Hanaco Ventures

Hanaco Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage investments in emerging startups, particularly those founded by Israeli entrepreneurs worldwide. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with an additional office in New York, the firm emphasizes sectors such as consumer products and services, food, agricultural technology, digital healthcare, financial technology, and information technology. Hanaco Ventures aims to support bold and visionary entrepreneurs, fostering innovation and growth within the Israeli ecosystem and beyond.

Gadi Fisher

Senior Associate

Hoffman, Itai

Vice President

Alon Lifshitz

Founding Partner

Pasha Romanovski

Founding Partner

Past deals in Western Asia

Chain Reaction

Series C in 2023
Chain Reaction is engineering the future of disruptive blockchain and privacy technologies. They accelerate compute performance, enabling companies to adopt and scale solutions to the world’s most complex problems. EL3CTRUM is their Blockchain product line, starting with the most efficient hashing ASIC on the market, optimized for high-performance, high efficiency, and low-power, and is the heart of their hashboards and systems. EL3CTRUM delivers optimal payback time. 3PU™ is their Privacy product, dramatically accelerating real-time operations of Privacy Enhancing Technologies on encrypted data, transforming the cloud into a trusted environment, and enabling new verticals to adopt the cloud at scale, including financial institutions, healthcare & big pharma, defense & government, oil & gas, and more. Purpose-built and custom-designed, their solutions power the next generation of secure, scalable, green computing to help protect people, privacy, and the planet.

RevealSecurity

Series A in 2022
RevealSecurity is a developer of an artificial intelligence platform focused on cybersecurity solutions for enterprises, specifically addressing insider threats. The company's technology utilizes a clustering engine and activity flow analytics to detect insider threats across various enterprise applications. This approach eliminates the need for rule creation, data model building, or manual data cleaning, thereby simplifying threat detection for clients. RevealSecurity’s offerings also include anomaly detection for Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, as well as cloud detection and response capabilities, enhancing the overall security posture of organizations against potential risks and damages.

Sayata

Series A in 2022
Sayata is a technology company that enhances the efficiency of placing commercial risk for brokers and carriers. Its platform streamlines the quote-bind-issue process, allowing insurance professionals to complete transactions more quickly. By providing an end-to-end technological solution and educational tools, Sayata enables its partners to expand their commercial insurance portfolios effectively. Additionally, the company leverages artificial intelligence to assess risks in cyber insurance policies, integrating insights from cybersecurity experts, insurance professionals, IT developers, and data scientists. This approach helps the insurance industry mitigate risks and improve the profitability of cyber insurance offerings. Over 1,000 users across 75 brokerages and carriers currently utilize Sayata's services to enhance their operations.

Redefine Meat

Venture Round in 2022
Redefine Meat Ltd. is a company that specializes in producing animal-free meat alternatives, primarily focusing on replicating the texture, flavor, and overall experience of traditional beef products. Utilizing proprietary 3D printing technology, digital meat modeling, and innovative food formulations, Redefine Meat creates products that are derived from natural and sustainable ingredients. The company's approach caters to meat distributors, restaurants, and retailers, providing a more efficient and ethical way to produce meat without the use of animals. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, Redefine Meat aims to transform the meat industry by offering high-quality plant-based alternatives that appeal to both consumers and businesses.

Remilk

Series B in 2022
Remilk Ltd. is an Israeli food-tech company founded in 2019, specializing in the production of animal-free dairy products. The company utilizes microbial fermentation technology to create key ingredients found in cow's milk, aiming to replicate its flavor, nutritional composition, and functionality. By developing a milk substitute that mirrors traditional dairy, Remilk addresses both environmental concerns and animal welfare issues associated with conventional dairy production. Its innovative approach seeks to provide a sustainable alternative for businesses in the dairy industry.

