NextLeap Ventures

NextLeap Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2017, headquartered in Herzliya, Israel, with an additional office in the United States. The firm specializes in early-stage investments in technology startups, focusing on sectors such as Information Technology, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Digital Health, Cybersecurity, and Industry 4.0 and IoT. NextLeap Ventures is particularly dedicated to supporting companies based in Israel, aiming to foster innovation and growth in these rapidly evolving fields.

Ido Lapidot

Partner

Ido Lapidot

Co-Founder and Partner

19 past transactions

Cybord

Series A in 2024
Cybord is a technology company focused on preventing counterfeit, defective, and malicious electronic components from entering the manufacturing process. The company employs deep learning algorithms and artificial intelligence to assess each component before its placement, utilizing a comprehensive global database of electronic parts. By integrating its system with electronic product manufacturing equipment, Cybord enhances component traceability through material inspection, documentation, and visual imagery, which collectively establish the provenance of materials. This approach not only helps original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), electronics manufacturing services (EMS), and distributors ensure the quality and security of their products but also addresses the significant issue of counterfeit components, which account for a notable percentage of return merchandise authorizations. Cybord's innovative solutions ultimately aim to improve product quality and reduce risks associated with hardware-cyber threats.

Carrar

Series A in 2024
Carrar specializes in the manufacturing of advanced battery systems for electric vehicles, emphasizing exceptional heat dissipation to enhance performance and longevity. The company's innovative thermal management system employs novel two-phase immersion cooling technology, which enables precise temperature control throughout the battery pack, ensuring uniformity at both the cell circumference and interior. This closed-loop system effectively manages the fluid boiling point, allowing for flexible control and sustained temperatures, ultimately increasing overall battery efficiency. By improving cooling mechanisms, Carrar's battery systems significantly reduce the Total Cost of Ownership for commercial vehicles and enhance the return on investment for passenger cars, contributing to superior battery performance and extended operational lifespans.

CorrActions

Series A in 2023
CorrActions is a developer of a software-based digital technology platform that focuses on enhancing human-machine interaction. The platform is designed to detect, decode, and transform human brain signals in real-time, aiming to prevent human errors. By leveraging artificial intelligence, CorrActions enables machines to learn human behavior more effectively, thereby improving overall efficiency in various sectors. Its applications span across aviation, automotive, medical, and technology industries, where it seeks to revolutionize the interaction between humans and machines through a brain-computer interface. This innovative approach enhances human learning efficiency and facilitates smarter machine operation in complex environments.

Enzymit

Seed Round in 2022
Enzymit is a biotechnology company focused on revolutionizing global manufacturing through sustainable and efficient bio-production methods. It specializes in developing cell-free bio-production technology that aims to eliminate the inefficiencies and complexities associated with traditional bio-production. Enzymit employs artificial intelligence and deep learning algorithms to design novel enzymes, which serve as molecular machines capable of transforming abundant feedstocks into valuable products, including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food, and materials. The company’s small, modular bio-reactors facilitate this process, promoting resource independence while minimizing environmental impact. By moving away from conventional whole-cell methods to utilizing nature's elemental building blocks, Enzymit enhances cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability in bio-production, while also providing greater flexibility in product customization for various industries.

Cybord

Seed Round in 2022
Cybord is a technology company focused on preventing counterfeit, defective, and malicious electronic components from entering the manufacturing process. The company employs deep learning algorithms and artificial intelligence to assess each component before its placement, utilizing a comprehensive global database of electronic parts. By integrating its system with electronic product manufacturing equipment, Cybord enhances component traceability through material inspection, documentation, and visual imagery, which collectively establish the provenance of materials. This approach not only helps original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), electronics manufacturing services (EMS), and distributors ensure the quality and security of their products but also addresses the significant issue of counterfeit components, which account for a notable percentage of return merchandise authorizations. Cybord's innovative solutions ultimately aim to improve product quality and reduce risks associated with hardware-cyber threats.

ShieldIoT

Series A in 2021
ShieldIoT is an Israeli company based in Tel Aviv, founded in 2017, specializing in IoT embedded device-level security solutions. Their flagship product, ShieldIOT, is a technology platform that protects Linux-based devices across IoT networks without requiring changes to the device, application, or network. The platform comprises ShieldCenter, a centralized security management module, and ShieldSupervisor, a device-level agent module. ShieldIoT offers comprehensive security features including application sandboxing, device resource protection, firewall, VPN secured communication, disk encryption, fleet monitoring, and threat prevention. These solutions cater to various industries such as smart homes, healthcare, transportation, retail, and more, enabling manufacturers and operators to secure their devices efficiently without needing extensive development resources or security expertise.

