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AlphaDrive

Venture capital

Tel Aviv · Pre-Seed–Seed · 14 people tracked

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Investment thesis

AlphaDrive invests in cybersecurity × AI companies, built on the belief that thriving in the current AI paradigm shift requires more than capital. The firm unifies multiple perspectives—investors who have scaled category-defining companies, founders and operators, enterprise leaders, and PE/M&A specialists—into a single continuous support layer applied from early conviction through growth. Its AlphaWisdom group of leading enterprise CISOs contributes personal capital and hands-on involvement in screening, diligence, and founder support. AlphaDrive Channels, a U.S.-based MSSP and VAR platform built by acquiring and transforming traditional providers into AI-powered security offerings, serves as an embedded distribution and innovation engine. The team spans Israel's technology and company-creation depth and the U.S. enterprise market.

Source: firm website, verified Aug 16, 2026.

Stage
Pre-Seed–Seed
HQ
Tel Aviv, US
Instruments
Equity
Last 12 months
1 investment
Tracked investments
29
IPOs
2

Team · 14 people

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Ran Makavy· Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Sharon Wagner· Venture Partner

Venture partner and serial entrepreneur, previously involved with Sixgill, Cloudyn, and Bitsight.

Dr. Uri Geiger· Advisor

Advisor with a private equity background, previously at Accelmed.

Erez Ofer· Advisor

Advisor with investment leadership experience, previously at 83North and Greylock.

Susanne Senoff· Head of CISO Group

Head of the CISO group and a seasoned CISO, with experience at Conga, Wiz, Pros, arm, and McAfee.

Yonatan Levin· Associate

Associate and investor, previously at SOSA.

What they invest in

from 22 of 29 portfolio companies

Cybersecurity ×17AI & Machine Learning ×15Enterprise Software ×15SaaS ×8Cloud Computing ×6Data & Infrastructure ×3Crypto & Web3 ×1Defense Tech ×1

HQs:United States×9Israel×2United Kingdom×1Japan×1

Who they back

founder profiles across 14 portfolio companies
57%
solo founders
8 of 14 mapped founding teams
46%
repeat founders
of 13 founders with career history

Founding team size:solo founder×82 founders×53 founders×1

Where their founders studiedfrom 11 founders with education data

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×2University of Haifa ×2

What their founders studiedfrom 10 founders with field-of-study data

Computer Science ×5Business & Management ×4Engineering ×2

Where their founders worked beforefrom 13 founders with career history

Israeli Military Intelligence - Unit 8200 ×3Solebit (Acquired by Mimecast) ×2

Investments · 29 tracked

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By year:2025 · 12024 · 12018 · 13 dated

Intuitintuit.comin𝕏NASDAQ: INTU

Intuit develops financial software products—including TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp—for consumers and small businesses to manage taxes, credit, accounting, and marketing.

AI & Machine LearningFintechMarketing TechSaaSMountain View, US

Scott Cook(Founder)inThomas Proulx(Founder)inSasan Goodarzi(Chief Executive Officer)inSandeep Aujla(Chief Financial Officer)Tom Proulx(Founder)Aaron Patzer(Founder)

Co-investorsA-Rod CorpAllegisCyber CapitalAugust CapitalAura VenturesCanvas VenturesCrosscut Ventures+10 more

Smith+Nephewsmith-nephew.comin𝕏NYSE: SNN

Smith+Nephew is a medical technology company that develops products for the repair, regeneration, and replacement of soft and hard tissue, including sports medicine solutions for treating sporting injuries.

HealthtechMedical DevicesSports TechLondon, GB

Thomas James Smith(Founder)Horatio Nelson Smith(Co-founder)Deepak Nathin

Co-investorsAccelmed PartnersAccess Venture PartnersaMoonPeregrine VenturesTargeted Technology Funds

Aryon Securityaryon.securityin

Aryon provides a cloud security platform that enforces security policies at deployment to prevent risks before they reach production, working across infrastructure managed via IaC, ClickOps, or third-party providers.

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Ron Arbel (רון ארבל)‏(Founder)inAriel Litmanovich(Founder)Ron Arbel(Founder)Yair Ladizhensky(Founder)

Co-investorsBlumberg CapitalBrightmindViola VenturesInsight Partners

Astrix Securityastrix.securityin𝕏

Astrix provides security solutions for AI agents and non-human identities (NHIs) in enterprise cloud environments, helping organizations discover, secure, and govern API keys, OAuth tokens, and service accounts across their infrastructure.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Alon Jackson(Founder)inAlon Jackson Idan Gour(Founder)Idan Gour(Founder)

Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersCRV (Charles River Ventures)F2 Venture CapitalMenlo VenturesRain CapitalVenrock+1 more

Axoniusaxonius.com

Cybersecurity asset management platform providing visibility and automated policy validation.

