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.

Efi Shema

Venture Partner

43 past transactions

Sharegain

Series B in 2022
Sharegain Ltd. is a fintech company based in London that operates a securities lending platform tailored for pension funds, insurance companies, and other asset managers. Founded in 2015, Sharegain aims to transform the securities lending market by enabling financial institutions to unlock additional income from assets they or their clients already possess. The platform provides an automated solution that allows private banks, asset managers, fund managers, and online brokers to lend their stocks, bonds, and ETFs, thereby democratizing access to the $2.5 trillion securities lending industry. Through its innovative approach, Sharegain helps investors discover the hidden value within their portfolios and generate extra revenue.

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’.

Listory

Seed Round in 2020
Listory Corp. is a New York-based company founded in 2015 that offers an innovative application designed to help users organize, save, and share various forms of content, including videos, articles, podcasts, and books. As a pioneering content refinery, Listory enables human curation to sift through online information, providing users with curated stories from experts and influencers in their areas of interest. By following these curators, users can efficiently access relevant content without being overwhelmed by an endless feed. The platform emphasizes personalized news feeds and allows users to manage their digital content collections, making it easier to share valuable resources with others who appreciate quality reading.

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.

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.

LitiGate

Seed Round in 2019
LitiGate Ltd. is a technology company that specializes in providing automated claims analysis and artificial intelligence solutions for legal professionals. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, LitiGate aims to transform the litigation process by offering an argument analysis platform that enhances dispute resolution. The company's advanced AI algorithms streamline repetitive tasks, uncover essential information within legal cases, and enable lawyers to conduct litigation more efficiently and cost-effectively. With additional offices in London, LitiGate is focused on improving the accuracy and speed of contentious legal services, allowing legal professionals to concentrate on key aspects of their cases.

Livekick

Seed Round in 2019
Livekick, Inc. is a fitness technology company that offers a personal fitness application designed for both individuals and corporate clients. Founded in 2018 by Shayna Schmidt and Yarden Tadmor, Livekick provides a platform for live virtual classes in yoga, meditation, and total fitness. Users can engage in sessions with personal trainers or private yoga instructors, as well as participate in group classes. The application also features recorded sessions of group classes, allowing for flexibility in training. Originally incorporated as Switch Tech Inc. in 2014, Livekick is headquartered in New York, New York, and aims to help users develop sustainable fitness habits that fit into their busy lifestyles.

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.

LitiGate

Seed Round in 2018
LitiGate Ltd. is a technology company that specializes in providing automated claims analysis and artificial intelligence solutions for legal professionals. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, LitiGate aims to transform the litigation process by offering an argument analysis platform that enhances dispute resolution. The company's advanced AI algorithms streamline repetitive tasks, uncover essential information within legal cases, and enable lawyers to conduct litigation more efficiently and cost-effectively. With additional offices in London, LitiGate is focused on improving the accuracy and speed of contentious legal services, allowing legal professionals to concentrate on key aspects of their cases.

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.

Yotpo

Series D in 2017
Yotpo Ltd. is an eCommerce marketing platform that provides companies with tools to leverage user-generated content for marketing purposes. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, with additional offices in New York, Boston, and London, Yotpo helps brands like Patagonia and Gymshark gather customer reviews, photos, and videos, which can enhance marketing, referral, and loyalty programs. The platform integrates various solutions, including customer reviews, loyalty programs, and SMS marketing, to foster direct-to-consumer growth. By acquiring companies like Swell Rewards and SMSBump, Yotpo has expanded its offerings to include loyalty and referral capabilities. The platform is compatible with major eCommerce systems such as Shopify and Magento, allowing businesses to utilize data-driven insights to improve customer experiences and relationships.

Sharegain

Convertible Note in 2016
Sharegain Ltd. is a fintech company based in London that operates a securities lending platform tailored for pension funds, insurance companies, and other asset managers. Founded in 2015, Sharegain aims to transform the securities lending market by enabling financial institutions to unlock additional income from assets they or their clients already possess. The platform provides an automated solution that allows private banks, asset managers, fund managers, and online brokers to lend their stocks, bonds, and ETFs, thereby democratizing access to the $2.5 trillion securities lending industry. Through its innovative approach, Sharegain helps investors discover the hidden value within their portfolios and generate extra revenue.

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.

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.

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.

Yotpo

Series B in 2015
Yotpo Ltd. is an eCommerce marketing platform that provides companies with tools to leverage user-generated content for marketing purposes. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, with additional offices in New York, Boston, and London, Yotpo helps brands like Patagonia and Gymshark gather customer reviews, photos, and videos, which can enhance marketing, referral, and loyalty programs. The platform integrates various solutions, including customer reviews, loyalty programs, and SMS marketing, to foster direct-to-consumer growth. By acquiring companies like Swell Rewards and SMSBump, Yotpo has expanded its offerings to include loyalty and referral capabilities. The platform is compatible with major eCommerce systems such as Shopify and Magento, allowing businesses to utilize data-driven insights to improve customer experiences and relationships.

YContent

Series A in 2015
YContent is a video distribution platform based in São Paulo, Brazil, focused on the Latin American market. Established in August 2012, the company specializes in finding and distributing high-quality video content to a network of partner sites. It assists premium content producers in reaching large audiences by developing effective distribution windows and monetization strategies across various platforms, including websites and social media. Through its services, YContent aims to enhance the visibility and profitability of video content in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

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.

StoreDot

Series B in 2014
StoreDot Ltd. is an innovative company based in Ramat-Gan, Israel, specializing in the development of advanced materials and their applications. Founded in 2012, StoreDot focuses on creating Nanodots—micro-crystals made from bioorganic peptide molecules—that enhance the performance of various devices, including batteries, supercapacitors, displays, sensors, and digital memory. The company's unique approach to designing and synthesizing new organic compounds aims to replace existing technologies by improving their physical, chemical, electrical, and optical properties. StoreDot's technology is particularly relevant for fast-charging batteries in mobile devices and electric vehicles, and the company boasts a strong team of scientists and engineering experts dedicated to transforming material science and device performance across multiple industries.

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.

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.

Yotpo

Series A in 2014
Yotpo Ltd. is an eCommerce marketing platform that provides companies with tools to leverage user-generated content for marketing purposes. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, with additional offices in New York, Boston, and London, Yotpo helps brands like Patagonia and Gymshark gather customer reviews, photos, and videos, which can enhance marketing, referral, and loyalty programs. The platform integrates various solutions, including customer reviews, loyalty programs, and SMS marketing, to foster direct-to-consumer growth. By acquiring companies like Swell Rewards and SMSBump, Yotpo has expanded its offerings to include loyalty and referral capabilities. The platform is compatible with major eCommerce systems such as Shopify and Magento, allowing businesses to utilize data-driven insights to improve customer experiences and relationships.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yotpo

Venture Round in 2012
Yotpo Ltd. is an eCommerce marketing platform that provides companies with tools to leverage user-generated content for marketing purposes. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, with additional offices in New York, Boston, and London, Yotpo helps brands like Patagonia and Gymshark gather customer reviews, photos, and videos, which can enhance marketing, referral, and loyalty programs. The platform integrates various solutions, including customer reviews, loyalty programs, and SMS marketing, to foster direct-to-consumer growth. By acquiring companies like Swell Rewards and SMSBump, Yotpo has expanded its offerings to include loyalty and referral capabilities. The platform is compatible with major eCommerce systems such as Shopify and Magento, allowing businesses to utilize data-driven insights to improve customer experiences and relationships.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hashable

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

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.

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 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.

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.
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