Gefen Capital

Gefen Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 and based in Herzliya Pituach, Israel. The firm specializes in investing in early-stage startups, particularly focusing on Seed and Series A funding rounds. Its investment strategy emphasizes disruptive technologies within the deep tech sector, including areas such as enterprise software, machine learning and artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, financial technology, and medical technology. Gefen Capital primarily targets startups in Israel and the United States, aiming to support innovative companies that have the potential to transform their respective industries.

Adi Bendor

Associate

Limor Ganot

Managing Partner

Ziv Idan

Principal

Sheldon Stein

Partner

31 past transactions

Sedric.ai

Series A in 2024
Sedric is a compliance excellence platform tailored for fintech companies, focusing on enhancing risk management and regulatory compliance. Utilizing AI for real-time monitoring and analysis, Sedric captures and assesses customer interactions across various channels, including voice, chat, email, and social media. This technology allows compliance teams to swiftly implement new laws and regulations, prioritizing high-value events that could impact the business. By extracting nuanced language understanding and contextual signals, Sedric helps clients identify and mitigate potential compliance and privacy violations, ultimately reducing regulatory threats and monitoring costs while fostering business growth.

PVML

Seed Round in 2024
PVML is a data access platform founded in 2021 that focuses on providing secure and efficient access to multiple data sources for organizations. The company's technology integrates artificial intelligence with data protection measures, enabling enterprises to derive real-time insights from sensitive data. This platform serves a diverse range of users, including sales and marketing professionals, data analysts, and data scientists, facilitating various applications such as analytics, monetization, and data sharing. By centralizing data access and management, PVML empowers companies to maintain security while equipping administrators with a comprehensive tool to oversee and control their data effectively.

Zenity

Series A in 2023
Zenity is a developer of a security governance platform specifically designed for low-code and no-code applications. As businesses increasingly adopt these development methodologies, Zenity addresses the need for security and compliance in application development processes that are often led by non-technical users. The platform focuses on three main pillars: visibility, risk assessment, and governance. It helps organizations protect against security threats, configure security guardrails, and meet compliance requirements. Zenity's tools enable application security professionals to monitor and secure the development of applications built on popular SaaS platforms such as Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and UiPath, providing a comprehensive solution to identify and remediate vulnerabilities effectively.

AccSenSe

Seed Round in 2023
AccSenSe is a SaaS platform that provides recovery and security for cloud-based identity and access management systems. It also provides identity management and authentication, application access and assignment, security, and compliance standards.

Axiom

Seed Round in 2022
Axiom is an IAMOps platform provider that enables seamless, scalable, and secure Cloud and SaaS authorization.

NeuReality

Series A in 2022
NeuReality is a semiconductor start-up that specializes in designing AI-as-a-service infrastructure to meet the needs of the rapidly expanding AI landscape across cloud, edge, and fog systems. The company develops purpose-built AI-centric architecture, focusing on server-on-chip solutions that reconfigure inference technologies, including computer vision, natural language processing, and recommendation engines. This innovative approach simplifies the implementation of advanced AI functionalities for organizations with limited technical expertise, allowing clients to reduce costs and energy consumption by moving away from traditional CPU-centric models. NeuReality aims to facilitate the adoption of AI technologies across various sectors, making them more accessible and efficient.

Skyline Robotics

Seed Round in 2022
Skyline Robotics Ltd is a technology company focused on automating real estate maintenance through its innovative window cleaning robot, Ozmo. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with an additional office in New York, the company combines artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced robotics to create a system that efficiently cleans the windows of high-rise buildings. Ozmo employs sensors and computer vision to navigate complex architectural features, allowing it to operate without the need for additional infrastructure. This automation significantly reduces the risk of employee accidents and helps clients lower their operational costs. Skyline Robotics aims to revolutionize maintenance work at heights, enhancing safety and efficiency in the real estate sector.

Brew

Seed Round in 2022
Brew is an innovative company that has developed the world's first AI agent capable of understanding and executing go-to-market strategies like an experienced Chief Marketing Officer. This platform allows businesses to measure various aspects of their marketing efforts, including traditionally unquantifiable elements such as brand perception and messaging effectiveness. By providing comprehensive market intelligence, Brew equips companies with insights into market dynamics, enabling them to identify gaps and opportunities essential for achieving market leadership. The company boasts a skilled team of engineers, data specialists, and business leaders with extensive experience in delivering high-impact projects. Brew's agile approach combines advanced data science and project management to address critical marketing challenges, offering solutions that were previously unattainable in the industry.

