Hetz Ventures
Venture capitalActively deployingTel Aviv · Seed–Series A · 16 people tracked
Also known as HETZ VENTURES (ISRAEL)
Investment thesis
Hetz Ventures is an Israeli seed-stage fund investing in AI and data infrastructure and cybersecurity companies. It emphasizes leading rounds and supporting founders with deep operator experience, offering access to a network of over 50 AI and data leaders as well as 50+ vetted CISOs and security executives to help portfolio companies land early customers. The team has founded and exited companies, led engineering at scale, worked inside enterprises that become customers, and structured deals from seed to exit. Hetz can move quickly, offering fast-track term sheets within 20 days, and stays engaged with founders well beyond the initial investment.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 16 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 47 of 61 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×37Enterprise Software ×19Developer Tools ×13Cybersecurity ×12Data & Infrastructure ×12SaaS ×12Fintech ×5Cloud Computing ×4
HQs:United States×18Israel×3Mexico×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 19 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×102 founders×53 founders×4
Where their founders worked beforefrom 12 founders with career history
Flox ×2Unit 8200 - Israeli Intelligence Corps ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 61 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 52025 · 22024 · 22023 · 12022 · 12013 · 112 dated
Flox provides tooling to manage software and its dependencies down to individual packages, including SBOMs and provenance, with reproducible environments that work across the software lifecycle.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US
Ron Efroni Rotman(Executive Officer, Director)Michael Brantley(CTO)inRon Efroni(CEO)inBen Futoriansky(Executive Officer)in
BoardAaron Jacobson(Director)in
Board seatPavel Livshiz· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Flox provides reproducible development environments built on Nix, letting developers bundle the tools and frameworks they need across the software lifecycle.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Ron Efroni(CEO)inMichael Brantley(CTO)in
Co-investorsNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Angel Collective Opportunity FundFirestreak VenturesEssence Venture Capital
Gomboc provides an AI-powered code security assistant that automatically generates production-ready fixes for cloud and infrastructure code vulnerabilities through Git and CI/CD workflows.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsLas Vegas, US
Ian Amit(CEO & Co-Founder)inMatt Sweeney(CTO & Co-Founder)inSweeney Matthew(Executive Officer)Jonathan Desrocher(Director)
BoardKobi Samboursky(Director)in
Board seatPavel Livshiz· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsBallistic VenturesGlilot Capital Partners
Act builds a security platform that eliminates accumulated access sprawl—excessive permissions, unmanaged identities, and unintended network paths—across cloud environments and prevents it from re-emerging as those environments change.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurity
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersClaltechNotable Capital
Aligned offers a digital sales room and client portal where sellers and buyers share deal content, tasks, timelines, and next steps in a single link-based workspace.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Mark Mirra(Founder)inGal Aga(CEO)
Co-investorsJAL Ventures Ltd.NFX
Aligned provides a shared digital sales room where sellers and buyers collaborate on content, tasks, and next steps, with AI agents that surface risks, map stakeholders, generate content, and recommend next actions by combining email, calls, CRM, and workspace engagement signals.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales TechWilmington, US
Gal Aga(CEO)Yotam Sela(Founder)
Co-investorsJAL Ventures Ltd.
Anima builds a design intelligence platform that converts visual designs into working code, powering visual-to-code workflows for software developers and AI agents.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSTel Aviv-Yafo, IL
Avishay Cohen(Founder/CEO)inMichal Cohen(Founder/COO)inOfer LaOr(CTO)
Co-investorsINcapital VenturesMizMaa VenturesY Combinator
Arrakis provides onchain liquidity and market-making infrastructure for crypto projects, covering token launches, liquidity design, and yield-bearing assets.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintechNew York, US
Rafael Louis Robert Fernandez Quintanilla Loeillet Rouzier(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Co-investorsAccelBlossom CapitalLongHash VenturesSignum Capital
BlinkOps offers an agentic AI platform that automates security operations by deploying specialized autonomous micro-agents which investigate, decide, and execute tasks using pre-vetted, auditable actions.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareAustin, US
Zion Zatlavi(Founder)inGil Barak(Founder)
Co-investorsEntrée CapitalSCB 10X
Clyr is an expense and spend management platform that automates receipt capture, transaction coding, employee reimbursements, and accounts payable using AI.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Co-investorsMotivate Venture CapitalWedbush Ventures
Deepchecks offers an enterprise LLM evaluation platform that unifies testing, observability, and monitoring for AI systems in production.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Co-investorsAlpha Wave GlobalGrove Ventures
Expanso provides distributed data infrastructure that deploys lightweight agents at the edge, on-premises, or in the cloud to filter, transform, and govern data at its source before it reaches downstream platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, Splunk, and Datadog.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSeattle, US
Walid Baruni(Founder)
Co-investorsArray Ventures Management LlcGeneral CatalystSamsung Next
Faireez provides in-building housekeeping and cleaning services for residents of apartment buildings, offering personalized cleaning plans ranging from quick refreshes to deep cleans.
