee expenses. Each employee receives a PayEm card, which allows employers to customize spending rules and limits, ensuring control over card usage and purchases. The platform captures receipts in real-time and automatically generates expense reports, streamlining the reconciliation process. Additionally, PayEm seamlessly integrates with accounting software, enabling businesses to monitor all employee spending in one centralized location. Founded in 2018 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, PayEm aims to optimize financial management for organizations.

Upstream Security

Series C in 2021
Upstream is the first cloud-based centralized cybersecurity and analytics platform that protects the technologies and applications of connected and autonomous vehicles fleet. The platform leverages big data and machine learning to provide OEMs and vehicle fleets with unprecedented, comprehensive, and non-intrusive defense. With application security, real-time data protection and anomaly detection, attacks are identified and blocked before they reach and harm the vehicle's network. Upstream Security helps corporations mitigate connectivity risks and ensure the safety and security of smart mobility solutions protecting connected and autonomous vehicles. It also secures drivers, vehicles, and mobility services from misuse and cyber-attacks. Upstream C4 is a data-driven cloud-based platform that integrates with automotive data streams of vehicles and promises to detect incidents as they happen in real-time and allocating a rating based on perceived impact and severity The company was received the 15th Annual 2019 Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards in Automotive Security (IoT) and Cybersecurity Excellence Awards 2019 - Gold Winner (Automotive Cybersecurity Category). Upstream Security was founded in February 2017 and is based in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Cyolo

Series A in 2021
Cyolo Security Ltd, founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializes in developing security solutions that focus on identity-based connectivity and access control. The company offers a Zero Trust Access Solution that enables secure connections for both onsite and remote users to authorized assets within organizational networks, as well as cloud and IoT environments. This platform addresses the need for secure access to applications, servers, and files, regardless of the user's location, including offline networks. Cyolo aims to enhance security while facilitating seamless connectivity across various environments.

At-Bay

Series D in 2021
At-Bay, Inc. specializes in cyber insurance underwriting and risk management services, offering customized insurance policies that address various cyber risks such as information privacy, network security failures, cyber extortion, and financial fraud. The company emphasizes comprehensive risk assessment, security analysis, and exposure evaluation to help clients understand and mitigate cyber threats. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, At-Bay also maintains a research and development center in Tel Aviv, Israel. Originally known as Cyberjack Inc., the company rebranded in 2017 to reflect its focus on providing insurance solutions that enable businesses to innovate while managing the ever-present challenges of cyber risk. Through continuous analysis and modeling of cyber threats, At-Bay partners with brokers to deliver effective risk management programs tailored to the needs of its clients.

Lightrun

Series A in 2021
Lightrun, founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, specializes in developing a debugging platform that enhances developer productivity by enabling real-time addition of logs, performance metrics, and traces in both production and staging environments. Its observability platform allows developers to address production issues effectively by providing continuous debugging capabilities without interrupting running applications. This flexibility ensures that R&D departments can maintain 100% code-level observability while defining the specific data collected during application execution. Through its innovative approach, Lightrun aims to streamline the debugging process, facilitating smoother operations for development teams.

Rewire

Series B in 2021
Rewire Ltd., a remittance company, provides money transfer services from Israel to internationally. It offers services that enable users to create a remittance order on their mobile phone/computer; deposit money to their Rewire's account (online, cash, and post office); and get notification when the beneficiary receives funds. The company’s services allow users to send money from Israel to the Philippines, India, Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Russia. Rewire Ltd. was founded in 2015 and is based in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel.

Exceed.ai

Seed Round in 2020
Exceed.ai is a company that specializes in developing a chatbot platform designed to facilitate direct communication and sales between brands and customers via chat. Founded in 2016 and based in Kokhav Ya'ir, Israel, its solution enables B2B companies to enhance their marketing and sales operations by automating processes such as lead capturing, qualification, and nurturing. The Exceed AI Assistant operates continuously to ensure that every lead is promptly followed up and engaged through two-way email and chat conversations. When a lead is ready for human interaction, the assistant schedules meetings directly on the sales representative's calendar and updates the customer relationship management (CRM) system with the latest lead status. This streamlined approach helps marketing and sales teams drive more opportunities from email and website visitors, supporting companies like Demandbase, SugarCRM, and Hearst in achieving their goals.

