Hetz Ventures

Hetz Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializing in early-stage investments in Israeli start-ups. Founded in 2017, the firm focuses primarily on technology sectors, including fintech, enterprise IT, and emerging technologies such as smart cities and the Internet of Things. Hetz Ventures aims to identify exceptional entrepreneurs and teams developing deep technologies and innovative business models. The firm leverages a strong network of connected investors from Europe, which enhances its ability to validate business propositions and accelerate growth for its portfolio companies. Typically, Hetz Ventures invests up to $3 million in seed and Series A funding rounds.

Yael Barsheshet

Investor

Neil Cohen

Venture Partner

Andrew Feldman

General Partner

Andrew Fine

Investor

Pavel Livshiz

General Partner

Stuart Roden

Non-Executive Chairman and Partner

Judah Taub

Founder & Managing Partner

Or Yahud

Principal

55 past transactions

Trigo

Series A in 2019
Trigo is a developer of AI-based automated retail checkout systems. It streamlines retail operations, prevents shoplifting, provides invaluable retail insights, and presents opportunities for new levels of customer engagement within retail environments. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Anima App

Private Placement in 2020
Anima App, Inc. operates as a software developing company. The company also offers design to code, code generation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning services. Anima App, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Newark, Delaware.

8fig

Series B in 2023
8fig is a startup helping eCommerce sellers accelerate growth.

Flox

Series A in 2023
Flox is taking nix to work for building software and managing development environments.

Blink Ops

Series A in 2022
Blink is a cloud-native operations platform that allows SRE's, DevOps and Developers to easily manage, collaborate and automate operational tasks.

Blink Ops

Seed Round in 2021
Blink is a cloud-native operations platform that allows SRE's, DevOps and Developers to easily manage, collaborate and automate operational tasks.

Acumen

Seed Round in 2021
Acumen Labs is a software development company that builds software and maximize productivity. Acumen utilizes machine learning and historical data to show where and how to improve the entire software development process. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Tel aviv, Israel.

8fig

Seed Round in 2021
8fig is a startup helping eCommerce sellers accelerate growth.

retrain.ai

Venture Round in 2021
retrain.ai is a leading talent Intelligence Platform that transforms the way organizations develop, upskill and reskill their employees using AI and Machine Learning algorithms. retrain's proprietary AI models capture business growth drivers, analyze skills and skill shift cycles, and predict the Jobs-of-the-Future, allowing expiring. The platform maps the organization's skills inventory, quantifies talent gaps, and recommends personalized training pathways.

Codota

Series A in 2020
Codota is an artificial pair programmer that learns from existing code to help you build software faster and smarter. Codota runs alongside the IDE and uses the learned code models to suggest relevant code. These suggestions save you time searching for references, and help prevent errors. Codota helps you when writing new code by predicting the code that you may need next. Codota helps you when reading and reviewing code by showing you code that applies in similar settings.

TrigoVision Ltd.

Private Placement in 2019
TrigoVision Ltd. develops application software which uses in-store ceiling mounted cameras to identify items picked by customers and create a no-checkout shopping experience. The technology streamlines retail operations, prevents shoplifting, and provides invaluable retail insights. TrigoVision Ltd. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Codota

Private Placement in 2020
Codota is an artificial pair programmer that learns from existing code to help you build software faster and smarter. Codota runs alongside the IDE and uses the learned code models to suggest relevant code. These suggestions save you time searching for references, and help prevent errors. Codota helps you when writing new code by predicting the code that you may need next. Codota helps you when reading and reviewing code by showing you code that applies in similar settings.

Geltr, S.A. de C.V.

Private Placement in 2020
Geltr, S.A. de C.V., trading as Mozper, designs and develops a platform for children and parents, such as a digital wallet. It provides a debit card facility; and monitor balances through the mobile application. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Mexico City, Mexico.

Jones

Private Placement in 2019
Jones is a software company that rebuilt liability management for real estate companies who want do less and get more – much more. We are solving one of the most archaic and outdated processes in commercial real estate - insurance certificates. For owners, managers and developers who need to solve insurance compliance for everyone in the value chain, Jones is the simplest solution ever made.

Trigo

Series B in 2020
Trigo is a developer of AI-based automated retail checkout systems. It streamlines retail operations, prevents shoplifting, provides invaluable retail insights, and presents opportunities for new levels of customer engagement within retail environments. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Codota

Series B in 2023
Codota is an artificial pair programmer that learns from existing code to help you build software faster and smarter. Codota runs alongside the IDE and uses the learned code models to suggest relevant code. These suggestions save you time searching for references, and help prevent errors. Codota helps you when writing new code by predicting the code that you may need next. Codota helps you when reading and reviewing code by showing you code that applies in similar settings.