ConsumerMarketplacesPropTech
Co-investorsAristagoraLongevity Venture PartnersSecret Chord Ventures
Flarion offers a native execution engine, built in Rust on Apache Arrow and DataFusion, that runs as an in-process plugin to accelerate Spark, Ray Data, and Trino workloads through vectorized execution.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Udi Tizan(Founder)inRan Reichman(Founder)
Co-investorsSierra VenturesEssence Venture Capital
Fundamental is an AI company building foundation models for tabular data, including NEXUS, a large tabular model that generates predictions from structured databases.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep TechEnterprise Software
Gabriel Suissa(Founder)in
Co-investorsBattery VenturesKindred VenturesMVP VenturesOak HC/FT
Gankster is a platform for finding gaming teammates in Valorant, offering features for matchmaking duos, joining LFG communities, and organizing competitive teams and scrims.
Gaming
Daniel Kochav(Founder)in
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersSamsung Next
Asaf Ezra(Founder)in
Co-investorsDawn CapitalInsight PartnersR136 VenturesRed Dot Capital PartnersTLV Partners
Identity access security company offering passwordless user and device authentication with device posture checks.
Ran Lampert(Founder)in
Co-investorsBright Pixel CapitalCrescendo Venture PartnersEmerge VenturesJAL Ventures Ltd.
Jones is an AI-powered insurance compliance and Certificate of Insurance (COI) verification platform that collects insurance documents, verifies coverage against requirements, manages vendor/tenant communications, and maintains audit-ready compliance records.
AI & Machine LearningInsurTechPropTech
Michael RudmanOmri Stern
Co-investors500 GlobalCamber CreekGround Up VenturesJLL Spark Global VenturesMetaPropMetaProp Ventures+1 more
Keewano offers a multi-agent AI analytics platform built on its own high-performance database (KeewanoDB) that processes billions of user events to autonomously generate and validate hypotheses, run cause-and-effect analysis, and surface actionable insights.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureGaming
Lama AI provides agentic AI software for SMB and commercial lending, using modular AI agents to convert borrower documents into decision-ready credit memos and handle stages from intake through closing and servicing.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Omri Yacubovich(Founder)inRan Magen(Founder)in
Co-investorsViola Ventures
Onit offers a "decision-based exposure management" platform that uses AI agents to map, prioritize, assign ownership of, and automatically resolve security vulnerabilities and exposures for enterprise security teams.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Majestic Labs builds AI server hardware that rearchitects memory as a shared, uniform pool, giving each processor direct access to far greater memory capacity to address the memory-bound bottleneck in AI compute.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareSan Francisco, US
Masumi Reynders(Founder)Ofer Shacham(Founder)Shahriar (Sha) Rabii(Founder)in
Co-investorsLux CapitalTal VenturesUpfront VenturesGrove VenturesPIPELINE CAPITAL PARTNERSQP Ventures+1 more
Provides actionable real-time product level insights to increase eCommerce market share
Co-investorsDigital HorizonDigital Horizon VC
CybersecurityDeep TechDigital HealthHealthtechIoT
BoardDavid Millstone(co-CEO of Standard Industries and co-CIO of Standard Investments)
Co-investorsStandard InvestmentsBlumberg CapitalForgePoint CapitalMaor InvestmentsUS Venture PartnersYL Ventures+5 more
Mozper is a fintech platform that provides physical and digital debit cards for children, along with financial literacy tools for parents to manage and monitor their children's spending across categories and teach money management.
