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97212 Ventures

Venture capital

New York · Pre-Seed–Series A · 8 people tracked

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Investment thesis

97212 Ventures invests at the earliest stages in Israeli-founded startups seeking to enter the U.S. market via New York City. The firm partners closely with founders from zero to one, helping them reach early traction, access smart follow-on capital, and shorten the path to product-market fit. It offers deep access to the NYC tech scene through senior advisors, design partners, potential customers, and channel partners. A signature offering is building and operating a GTM board of senior executives to accelerate U.S. expansion, giving portfolio companies an 'NYC network in a box' to cut time to market and secure meaningful early wins.

Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.

Stage
Pre-Seed–Series A
Check
$150K – $500K
HQ
New York, New York, US
Leads rounds
Leads
Instruments
Equity
Founded
2022
AUM
$20M
Tracked investments
24

Team · 8 people

from the firm's website & curated & public directories
Tal Edry· General Partnerin
Maria Blekher· Investor𝕏

Founder mafia

2 people who came through 97212 Ventures went on to found or lead other companies.

What they invest in

from 17 of 24 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×14SaaS ×11Enterprise Software ×4Cybersecurity ×2Developer Tools ×2Digital Health ×2EdTech ×2Fintech ×2

HQs:United States×5Israel×2

Who they back

founder profiles across 11 portfolio companies
36%
solo founders
4 of 11 mapped founding teams
57%
repeat founders
of 14 founders with career history

Founding team size:solo founder×42 founders×63 founders×1

Where their founders studiedfrom 14 founders with education data

Bar-Ilan University ×3Columbia University ×2Tel Aviv University ×2

What their founders studiedfrom 12 founders with field-of-study data

Computer Science ×3Humanities ×3Business & Management ×2Economics ×2Mathematics & Statistics ×2

Where their founders worked beforefrom 14 founders with career history

Israeli Military Intelligence ×2

Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program

Techstars ×2

Investments · 24 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path

By year:2025 · 12024 · 23 dated

Permit.io list viewpermit.ioin𝕏✓ verified

Permit.io provides a full-stack authorization framework that lets developers add access control and Identity Access Management to their products, with low-code tools for the rest of the organization.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSTel Aviv, IL

Or Weis(Founder)inAsaf Cohen(Founder)in

Co-investorsNFXRoosh VenturesCalm VenturesMana VenturesRainfall VenturesFirestreak Ventures

Aerobotics7inMay 2025SEC filingmedium confidence

San Francisco, US

Harshwardhansinh Zala(Executive Officer, Director)Urvashi Kikani(Director)in

Board seatVamsi Sistla· per SEC Form D · $1.3M raise · filed Sep 2025

Aktivateaktivate.comin𝕏

Aktivate offers sports and activities management software for K-12 schools and athletic departments, handling athlete registration, donation and fee collection, injury management, and coach certifications.

EdTechSaaSSports TechNew York, US

Yechezkel Kutscher(Executive Officer, Director)Shane Emmons(Executive Officer)inMicah Green(Chief Business Officer)Dhruv Singh(Executive Officer, Director)Robert Cohen(Director)in

BoardRon Ostroff(Director)in

Co-investorsTal VenturesBenson Oak VenturesGeneral PartnershipWill Ventures

BiltOnbilton.techOct 2024 · $15M

BiltOn provides software for construction owners and general contractors to manage crew safety visibility, safety compliance, and preventative risk intelligence on job sites.

Construction TechFuture of WorkSaaS

Omer Slavin(Founder)inAsaf Guter‏(Founder)inShir Mautner‏(Founder)in

Co-investorsTitan Capital PartnersPSG EquityTitan Capital

CauseMatchcausematch.comin𝕏

CauseMatch is a peer-to-peer and crowdfunding platform for nonprofits, built to grow their donor base and increase online fundraising per donor.

FintechImpact & Social GoodSaaS

Joseph Bornstein(Founder & CEO)in

Co-investorsRiverside Acceleration CapitalRunway Venture Partners

Celerycelery.ccin

Celery offers AI-powered monitoring that analyzes payroll and revenue records to detect errors and preventable losses before they affect a company's finances.

AI & Machine LearningFintechHR TechSaaS

Co-investorsCentre Street PartnersTeam8Verissimo Ventures

Cyngular Securitycyngular.comin

Cyngular provides autonomous security operations through an agentic platform that automatically detects, investigates, and resolves security alerts across cloud, endpoint, network, and identity environments.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Co-investorsTachles VC

Digdig.aiin

ask-dig is an AI search engine that analyzes social media content to answer questions about what people are saying and doing online.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMarketing TechSaaSSocial

Co-investorseGateway CapitalMaccabee VenturesNew Era Capital PartnersOsage Venture Partners

Genrategenrate.aiin

Genrate.ai provides continuous monitoring of sales accounts, tracking leadership changes, strategic shifts, and competitive pressure that CRMs miss, then synthesizes these signals into prioritized insights.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech

Medidamedida.ai

Israeli construction-tech company using smartphone scans and computer vision to produce millimeter-accurate renovation measurements.