EasySend

Series B in 2021
EasySend LTD, founded in 2016 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, specializes in developing a no-code digital transformation platform aimed at banks and insurance companies. The platform enables the conversion of paper forms and PDFs into interactive digital journeys, enhancing customer interactions and streamlining processes. EasySend supports various financial use cases, including digital mortgages, lending, policy renewals, claims, and customer onboarding, utilizing pre-built components tailored to the unique needs of financial institutions. The platform's advanced analytics and optimization tools provide customers with insights into their digital workflows, allowing them to identify issues, optimize processes, and drive revenue growth. EasySend’s solutions easily integrate with existing legacy and core banking systems, as well as major CRM platforms. Since its inception, EasySend has gained significant traction in the Israeli market, serving over 90% of local financial institutions and rapidly expanding to serve more than forty enterprise customers in countries such as the United States, Germany, the UK, and Japan.

Lightricks

Series D in 2021
Lightricks Ltd. is a developer of mobile image processing applications, headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel. Founded in 2013, the company specializes in creativity tools that empower users to create and share visual content on mobile devices. Lightricks offers a range of products, including Facetune, a popular portrait and selfie editor; Enlight, a versatile photo-editing application; and Beatleap, which facilitates audio-driven video editing by synchronizing music with video clips. The company employs advanced technologies in computer vision, graphics, and image processing, integrating proprietary algorithms and augmented reality features into its applications. By focusing on user-friendly designs and innovative editing capabilities, Lightricks aims to enhance the creative experience for individuals and businesses alike.

BrainQ

Venture Round in 2021
BrainQ is a company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel, that focuses on developing precision neurology therapies for individuals with neuro disorders. The company operates a neuro recovery platform that employs a brain-computer interface (BCI) approach to target damaged neuronal networks. By integrating machine learning algorithms with neuroscience, BrainQ extracts biological insights that inform the creation of tailored therapies. These innovations aim to facilitate neuro recovery and enhance the quality of life for patients, enabling them to live more independent and fulfilling lives.

Vesttoo

Series A in 2021
Vesttoo Ltd is a financial technology company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2018. It operates an artificial intelligence-driven platform that serves as a marketplace for non-catastrophe insurance-based risk transfer and investments. The platform enables the transfer of risk between insurance companies and institutional investors, providing innovative insurance-linked investment opportunities for asset managers. By facilitating risk transfer to the capital markets, Vesttoo offers insurers a cost-effective and efficient alternative to traditional reinsurance, with the capacity to handle a variety of Life and Property & Casualty insurance risks. Its proprietary AI technology streamlines processes such as deal structuring, risk modeling, and index calculation, while also enhancing liquidity in the insurance market. Vesttoo collaborates with industry leaders to create transparent and data-driven reinsurance transactions and has been recognized in various prestigious fintech accelerators. The company's team comprises professionals with expertise in financial engineering, technology, and risk management, further strengthening its position in the market.

MDI Health

Seed Round in 2021
MDI Health is a prominent provider of medication management solutions that utilizes artificial intelligence to enhance and personalize medication therapy. The company's advanced platform analyzes extensive pharmacological and medical data to identify patients at high risk for drug-related issues. MDI Health generates evidence-based recommendations aimed at mitigating these risks, which is particularly beneficial for payors and value-based providers. By employing its technology, these entities can prevent medication-related problems, optimize deprescribing efforts, and significantly reduce overall healthcare costs, achieving substantial savings per patient per year. MDI Health's decision support system, powered by big data and machine learning algorithms, continually refines its predictions and recommendations, allowing healthcare professionals to detect potential medication-related complications early in the treatment process.

Edocate

Seed Round in 2021
Edocate operates a medical simulation platform focused on chronic disease management and medical education. The platform allows users to create unique virtual patient cases across various therapeutic areas, facilitating engagement with healthcare professionals. It offers self-based learning tools for continuous training and assessment, enabling medical education providers to develop and disseminate their own educational content efficiently. Additionally, Edocate's platform provides insights into healthcare professional decision-making, clinical gaps, variability in care, prescription patterns, guideline compliance, and patient outcomes, contributing to improved healthcare delivery.

Redefine Meat

Series A in 2021
Redefine Meat Ltd. is a company that specializes in producing animal-free meat alternatives, primarily focusing on replicating the texture, flavor, and overall experience of traditional beef products. Utilizing proprietary 3D printing technology, digital meat modeling, and innovative food formulations, Redefine Meat creates products that are derived from natural and sustainable ingredients. The company's approach caters to meat distributors, restaurants, and retailers, providing a more efficient and ethical way to produce meat without the use of animals. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, Redefine Meat aims to transform the meat industry by offering high-quality plant-based alternatives that appeal to both consumers and businesses.