New York, US

Dean Sysman(Founder)inOfri Shur(Founder)inWendy Zheng(Executive Officer)inAvidor Bartov(Founder)

BoardKenneth A. Fox(Director)Amit Karp(Director)

Co-investorsAccelAccelmed PartnersALIVE Israel HealthTech FundAlkeon InnovationBessemer Venture PartnersBlue Owl Capital+13 more

Beaconbeacon.securityin

Beacon builds a unified data layer for security operations that consolidates and intelligently processes security data to help defenders detect threats and respond faster.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & Infrastructure

Gal(Co-founder)Or(Co-founder)Iddo(Co-founder)

Co-investorsHolly VenturesGeneral CatalystHarbourVest Partners (Canada)Intrepid Growth PartnersLightspeed Venture PartnersNotable Capital

Beaconbeaconapp.ca

Aditya Mhatre(Founder)Divya Gupta(Founder)Nilam Ganenthiran(Founder)Stuart Szabo(Founder)

Co-investorsAdvent Life SciencesGeneral CatalystHARPER COURT VENTURESHuman CapitalIllinois VenturesManta Ray Ventures

BitSight Technologiesbitsight.comin𝕏Jun 2018

Bitsight provides a cyber risk intelligence platform that monitors entities across the internet to identify vulnerabilities and emerging threats in real time.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSCambridge, US

Nagarjuna Venna(Founder)inStephen Boyer(Founder)inShaun McConnon(Executive Officer, Director)Robert T Turner(Executive Officer, Director)Elizabeth Fischer(Executive Officer)inBrian Cohen(Executive Officer)in

Co-investors33NCapital Midwest FundComcast VenturesFlybridge Capital PartnersGlobespan Capital PartnersMenlo Ventures+9 more

Concentric AI Data risk monitoringconcentric.aiin

Concentric AI provides AI-powered data security and governance solutions that help organizations discover, classify, and protect sensitive information across cloud and on-premises environments.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Jose, US

Paolo Gaudiano(Executive Officer, Director)Greg Silverman(Executive Officer, Director)Karthik Krishnan(Founder)inMadhu Shashanka(Founder)Shankar Subramaniam(Founder)

Co-investorsBallistic VenturesClear VenturesCore Ventures GroupHomebrewCiti VenturesEngineering Capital+2 more

Cyverscyvers.ai

Cyvers provides real-time detection and prevention of threats to digital assets, focused on blockchain and Web3 security.

AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Cybersecurity

Co-investorsCrescendo Venture PartnersDifferential VenturesElron Ventures

Entitleentitle.ioin𝕏

Entitle provides automated access provisioning and management software that enables organizations to implement least privilege access policies while maintaining compliance with security standards like SOC2 and ISO27001.

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Ron Nissim(Founder)in

Co-investorsGlilot Capital Partners

Inspectioinspectio.ai

Inspectio is developing a security platform that provides visibility and control over how AI models and autonomous agents access data, using behavioral profiling and cross-system data lineage tracking.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Co-investorsNFX

Ironscalesironscales.comin𝕏

Iron Scales provides an email security platform that combines artificial intelligence and human-powered threat analysis to protect organizations against advanced email attacks.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Co-investorsJump CapitalViola Ventures

Oakoak.idin

Oak provides identity management solutions for enterprise organizations, with implementation support for Fortune 500 companies.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareBrunswick, US

Thomas Law(Manager & Member)inShai Morag(Founder)Tal Marom(Founder)

Co-investorsAccelCRV (Charles River Ventures)Hetz VenturesTrue VenturesGreylock Partners

Ping Identitypingidentity.comin𝕏

Ping Identity provides identity management and access solutions designed to enable secure, scalable digital growth.

CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSDenver, US

Andre Durand(Founder & CEO)inMichael Jossi(Executive Officer)inWilliam Dedrick(Executive Officer)Michael Sullivan(Executive Officer)in

BoardBill Bryant(Director)Rob Ketterson(Director)

Co-investors1414 VenturesCapitalGDraper AssociatesF-Prime CapitalGolub GrowthOpenView Venture Partners+8 more

Predictpredict.securityin

Predict is a workforce security platform that monitors endpoint activity across browsers, desktop applications, internal tools, and AI assistants to detect and stop insider risk such as data exfiltration and shadow AI use.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Promptprompt.securityin𝕏

Prompt Security provides AI governance and control software that helps organizations discover, monitor, and enforce policies across AI tools and code assistants used by employees and developers.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Itamar Golan(Founder)Itamar Golan Lior Drihem(Founder)Lior Drihem(Founder)

Co-investorsHetz Ventures

Red Accessredaccess.ioin𝕏

Red Access is a cloud-native, agentless security platform that protects employee and contractor web and SaaS sessions across any browser, device, or location, combining SSE and browser security capabilities.

