Israel, often referred to as the 'Startup Nation,' has a highly advanced startup ecosystem, with Tel Aviv being the main hub for innovation. As of 2023, Israel is home to around 7,000 startups. The Israeli government supports entrepreneurship through initiatives like the Israel Innovation Authority and Yozma Program, which provide funding, resources, and mentorship for startups.
Size of the Market
In 2022, Israeli startups raised approximately $20 billion in venture capital. The market's size reflects Israel's position as a global leader in technology and innovation, attracting significant investments from both domestic and international sources.
Key Strengths
Strengths of the Israeli market include a highly educated workforce, strong technological base, and a culture that encourages innovation and risk-taking. These factors contribute to Israel's success in producing cutting-edge technologies and breakthrough startups.
Major Hubs
Tel Aviv is known for its strengths in cybersecurity, healthtech, and artificial intelligence, attracting significant investments and producing notable startups like Waze and Mobileye. The city is a magnet for tech talent and entrepreneurial activity.
Emerging Hubs
While Tel Aviv remains the epicenter, other cities like Haifa and Jerusalem are emerging as important tech hubs. These cities are developing robust startup ecosystems, supported by research institutions and a growing number of tech companies.
Support Systems
The Israeli startup ecosystem benefits from a strong network of incubators, accelerators, and co-working spaces. Initiatives like Start-Up Nation Central and SOSA offer mentorship, resources, and international exposure, significantly boosting the ecosystem.
Challenges
Challenges include geopolitical instability and a relatively small domestic market. These factors can pose risks and limit the growth potential of startups that primarily rely on local markets.
Opportunities and Future Outlook
Despite challenges, Israel remains a leader in innovation and entrepreneurship, with significant growth potential driven by continuous investment and technological advancement. The strategic location in the Middle East and strong trade relationships provide opportunities for international expansion.
Resilience and Adaptability
Israel's strong emphasis on innovation and technology is evident in its support for sectors like cybersecurity, agritech, and medtech. The robust infrastructure and pro-business policies make it an attractive destination for entrepreneurs and investors. As Israel continues to invest in its startup ecosystem, it is poised for further growth and development, contributing significantly to the regional and global markets.
Case Studies: Successful Funding Rounds with Angel Investors on Angels Partners
We’re looking to work with Israeli-led, pre-seed start-ups from all industries that want to grow their company in the US market. We invest $150K in each company and selectively accept 6-9 teams every 6 months to go through our intensive go-to-market and mentorship-driven program. During the program, we facilitate meetings between our Israeli founders and Venture Capitalists, angels, tech executives & like-minded entrepreneurs in Tel Aviv, Silicon Valley, NYC & Los Angeles.
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Ryan Gilbert
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Tel Aviv , London , S..., U.S.A. - Israel - U.K.
Previous Investments
• Vidyo:
$15000000 (Series E)
• Vidyo:
$20000000 (Series E)
• Vidyo:
$17000000 (Series D)
• Vidyo:
$25000000 (Series D)
• Vidyo:
$12000000 (Series C)
• Vidyo:
$25000000 (Series C)
• Vidyo:
$15000000 (Series B)
• AeroScout:
$16000000 (Series E)
• AeroScout:
$12000000 (Series D)
• Immediate:
$16000000 (Series Unknown)
• RiskScout:
(Seed)
• Pinnacle Realty Advisors:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Rocketplace:
$9000000 (Seed)
• Central Payments:
$30000000 (Series Unknown)
• Paperwork:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Watalook:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Guideline:
$200000000 (Series E)
• Guideline:
$80000000 (Series D)
• Guideline:
$35000000 (Series C)
• Guideline:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Scrypt:
(Seed)
• Proxifile:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• Ease:
$41000000 (Series C)
• Ease:
$19000000 (Series B)
• Ease:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Mesh Payments:
$13000000 (Series A)
• Grabango:
$14000000 (Series A)
• Charlie Finance Co.:
$9000000 (Series A)
• Steady:
$9000000 (Series A)
• Eventbrite:
$1500000 (Debt Financing)
Ryan Gilbert
Tel Aviv - London - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A. - Israel - U.K.
VC at Digital Horizon - early stage fintech and enterprise software fund
Fintech and B2B software investor and social impact angel
Stonly Baptiste
Investing in PropTech • Hardware (& Manufact...