Lusix

Private Equity Round in 2022
Lusix is a manufacturer of lab-grown diamonds aimed at providing affordable luxury to environmentally and socially conscious consumers. The company utilizes proprietary technology and scientific expertise to cultivate high-yield diamonds that exhibit exceptional quality and color. By focusing on ethical sourcing and environmental sustainability, Lusix caters to the gemstone market and various industrial applications, ensuring that its products meet the growing demand for responsible luxury.

Sedric.ai

Seed Round in 2021
Sedric is a compliance excellence platform tailored for fintech companies, focusing on enhancing risk management and regulatory compliance. Utilizing AI for real-time monitoring and analysis, Sedric captures and assesses customer interactions across various channels, including voice, chat, email, and social media. This technology allows compliance teams to swiftly implement new laws and regulations, prioritizing high-value events that could impact the business. By extracting nuanced language understanding and contextual signals, Sedric helps clients identify and mitigate potential compliance and privacy violations, ultimately reducing regulatory threats and monitoring costs while fostering business growth.

Blink Technologies

Series A in 2021
Blink Technologies, Inc. specializes in the design and development of artificial intelligence-based eye tracking technology that operates without the need for dedicated hardware. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with a research and development center in Haifa, Israel, the company offers a non-intrusive software solution that can be integrated with existing camera systems in devices such as smartphones, laptops, ATMs, and retail environments. Utilizing deep learning and advanced computer vision, Blink's technology allows for accurate eye tracking in various settings, enabling customers to enhance interaction with their environments. The software is compatible with any operating system and can be deployed locally or in the cloud, appealing to food retailers and manufacturers of computer and mobile devices.

Twine Solutions

Venture Round in 2021
Twine Solutions Ltd is a textile technology company based in Petah Tikva, Israel, founded in 2015 by twins Erez and Alon Moshe. The company specializes in digital printing services, specifically developing an innovative digital thread dyeing system that enables the continuous dyeing of a single off-the-shelf thread to any requested length and color. This system offers a vast array of options, including millions of colors, shades, and color gradients, allowing for precise customization in textile applications. Twine Solutions exemplifies the synergy of innovation and entrepreneurship characteristic of the Israeli tech landscape.

Nucleix

Venture Round in 2021
Nucleix Ltd. is a biotechnology company that specializes in the development, manufacture, and marketing of non-invasive molecular cancer diagnostic tests. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Rehovot, Israel, with an additional office in San Diego, California, Nucleix focuses on detecting cancer through sensitive and specific tests that identify subtle changes in DNA methylation patterns. The company's flagship products include Bladder EpiCheck, a urine test designed for the monitoring of bladder cancer, and Lung EpiCheck, a blood test for the early detection of lung cancer. By leveraging proprietary biomarker assays, Nucleix aims to enhance cancer monitoring and screening capabilities, ultimately improving treatment outcomes for patients. The company has established distribution partnerships in multiple countries, including Israel, the Netherlands, Turkey, Russia, Italy, and Denmark.

Diagnostic Robotics

Venture Round in 2021
Diagnostic Robotics develops an artificial intelligence system for healthcare insurers, providers, and patients. Founded in 2017 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company creates predictive analytics models to address clinical and financial challenges in healthcare. These models aim to optimize clinical program performance, increase return on investment, and enable more effective care at lower costs by allowing for informed decisions and proactive interventions.

Varada

Series A in 2020
Varada Ltd. is a technology company that specializes in cloud-based data warehousing as a service (DWaaS), designed to facilitate big data analytics for a variety of analytical use cases at scale. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, Varada's platform enhances workloads through dynamic analysis and adaptive indexing, allowing data architects to optimize performance and manage costs effectively. The solution operates within clients' cloud environments, enabling seamless SQL queries across diverse data sources. Leveraging advanced system architecture and cost-efficient pricing, Varada competes with major cloud platform offerings by providing high usability and performance, making it suitable for handling petabyte-scale interactive analytics.

Ananda Networks

Seed Round in 2020
Ananda Networks is a developer of innovative network security solutions that aim to transform traditional cybersecurity methods. The company offers a Network as a Service (NaaS) solution that operates as a fully decentralized cybersecurity web, allowing for remote monitoring and control of networks without the requirement of physical cloud servers. This approach enables organizations to enhance their network security while providing real-time detection data. Ananda Networks was co-founded by Adi Ruppin and Elad Rave, focusing on delivering advanced security measures to meet the evolving demands of modern digital environments.