SeeTree

Series B in 2020
SeeTree is an intelligence platform focused on providing detailed insights into individual trees for growers, enabling them to monitor tree health and productivity effectively. The company employs advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, drone imaging, and a variety of sensors, to gather and analyze data from millions of trees. By integrating information from drones, satellites, IoT sensors, and weather data, SeeTree offers a comprehensive overview that helps farmers identify weak trees within clusters and optimize their agricultural practices. This multifaceted approach allows growers to allocate their resources more efficiently and improve overall farm management at a cost-effective rate.

Strigo

Series A in 2020
Strigo is a technology training platform that lets companies create, manage, and deliver hands-on training. Companies use Strigo to deliver both internal and customer training. Strigo's browser-based training environments come with built-in virtual labs, making hands-on training sessions much more efficient and easier to manage.

EasySend

Series A in 2020
EasySend LTD, founded in 2016 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, specializes in developing a no-code digital transformation platform aimed at banks and insurance companies. The platform enables the conversion of paper forms and PDFs into interactive digital journeys, enhancing customer interactions and streamlining processes. EasySend supports various financial use cases, including digital mortgages, lending, policy renewals, claims, and customer onboarding, utilizing pre-built components tailored to the unique needs of financial institutions. The platform's advanced analytics and optimization tools provide customers with insights into their digital workflows, allowing them to identify issues, optimize processes, and drive revenue growth. EasySend’s solutions easily integrate with existing legacy and core banking systems, as well as major CRM platforms. Since its inception, EasySend has gained significant traction in the Israeli market, serving over 90% of local financial institutions and rapidly expanding to serve more than forty enterprise customers in countries such as the United States, Germany, the UK, and Japan.

Sepio

Series A in 2020
Sepio has developed an innovative asset risk management platform focused on protecting organizations from hardware-based attacks. Unlike traditional methods that monitor asset activity, Sepio's solution uses physical layer asset DNA profiling to provide actionable visibility and control over hardware assets. This platform enables security teams to gain comprehensive insight into their infrastructure, regardless of whether it includes IT, OT, or IoT components. With trafficless monitoring, the solution reports the actual assets present within 24 hours, along with associated risk factors, allowing for effective policy enforcement and mitigation of rogue devices. By enabling administrators to define granular usage rules and continuously monitor their hardware assets, Sepio enhances cybersecurity posture and helps organizations manage their assets efficiently and securely.

Sepio

Series A in 2019
Sepio has developed an innovative asset risk management platform focused on protecting organizations from hardware-based attacks. Unlike traditional methods that monitor asset activity, Sepio's solution uses physical layer asset DNA profiling to provide actionable visibility and control over hardware assets. This platform enables security teams to gain comprehensive insight into their infrastructure, regardless of whether it includes IT, OT, or IoT components. With trafficless monitoring, the solution reports the actual assets present within 24 hours, along with associated risk factors, allowing for effective policy enforcement and mitigation of rogue devices. By enabling administrators to define granular usage rules and continuously monitor their hardware assets, Sepio enhances cybersecurity posture and helps organizations manage their assets efficiently and securely.

Namogoo

Series C in 2019
Namogoo is a pioneer in Digital Journey Continuity, providing a platform that enhances online customer experiences and facilitates smoother paths to purchase. The platform autonomously adjusts to individual customer visits in real-time, ensuring a seamless journey. One of its key features, Customer Hijacking Prevention, effectively blocks unauthorized ad injections that could redirect shoppers to competitors, thereby boosting conversion rates and revenue. Additionally, Namogoo's Intent-Based Promotions tailor promotions to individual visitors, optimizing margins for eCommerce retailers while reinforcing brand loyalty. By leveraging non-personally identifiable information and data analytics, Namogoo helps businesses better understand customer behavior and improve their overall online experience. Over 250 prominent global brands rely on Namogoo to maintain efficient digital journeys and drive growth in their operations.