BrandTotal

Series B in 2020
BrandTotal Ltd operates a marketing intelligence platform focused on enhancing the effectiveness of marketing campaigns by addressing the challenges of dark marketing. Founded in 2016 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company provides insights into competitive strategies and performances, allowing businesses to measure key performance indicators effectively. By leveraging cyber security, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, BrandTotal's platform enables users to reverse-engineer competitors' marketing strategies, thereby gaining a competitive edge. It collects and consolidates data from various digital channels, offering real-time visibility into brands' marketing activities. This comprehensive approach allows marketing teams to identify threats and opportunities within the digital landscape, enabling them to adjust strategies promptly and make informed decisions.

Lightlytics

Seed Round in 2020
Lightlytics specializes in cloud deployment technologies that assist SRE and DevOps teams in managing infrastructure updates and developments. The company provides a continuously updated model of cloud environments by tracking behavior and configuration changes. Its technology enables teams to automatically predict, pre-empt, and prevent potential failures, downtime, and business disruptions by simulating all possible dependencies and assessing their impact on operations prior to deployment. This capability allows organizations to code and deploy configurations efficiently and securely, ensuring smooth operations from code to cloud.

Ermetic

Series A in 2020
Ermetic Ltd. is a company focused on cloud infrastructure security, offering a comprehensive platform designed to protect enterprises from access-related risks and misconfigurations. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Ermetic provides solutions that enhance visibility into identities, their entitlements, and data usage. The platform combines advanced analytics with detailed insights, enabling organizations to enforce least privilege access across complex cloud environments. This functionality supports the detection of identity and access-based threats, policy enforcement, anomaly detection, and compliance monitoring. Led by experienced technology entrepreneurs, Ermetic has garnered funding from notable investors, including Glilot Capital Partners and Norwest Venture Partners.

Mitiga

Seed Round in 2020
Mitiga, Ltd designs, develops, and offers hybrid managed security services for hybrid cloud environments. The company's solution includes managed services for email, endpoints, network, cloud attacks, database info, and website. The company's services includes incident response, breach readiness, and emergency assitance. The company is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Lightrun

Seed Round in 2020
Lightrun, founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, specializes in developing a debugging platform that enhances developer productivity by enabling real-time addition of logs, performance metrics, and traces in both production and staging environments. Its observability platform allows developers to address production issues effectively by providing continuous debugging capabilities without interrupting running applications. This flexibility ensures that R&D departments can maintain 100% code-level observability while defining the specific data collected during application execution. Through its innovative approach, Lightrun aims to streamline the debugging process, facilitating smoother operations for development teams.

Ermetic

Seed Round in 2020
Ermetic Ltd. is a company focused on cloud infrastructure security, offering a comprehensive platform designed to protect enterprises from access-related risks and misconfigurations. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Ermetic provides solutions that enhance visibility into identities, their entitlements, and data usage. The platform combines advanced analytics with detailed insights, enabling organizations to enforce least privilege access across complex cloud environments. This functionality supports the detection of identity and access-based threats, policy enforcement, anomaly detection, and compliance monitoring. Led by experienced technology entrepreneurs, Ermetic has garnered funding from notable investors, including Glilot Capital Partners and Norwest Venture Partners.

Upstream Security

Series B in 2019
Upstream is the first cloud-based centralized cybersecurity and analytics platform that protects the technologies and applications of connected and autonomous vehicles fleet. The platform leverages big data and machine learning to provide OEMs and vehicle fleets with unprecedented, comprehensive, and non-intrusive defense. With application security, real-time data protection and anomaly detection, attacks are identified and blocked before they reach and harm the vehicle's network. Upstream Security helps corporations mitigate connectivity risks and ensure the safety and security of smart mobility solutions protecting connected and autonomous vehicles. It also secures drivers, vehicles, and mobility services from misuse and cyber-attacks. Upstream C4 is a data-driven cloud-based platform that integrates with automotive data streams of vehicles and promises to detect incidents as they happen in real-time and allocating a rating based on perceived impact and severity The company was received the 15th Annual 2019 Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards in Automotive Security (IoT) and Cybersecurity Excellence Awards 2019 - Gold Winner (Automotive Cybersecurity Category). Upstream Security was founded in February 2017 and is based in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Polyrize

