/Companies

Spines

212 employees on LinkedIn · 5 known investors

Find your way into Spines

Sign up to see every warm intro you have to Spines

  • Paths you didn't know you had: your email and LinkedIn already hold routes to the Spines team. We find them for you
  • 2nd- and 3rd-degree connections: the friend-of-a-friend routes that take hours to manually find through your inbox or LinkedIn
  • Answers now, not in days: momentum is everything in a raise. Skip asking around whether someone knows someone

Days of research, done the moment you sign in, with every route ranked by how warm it is.

Spines is a publishing platform for authors, combining editorial and design experts with technology to produce print, ebook, and audiobook titles. It offers custom design, professional editing, multi-language translation, and distribution to over 100 channels while authors retain their copyrights.

Founders & leadership

YNYehuda Niv
Yehuda NivFounder & CEOYehuda Niv is the founder and CEO of Spines (formerly BooxAI), a publishing platform for authors, and previously founded Niv Publishing, an Israeli publishing house. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer and Electronics Engineering along with master's-level training in NLP and profiling, is a published author (the 2013 Hebrew-language book "Silent Thunder"), and is a former radio broadcaster and angel investor.
NONiv Ovdat
Niv OvdatCo-Founder & COONiv Ovdat is a founder of Spines, a publishing platform that provides editorial, design, and distribution services for authors across print, ebook, and audiobook formats. As an author and illustrator, he works to streamline the self-publishing process while helping authors retain copyright ownership.
LD
Lev DavidFounder
NK
Nir KennerFounder

Investors · 5

Also in the syndicate · 1

M-Fund

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$6.5M disclosed across 1 of 3 rounds · 2024

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

In the news

Frequently asked questions

What does Spines do?
Spines is a publishing platform for authors, combining editorial and design experts with technology to produce print, ebook, and audiobook titles. It offers custom design, professional editing, multi-language translation, and distribution to over 100 channels while authors retain their copyrights.
Who founded Spines?
Spines was founded by Yehuda Niv, Niv Ovdat.
Who are Spines's investors?
Spines's investors include Aleph, ICON - Israel Collaboration Network, Zeev Ventures, LionTree.
How much funding has Spines raised?
Spines has disclosed $6.5M raised across 1 of its 3 known rounds.