Co-investorsAngular VenturesNew Leaf Invest

NovoDianovodia.co

NovoDia builds curriculum infrastructure for K-12 districts that unifies curriculum design, adaptation, and classroom implementation through AI-enabled workflows.

AI & Machine LearningEdTechSaaS

Dr. Yair Shapira(Founder and CEO)Tomer Inbar(Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer)in

Co-investorsNew Era Capital PartnersVerissimo VenturesZanichelli Venture

OurRitualheyritual.com

OurRitual is a relationship health platform that combines licensed therapists with AI to provide personalized, ongoing support for couples navigating relationship challenges.

AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthMental HealthWellness & Fitness

David Pruwer(Co-founder & CEO)inNir Shtern(Co-founder)

Co-investorsGround Up Ventures

Paraspotparaspot.aiin𝕏

Paraspot AI provides tenant-led, AI-guided property inspections conducted remotely from a mobile device, generating automated condition reports that flag damages like cracks, stains, and missing items.

AI & Machine LearningPropTechSaaS

Yakir Saadia(Founder)inNathan Herz(Founder)in

Co-investorsFf Venture Capital

Remepyremepy.comin

Remepy develops "Hybrid Drugs" that combine pharmaceuticals with targeted digital interventions to deliver personalized and adaptive therapies for patients.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital Health

Or Shoval(Founder)in

Co-investorsfresh.fundIT-Farm CorporationNFXO.G. Venture PartnersPsyMed VenturesSamsung Next+4 more

Rubatorubato.lifein𝕏

Rubato provides physiological monitoring software for physical, occupational, and speech therapists to track patient autonomic response and engagement during therapy sessions.

AI & Machine LearningHealthtechMedical DevicesPacific Palisades, US

Noam Guy(Founder)in

Co-investorsTechstars

Symbolic Mindsymbolicmind.aiin

Symbolic Mind develops a CPU-efficient AI platform designed for corporate infrastructure that reduces computational requirements by over 100x compared to traditional AI models.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareSemiconductors

Co-investorsVirta Ventures

TawkitAIcopilotkit.aiin𝕏

CopilotKit provides an open-source framework and protocol (AG-UI) for developers to build and embed AI agents with rich, interactive user interfaces directly into applications, including web, Slack, and Teams.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaSIssaquah, US

Atai Barkai(CEO)inUli Barkai(Founder)in

Co-investorsAbstraction CapitalDeep Acrefresh.fundGlilot Capital PartnersGurtin VenturesSignalFire+2 more

Trialkittrialkit.aiinAug 2024

TrialKit is an AI platform for legal discovery that ingests documents, video, body cam footage, phone extractions, audio, and handwritten notes and turns them into an organized, searchable case record with answers cited back to the source file, page, or timestamp.

AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaSClifton, US

Ariel Deshe(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inEliaz Shapira(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in

BoardGil Ben-Artzy(Director)in

Co-investorsKaedan CapitalUpWest

Tymelytymely.aiin

Tymely provides an AI solution for customer support teams that learns from agent behavior to automate ticket resolution at high accuracy rates.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSales Tech

Ohad Rozen(Founder)in

Co-investorsHetz Ventures

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

BetiCopilotKitInner BalanceRitualXoltar

Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.

Portfolio news

latest coverage across their companies

Frequently asked questions

How many investments has 97212 Ventures made?
97212 Ventures has 24 tracked investments, including 2 dated in the last 24 months.
What stage does 97212 Ventures invest at?
97212 Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
What is 97212 Ventures's typical check size?
97212 Ventures typically writes checks of $150K – $500K.
What sectors does 97212 Ventures focus on?
97212 Ventures focuses on Consumer, EdTech, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Media & Entertainment, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
Where is 97212 Ventures located?
97212 Ventures is headquartered in New York, US.
Does 97212 Ventures lead rounds?
Yes, 97212 Ventures leads investment rounds.
Who does 97212 Ventures co-invest with?
97212 Ventures most often shares deals with Abstraction Capital, fresh.fund, New Era Capital Partners, among 31 tracked co-investors.

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Co-investors · 1

Ff Venture Capital

ffVC is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm based in New York that invests across emerging industries.

Both backed · 1
$300K – $700K

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