Seed Round in 2019
POLYRIZE LTD develops a software application that engages in detecting threats in corporate public cloud haystacks. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Upstream Security

Series A in 2017
Upstream is the first cloud-based centralized cybersecurity and analytics platform that protects the technologies and applications of connected and autonomous vehicles fleet. The platform leverages big data and machine learning to provide OEMs and vehicle fleets with unprecedented, comprehensive, and non-intrusive defense. With application security, real-time data protection and anomaly detection, attacks are identified and blocked before they reach and harm the vehicle's network. Upstream Security helps corporations mitigate connectivity risks and ensure the safety and security of smart mobility solutions protecting connected and autonomous vehicles. It also secures drivers, vehicles, and mobility services from misuse and cyber-attacks. Upstream C4 is a data-driven cloud-based platform that integrates with automotive data streams of vehicles and promises to detect incidents as they happen in real-time and allocating a rating based on perceived impact and severity The company was received the 15th Annual 2019 Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards in Automotive Security (IoT) and Cybersecurity Excellence Awards 2019 - Gold Winner (Automotive Cybersecurity Category). Upstream Security was founded in February 2017 and is based in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.

BrandTotal

Seed Round in 2017
BrandTotal Ltd operates a marketing intelligence platform focused on enhancing the effectiveness of marketing campaigns by addressing the challenges of dark marketing. Founded in 2016 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company provides insights into competitive strategies and performances, allowing businesses to measure key performance indicators effectively. By leveraging cyber security, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, BrandTotal's platform enables users to reverse-engineer competitors' marketing strategies, thereby gaining a competitive edge. It collects and consolidates data from various digital channels, offering real-time visibility into brands' marketing activities. This comprehensive approach allows marketing teams to identify threats and opportunities within the digital landscape, enabling them to adjust strategies promptly and make informed decisions.

Upstream Security

Seed Round in 2017
Upstream is the first cloud-based centralized cybersecurity and analytics platform that protects the technologies and applications of connected and autonomous vehicles fleet. The platform leverages big data and machine learning to provide OEMs and vehicle fleets with unprecedented, comprehensive, and non-intrusive defense. With application security, real-time data protection and anomaly detection, attacks are identified and blocked before they reach and harm the vehicle's network. Upstream Security helps corporations mitigate connectivity risks and ensure the safety and security of smart mobility solutions protecting connected and autonomous vehicles. It also secures drivers, vehicles, and mobility services from misuse and cyber-attacks. Upstream C4 is a data-driven cloud-based platform that integrates with automotive data streams of vehicles and promises to detect incidents as they happen in real-time and allocating a rating based on perceived impact and severity The company was received the 15th Annual 2019 Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards in Automotive Security (IoT) and Cybersecurity Excellence Awards 2019 - Gold Winner (Automotive Cybersecurity Category). Upstream Security was founded in February 2017 and is based in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Inflowz

Seed Round in 2017
Inflowz is the artificial intelligence sales process optimization platform for velocity sales leaders. It improves your revenue by looking at a network of opportunities and dynamically optimizes the journey for each of them.

Exceed.ai

Seed Round in 2017
Exceed.ai is a company that specializes in developing a chatbot platform designed to facilitate direct communication and sales between brands and customers via chat. Founded in 2016 and based in Kokhav Ya'ir, Israel, its solution enables B2B companies to enhance their marketing and sales operations by automating processes such as lead capturing, qualification, and nurturing. The Exceed AI Assistant operates continuously to ensure that every lead is promptly followed up and engaged through two-way email and chat conversations. When a lead is ready for human interaction, the assistant schedules meetings directly on the sales representative's calendar and updates the customer relationship management (CRM) system with the latest lead status. This streamlined approach helps marketing and sales teams drive more opportunities from email and website visitors, supporting companies like Demandbase, SugarCRM, and Hearst in achieving their goals.