Trigo

Seed Round in 2018
Trigo is a developer of AI-based automated retail checkout systems. It streamlines retail operations, prevents shoplifting, provides invaluable retail insights, and presents opportunities for new levels of customer engagement within retail environments. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Gomboc.AI

Seed Round in 2023
Gomboc.AI solves cloud infrastructure security policy deviations by providing tailored remediations to the IaC while insisting on keeping functionality, architecture, performance, and resilience.

Deepchecks

Seed Round in 2023
DEEPCHECKS LTD develops a machine learning (ML) monitoring system, It collects data from sources in the raw format, analyzed to enable visibility of the data’s transformations, and ML model is analyzed to enable monitoring of machine learning pipeline. DEEPCHECKS LTD is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

retrain.ai

Venture Round in 2022
retrain.ai is a leading talent Intelligence Platform that transforms the way organizations develop, upskill and reskill their employees using AI and Machine Learning algorithms. retrain's proprietary AI models capture business growth drivers, analyze skills and skill shift cycles, and predict the Jobs-of-the-Future, allowing expiring. The platform maps the organization's skills inventory, quantifies talent gaps, and recommends personalized training pathways.

Trigo

Series C in 2022
Trigo is a developer of AI-based automated retail checkout systems. It streamlines retail operations, prevents shoplifting, provides invaluable retail insights, and presents opportunities for new levels of customer engagement within retail environments. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Lama AI

Seed Round in 2022
Lama AI helps to grow business loan portfolios and approve more customers using AI. Lama AI helps small and medium businesses grow through fair, transparent capital. The company is headquartered in NYC, US with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Seekret

Seed Round in 2020
Seekret is an API build automation platform that leverages traffic to construct data-driven API hubs and service maps that highlight API dependencies for service-centric applications. Seekret's API observability platform provides insights into both user and application behavior, visibility into API development statuses, and rapid visualization of every change that occurs inside the CI/CD pipeline. Seekret's mission is to provide development teams all around the world with the tools they need to produce consistent, dependable, and high-performing APIs.

Codota

Venture Round in 2022
Codota is an artificial pair programmer that learns from existing code to help you build software faster and smarter. Codota runs alongside the IDE and uses the learned code models to suggest relevant code. These suggestions save you time searching for references, and help prevent errors. Codota helps you when writing new code by predicting the code that you may need next. Codota helps you when reading and reviewing code by showing you code that applies in similar settings.

TrigoVision Ltd.

Private Placement in 2018
TrigoVision Ltd. develops application software which uses in-store ceiling mounted cameras to identify items picked by customers and create a no-checkout shopping experience. The technology streamlines retail operations, prevents shoplifting, and provides invaluable retail insights. TrigoVision Ltd. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Infinipoint

Seed Round in 2021
Infinipoint develops a cloud-based endpoint visibility and control platform for enterprises to manage their assets and align them with IT and security policies. It discovers all assets, conventional endpoints, IoT, mobile, and cloud workloads and enables IT and security teams to see, query,l and control everything in real-time. Infinipoint is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

retrain.ai

Seed Round in 2020
retrain.ai is a leading talent Intelligence Platform that transforms the way organizations develop, upskill and reskill their employees using AI and Machine Learning algorithms. retrain's proprietary AI models capture business growth drivers, analyze skills and skill shift cycles, and predict the Jobs-of-the-Future, allowing expiring. The platform maps the organization's skills inventory, quantifies talent gaps, and recommends personalized training pathways.

Anima App

Seed Round in 2020
Anima App, Inc. operates as a software developing company. The company also offers design to code, code generation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning services. Anima App, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Newark, Delaware.

Anima App

Series A in 2021
Anima App, Inc. operates as a software developing company. The company also offers design to code, code generation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning services. Anima App, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Newark, Delaware.

Granulate

Private Placement in 2020
Granulate is an AI-powered optimization software that improves performance by creating a streamlined environment for any app. Granulate agents can be installed on any Linux server, and support any architecture be it data-centers, multi or hybrid-cloud environments. Comprised of kernel and user-level components, the agents infer from the resource usage patterns how to best adapt the machine to the load it handles, creating a streamlined environment for the application.

Jones

Seed Round in 2019
Jones is a software company that rebuilt liability management for real estate companies who want do less and get more – much more. We are solving one of the most archaic and outdated processes in commercial real estate - insurance certificates. For owners, managers and developers who need to solve insurance compliance for everyone in the value chain, Jones is the simplest solution ever made.

TrigoVision Ltd.