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A. - Israel
Previous Investments
• Wright Electric Airplanes:
(Convertible Note)
• LiveStories:
$3000000 (Seed Round)
• Bowery Farming:
$7500000 (Seed Round)
• ChargeLab:
$15000000 (Series A)
• ChargeLab:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Electric Visionary Aircrafts:
(Convertible Note)
• Electric Visionary Aircrafts:
(Seed)
• Partsimony:
$2000000 (Seed)
• CoInspect:
$150000 (Seed)
• CoInspect:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Pi Variables:
(Convertible Note)
• 3AM Innovations:
(Convertible Note)
• Flair:
$810000 (Seed)
• Flair:
$300000 (Convertible Note)
• Flair:
$230000 (Convertible Note)
• Flair:
$330000 (Seed)
• Flair:
$130000 (Convertible Note)
• BuildStream:
(Angel)
• Park Diamond:
(Seed)
• Campsyte:
$100000 (Seed)
• Bumblebee Spaces:
(Seed)
• Wright Electric, Inc.:
(Convertible Note)
• Starcity:
$4000000 (Seed)
• FORWARD Platform:
$3000000 (Seed)
• ecomo:
(Seed)
• BlocPower:
$200000 (Pre Seed)
• One Concern:
(Seed)
• Future Motion:
(Series A)
• Future Motion:
(Seed)
• HandUp PBC:
(Convertible Note)
Stonly Baptiste
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A. - Israel
Investing In
PropTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Impact • Real Estate (& Construction) • DeepTech • Mobility • Woman Focused
Description
Urban Sustainability and Resilience focused VC. Co-Founder of Urban Us.
I'm co-founder of Urban Us, an asset manager specialized in early-stage startups upgrading cities for climate change. With a team that spans both coasts, the platform includes an early-stage venture fund, a BMW funded accelerator and an early stage credit fund. I've founded five companies, speak 4 languages, code, and have taught and lectured at the University of Chicago, UC Berkeley, and HBS. My leisure time is spent reading, playing instruments, and training Muay Thai.
Gil Ben-Artzy
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Barcelona, Spain - U.S.A. - Israel
Previous Investments
• zenity:
$5000000 (Seed Round)
• InnerPlant:
(Seed Round)
• Waycare:
$2300000 (Seed Round)
• Imubit:
$2300000 (Seed Round)
• Stampli:
$3000000 (Seed Round)
• CyCognito:
$100000000 (Series C)
• CyCognito:
$30000000 (Series B)
• CyCognito:
$18000000 (Series A)
• CyCognito:
$5000000 (Seed)
• CyCognito:
(Pre-Seed)
• Balance:
$5500000 (Pre-Seed+Seed)
• Quarterback:
$3000000 (Seed)
• HoneyBook:
(Pre-Seed)
• Lynx.md:
(Pre-Seed)
• Zone7:
(Pre-Seed)
• CyberX:
(Pre-Seed)
• Codefresh:
(Pre-Seed)
• BeeHero:
(Pre-Seed)
• SentinelOne:
(Pre-seed)
• PitchMe:
(Seed Round)
• Jeeves:
$26000000 (Series A)
• Together:
$2000000 (Pre Seed Round)
• Kuleana:
$3000000 (Seed Round)
• Bizly:
$4500000 (Seed Round)
• Turing.com:
$32000000 (Series B)
• Sunbit:
$26000000 (Series B)
• Sunsama:
$150000 (Seed Round)
• OpenWeb:
$13000000 (Series A)
• Lily:
$1000000 (Seed Round)
• Miro:
(Series B)
Gil Ben-Artzy
Barcelona, Spain - U.S.A. - Israel
Investing In
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • Future Of Work • Real Estate (& Construction) • Woman Focused
Eitan is a founding partner of TLV Partners. He currently focuses on Mobile, IoT, Marketing Analytics and Fintech. His passion is working with great entrepreneurs and helping them build their dream.
Eitan invested and partnered with the founders of Check (acquired by INTU), Videosurf (acquired by MSFT), AppsFlyer, Duda, 3DV (acquired by MSFT), Sckipio and Neura.
Previously Eitan was a General Partner at Pitango Venture Capital and led Pitango’s Silicon Valley activity since 2007. Before that he was part of the founding team of an internet startup focused on bringing the internet to the elderly and held Executive positions at Elbit Systems. Eitan holds an MBA from the University of Michigan. Eitan also served as a Pilot in the Israeli Air Force.