Watchful Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Watchful Technologies Ltd is a Tel Aviv-based company that specializes in designing and developing an AI-enhanced competitive intelligence platform. This platform enables organizations to access, consume, and act upon digital competitive insights seamlessly. By utilizing continuous and automated deep-tech discoveries, Watchful provides unprecedented insights into competitors' digital assets and strategies. Founded in late 2018, the company serves several Fortune 500 clients, facilitating data-backed decision-making that enhances competitive positioning in the market.

Saturas

Series B in 2020
Saturas Ltd. is an Israeli company that specializes in the development and manufacture of sensor-based irrigation systems designed for precision agriculture. Founded in 2013 and based in Misgav, the company creates innovative miniature stem water potential sensors that are embedded in the trunks of trees, vines, and plants. These sensors provide accurate and continuous measurements of water status, enabling farmers to optimize irrigation practices, reduce water consumption, and enhance fruit production and quality. The Saturas system includes miniature implanted sensors, wireless transponders, and a central control unit that communicates with irrigation controllers. This setup allows for real-time monitoring and automated irrigation tailored to the specific needs of crops, which can result in increased yields and improved fruit characteristics such as size and sugar content. Overall, Saturas aims to improve water efficiency in agriculture while supporting farmers in maximizing their crop productivity.

Immunai

Seed Round in 2020
Immunai Inc. is a biotechnology company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-based immune profiling platform aimed at enhancing drug development and improving disease detection, diagnosis, and treatment. The company utilizes single-cell genomics and machine learning algorithms to conduct high-resolution profiling of the immune system, generating valuable biological insights that facilitate research and development. Immunai's platform focuses on biomarker discovery, enabling the identification of how immune cells respond to various conditions, and supports the development of therapies for oncology and autoimmune disorders. Established in 2018 and headquartered in New York City, Immunai also maintains offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, collaborating with academic institutions, biopharmaceutical firms, and biotechnology companies to advance its mission of mapping the immune system and its functions.

Glassbox

Series C in 2020
Glassbox Ltd is a company that specializes in developing digital customer experience solutions. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel, with additional offices in London and New York, Glassbox provides tools to help organizations manage and optimize the entire digital lifecycle of their web and mobile customers globally. Their offerings include Customer Experience Analytics for optimizing user experiences, Customer Support Optimization for enhancing digital support interactions, Risk Management & Compliance for recording and retrieving digital data, and Experience Performance Analytics for monitoring channel performance. These solutions are primarily used by medium to large enterprises in industries such as telecommunications, financial services, insurance, healthcare, travel, hospitality, and business services. Glassbox was formerly known as Clarisite Ltd. and changed its name in 2016.

Diagnostic Robotics

Series A in 2019
Diagnostic Robotics develops an artificial intelligence system for healthcare insurers, providers, and patients. Founded in 2017 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company creates predictive analytics models to address clinical and financial challenges in healthcare. These models aim to optimize clinical program performance, increase return on investment, and enable more effective care at lower costs by allowing for informed decisions and proactive interventions.

Capitalise.ai

Funding Round in 2019
Capitalise.ai is a financial trading platform that empowers investors and traders to execute their investment ideas using natural language. The platform transforms simple words into executable and optimized investment strategies, bridging the gap between user-friendly language and the complexities of automated trading. Capitalise.ai offers features that enable users to refine their investment approaches in real time, conduct accurate predictions, and enhance overall performance. By automating portfolio management based on written investment scenarios, Capitalise.ai helps clients achieve their financial goals and improve investment returns.

Twine Solutions

Venture Round in 2018
Twine Solutions Ltd is a textile technology company based in Petah Tikva, Israel, founded in 2015 by twins Erez and Alon Moshe. The company specializes in digital printing services, specifically developing an innovative digital thread dyeing system that enables the continuous dyeing of a single off-the-shelf thread to any requested length and color. This system offers a vast array of options, including millions of colors, shades, and color gradients, allowing for precise customization in textile applications. Twine Solutions exemplifies the synergy of innovation and entrepreneurship characteristic of the Israeli tech landscape.

Glassbox

Series B in 2018
Glassbox Ltd is a company that specializes in developing digital customer experience solutions. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel, with additional offices in London and New York, Glassbox provides tools to help organizations manage and optimize the entire digital lifecycle of their web and mobile customers globally. Their offerings include Customer Experience Analytics for optimizing user experiences, Customer Support Optimization for enhancing digital support interactions, Risk Management & Compliance for recording and retrieving digital data, and Experience Performance Analytics for monitoring channel performance. These solutions are primarily used by medium to large enterprises in industries such as telecommunications, financial services, insurance, healthcare, travel, hospitality, and business services. Glassbox was formerly known as Clarisite Ltd. and changed its name in 2016.