Private Placement in 2020
TrigoVision Ltd. develops application software which uses in-store ceiling mounted cameras to identify items picked by customers and create a no-checkout shopping experience. The technology streamlines retail operations, prevents shoplifting, and provides invaluable retail insights. TrigoVision Ltd. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Mozper

Seed Round in 2020
Mozper is a developer of a debit card and app designed for kids and parents in Latin America. Its application enables parents to give their kids an allowance and set spending rules so they can't blow it all on video games, it also allows them to assign chores, and track savings goals, thereby, enabling its users to let their children get a hands-on, real-world financial education appropriate for the digital era. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.

Granulate

Series A in 2020
Granulate is an AI-powered optimization software that improves performance by creating a streamlined environment for any app. Granulate agents can be installed on any Linux server, and support any architecture be it data-centers, multi or hybrid-cloud environments. Comprised of kernel and user-level components, the agents infer from the resource usage patterns how to best adapt the machine to the load it handles, creating a streamlined environment for the application.

Jones

Private Placement in 2018
Jones is a software company that rebuilt liability management for real estate companies who want do less and get more – much more. We are solving one of the most archaic and outdated processes in commercial real estate - insurance certificates. For owners, managers and developers who need to solve insurance compliance for everyone in the value chain, Jones is the simplest solution ever made.

Jones

Seed Round in 2018
Jones is a software company that rebuilt liability management for real estate companies who want do less and get more – much more. We are solving one of the most archaic and outdated processes in commercial real estate - insurance certificates. For owners, managers and developers who need to solve insurance compliance for everyone in the value chain, Jones is the simplest solution ever made.

Market Beyond

Private Placement in 2019
Market Beyond provides Fortune 500 brands and online retailers with actionable insights, that optimize e-commerce inefficiencies at the product level. Their unique technology employs advanced Machine Learning and AI across billions of online shopping journeys, correcting deficiencies in product assortments, pricing models, website traffic and other conversion factors, thereby ensuring growth by both revenue and market share.

Trigo

Seed Round in 2018
Trigo is a developer of AI-based automated retail checkout systems. It streamlines retail operations, prevents shoplifting, provides invaluable retail insights, and presents opportunities for new levels of customer engagement within retail environments. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Granulate

Seed Round in 2019
Granulate is an AI-powered optimization software that improves performance by creating a streamlined environment for any app. Granulate agents can be installed on any Linux server, and support any architecture be it data-centers, multi or hybrid-cloud environments. Comprised of kernel and user-level components, the agents infer from the resource usage patterns how to best adapt the machine to the load it handles, creating a streamlined environment for the application.

Trigo

Series C in 2022
Trigo is a developer of AI-based automated retail checkout systems. It streamlines retail operations, prevents shoplifting, provides invaluable retail insights, and presents opportunities for new levels of customer engagement within retail environments. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Market Beyond

Seed Round in 2018
Market Beyond provides Fortune 500 brands and online retailers with actionable insights, that optimize e-commerce inefficiencies at the product level. Their unique technology employs advanced Machine Learning and AI across billions of online shopping journeys, correcting deficiencies in product assortments, pricing models, website traffic and other conversion factors, thereby ensuring growth by both revenue and market share.

Gomboc.AI

Seed Round in 2022
Gomboc.AI solves cloud infrastructure security policy deviations by providing tailored remediations to the IaC while insisting on keeping functionality, architecture, performance, and resilience.

Trigo

Series C in 2022
Trigo is a developer of AI-based automated retail checkout systems. It streamlines retail operations, prevents shoplifting, provides invaluable retail insights, and presents opportunities for new levels of customer engagement within retail environments. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Trigo

Series B in 2020
Trigo is a developer of AI-based automated retail checkout systems. It streamlines retail operations, prevents shoplifting, provides invaluable retail insights, and presents opportunities for new levels of customer engagement within retail environments. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Digma

Seed Round in 2023
Digma is an observability platform that provides developers with the data they need to own their code all the way to production. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Wilco

Seed Round in 2022
Wilco enables software engineers of all experience levels to upskill by acquiring and honing hands-on skills in an immersive experience. The platform, built to emulate the conditions at a tech startup, sends users on "quests" that cover everyday engineering tasks — from deploying an app to finding the root cause of a production issue — utilizing real-life tech stacks. By providing a safe life-like environment for upskilling at an accelerated pace, Wilco helps developers from all backgrounds unlock their full potential. Wilco was founded in 2021 by On Freund (CEO), Shem Magnezi (CTO) and Alon Carmel (CPO). Wilco was established in 2021 by On Freund in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Trigo

Series A in 2019
Trigo is a developer of AI-based automated retail checkout systems. It streamlines retail operations, prevents shoplifting, provides invaluable retail insights, and presents opportunities for new levels of customer engagement within retail environments. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.