Strigo

Seed Round in 2019
Strigo is a technology training platform that lets companies create, manage, and deliver hands-on training. Companies use Strigo to deliver both internal and customer training. Strigo's browser-based training environments come with built-in virtual labs, making hands-on training sessions much more efficient and easier to manage.

Redefine Meat

Seed Round in 2019
Redefine Meat Ltd. is a company that specializes in producing animal-free meat alternatives, primarily focusing on replicating the texture, flavor, and overall experience of traditional beef products. Utilizing proprietary 3D printing technology, digital meat modeling, and innovative food formulations, Redefine Meat creates products that are derived from natural and sustainable ingredients. The company's approach caters to meat distributors, restaurants, and retailers, providing a more efficient and ethical way to produce meat without the use of animals. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, Redefine Meat aims to transform the meat industry by offering high-quality plant-based alternatives that appeal to both consumers and businesses.

SeeTree

Series A in 2019
SeeTree is an intelligence platform focused on providing detailed insights into individual trees for growers, enabling them to monitor tree health and productivity effectively. The company employs advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, drone imaging, and a variety of sensors, to gather and analyze data from millions of trees. By integrating information from drones, satellites, IoT sensors, and weather data, SeeTree offers a comprehensive overview that helps farmers identify weak trees within clusters and optimize their agricultural practices. This multifaceted approach allows growers to allocate their resources more efficiently and improve overall farm management at a cost-effective rate.

Chain Reaction

Series A in 2019
Chain Reaction is engineering the future of disruptive blockchain and privacy technologies. They accelerate compute performance, enabling companies to adopt and scale solutions to the world’s most complex problems. EL3CTRUM is their Blockchain product line, starting with the most efficient hashing ASIC on the market, optimized for high-performance, high efficiency, and low-power, and is the heart of their hashboards and systems. EL3CTRUM delivers optimal payback time. 3PU™ is their Privacy product, dramatically accelerating real-time operations of Privacy Enhancing Technologies on encrypted data, transforming the cloud into a trusted environment, and enabling new verticals to adopt the cloud at scale, including financial institutions, healthcare & big pharma, defense & government, oil & gas, and more. Purpose-built and custom-designed, their solutions power the next generation of secure, scalable, green computing to help protect people, privacy, and the planet.

Darillium

Seed Round in 2018
Darillium is on a mission to enable enterprises to design and release new business services faster and with less risk across multiple platforms and clouds.

Namogoo

Series B in 2018
Namogoo is a pioneer in Digital Journey Continuity, providing a platform that enhances online customer experiences and facilitates smoother paths to purchase. The platform autonomously adjusts to individual customer visits in real-time, ensuring a seamless journey. One of its key features, Customer Hijacking Prevention, effectively blocks unauthorized ad injections that could redirect shoppers to competitors, thereby boosting conversion rates and revenue. Additionally, Namogoo's Intent-Based Promotions tailor promotions to individual visitors, optimizing margins for eCommerce retailers while reinforcing brand loyalty. By leveraging non-personally identifiable information and data analytics, Namogoo helps businesses better understand customer behavior and improve their overall online experience. Over 250 prominent global brands rely on Namogoo to maintain efficient digital journeys and drive growth in their operations.

Moovit

Series D in 2018
Moovit is a Mobility as a Service (MaaS) provider and the world’s #1 transit app. Moovit simplifies your urban mobility in +2700 cities all around the world, making getting around town via mass transit easier and more convenient. Moovit has more than 300 million users, and was named Best Local App of 2016 by Google and Best of 2017 app by Apple. By combining information from public transit operators and authorities with live information from the user community, Moovit offers travelers a real-time picture, including the best route for their journey. The Moovit community sends active reports about their travel experience, such as bus congestion levels, cleanliness, and more to help others have a better travel experience. Moovit generates up to four billion anonymous data points a day that comprise the world's largest repository of transit data. The Big Data gathering is aided by Moovit’s network of more than 500,000 local editors, called “Mooviters”, who help map out and maintain local transit information in cities that would otherwise be unserved. Moovit is available for free on iOS, Android & Web in over 2,700 cities, across 86 countries worldwide, and can be used in 44 languages.
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