Jerusalem Global Ventures

Jerusalem Global Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 1994 and based in Jerusalem, Israel. The firm specializes in investing in private technology companies across various stages, including seed, early, and growth stages. Its investment focus includes sectors such as mobile data services, digital telecommunications, semiconductors, online services, internet retail, commercial security, biotechnology, medical devices, and enterprise software. Jerusalem Global Ventures typically invests between $1 million and $20 million, either as a sole investor or alongside other investors. The firm aims to support private Israeli technology initiatives and foster strong relationships with leading entrepreneurs, helping portfolio companies build effective management teams to drive success.

Micah Avni

General Partner

Yoni Hashkes

Managing Partner

26 past transactions

Quiet Therapeutics

Series A in 2015
Quiet Therapeutics is an emerging biotech company founded in 2010 developing a proprietary nanoparticle-based delivery system (gagomers) focused on oncology and inflammation. Based on the targeting capability of our innovative technology, the company is well positioned to expand the drug target repertoire in cancer and inflammation. The Gagomer delivery approach enables us to target cell components that are not manageable by other therapeutic agents like small molecules or antibodies.

Moovit

Series C in 2015
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.

Solaredge Technologies

Series E in 2014
SolarEdge Technologies, a global leader in the DC power optimizer market. The company provides module-level electronics for solar power harvesting and monitoring systems for residential, commercial and utility-scale solar photovoltaic installers. The SolarEdge portfolio of products includes power optimizers and a web portal for module-level optimization and monitoring, as well as PV inverters, specialized to work with power optimizers. SolarEdge envisions that every solar module will be individually managed by DC-DC module-level electronics, accelerating the pace towards grid parity and making clean energy affordable. Founded in 2006, SolarEdge established the DC power optimizer segment and is leading it with over 70% market share. By Q4 2012, SolarEdge has shipped over 1,600,000 power optimizers to more than 40 countries worldwide. With strategic partnerships across the PV value-chain from module manufacturers to integrators, SolarEdge installations can be found in five continents.

Wilocity

Series D in 2013
Wilocity Ltd. develops 60 GHz wireless chipsets for the notebook and peripheral markets. Its wireless solution provides gigabit wireless networking and point-to-point connectivity. The company's gigabit wireless semiconductor solution brings a desktop experience to mobile computers. Wilocity Ltd. was founded in 2007 and is based in Caesarea, Israel.

MacroCure

Series A in 2012
MacroCure is a biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of advanced cell therapy products. The company's first focus of interest is in the arena of wound care. The technology employs activated white blood cells obtained from young adults healthy donor blood. The activated cells provide the natural environment for wound healing, and ensure that necessary cell activities and factor secretions are maintained as required for wound healing. This novel concept is the first of its kind in the field of wound therapy.

Storone

Series A in 2012
StorONE Ltd., founded in 2012 and based in Ra'anana, Israel, specializes in providing information storage services tailored for small and medium enterprises. The company develops a software platform designed to streamline large-scale storage systems, aiming to eliminate the need for multiple storage subsystems. Its offerings include software-defined storage, virtual storage, secondary storage, cloud storage, and comprehensive data protection solutions, as well as all-flash and hybrid arrays that support various protocols. Through its innovative approach, StorONE seeks to enhance data management and storage efficiency for its clients.

Powermat Technologies

Series C in 2011
Powermat Technologies Ltd. specializes in developing wireless charging solutions for mobile devices and various applications across multiple industries. The company offers products such as the Powermat Ring, which allows users to charge smartphones with different charging ports, and a mobile application that helps users locate nearby charging spots while providing venue-specific offers. Powermat employs a hybrid approach to wireless power, combining magnetic induction and resonance technologies to deliver efficient power solutions. Its platforms support both standard-based and proprietary wireless power technologies suitable for automotive, robotics, drones, consumer electronics, medical devices, IoT, and telecom. The company also provides a software-based customer engagement platform that enables businesses to communicate targeted information to users. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel, with an additional office in Grandville, Michigan, Powermat holds over 200 patent submissions, with more than 100 patents granted since its inception.

PrimeSense

Series C in 2011
PrimeSense specializes in 3D-sensing and machine-vision technologies that enable digital devices to perceive their environment similarly to humans. The company's innovative products include a sensor that captures user movements and surroundings, coupled with a processing unit that interprets these inputs. This technology allows for natural interaction without the need for wearable devices, promoting a seamless user experience. PrimeSense's solutions can enhance video gaming by enabling body movement and gestures, facilitate interactions with digital interfaces without traditional input devices, and improve video communication through features like virtual backgrounds. The company's approach aims to create robust and user-friendly experiences across various applications, making advanced interaction accessible and intuitive.

Face.com

Series C in 2010
Face.com is helping people find photos, using their home grown best-in-breed facial recognition technologies. The first deployment of their tech is their Photo Finder application for Facebook, today's largest photo sharing site, which scans public photos in your social network and suggests tags for untagged faces. face.com has offices in Tel Aviv and New York.

Wilocity

Series C in 2010
Wilocity Ltd. develops 60 GHz wireless chipsets for the notebook and peripheral markets. Its wireless solution provides gigabit wireless networking and point-to-point connectivity. The company's gigabit wireless semiconductor solution brings a desktop experience to mobile computers. Wilocity Ltd. was founded in 2007 and is based in Caesarea, Israel.

Camero

Series B in 2007
Founded in 2004, Camero (Camero-Tech Ltd.) is a pioneer and leader in development and marketing of Radar based imaging systems. Camero’s resources draw on decades of experience providing solutions to major government and commercial customers. The company has a solid track-record of technological innovation and timely solution delivery to its worldwide customers.

Chiasma

Series B in 2005
Chiasma, Inc. is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company based in Needham, Massachusetts, that specializes in developing oral medications for rare and serious chronic diseases. Utilizing its proprietary Transient Permeability Enhancer technology, Chiasma aims to transform injectable drugs into oral formulations, enhancing their absorption and potentially enabling new therapeutic indications. The company is currently focused on MYCAPSSA, an oral octreotide capsule designed for adult patients with acromegaly, a condition characterized by excessive growth hormone production. MYCAPSSA is undergoing Phase III clinical trials in the United States and is also in the process of seeking regulatory approval in the European Union. Founded in 2001, Chiasma is dedicated to improving treatment options for patients with debilitating conditions through innovative drug delivery methods.

Camero

Series A in 2004
Founded in 2004, Camero (Camero-Tech Ltd.) is a pioneer and leader in development and marketing of Radar based imaging systems. Camero’s resources draw on decades of experience providing solutions to major government and commercial customers. The company has a solid track-record of technological innovation and timely solution delivery to its worldwide customers.

Mellanox Technologies

Series C in 2002
Mellanox Technologies is a supplier of connectivity solutions designed to enhance data center performance. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and Yokneam, Israel, the company specializes in semiconductor-based products that facilitate faster data transmission to applications, thereby improving overall system performance. Mellanox offers end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand interconnect solutions tailored for servers, storage, and hyper-converged infrastructure. Its products are known for delivering high bandwidth, scalability, power efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, making them a preferred choice for Fortune 500 companies and some of the world's most powerful supercomputers. By converging multiple legacy network technologies into a unified solution, Mellanox positions itself as a future-proof provider in the evolving landscape of data connectivity.

SHOP2gether.com

Venture Round in 1999
SHOP2gether.com is the leading online demand aggregation procurement service for the education and business communities.

ProActivity

Series B in 1999
ProActivity provides business process analysis and optimization software. The company develops, sells, and supports a platform that automates the capture and validation of business processes, generates graphical process maps on the fly, provides multidimensional analysis, and creates a strategic process knowledge base that can be reused and extended. It also offers consulting and professional services, onsite training, Web training, and customer support services. The company's clientele includes BEA Systems, Dell, CSC, Wyeth Pharmaceutical, Getronics NV, US Army, State Street Bank, and Bank of America. ProActivity was founded as Inprotech Technologies in 1993. The company is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts with an office in Netanya, Israel.

XACCT Technologies

Series A in 1997
XACCT Technologies, Inc. specializes in developing and marketing comprehensive accounting and mediation solutions tailored for Network Service Providers (NSPs). The company offers a convergent mediation platform designed for wireline, wireless, and cable operators, facilitating the collection and analysis of detailed network usage data. This platform, known as Network to Business (N2B), is utilized by telecom and Internet service providers for various operational needs, including billing, traffic planning, usage audits, and user profiling. Through its innovative software, XACCT Technologies enables its clients to deliver differentiated billable services effectively.

ImageNet

Series A in 1996
ImageNet is an image database organized according to the WordNet hierarchy (currently only the nouns), in which each node of the hierarchy is depicted by hundreds and thousands of images. Currently They have an average of over five hundred images per node. They hope ImageNet will become a useful resource for researchers, educators, students and all of you who share Their passion for pictures.

Galileo Technology

Series A in 1994
Galileo Technology is a fabless semiconductor company that designs and markets complex semiconductor devices which solve important problems in high-performance embedded control systems, principally in the area of data communications. Galileo is focused on the mid-to-high-end of the embedded control market, as represented by systems that typically sell for more than $500 and predominantly use high-performance RISC microprocessors. The largest segments of this market are data communications and imaging, areas in which Galileo excels. Over the past year, most of Galileo's new product and new customer efforts have been focused on data communications. Galileo's products are divided into three areas: high-performance core logic, data communications controllers, and WAN interface devices, all of which are key building blocks of embedded systems. Galileo Technology Ltd. was founded in Karmiel, Israel in January 1993 with the charter of providing advanced semiconductor devices to the embedded control market. Galileo opened its marketing and business development group, Galileo Technology Inc., in San Jose, California, in March 1994. Galileo today employs more than 100 people and has sites in San Jose, Boston, London, and Israel. Galileo is a public company, traded on NASDAQ under the symbol GALTF. The Israeli operation is responsible for the architecture and design of all chip and board-level products offered by Galileo, as well as product engineering, test engineering, and quality control. The responsibilities of the U.S. organization include sales, marketing, technical support, operational logistics, and customer service for all customers worldwide. The U.S. and Israeli operations work closely with customers to define new products and provide technical support.

Creo

Series A in 1994
Creo is a manufacturer specializing in computer-to-plate technology for the printing industry. The company develops products that facilitate the direct transfer of digitized text, graphic images, and line artwork from desktop publishing systems to printing plates. Creo's offerings include a comprehensive range of precision imaging equipment, such as scanners, proofing devices, and output devices. Additionally, the company provides workflow management software to enhance the efficiency of printing processes.
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