Yodfat Harel Buchris
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Los Angeles - California, U.S.A. - Germany - Europe: Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Greece, Portugal, Sweden, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Slovakia, Norway, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Icela
Previous Investments
• CrowdTwist:
$20000
• Hades:
$1900000 (Seed Round)
• Radiator Labs:
$2400000 (Seed Round)
• Radiator Labs:
$300000 (Pre Seed Round)
• Radiator Labs:
$220000 (Pre Seed Round)
• Arbor:
$2600000 (Seed Round)
• ChargeLab:
$15000000 (Series A)
• ChargeLab:
$4000000 (Seed)
• ChargeLab:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Covetool:
$30000000 (Series B)
• Covetool:
$800000 (Seed)
• Electric Visionary Aircrafts:
(Convertible Note)
• Electric Visionary Aircrafts:
(Seed)
• HAAS Alert:
$5000000 (Seed)
• HAAS Alert:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Partsimony:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Oonee:
(Pre Seed)
• Pallon (fka Hades):
$2000000 (Seed)
• Aquagenuity:
(Pre Seed)
• FIRMUS:
(Pre Seed)
• FIRMUS:
(Convertible Note)
• Metalmark Innovations:
(Pre Seed)
• CoInspect:
$150000 (Seed)
• CoInspect:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Hubbster:
(Seed)
• Evolve Energy:
(Pre Seed)
• Kift:
(Convertible Note)
• Food for All:
$700000 (Seed)
• Flair:
$810000 (Seed)
• Flair:
$300000 (Convertible Note)
• Flair:
$230000 (Convertible Note)
• Flair:
$330000 (Seed)
• Flair:
$130000 (Convertible Note)
• GreenQ:
(Convertible Note)
• Thrilling:
(Angel)
• RoadBotics by Michelin:
$4000000 (Seed)
• RoadBotics by Michelin:
(Seed)
• Coord:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Blueprint Power:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Miles:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Rentlogic:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Rentlogic:
(Series Unknown)
• Campsyte:
$100000 (Seed)
• VERSATILE:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Bowery Farming:
$8000000 (Seed)
• Citymart:
$750000 (Seed)
• Citymart:
(Seed)
• Kelvin:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Kelvin:
$300000 (Pre Seed)
• Kelvin:
$220000 (Pre Seed)
• BlocPower:
$200000 (Pre Seed)
• BlocPower:
$600000 (Pre Seed)
• Rachio:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Rachio:
$500000 (Convertible Note)
• Rachio:
$700000 (Convertible Note)
• Future Motion:
(Series A)
• Architizer:
(Series A)
• Architizer:
(Convertible Note)
• Mark43:
$11000000 (Series A)
• LogCheck:
(Seed)
• Valet Anywhere (VA):
$1000000 (Seed)
• Valet Anywhere (VA):
(Convertible Note)
• Revivn:
(Seed)
• BRCK:
$1000000 (Seed)
• BikeSpike:
(Convertible Note)
• Skycatch:
$3000000 (Convertible Note)
• Dash:
$1000000 (Seed)
• KIWI:
(Convertible Note)
Shaun Abrahamson
Los Angeles - California, U.S.A. - Germany - Europe: Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Greece, Portugal, Sweden, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Slovakia, Norway, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Icela
Investing In
PropTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Robotics • Real Estate (& Construction) • DeepTech • Mobility • Woman Focused
Description
Most Interested In
We're interested in teams re-imagining cities in 3 areas - GHG reduction, climate adaptation and solving problems associated with high density (like traffic or public safety).
Cities are complex, so founders continue inspire and amaze us by identifying new systemic issues and solutions. If you're re-imagining city life, we'd love to hear from you.
Not Interested In
We don't invest in edtech or healthtech. Certainly not a vote on whether we want to see these categories succeed, we just think they need additional focus/skills which we don't have. That said public health is a growing area of interesting.
Shaun Abrahamson is a Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Urban Us. Shaun is a Member of the Investment Committee, and he leads investment selection and communications with portfolio companies, members of the Network, and limited partners in Fund II. Before founding Fund I, Shaun was an active angel investor, investing in more than 20 firms between 2007 and 2013 in his personal capacity. Early-stage investing and advising is informed by his experiences building MediaSentry (acquired by SafeNet in 2005), Starmedia Network (acquired by France Telecom) and Oculus Technologies (MIT CADLab spin-out). In 1999, he was an early employee at govWorks, one of the earliest startups focused on serving local government. govWorks was ahead of the market and failed during the dot-com bust, becoming the subject of the documentary Startup.com in 2001. Shaun has written for organizations such as The Economist Intelligence Unit, The Huffington Post, and CNNMoney. Crowdstorm, published by Wiley, was his first book and is a guide to working with large online crowds to find and evaluate ideas. The book is based on Shaun's experience working with Starbucks, Omnicom Group, $300 House, and Life Edited. Shaun has an MSc from MIT; an MBA from the Berlin School of Creative Leadership; and a BSc from the University of Cape Town. He is also an Angel Investor.
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