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSTel Aviv, IL

Dor Zvi(Founder)inTal Dery(Founder)in

BoardDoug Brockett(Executive Chairman)in

Co-investorsNorwest Venture PartnersTen ElevenElron VenturesSingTel Innov8 Pte Ltd.

RePlaycereplayce.co.jp𝕏Oct 2025

RePlayce operates online education and career-exploration programs for Japanese students, including the TANQ BASE after-school career-exploration service for junior/senior high schoolers, HR高等学院 (a correspondence high school support school), and practical career programs such as Canvas X.

EdTechTokyo, JP

山本将裕(代表取締役 (Representative Director/CEO))

Co-investorsOriental Land InnovationsGenesia VenturesNissay Capital

RingCentralringcentral.comin𝕏

RingCentral provides cloud-based unified communications and AI-powered contact center solutions for businesses, serving over 600,000 customers worldwide.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaS

Vlad Shmunis(Founder)

Co-investorsAkkadian VenturesArka Venture LabsDag VenturesKhosla VenturesScale Venture PartnersSequoia Capital+3 more

Sayatasayata.com

The winning model for SMB insurance

Co-investorsHanaco Venture CapitalVertex Ventures IsraelPitango

Tamnoontamnoon.ioin𝕏

Tamnoon offers an AI-assisted cloud security remediation service that triages, prioritizes, and fixes cloud misconfiguration alerts from CNAPP and cloud security tools.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecuritySammamish, US

Marina Segal(Founder)in

BoardZohar Alon(Founder)inMarcos Castro Osorio(Director)inIdan Perez(Founder)inShay Michel(Director)in

Co-investorsBright Pixel CapitalInner Loop CapitalMindset VenturetoDay VenturesElron VenturesMerlin Ventures+1 more

Tcell Iorapid7.comin𝕏

Rapid7 provides AI-powered managed cybersecurity operations and detection services for enterprise organizations.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareBoston, US

Alan Matthews(Founder)Chad Loder(Founder)Tas Giakouminakis(Founder)

Co-investorsBain Capital VenturesGlilot Capital PartnersMenlo VenturesTola CapitalTCV

Wonder Roboticswonderbotics.comin

Wonder Robotics develops autonomous guidance software for drones, providing AI-based navigation, target tracking, precision maneuvering, and real-time obstacle avoidance that reduces dependence on communication links and GPS in complex environments.

AI & Machine LearningDefense TechRobotics

Co-investorsGENIUS NYElron Ventures

Zengozengo.com

Next-generation crypto wallet with MPC-powered security and no seed phrase vulnerability

Ouriel Ohayon 🇮🇱(Founder)in

Co-investorsCollider VenturesInsight PartnersSamsung NextSero Capital, LLCSpark Digital CapitalTether

Zscalerzscaler.comin𝕏Apr 2024

Zscaler operates a cloud-based cybersecurity platform built on Zero Trust architecture to protect users, workloads, branches, and devices across an inline security cloud.

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSan Jose, US

Jay Chaudhry(Founder)inRobert Schlossman(Executive Officer)inRemo Canessa(Executive Officer)inSyam Nair(Executive Officer)inCharles Giancarlo(Director)Karen Blasing(Director)

Co-investorsAnsa CapitalaVentureBright Pixel CapitalCapitalGDell Technologies CapitalJunipero+3 more

Other

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

DantePredict SecurityShield8

Exits · 2

2 IPOs

IntuitNASDAQ: INTUSmith+NephewNYSE: SNN

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Frequently asked questions

How many investments has AlphaDrive made?
AlphaDrive has 29 tracked investments, 2 of which have exited, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
What stage does AlphaDrive invest at?
AlphaDrive invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
What sectors does AlphaDrive focus on?
AlphaDrive focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity.
Where is AlphaDrive located?
AlphaDrive is headquartered in Tel Aviv, US.
Who does AlphaDrive co-invest with?
AlphaDrive most often shares deals with Glilot Capital Partners, Menlo Ventures, Accel, among 100 tracked co-investors.

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