97212 Ventures
Venture capitalNew York · Pre-Seed–Series A · 8 people tracked
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.
Team · 8 people
from the firm's website & public directories
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 companiesAI & Machine Learning ×13SaaS ×10Cybersecurity ×2Developer Tools ×2Digital Health ×2EdTech ×2Enterprise Software ×2Fintech ×2
HQs:United States×5Israel×2
Who they back
founder profiles across 6 portfolio companiesAccelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 24 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 12024 · 12 dated
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
San Francisco, US
Harshwardhansinh Zala(Executive Officer, Director)Urvashi Kikani(Director)
Board seatVamsi Sistla· per SEC Form D · $1.3M raise · filed Sep 2025
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)Micah Green(Chief Business Officer)Dhruv Singh(Executive Officer, Director)Robert Cohen(Director)
BoardRon Ostroff(Director)in
Co-investorsTal VenturesGeneral Partnership
Cloud-based platform for construction companies to supervise workflows and worker safety on site.
BiltOn provides site operations, safety, and compliance management software for construction owners and general contractors.
Construction Tech
Co-investorsTitan Capital Partners
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)
Co-investorsRiverside Acceleration CapitalRunway Venture Partners
Tool for integrating production-ready AI copilots into any product quickly.
Co-investorsAbstraction Capital
Cyngular offers an AI-driven cloud threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) platform called THIRDhub that combines situational awareness, threat hunting, deception technology, and automated incident response reports across multi-cloud environments.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurity
Co-investorsTachles VC
dig is a social intelligence platform that monitors and analyzes brand narratives across social media, including video and image content, offering tagging, classification, monitoring, and a natural language research chatbot.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investorseGateway CapitalMaccabee VenturesNew Era Capital PartnersOsage Venture Partners
Israeli construction-tech company using smartphone scans and computer vision to produce millimeter-accurate renovation measurements.
Co-investorsAngular VenturesNew Leaf Invest
NovoDia builds custom curriculum infrastructure for K-12 school districts, using subject-matter experts and an AI-enabled platform to design, redesign, and extend curricula across core subjects, CTE pathways, special education, intervention, and virtual programs.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechSaaS
Co-investorsNew Era Capital PartnersZanichelli Venture
OurRitual offers an alternative to traditional couples therapy, combining live sessions with licensed relationship experts and an app with guided exercises, educational content, and an AI assistant.
Digital HealthMental HealthWellness & Fitness
Co-investorsGround Up Ventures
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+2 more
Relationship support platform offering personalized expert guidance and research-backed tools for couples.
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
SymbolicMind develops CPU-native AI that uses symbolic rather than matrix computation to reduce training and inference energy consumption and costs by over 100x in reasoning workloads.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechSemiconductors
Co-investorsVirta Ventures
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 PartnersSignalFireTechstars+1 more
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)Eliaz Shapira(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardGil Ben-Artzy(Director)in
Co-investorsKaedan CapitalUpWest
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
Co-investorsHetz Ventures
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.
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has 97212 Ventures made?
- 97212 Ventures has 23 tracked investments.
- 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 29 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamHas New York Replaced Silicon Valley for Israeli Founders? ft. Eyal Bino of 97212 Ventures
IsraelTech · Eyal Bino
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Co-investors · 1
ffVC is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm based in New York that invests across emerging industries.
Firms observed investing alongside 97212 Ventures, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with 97212 Ventures's recorded portfolio.
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