Newphotonics

Seed Round in 2021
NewPhotonics is a company focused on the development of innovative photonics technologies, specifically through the design of Photonics Engines and silicon photonics integrated circuits (PICs). These advanced optics chips aim to replace traditional complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology, offering efficient and cost-effective solutions for optical communications in hyper-scale data centers. By enhancing the transmission of data, NewPhotonics significantly reduces power consumption and improves reliability, effectively addressing data rate bottlenecks associated with compute and AI workloads. The company's commitment to innovation in the photonics sector positions it at the forefront of transforming optical services, providing manufacturers with solutions that lead to both energy savings and reduced material costs.

TechsoMed

Series B in 2021
TechsoMed is an Israeli medical device company specializing in the development of ultrasound-based real-time monitoring systems for thermal ablation procedures. These procedures have wide-ranging applications, including tumor destruction, treatment of heart arrhythmias, and blood pressure management. Despite a market size in the billions, these procedures often suffer from high failure rates due to the lack of real-time monitoring capabilities. TechsoMed's technology addresses this issue by providing physicians with the ability to monitor tissue destruction in real time, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of these minimally invasive and cost-effective treatments for patients, physicians, and insurance companies alike.

DataLoop

Series A in 2020
DataLoop is an Israeli company founded in 2017, specializing in artificial intelligence products and solutions for data automation. Based in Herzliya, the company provides a data management and annotation platform that enhances the preparation of visual data for machine and deep learning applications. DataLoop's technology facilitates the creation and deployment of computer vision pipelines by streamlining data labeling, automating data operations, and customizing production workflows. The platform incorporates human oversight for data validation, effectively addressing data challenges and enabling clients to concentrate on their core business activities while improving efficiency and reducing costs.

HT BioImaging

Grant in 2020
HT BioImaging Ltd. is an innovative company specializing in medical imaging technology focused on the early detection of oral cancer. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Ganei Am, Israel, the company has developed the HTOScan, a device that utilizes heat diffusion imaging combined with artificial intelligence to analyze tissue. This technology measures the heat diffusion and dissipation within the examined tissue, producing images that indicate the likelihood of cancer. HT BioImaging aims to provide a non-invasive, real-time diagnostic tool for clinicians, allowing for the detection and classification of cancerous tissues directly in community clinics and operating rooms. The company’s team consists of experts in AI, signal analysis, computer vision, and oncology, working together to advance cancer detection methods.

Nanofabrica

Venture Round in 2020
Nanofabrica is a pioneering company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializing in 3D printing technology for precision manufacturing. Founded in 2016, the company focuses on micro and nanomanufacturing, offering solutions for various sectors, including semiconductors, optics, and medical devices. Its innovative Micro Adaptive Projection technology enables the production of ultra-precise and complex parts with an unprecedented micron-resolution. This capability allows for rapid manufacturing of high-performance components, significantly reducing costs and time compared to traditional methods. By integrating advanced optics and semiconductor lithography with 3D printing, Nanofabrica serves mass customization needs, responding to customer feedback to continuously refine its technology and expand into new markets such as robotics and biomedical applications.

Concertio

Seed Round in 2020
Concertio Inc., founded in 2016 and based in New York, is a leading provider of artificial intelligence-powered performance optimization tools for hardware and software systems. The company's flagship product, Concertio Optimizer, monitors and learns from interactions between applications and systems to optimize their performance dynamically. This tool includes Optimizer Studio, designed for performance engineers and IT professionals, and Optimizer Runtime, which provides real-time optimization. By tailoring system settings in processors, firmware, OS, and applications to specific workloads, Concertio's tools enhance the efficiency of computing systems, turning general-purpose systems into high-performant special-purpose ones. The company's clients include major tech firms like Intel, Marvell, and Mellanox.

Geneyx

Seed Round in 2020
Geneyx is a biotechnology company focused on improving genetic analysis and promoting precision medicine through innovative technologies. By collaborating with physicians and hospital laboratories globally, Geneyx aims to address the challenges of undiagnosed and untreated diseases. The company has developed an artificial intelligence-based analytics platform that enhances the interpretation of genomic data, providing clinicians with accurate and rapid diagnoses. This platform allows for an end-to-end approach to secure genetic data, significantly increasing diagnostic yield and reducing turnaround times to mere minutes. Through its efforts, Geneyx seeks to empower the healthcare community with advanced tools that support drug discovery and the development of novel therapeutics.

DataLoop

Seed Round in 2019
DataLoop is an Israeli company founded in 2017, specializing in artificial intelligence products and solutions for data automation. Based in Herzliya, the company provides a data management and annotation platform that enhances the preparation of visual data for machine and deep learning applications. DataLoop's technology facilitates the creation and deployment of computer vision pipelines by streamlining data labeling, automating data operations, and customizing production workflows. The platform incorporates human oversight for data validation, effectively addressing data challenges and enabling clients to concentrate on their core business activities while improving efficiency and reducing costs.

Concertio

Seed Round in 2019
Concertio Inc., founded in 2016 and based in New York, is a leading provider of artificial intelligence-powered performance optimization tools for hardware and software systems. The company's flagship product, Concertio Optimizer, monitors and learns from interactions between applications and systems to optimize their performance dynamically. This tool includes Optimizer Studio, designed for performance engineers and IT professionals, and Optimizer Runtime, which provides real-time optimization. By tailoring system settings in processors, firmware, OS, and applications to specific workloads, Concertio's tools enhance the efficiency of computing systems, turning general-purpose systems into high-performant special-purpose ones. The company's clients include major tech firms like Intel, Marvell, and Mellanox.

GuardKnox

Series A in 2019
GuardKnox is an automotive technology company that specializes in developing high-performance, secure, and customizable solutions for software-defined vehicles. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Israel, with additional offices in Munich, Germany, and Detroit, Michigan, GuardKnox focuses on providing scalable technologies that enhance vehicle connectivity. The company's platform enables consumers to personalize their vehicle's performance and in-vehicle experience through its advanced firmware and software components, which are designed for high-speed and low-latency operation. By prioritizing secure-by-design practices, GuardKnox aims to assist clients in efficiently bringing innovative applications and services to market, ultimately improving the overall mobility experience.

TechsoMed

Venture Round in 2019
TechsoMed is an Israeli medical device company specializing in the development of ultrasound-based real-time monitoring systems for thermal ablation procedures. These procedures have wide-ranging applications, including tumor destruction, treatment of heart arrhythmias, and blood pressure management. Despite a market size in the billions, these procedures often suffer from high failure rates due to the lack of real-time monitoring capabilities. TechsoMed's technology addresses this issue by providing physicians with the ability to monitor tissue destruction in real time, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of these minimally invasive and cost-effective treatments for patients, physicians, and insurance companies alike.

Magentiq Eye

Seed Round in 2018
Magentiq Eye Ltd. is a medical device company based in Haifa, Israel, established in 2014. The company specializes in enhancing endoscopic procedures through advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, deep learning, and computer vision. Its flagship product is the Automatic Polyp Detection System (APDS), which aids physicians during colonoscopy by automatically identifying suspicious polyp locations in real-time or in offline mode on pre-recorded videos. This innovation is designed to improve the accuracy of polyp detection, thereby reducing the miss-rate associated with colonoscopies, which can lead to interval cancer. Given the high volume of colonoscopy procedures performed annually, Magentiq Eye's solutions aim to enhance diagnostic effectiveness, ultimately contributing to better patient outcomes and significant healthcare cost savings. The APDS can be integrated with existing colonoscopy systems or offered as a service to clinics and hospitals, positioning Magentiq Eye as a key player in the medical device industry focused on improving endoscopic practices.

Sanolla

Seed Round in 2016
Sanolla is a digital healthcare platform focused on creating innovative medical diagnosis solutions for healthcare professionals and patients. The company develops AI-powered diagnostic equipment that specializes in the early assessment and monitoring of cardiopulmonary conditions. By utilizing advanced detection and analysis of previously inaccessible body infrasounds and vital signs, Sanolla offers affordable, non-invasive products that facilitate immediate and accurate health assessments. These solutions aim to reduce unnecessary in-clinic visits, saving time and costs while minimizing the risk of infection for patients. Through its technology, Sanolla is driving a shift in medical diagnosis, making healthcare more accessible and efficient.
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