Rhodium

Rhodium is a private investment firm, focusing on high growth cutting-edge opportunities in the fields of Digital Media, Internet, Mobile, Impact, and new technologies in general. Its mission is to identify the most promising entrepreneurs and help them to build thriving companies. Rhodium supports entrepreneurs and strengthens their ventures with its resources; funding, broad management expertise and an extensive valuable network of business contacts around the globe. Rhodium looks to take an active role in most of its portfolio companies. Rhodium strategically invests in a handful of promising companies each year in order to be actively involved in creating the optimal environment for them to successfully transform into world-class business ventures. Rhodium is partnering with talented entrepreneurs to turn their ideas into industry-leading companies that will make a difference in our world.

Daniel Recanati

Founder, CEO

Efi Shema

Venture Partner

54 past transactions

Face.com

Series B 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.

Sharegain

Convertible Note in 2016
Sharegain Ltd., a fintech company, owns and operates a securities lending platform for pension funds, insurance companies, and other asset managers. The company focuses on reinventing the securities lending space for investors. Its platform enables to discover the hidden value of portfolio and generate additional value from their stocks, bonds, and ETFs. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

zooz

Series A in 2013
Zooz is a technology company that provides a payments platform designed to help merchants maximize their payments performance. The company was established in 2010. In July 2018, Zooz was acquired by PayU.

Outbrain

Series E in 2013
Outbrain (www.outbrain.com) is the leading content discovery platform, reaching a highly engaged audience through distribution on top publisher sites, including CNN, Fox News, Hachette Filipacchi Media, MSNBC and Slate. Outbrain provides publishers a service for recommended links to increase traffic and generate revenue. Outbrain also works with brands and agencies including Starcom, Digitas, Mindshare, American Express, P&G, Colgate-Palmolive, General Mills and Exxon, offering a way to distribute content alongside publisher's own editorial recommendations. Outbrain acquired content recommendation platform Surphace (formerly known as Sphere) in February 2011. Founded in 2006, the company is headquartered in New York with offices in London, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, DC, Paris, Hamburg and Netanya, Israel, and is backed by Index Ventures, Carmel Ventures, Gemini Israel Funds, GlenRock Israel, Rhodium and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Yieldmo

Series A in 2012
Yieldmo is one of the fastest-growing digital advertising and attention analytics companies. Our premium marketplace allows advertisers to create, measure, model, and optimize campaigns for unmatched scale and performance. We ultimately deliver better results by harnessing the power of attention data to drive superior audience engagement and retargeting.

LitiGate

Private Placement in 2019
LitiGate offers an argument analysis solution for dispute resolution using advanced AI algorithms. The company aims to revolutionize the conduct of litigation by delivering contentious legal services faster, at less cost, and with improved accuracy. Its end-to-end platform automates repetitive tasks and reveals untapped information from your case so you can focus on what matters most. LitiGate was founded in 2017 and has offices in London and Tel Aviv.

YContent

Series A in 2015
YContent is a video distribution platform in Latin America. It helps premium producers reach massive audiences by creating distribution window and monetization strategies across different sites, social networks, and screens. YContent was launched in August 2012 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Livekick

Seed Round in 2019
LiveKick, Inc. develops a personal fitness application for individuals and corporate. The company through its application provides live virtual classes for yoga and fitness. and allows users to get guidance with a personal trainer, a private yoga instructor, or have group classes. It also allows users to view recordings of group classes. LiveKick, Inc. was formerly known as Switch Tech Inc. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

YContent

Seed Round in 2013
YContent is a video distribution platform in Latin America. It helps premium producers reach massive audiences by creating distribution window and monetization strategies across different sites, social networks, and screens. YContent was launched in August 2012 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Solutum

Seed Round in 2020
Solutum Ltd. develops and produces biodegradable products that replace plastic. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Yieldmo

Series B in 2013
Yieldmo is one of the fastest-growing digital advertising and attention analytics companies. Our premium marketplace allows advertisers to create, measure, model, and optimize campaigns for unmatched scale and performance. We ultimately deliver better results by harnessing the power of attention data to drive superior audience engagement and retargeting.

Verisart

Seed Round in 2015
Verisart, Inc. develops a mobile application for artists and collectors to certify and verify artworks and collectables, and to generate certificates of authenticity. Its application is available for download via iTunes. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Burbank, California.

zooz

Series C in 2016
Zooz is a technology company that provides a payments platform designed to help merchants maximize their payments performance. The company was established in 2010. In July 2018, Zooz was acquired by PayU.

