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Vertex Ventures Israel

Founders Aviad Ariel David Heller Emanuel Timor Ran Gartenberg Yanai Oron Yoram Oron

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Total investments 201
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$27M
Portfolio companies 106
Rounds per year 7.44
Lead investments 20
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.47
Exits 47
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • SaaS
  • Semiconductor
Summary

Vertex Ventures Israel appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1997. The main department of described VC is located in the Tel Aviv. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Israel.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Vertex Ventures Israel, startups are often financed by Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, Walden Israel Venture Capital, Pitango Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The Challenge Fund, ProSeed Venture Capital Fund, Gemini Israel Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Viola Ventures, Gemini Israel Ventures, Magma Venture Partners.

Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The typical startup value when the investment from Vertex Ventures Israel is 10-50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The current fund was established by Aviad Ariel, David Heller, Emanuel Timor, Ran Gartenberg, Yanai Oron, Yoram Oron. Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Telecommunications, Enterprise Software. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Waze, SMIC, Hyperchip

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Seal Security

Computer
Information Technology
Network Security
Supply Chain Management
$7M13 Feb 2024 Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Unity SCM

Enterprise Software
PaaS
SaaS
Supply Chain Management
$8M09 May 2023 -

Navina

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Machine Learning
Medical
Software
$22M27 Oct 2022 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Trigo

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Machine Learning
Retail
Software
$100M26 Oct 2022 Israel, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Ask-AI

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
$9M25 Oct 2022 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Joonko

Financial Services
Human Resources
Insurance
Software
$25M13 Sep 2022 Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Base

B2B
Communities
Marketing
Marketing Automation
Sales Automation
Software
$15M16 Jun 2022 Kfar Saba, HaMerkaz, Israel

Nucleai

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Machine Learning
$33M22 Mar 2022 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

DataRails

Business/Productivity Software
Compliance
FinTech
Information Technology
Media and Information Services (B2B)
SaaS
Software
$50M10 Mar 2022 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
News
Joonko Raises $10M in Series A Funding

– Joonko is a Tel Aviv, Israel-based HR tech startup that helps companies meet their diversity recruiting quotas.
– Company closed a $10m Series A funding.
– The round was led by Vertex Ventures Israel.
– Led by Ilit Raz, CEO and co-founder, Joonko provides a recruitment solution that assists companies to achieve their diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) goals through its ecosystem that identifies and suggests pre-qualified candidates from across a range of underrepresented sectors, saving recruiters precious time on sourcing, attracting and validating relevant candidates.

DataRails Raises Additional $25M; Extends Series A Funding To $43.5M

– DataRails from Tel Aviv provides an FP&A solution for SMEs.
– The company raised $25m in Series A extension.
– The round was led by Zeev Ventures, Vertex Ventures Israel, and Innovation Endeavors, as well as Vintage Investment Partners.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its business reach.

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Total investments 201
Average round size 27M
Rounds per year 7.44
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 20
Follow on index 0.47
Exits 47
Group Appearance index 0.99

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Seal Security

Computer
Information Technology
Network Security
Supply Chain Management
$7M13 Feb 2024 Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Unity SCM

Enterprise Software
PaaS
SaaS
Supply Chain Management
$8M09 May 2023 -

Navina

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Machine Learning
Medical
Software
$22M27 Oct 2022 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Trigo

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Machine Learning
Retail
Software
$100M26 Oct 2022 Israel, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Ask-AI

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
$9M25 Oct 2022 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Joonko

Financial Services
Human Resources
Insurance
Software
$25M13 Sep 2022 Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Base

B2B
Communities
Marketing
Marketing Automation
Sales Automation
Software
$15M16 Jun 2022 Kfar Saba, HaMerkaz, Israel

Nucleai

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Machine Learning
$33M22 Mar 2022 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

DataRails

Business/Productivity Software
Compliance
FinTech
Information Technology
Media and Information Services (B2B)
SaaS
Software
$50M10 Mar 2022 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
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