LightCyber

Series B in 2016
LightCyber Ltd. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in identifying and preventing cyber-attacks, including advanced persistent threats. Founded in 2011 and based in Ramat Gan, Israel, LightCyber develops behavioral attack detection solutions that enhance security visibility, enabling organizations to monitor and respond to abnormal network behavior. Its flagship product, LightCyber Magna™, integrates user, network, and endpoint contexts to provide comprehensive insights into various attack activities. The company also offers an incident response management solution that automates workflows and a network behavior analysis tool that visualizes changes and anomalies in a user-friendly manner. LightCyber's solutions serve multiple sectors, including finance, legal, telecommunications, government, media, and technology, and have been successfully implemented by prominent clients worldwide. In 2017, LightCyber became a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks.

Armeron

Seed Round in 2016
The company has been testing early versions of its products with select design partners and plans to launch its beta program later this year.

Minute Lab

Series A in 2016
Software quality starts with developers. At Minute Lab we create tools to empower developers to deliver better code, faster. We are focused on getting developers to their finish line in much better shape than before and we have developed great technology to do so. Minute Lab was founded in January 2016 and is privately held. Its R&D is based in Israel and the sales and marketing team is based in San Jose, California. Minute Lab offers developers and DevOps teams a containers based lab environment that enables interactive development and continuous testing in an operational environment.

LightCyber

Series A in 2014
LightCyber Ltd. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in identifying and preventing cyber-attacks, including advanced persistent threats. Founded in 2011 and based in Ramat Gan, Israel, LightCyber develops behavioral attack detection solutions that enhance security visibility, enabling organizations to monitor and respond to abnormal network behavior. Its flagship product, LightCyber Magna™, integrates user, network, and endpoint contexts to provide comprehensive insights into various attack activities. The company also offers an incident response management solution that automates workflows and a network behavior analysis tool that visualizes changes and anomalies in a user-friendly manner. LightCyber's solutions serve multiple sectors, including finance, legal, telecommunications, government, media, and technology, and have been successfully implemented by prominent clients worldwide. In 2017, LightCyber became a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks.

Aorato

Series A in 2014
Aorato protects your organization and Active Directory by automatically learning, profiling and predicting entity behavior. Aorato’s Directory Services Application Firewall (DAF™) protects Active Directory and leverages its central role in the network to secure organization from advanced targeted attacks. Nowadays, attackers compromise all types of entities (non-privileged and privileged users, devices, servers, etc.) in order to gain a foothold into the network. It is not enough anymore to track only privileged accounts to protect the organization against advanced attacks. DAF introduces a new approach. DAF detects suspicious activities through learning, profiling and predicting entities’ behaviors. The best part? DAF is a non-intrusive solution, transparent to Active Directory.

Aorato

Seed Round in 2013
Aorato protects your organization and Active Directory by automatically learning, profiling and predicting entity behavior. Aorato’s Directory Services Application Firewall (DAF™) protects Active Directory and leverages its central role in the network to secure organization from advanced targeted attacks. Nowadays, attackers compromise all types of entities (non-privileged and privileged users, devices, servers, etc.) in order to gain a foothold into the network. It is not enough anymore to track only privileged accounts to protect the organization against advanced attacks. DAF introduces a new approach. DAF detects suspicious activities through learning, profiling and predicting entities’ behaviors. The best part? DAF is a non-intrusive solution, transparent to Active Directory.

LightCyber

Seed Round in 2011
LightCyber Ltd. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in identifying and preventing cyber-attacks, including advanced persistent threats. Founded in 2011 and based in Ramat Gan, Israel, LightCyber develops behavioral attack detection solutions that enhance security visibility, enabling organizations to monitor and respond to abnormal network behavior. Its flagship product, LightCyber Magna™, integrates user, network, and endpoint contexts to provide comprehensive insights into various attack activities. The company also offers an incident response management solution that automates workflows and a network behavior analysis tool that visualizes changes and anomalies in a user-friendly manner. LightCyber's solutions serve multiple sectors, including finance, legal, telecommunications, government, media, and technology, and have been successfully implemented by prominent clients worldwide. In 2017, LightCyber became a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks.