Applbaum, Aaron

Partner

Rick Kaplan

Operating Partner

Yoav Knoll

MizMaa Ventures

Catherine Leung

Founder, Partner

35 past transactions

NOVOS

Seed Round in 2022
NOVOS is a training platform for gamers who want to pursue their dreams and take their gaming skills to a higher level. Its methodology implements skill-building practices and optimizes by using machine learning. NOVOS focuses on behavior and by that, it creates a long-term and effective training routine powered by humans and machines. Its methodology is based on proven principles from traditional sports and professional eSports teams.

Brew

Seed Round in 2022
Brew is the world's first AI Agent that understands and acts on go to market strategy like a seasoned CMO. With Brew companies can finally measure everything they do, even the historically unmeasurable, like brand and messaging. Competitively, companies get a complete understanding of what is happening across their market, identifying the gaps and opportunities that are key to drive market leadership. An established team of engineers, data experts and business leaders, who have collaborated, built and delivered multi-billion dollar projects over the past 15 years. Bringing together best-in-class data science, project management and teamwork, they have established an agile and exceptional team, finding new solutions to answer key marketing questions, previously unattainable to the broader market.

Autofleet

Series B in 2021
Autofleet provides an optimization platform for fleets and mobility operators. the company partners with rental companies, car-sharing platforms, public transportation operators, OEMs, utility companies, and more to plan and analyze future deployments, optimize existing operations, and launch new on-demand mobility business models. The platform uses advanced machine learning algorithms for demand prediction, dynamic pricing, automated in/de fleeting, and optimizing demand-supply matching in real-time.

Anima App

Series A in 2021
Anima is the platform that turns designs into code.

Resolution Games

Series C in 2021
Resolution Games is a games studio led by some of the top minds in the industry, forging a world-class catalog of titles that bring players into the richest VR and AR worlds possible.

Ottopia

Series A in 2021
Ottopia offers the best teleoperations software platform on the market, as twice awarded by Frost & Sullivan. Ottopia enables driverless experiences by combining the strengths of AI and human drivers. Select customers & partners: Hyundai, Magna International, Deutsche Telekom, Motional, EasyMile, MooVita, Serve Robotics, and NVIDIA. Ottopia's software currently powers cars, buses, yard and long-haul trucks, construction machines, and delivery vehicles. With Ottopia, OEMs generate new recurring revenue streams while reducing R&D costs. Learn more at https://ottopia.tech or contact us at info@ottopia.tech.

Orca AI

Series A in 2021
Founded in 2018 by a team of Navy veterans, Orca AI, a maritime tech startup, empowers shipping companies to enhance their operational safety, efficiency, and sustainability through a single AI and computer-vision-based operations platform. By October 2024, 900 vessels have been booked, and 550 installations have already been completed. The platform is trusted by key industry players across various shipping segments, including MSC, Seaspan, Maran Tankers / Angelicoussis Group, NYK, and Marubeni. The company has raised a total of $38 million in funding over two rounds from US, UK, and Israeli VCs and employs 80 people across its offices in London, Athens, Singapore, and Tel Aviv.

Spectral

Seed Round in 2021
Spectral is a lightning-fast, developer-first cybersecurity solution that acts as a control plane over source code and other developer assets. It finds and protects against harmful security errors in code, configurations, and other artifacts. Spectral employs the first hybrid scanning engine, combining AI and hundreds of detectors, ensuring developers can code with confidence while protecting companies from high-cost mistakes.

Syte

Series C in 2020
Syte develops a product discovery platform designed to transform the way people search and shop online. It is a provider of visual AI technology that aims to improve retailers’ site navigation, product discovery, and user experience by powering solutions that engage and convert shoppers. The B2B enterprise's solution includes camera search, augmented site search, personalization engines, and smart in-store tools, empower shoppers to discover and purchase products instantly. Their camera solution enables shoppers to take a picture of a product that inspires them and search for visually similar products within a retailer’s site. Up to date, Syte has raised $71 million from investors including Viola Ventures, LG Tech Ventures, NHN Ventures, Kreos Capital, Naver Corporation, Commerce Ventures, Storm Ventures, Axess Ventures, La Maison, MizMaa Ventures, Magma, Naver Corporation, Line Corporation, Reimage Ventures, North Base Media, and KDC Ventures. In 2014, Helge Voss, Idan Pinto, Lihi Pinto Fryman, and Ofer Fryman established Syte in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv.

Varada

Series A in 2020
Varada enables data architects to seamlessly accelerate and optimize workloads, using dynamic analysis and adaptive indexing, resulting in optimal control over performance and cost. Varada’s data platform runs in your cloud environment, enabling any SQL consumer to easily query any data source. The company was founded by David Krakov, Roman Vainbrand, and Tal Ben-Moshe. Varada is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Ananda Networks

Seed Round in 2020
Ananda Networks develops innovative network security intended to replace the traditional cyber-security approach. Its network as a service solution is a fully decentralized cybersecurity web that can monitor and control networks remotely without any need to physically set up a cloud server in any fixed location, enabling companies to secure their network and have real-time detection data. The company was co-founded by Adi Ruppin and Elad Rave.

Autofleet

Series A in 2020
Autofleet provides an optimization platform for fleets and mobility operators. the company partners with rental companies, car-sharing platforms, public transportation operators, OEMs, utility companies, and more to plan and analyze future deployments, optimize existing operations, and launch new on-demand mobility business models. The platform uses advanced machine learning algorithms for demand prediction, dynamic pricing, automated in/de fleeting, and optimizing demand-supply matching in real-time.

Anagog

Series C in 2020
Anagog is the world’s first On-phone Customer Engagement & Enrichment Platform. Being the first marketing platform that's powered by Edge-AI, working from within the phone without dependency on cloud processing, Anagog helps mobile app owners truly meet and exceed their customers’ expectations for relevant personalized experiences in real-time, while (finally) meeting the demand for privacy. Anagog’s patented award-winning technology enables companies to understand their users from outside of their app and extract hundreds of 1st-party insights using the phone’s OS and sensors. In addition, companies can finally deliver personalization while solving privacy completely as personal data is processed on the phone. Anagog enables marketers to offer a differentiated multi-channel personalized engagement, in real-time, including Push Notifications, In-App Messages, App Inbox, and more, and to better learn their audience via powerful anonymized audience analytics.
Bond - "The post-purchase company", enables digital native brands to provide their online customers with an outstanding post-purchase experience that impacts sales, retention, and satisfaction. We've deployed a technology-driven network of neighborhood-level distribution centers that are managed by local teams. This enables us to store goods closer to customers, getting to them faster for deliveries or returns and when it's most convenient.

CHEQ

Series B in 2019
Trusted to protect business-critical digital interactions of more than 15,000 companies, ranging from emerging brands to the Fortune 50, the CHEQ provides unparalleled, context-specific detection and defense against automated and human-driven threats that endanger customer trust, brand reputation, privacy compliance, marketing effectiveness, business continuity, and equity value. CHEQ is the only cybersecurity platform purpose-built to secure the go-to-market attack surface. It provides comprehensive protection with three distinct solutions that never compromise customer experience. These solutions include: 1. Marketing Security: Protect Marketing effectiveness while preventing vulnerabilities from entering the top-of-the-funnel with fully integrated protection for your acquisition efforts, conversion events, and marketing analytics. 2. Fraud & Abuse: Detect and prevent fraud and abuse with unprecedented precision made possible by an unrivaled network effect and comprehensive, granular detection that’s actionable down to specific device, network, behavioral, and user signals and threats. 3. Data Security & Compliance: Enforce privacy preferences, prevent customer data leakage, and mitigate MarTech vendor risk with granular control over 1st and 3rd party data that minimizes security and compliance issues, enables complex privacy regulation adherence, and ensures oversight across business units. CHEQ was established in 2016 by Ehud Levy and Guy Tytunovich in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Lynx.MD

Seed Round in 2019
Latica (formerly Lynx.MD) is a visionary healthcare data company dedicated to revolutionizing medical research and innovation. Founded in 2019, Latica provides a secure and collaborative data ecosystem where life sciences organizations, healthcare providers, and researchers can harness the power of clinical and operational data to drive meaningful advancements in medicine. Our platform leverages cutting-edge AI, computer vision, and data analytics to unlock the potential of siloed healthcare data, enabling groundbreaking discoveries while prioritizing security and privacy. Latica empowers collaboration across the healthcare ecosystem, delivering actionable insights that improve outcomes for patients, providers, and researchers alike. Join us in shaping the future of healthcare innovation through the power of data. Learn more at www.latica.ai.

QEDIT

Series A in 2019
QED-it helps businesses accelerate trust with Zero-Knowledge Blockchains. It also developed Zero-Knowledge Blockchain, a protocol which combines Enterprise Blockchain with Zero-Knowledge Proof cryptography. Mentored by Prof. Shafi Goldwasser (Turing Award 2012) who co-invented Zero-Knowledge Proofs, this team of world-renowned experts in cryptography, security and blockchain tackles several use-cases. The company provides an enterprise solution for preserving privacy on the Blockchain. QED-it allows clients to can keep their data private and at the same time share proofs about these data with partners, and even with competitors in their ecosystem. They also solve the confidentiality tradeoff using scalable Zero-Knowledge Proof technology. It also enables running audit queries such as credit and risk scoring without revealing the underlying private data used to calculate the score QED-it was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Orca AI

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2018 by a team of Navy veterans, Orca AI, a maritime tech startup, empowers shipping companies to enhance their operational safety, efficiency, and sustainability through a single AI and computer-vision-based operations platform. By October 2024, 900 vessels have been booked, and 550 installations have already been completed. The platform is trusted by key industry players across various shipping segments, including MSC, Seaspan, Maran Tankers / Angelicoussis Group, NYK, and Marubeni. The company has raised a total of $38 million in funding over two rounds from US, UK, and Israeli VCs and employs 80 people across its offices in London, Athens, Singapore, and Tel Aviv.

Ottopia

Seed Round in 2018
Ottopia offers the best teleoperations software platform on the market, as twice awarded by Frost & Sullivan. Ottopia enables driverless experiences by combining the strengths of AI and human drivers. Select customers & partners: Hyundai, Magna International, Deutsche Telekom, Motional, EasyMile, MooVita, Serve Robotics, and NVIDIA. Ottopia's software currently powers cars, buses, yard and long-haul trucks, construction machines, and delivery vehicles. With Ottopia, OEMs generate new recurring revenue streams while reducing R&D costs. Learn more at https://ottopia.tech or contact us at info@ottopia.tech.

Resolution Games

Series B in 2018
Resolution Games is a games studio led by some of the top minds in the industry, forging a world-class catalog of titles that bring players into the richest VR and AR worlds possible.

VAYAVISION

Seed Round in 2018
VAYAVISION is a raw data fusion and perception system providing the most reliable environmental model for autonomous vehicles

Aurora Labs

Series A in 2018
Aurora Labs is pioneering the use of AI and Software Intelligence to solve the challenge of automotive software development. Aurora Labs brings AI-based Vehicle Software Intelligence to the entire lifecycle of a vehicle from software development to testing, integration, quality control, continuous certification and on-the-road over-the-air software updates. Aurora Labs focuses on the embedded systems that are key to the development of the software-defined vehicle and enables automotive manufacturers to more efficiently manage software costs and the resources required to develop and manage new vehicle features and mobility services. The Company’s products have been adopted on customer platforms around the world, and with a commitment to conform and meet ISO-26262/ASIL-D and ASPICE-L2, will be in vehicles in coming car models. Aurora Labs, founded in 2016, has raised approximately $100m and has been granted 90 patents. The Company is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with offices in Germany, North Macedonia, the US, and Japan.

Protego Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Recognizing the inadequacy of traditional application security paradigms, Protego Labs designed the first comprehensive solution built with the unique constraints and opportunities of serverless in mind. Through continuous serverless security posture, dynamic serverless intelligence, and elastic defense, Protego helps organizations achieve control over the security of their applications.

AllegroAI

Series A in 2018
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Ment.io

Venture Round in 2018
Our mission is to help teams optimize the quality and speed of their decision-making, the fate of your company depends on the sum of your decisions, but decision-making has never been harder. Teams facing thousands of decisions a day are bogged down by endless meetings and fragmented conversations spread across email and Slack. And, after all that back and forth, they’re seldom left feeling confident about their decisions. We believe that combining credible decision-making with speed results in success. After all, you should never have to compromise between the two. This is why we built Ment.io with the singular goal of helping teams make confident decisions in an agile world. By enabling you to make trusted decisions efficiently, Ment.io propels you toward action and success.

Ment.io

Series B in 2018
Our mission is to help teams optimize the quality and speed of their decision-making, the fate of your company depends on the sum of your decisions, but decision-making has never been harder. Teams facing thousands of decisions a day are bogged down by endless meetings and fragmented conversations spread across email and Slack. And, after all that back and forth, they’re seldom left feeling confident about their decisions. We believe that combining credible decision-making with speed results in success. After all, you should never have to compromise between the two. This is why we built Ment.io with the singular goal of helping teams make confident decisions in an agile world. By enabling you to make trusted decisions efficiently, Ment.io propels you toward action and success.

Sogur

Seed Round in 2018
Saga is a unique digital currency designed to address real concerns of public policy. Guided by clear, transparent monetary policy; enjoying the advice and oversight of global professional leaders; and harnessing the advantages of Blockchain contracts . Designed for tamed volatility, Saga operates an algorithmically-governed backing reserve. This ties Saga's evolution to the realities of our global economy. Unlike existing digital currencies, as the first non-anonymous digital currency, Saga seeks to complement existing national currencies, by working closely with established economic institutions.

Anagog

Series B in 2018
Anagog is the world’s first On-phone Customer Engagement & Enrichment Platform. Being the first marketing platform that's powered by Edge-AI, working from within the phone without dependency on cloud processing, Anagog helps mobile app owners truly meet and exceed their customers’ expectations for relevant personalized experiences in real-time, while (finally) meeting the demand for privacy. Anagog’s patented award-winning technology enables companies to understand their users from outside of their app and extract hundreds of 1st-party insights using the phone’s OS and sensors. In addition, companies can finally deliver personalization while solving privacy completely as personal data is processed on the phone. Anagog enables marketers to offer a differentiated multi-channel personalized engagement, in real-time, including Push Notifications, In-App Messages, App Inbox, and more, and to better learn their audience via powerful anonymized audience analytics.

Aurora Labs

Seed Round in 2017
Aurora Labs is pioneering the use of AI and Software Intelligence to solve the challenge of automotive software development. Aurora Labs brings AI-based Vehicle Software Intelligence to the entire lifecycle of a vehicle from software development to testing, integration, quality control, continuous certification and on-the-road over-the-air software updates. Aurora Labs focuses on the embedded systems that are key to the development of the software-defined vehicle and enables automotive manufacturers to more efficiently manage software costs and the resources required to develop and manage new vehicle features and mobility services. The Company’s products have been adopted on customer platforms around the world, and with a commitment to conform and meet ISO-26262/ASIL-D and ASPICE-L2, will be in vehicles in coming car models. Aurora Labs, founded in 2016, has raised approximately $100m and has been granted 90 patents. The Company is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with offices in Germany, North Macedonia, the US, and Japan.

Loadmill

Seed Round in 2017
Loadmill is the perfect solution for mobile test automation. Our platform eliminates the need for physical devices, making the process more efficient and cost-effective. With Loadmill, QA teams can easily automate their mobile testing and ensure top-quality results. Say goodbye to device dependency and hello to streamlined mobile test automation with Loadmill.

PayKey

Series B in 2017
PayKey enables banks to provide their customers with the ability to initiate and complete a range of financial services, including P2P payments, chatbot engagement, balance check, cardless withdrawal, and more, from within any mobile application. Offering a cross-platform banking button on the smartphone’s keyboard boosts the bank’s brand engagement while making the banking experience quick, contextual, and simple for users. Banks are battling to remain relevant as they face an unprecedented competitive environment coupled with changing consumer expectations for instantaneous, highly-efficient, and seamless financial experiences. In a time where consumers expect to access services from any channel at any time, PayKey is helping banks to improve their user experience and boost their brand engagement by enabling their customers to access financial services from within any mobile application.

Twiggle

Series B in 2017
Twiggle transforms the e-commerce search and discovery experience by connecting shoppers to the products they are looking to buy faster and more accurately. Using the most advanced technologies in machine learning, natural language processing, and knowledge engineering, Twiggle’s AI-powered solutions are designed to enhance, not replace, a retailer’s existing search engine or e-commerce platform. Built on both a human-like understanding of linguistic structure and a deep retail awareness, Twiggle enables retailers to bring the best of the in-store shopping experience online. Founded in 2014, Twiggle is backed by some of the most respected global entrepreneurs and investors, including Alibaba, Naspers, Yahoo! Japan, State of Mind Ventures and Mizmaa Ventures. Twiggle's Board of Directors includes Dr. Udi Manber, former Head of Search at Google, Amazon, and Yahoo! Japan. Twiggle was named a Gartner Cool Vendor and ranked one of the top 100 AI companies by CB Insights.

Corephotonics

Series D in 2017
Corephotonics is the pioneer and worldwide market leader of dual camera technologies for mobile devices. Corephotonics’ primary mission is to perfect the mobile camera photography experience and to provide superior image quality by combining our novel optics, mechanics and computational photography technologies. Corephotonics’ comprehensive technologies excel in addressing some of the most challenging deficits of existing smartphone cameras. We develop and deliver end-to-end multi-aperture solutions supporting the most professional photography capabilities, such as optical zoom, superb low-light performance, Bokeh and depth features, and optical image stabilization, all in an incredibly slim form factor. We partner with manufacturers at early design stages, matching each manufacturer's unique design and imaging requirements, and providing continuous support through commercialization and mass production.

Coro

Series A in 2016
Coro provides modern cybersecurity that unifies comprehensive protection into a single platform. Coro empowers organizations to defend against malware, ransomware, phishing, data leakage, insider threats and bots across devices, users, and cloud applications. More than 5,000 businesses depend on Coro for holistic security protection, unrivaled ease of use, and unmatched affordability. Coro’s modern cybersecurity platform automatically detects and remediates the many security threats that today's distributed businesses face, without IT teams having to worry, investigate, or fix issues themselves.

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.
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