Innovopro

Series B in 2020
InnovoPro is committed to bringing unique plant-based protein ingredients to the global food market in order to create nutritious, tasty, safe, and sustainable food products. With an excellent nutritional profile, free from properties and wide usability in the food industry, InnovoPro’s chickpea protein is the best choice for the growing plant-based protein market. InnovoPro was founded on 2013 by Dr. Ascher Shmulewitz an experienced inventor and investor, and has made considerable progress in developing chickpea proteins and other chickpea ingredients. InnovoPro has been recognized as an innovator of disruptive technology in the food industry.

Yotpo

Series B in 2015
Yotpo Ltd. develops user-generated content marketing platform for companies that helps them to gather content from their customers in the form of reviews, questions and answers, photos, and videos for use in marketing, referrals, and loyalty programs. The company owns and operates Atlas, a content, data, and analytical engine. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with additional offices in New York, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; and London, United Kingdom.

HexaTier

Series B in 2011
HexaTier provides database security and compliance and sets the industry standard with a patented database reverse proxy technology for securing cloud-hosted databases and DBaaS platforms. Providing a unified solution, including: Database Security, Dynamic Data Masking, Database Activity Monitoring and Discovery of Sensitive Data that complies with all regulatory requirements. HexaTier is installed as a front-end to your databases and works as a reverse proxy, successfully hiding and securing database content. A variety of implementation options are available to you, including: Database Server, Dedicated Server protecting multiple databases, Application Server and Virtual Machines. HexaTier reviews and inspects both database queries and database responses making it the perfect tool to secure, accelerate, audit and mask the sensitive information stored in your database.

IMGN Media

Seed Round in 2016
IMGN is a tech-media company specialized in producing and programming social content for Gen Z audiences. IMGN owns & operates a portfolio of 14 distinct media brands with an overall reach of +40 million followers. Featured brands: Daquan, TryHard, So Satisfying & more. IMGN is the creator of Viral Lab, a proprietary in-house technology that enables the company's editorial team to scale content creation, channel management and audience growth. IMGN is headquartered in New York and Tel Aviv (R&D) and backed by VCs and angel investors.

zooz

Seed Round in 2011
Zooz is a technology company that provides a payments platform designed to help merchants maximize their payments performance. The company was established in 2010. In July 2018, Zooz was acquired by PayU.

Rounds

Venture Round in 2013
Rounds is a live social platform that combines live communication and social activities and allows friends to experience life together. It enables users to get together and send text messages, watch videos, play games, share photos, and much more all while video chatting across networks, operating systems, and devices. The platform offers instant group video chat on mobile. As a live communication platform, Rounds allows users to send text messages, video chat with up to 12 participants, and engage in activities while chatting such as watch videos, play games, share photos, and much more. The platform operates across networks, operating systems, and devices. It raises funds from its investors, including Sequoia Capital, Samsung Ventures, Verizon Ventures, DFJ’s Tim Draper, Rhodium, and other private investors. Rounds was launched in 2008 by Dany Fishel and Ilan Leibovich. It is based in Tel Aviv.

LitiGate

Seed Round in 2018
LitiGate offers an argument analysis solution for dispute resolution using advanced AI algorithms. The company aims to revolutionize the conduct of litigation by delivering contentious legal services faster, at less cost, and with improved accuracy. Its end-to-end platform automates repetitive tasks and reveals untapped information from your case so you can focus on what matters most. LitiGate was founded in 2017 and has offices in London and Tel Aviv.

Sharegain

Seed Round in 2016
Sharegain Ltd., a fintech company, owns and operates a securities lending platform for pension funds, insurance companies, and other asset managers. The company focuses on reinventing the securities lending space for investors. Its platform enables to discover the hidden value of portfolio and generate additional value from their stocks, bonds, and ETFs. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Rounds

Series A in 2011
Rounds is a live social platform that combines live communication and social activities and allows friends to experience life together. It enables users to get together and send text messages, watch videos, play games, share photos, and much more all while video chatting across networks, operating systems, and devices. The platform offers instant group video chat on mobile. As a live communication platform, Rounds allows users to send text messages, video chat with up to 12 participants, and engage in activities while chatting such as watch videos, play games, share photos, and much more. The platform operates across networks, operating systems, and devices. It raises funds from its investors, including Sequoia Capital, Samsung Ventures, Verizon Ventures, DFJ’s Tim Draper, Rhodium, and other private investors. Rounds was launched in 2008 by Dany Fishel and Ilan Leibovich. It is based in Tel Aviv.

StoreDot

Series B in 2014
StoreDot Ltd. develops and provides Nanodots, which are micro-crystals of uniform size and consist of bioorganic peptide molecules. These are used for coating of new generation-batteries and supercapacitors. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Ramat-Gan, Israel.

Yotpo

Venture Round in 2012
Yotpo Ltd. develops user-generated content marketing platform for companies that helps them to gather content from their customers in the form of reviews, questions and answers, photos, and videos for use in marketing, referrals, and loyalty programs. The company owns and operates Atlas, a content, data, and analytical engine. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with additional offices in New York, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; and London, United Kingdom.

Rounds

Series B in 2015
Rounds is a live social platform that combines live communication and social activities and allows friends to experience life together. It enables users to get together and send text messages, watch videos, play games, share photos, and much more all while video chatting across networks, operating systems, and devices. The platform offers instant group video chat on mobile. As a live communication platform, Rounds allows users to send text messages, video chat with up to 12 participants, and engage in activities while chatting such as watch videos, play games, share photos, and much more. The platform operates across networks, operating systems, and devices. It raises funds from its investors, including Sequoia Capital, Samsung Ventures, Verizon Ventures, DFJ’s Tim Draper, Rhodium, and other private investors. Rounds was launched in 2008 by Dany Fishel and Ilan Leibovich. It is based in Tel Aviv.

Neurogenesis

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Neurogenesis develops an approach to sustained delivery of remyelinating & regeneration proteins using the patient’s own stem cells. The technology is called NG CELL™. It entails collecting bone marrow from the patient.

Helios

Seed Round in 2022
Helios is developing a reactor that can process lunar soil and Martian soil to oxygen and metals. The company solution is unique as its output yields two highly crucial materials at the same time, and it doesn’t require earth brought consumables. They seek to enable the establishment of a permanent base on the Moon. Another potential use of our reactor can be to supply oxygen from the lunar surface to earth orbit, as it requires 26 times less energy than launching it from Earth. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Israel.

Common Ninja

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Common Ninja create delightful tools for site owners. With HTML5 and a good attitude, we believe the web could be much more reachable. For eveyone. Common Ninja was founded in September 2012 by Daniel Sternlicht. It was called "Compare Ninja" at first, as its first ninja service - Compare Ninja, which allow everyone to create HTML & CSS comparison tables on-the-fly.

Fingerlix

Series C in 2021
Launched in 2016, Fingerlix is the brainchild of 4 foodies. Their purpose is to spread Joy through food by easing up cooking and exploration. They believe that Joy stems from spending more time with family and less time in the kitchen. Joy is maximum when they discover something new and different that entices their taste buds. Joy also comes from making healthier, happier food choices that leave us with a feeling of goodness. Through their Ready-to-Cook & Ready-to-Eat food options, they want to be a part of your cooking journey, partnering you, everyday - day after day. And they do their best to make that happen – sourcing choicest ingredients, maintaining extremely high hygiene standards and above all, inspiring your magical touch to transform every dish into ‘Your dish’.

Incredo

Series B in 2019
DouxMatok is a food-tech company. They have developed a proprietary technology that enhances the sweetness of sugars with no after taste - preserving the full "sugar experience" customers are looking for. The enhanced sweetness allows for a significant reduction in the consumption of sugar. The company was incorporated in 2014, and its R&D center is based in Petach-Tikva, Israel.

Sharegain

Private Placement in 2018
Sharegain Ltd., a fintech company, owns and operates a securities lending platform for pension funds, insurance companies, and other asset managers. The company focuses on reinventing the securities lending space for investors. Its platform enables to discover the hidden value of portfolio and generate additional value from their stocks, bonds, and ETFs. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Sharegain

Series A in 2018
Sharegain Ltd., a fintech company, owns and operates a securities lending platform for pension funds, insurance companies, and other asset managers. The company focuses on reinventing the securities lending space for investors. Its platform enables to discover the hidden value of portfolio and generate additional value from their stocks, bonds, and ETFs. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

IMGN Media

Private Placement in 2018
IMGN is a tech-media company specialized in producing and programming social content for Gen Z audiences. IMGN owns & operates a portfolio of 14 distinct media brands with an overall reach of +40 million followers. Featured brands: Daquan, TryHard, So Satisfying & more. IMGN is the creator of Viral Lab, a proprietary in-house technology that enables the company's editorial team to scale content creation, channel management and audience growth. IMGN is headquartered in New York and Tel Aviv (R&D) and backed by VCs and angel investors.

Sharegain

Series B in 2022
Sharegain Ltd., a fintech company, owns and operates a securities lending platform for pension funds, insurance companies, and other asset managers. The company focuses on reinventing the securities lending space for investors. Its platform enables to discover the hidden value of portfolio and generate additional value from their stocks, bonds, and ETFs. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Yotpo

Series D in 2017
Yotpo Ltd. develops user-generated content marketing platform for companies that helps them to gather content from their customers in the form of reviews, questions and answers, photos, and videos for use in marketing, referrals, and loyalty programs. The company owns and operates Atlas, a content, data, and analytical engine. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with additional offices in New York, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; and London, United Kingdom.

Verisart

Private Placement in 2019
Verisart, Inc. develops a mobile application for artists and collectors to certify and verify artworks and collectables, and to generate certificates of authenticity. Its application is available for download via iTunes. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Burbank, California.

Compass

Seed Round in 2013
Compass provides a solution for automated management reports and benchmarks for small and medium-sized online businesses. Its analytics and bench-marking platform offers relevant metrics, reference points, and benchmarks of the metrics against similar businesses and also generates automated recommendations regarding how to improve those metrics that enable eCommerce businesses to accelerate their growth with unique and actionable insights to help them grow and improve their performance.

IMGN Media

Series A in 2018
IMGN is a tech-media company specialized in producing and programming social content for Gen Z audiences. IMGN owns & operates a portfolio of 14 distinct media brands with an overall reach of +40 million followers. Featured brands: Daquan, TryHard, So Satisfying & more. IMGN is the creator of Viral Lab, a proprietary in-house technology that enables the company's editorial team to scale content creation, channel management and audience growth. IMGN is headquartered in New York and Tel Aviv (R&D) and backed by VCs and angel investors.

Livekick

Private Placement in 2019
LiveKick, Inc. develops a personal fitness application for individuals and corporate. The company through its application provides live virtual classes for yoga and fitness. and allows users to get guidance with a personal trainer, a private yoga instructor, or have group classes. It also allows users to view recordings of group classes. LiveKick, Inc. was formerly known as Switch Tech Inc. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Listory

Private Placement in 2020
Listory: The Content Refinery Your Shortest Path To Content That Matters Listory is the world’s first content refinery. It empowers human-curation to mine the best of the web. Save time and stay on track in your pursuit for knowledge by following the reads of the leading experts and influencers in the topics you’re interested in. Listory gives you stories curated by the experts and influencers in your field. You can save time and focus on what's relevant to you, without the infinite feed. Follow and connect with curators who have found the best of the internet for you. Get your personal news feed, curated by the experts. Save and organize your digital content shelves. Share with those who appreciate a good read.

HopStop.com

Venture Round in 2007
HopStop is a location-based service, providing free door-to-door mass transit, walking, biking, and taxi directions for over 1,000 transit agencies in over 750 cities throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Russia, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand. HopStop pioneered the pedestrian navigation market, and is the #1 ranked transit app in the Apple App Store for both iPhone and iPad as well as the #1 ranked transit app for Android in Google Play and the Amazon App Store. Since 2005, HopStop has calculated over 1 billion API requests for transit directions. In April of 2013, HopStop launched HopStop Live!, the largest crowd-sourced platform for real-time transit information ever created to allow users to report and consume information such as train or bus delays. HopStop Live! works across all 1,000 transit agencies, 25,000 lines and 550,000 stations and stops. HopStop is a private company, and is based in New York City.

Rounds

Angel Round in 2009
Rounds is a live social platform that combines live communication and social activities and allows friends to experience life together. It enables users to get together and send text messages, watch videos, play games, share photos, and much more all while video chatting across networks, operating systems, and devices. The platform offers instant group video chat on mobile. As a live communication platform, Rounds allows users to send text messages, video chat with up to 12 participants, and engage in activities while chatting such as watch videos, play games, share photos, and much more. The platform operates across networks, operating systems, and devices. It raises funds from its investors, including Sequoia Capital, Samsung Ventures, Verizon Ventures, DFJ’s Tim Draper, Rhodium, and other private investors. Rounds was launched in 2008 by Dany Fishel and Ilan Leibovich. It is based in Tel Aviv.

zooz

Series B in 2014
Zooz is a technology company that provides a payments platform designed to help merchants maximize their payments performance. The company was established in 2010. In July 2018, Zooz was acquired by PayU.

Listory

Seed Round in 2020
Listory: The Content Refinery Your Shortest Path To Content That Matters Listory is the world’s first content refinery. It empowers human-curation to mine the best of the web. Save time and stay on track in your pursuit for knowledge by following the reads of the leading experts and influencers in the topics you’re interested in. Listory gives you stories curated by the experts and influencers in your field. You can save time and focus on what's relevant to you, without the infinite feed. Follow and connect with curators who have found the best of the internet for you. Get your personal news feed, curated by the experts. Save and organize your digital content shelves. Share with those who appreciate a good read.

LitiGate

Seed Round in 2019
LitiGate offers an argument analysis solution for dispute resolution using advanced AI algorithms. The company aims to revolutionize the conduct of litigation by delivering contentious legal services faster, at less cost, and with improved accuracy. Its end-to-end platform automates repetitive tasks and reveals untapped information from your case so you can focus on what matters most. LitiGate was founded in 2017 and has offices in London and Tel Aviv.

Outbrain

Series B in 2009
Outbrain (www.outbrain.com) is the leading content discovery platform, reaching a highly engaged audience through distribution on top publisher sites, including CNN, Fox News, Hachette Filipacchi Media, MSNBC and Slate. Outbrain provides publishers a service for recommended links to increase traffic and generate revenue. Outbrain also works with brands and agencies including Starcom, Digitas, Mindshare, American Express, P&G, Colgate-Palmolive, General Mills and Exxon, offering a way to distribute content alongside publisher's own editorial recommendations. Outbrain acquired content recommendation platform Surphace (formerly known as Sphere) in February 2011. Founded in 2006, the company is headquartered in New York with offices in London, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, DC, Paris, Hamburg and Netanya, Israel, and is backed by Index Ventures, Carmel Ventures, Gemini Israel Funds, GlenRock Israel, Rhodium and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Yotpo

Series A in 2014
Yotpo Ltd. develops user-generated content marketing platform for companies that helps them to gather content from their customers in the form of reviews, questions and answers, photos, and videos for use in marketing, referrals, and loyalty programs. The company owns and operates Atlas, a content, data, and analytical engine. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with additional offices in New York, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; and London, United Kingdom.

Hashable

Series A in 2010
Online address book enabling users to make private notes about their contacts and set follow-up reminders for appointments

Face.com

Series A in 2009
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.

Outbrain

Series C in 2011
Outbrain (www.outbrain.com) is the leading content discovery platform, reaching a highly engaged audience through distribution on top publisher sites, including CNN, Fox News, Hachette Filipacchi Media, MSNBC and Slate. Outbrain provides publishers a service for recommended links to increase traffic and generate revenue. Outbrain also works with brands and agencies including Starcom, Digitas, Mindshare, American Express, P&G, Colgate-Palmolive, General Mills and Exxon, offering a way to distribute content alongside publisher's own editorial recommendations. Outbrain acquired content recommendation platform Surphace (formerly known as Sphere) in February 2011. Founded in 2006, the company is headquartered in New York with offices in London, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, DC, Paris, Hamburg and Netanya, Israel, and is backed by Index Ventures, Carmel Ventures, Gemini Israel Funds, GlenRock Israel, Rhodium and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

HexaTier

Series C in 2014
HexaTier provides database security and compliance and sets the industry standard with a patented database reverse proxy technology for securing cloud-hosted databases and DBaaS platforms. Providing a unified solution, including: Database Security, Dynamic Data Masking, Database Activity Monitoring and Discovery of Sensitive Data that complies with all regulatory requirements. HexaTier is installed as a front-end to your databases and works as a reverse proxy, successfully hiding and securing database content. A variety of implementation options are available to you, including: Database Server, Dedicated Server protecting multiple databases, Application Server and Virtual Machines. HexaTier reviews and inspects both database queries and database responses making it the perfect tool to secure, accelerate, audit and mask the sensitive information stored in your database.

LitiGate

Private Placement in 2019
LitiGate offers an argument analysis solution for dispute resolution using advanced AI algorithms. The company aims to revolutionize the conduct of litigation by delivering contentious legal services faster, at less cost, and with improved accuracy. Its end-to-end platform automates repetitive tasks and reveals untapped information from your case so you can focus on what matters most. LitiGate was founded in 2017 and has offices in London and Tel Aviv.

Firmo

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Firmo is a Danish smart contract infrastructure provider. The company is blockchain platform for financial instruments.