Octopai

Seed Round in 2018
Octopai is an automated data intelligence platform that assists data teams in managing complex data environments. It provides multilayered data lineage, data discovery, and a data catalog, allowing organizations to trace their data assets and understand the flow of information within their systems. By offering a cross-platform solution that requires minimal intervention and no coding, Octopai helps businesses streamline their data operations, reduce chaos, and enhance trust in their data resources.

Saturas

Series A in 2018
Saturas Ltd. is an Israeli company that specializes in the development and manufacture of sensor-based irrigation systems designed for precision agriculture. Founded in 2013 and based in Misgav, the company creates innovative miniature stem water potential sensors that are embedded in the trunks of trees, vines, and plants. These sensors provide accurate and continuous measurements of water status, enabling farmers to optimize irrigation practices, reduce water consumption, and enhance fruit production and quality. The Saturas system includes miniature implanted sensors, wireless transponders, and a central control unit that communicates with irrigation controllers. This setup allows for real-time monitoring and automated irrigation tailored to the specific needs of crops, which can result in increased yields and improved fruit characteristics such as size and sugar content. Overall, Saturas aims to improve water efficiency in agriculture while supporting farmers in maximizing their crop productivity.

Loadmill

Seed Round in 2017
Loadmill is a developer of an automated testing tool that enhances the efficiency of mobile test automation by eliminating the need for physical devices. The platform allows quality assurance teams to automate their testing processes, ensuring high-quality outcomes while reducing costs. Loadmill's technology specializes in generating regression tests from real user recordings, enabling testers to capture mobile user scenarios and quickly produce the corresponding test code. This capability streamlines the entire quality assurance process, allowing teams to boost their testing velocity and improve overall productivity.

Ametrine

Seed Round in 2017
Ametrine Technologies, established in 2010 and headquartered in Netanya, Israel, specializes in developing and manufacturing advanced thermal camouflage technology. The company's core product is a multispectral camouflage uniform that renders soldiers invisible to heat-sensing cameras, addressing the growing threat of multispectral sensors. Ametrine's technology blends targets with the background, rather than blocking emitted radiation, providing breathable, durable, and validated solutions for both military and civilian applications.

MedAware

Series A in 2017
MedAware Ltd is a company focused on enhancing patient safety and reducing healthcare costs through innovative solutions that detect and eliminate prescription errors. Established in 2012 and based in Raanana, Israel, MedAware employs advanced data analytics and machine learning algorithms to analyze extensive electronic medical records. Its key products include the MedAS alerting system, which provides real-time notifications to prevent prescription errors, as well as decision support tools such as MedRIM for risk management, MedQC for quality control, and MedRAF to reduce alert fatigue. By offering these solutions to healthcare providers, pharmacy benefit management companies, and pharmacy chains, MedAware aims to improve the accuracy of prescriptions and mitigate potential risks associated with drug interactions, dosages, and allergies.

Rapid Medical

Series B in 2017
Rapid Medical Ltd. is a medical device company specializing in neurovascular interventional treatments aimed at addressing ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Yokne'am Illit, Israel, the company develops innovative products such as the Tigertriever, a revascularization device; DRIVEWIRE, a steerable guidewire designed for complex anatomical navigation; and Comaneci, a controllable device for managing aneurysm necks. Rapid Medical is dedicated to enhancing patient care by delivering high-quality, reliable medical devices that are easy to use and supported by robust clinical data. The company has established a distribution network across several countries in Europe, as well as in India, reflecting its commitment to expanding access to its advanced medical technologies.

Saturas

Seed Round in 2016
Saturas Ltd. is an Israeli company that specializes in the development and manufacture of sensor-based irrigation systems designed for precision agriculture. Founded in 2013 and based in Misgav, the company creates innovative miniature stem water potential sensors that are embedded in the trunks of trees, vines, and plants. These sensors provide accurate and continuous measurements of water status, enabling farmers to optimize irrigation practices, reduce water consumption, and enhance fruit production and quality. The Saturas system includes miniature implanted sensors, wireless transponders, and a central control unit that communicates with irrigation controllers. This setup allows for real-time monitoring and automated irrigation tailored to the specific needs of crops, which can result in increased yields and improved fruit characteristics such as size and sugar content. Overall, Saturas aims to improve water efficiency in agriculture while supporting farmers in maximizing their crop productivity.
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