ConsumerEdTechFintechMexico City, MX
Gabriel Roizner(Co-founder & CEO)inYael Israeli(Founder)in
Co-investorsCapria VenturesImpacta Latam VCY CombinatorFoundation Capital
Nimble is a platform that connects teachers with K-12 schools and districts to improve hiring and workforce management.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechFuture of WorkHR TechSaaSMiami, US
Lauren Dachille(Founder/CEO)in
Co-investorsDorm RoomImagine K12Target GlobalY CombinatorAccelBreyer Capital+4 more
Nimble builds a Web Search Agent Platform that uses agents to navigate dynamic websites and turn unstructured live web content into structured, verifiable data delivered through governed pipelines.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsNorwest Venture PartnersSquare Peg CapitalTarget GlobalDatabricks VenturesJ-VenturesR-Squared Ventures+1 more
Nimble.ai provides fast order fulfillment and logistics solutions, enabling same-day and next-day delivery with real-time inventory visibility and rapid onboarding for e-commerce operations.
E-commerceLogistics & Supply Chain
Simon Kalouche(Founder)in
Co-investorsAccelBreyer CapitalDns CapitalDatabricks VenturesJ-VenturesR-Squared Ventures+3 more
Oak provides identity management solutions for enterprise organizations, with implementation support for Fortune 500 companies.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareBrunswick, US
Thomas Law(Manager & Member)
Co-investorsAccelCRV (Charles River Ventures)
Onit is a Decision-Based Exposure Management platform that uses AI agents to automatically triage, prioritize, assign ownership, and resolve security vulnerabilities across an organization's existing tools.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareHouston, US
ERIC M ELFMAN(Executive Officer, Director)Eric A. Smith(Executive Officer)Eric M. Elfman(Executive Officer, Director)Douglas J. Erwin(Director)
BoardSARAH SOMMER(Director)JOHN THORNTON(Director)
Co-investorsBrightmind
Opti provides AI-native identity and access management (IAM) software for enterprises, automating privilege management and access decisions through domain-trained machine learning models.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareNew City, US
Barak Perelman(Founder)inIdo Trivizki(Founder)Mille Gandelsman(Founder)
Co-investorsMayfield FundYL Ventures
Prompt helps professionals manage and strengthen their personal relationships through guided support and tools designed to fit busy schedules.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Bobby Meelu(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorJump Capital
Prompt Security provides an AI security platform that protects organizations against risks associated with generative AI and large language models across their tools and applications.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Co-investorsAlphaDrive
Runhouse builds Kubetorch, a Pythonic serverless interface for running, building, and deploying machine learning workloads on Kubernetes directly from Python.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsBlackstoneCoatue ManagementMGXWork-Bench
Sisense provides embedded analytics software that enables teams to integrate data visualization and insights into business applications.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York, US
Ariel Katz(Chief Executive Officer)Amir Orad(Executive Officer, Director)Todd Sloan(Executive Officer)
BoardTeddie Wardi(Director)inBob Goodman(Director)inItzik Parnafes(Director)in
Co-investorsBattery VenturesBessemer Venture PartnersInsight PartnersAUTHENTIC VENTURESClaltechFounders Circle Capital+7 more
Tabnine is an AI coding assistant that provides context-aware code recommendations to developers and engineering teams, with flexible deployment options including SaaS, VPC, or on-premises.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Dror Weiss(Founder)in
Co-investorsAtlassian VenturesElaiaQualcomm VenturesSamsung NextTitanium VenturesKhosla Ventures+1 more
Bright Insights (The Market Beyond) is a competitive data platform for retail that provides always-fresh global market data on pricing, assortment, stock, reviews, and market share, delivered via dashboards, API, MCP, or cloud data warehouses.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureRetail Tech
Co-investorsDigital HorizonDigital Horizon VC
Tonic Security offers an agentic exposure management platform that connects data across cloud, on-prem, and SaaS sources to prioritize and remediate security vulnerabilities based on business impact and exploitability.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaS
Co-investorsRepsol Energy Ventures
Trigo develops computer vision AI solutions for retail, enabling loss prevention, grab-and-go shopping, and store analytics.
AI & Machine LearningRetail Tech
Daniel Gabay(Founder)inMichael Gabay(Founder)in
Co-investors83NorthViola VenturesRed Dot Capital PartnersTemasekVertex Ventures
Trigo aggregates rental payment data to help underwriters assess creditworthiness and enables renters to build credit profiles using housing payment history.
Data & InfrastructureFintechPropTechNew York City, US
Sam Stein(Founder)inAbe Wheeler(Founder)in
Co-investorsFour Acres CapitalY Combinator83NorthRed Dot Capital PartnersTemasekVertex Ventures
Trigo builds computer vision AI technology for physical retail stores, offering solutions for loss prevention and frictionless checkout.
AI & Machine LearningRetail TechSaaS
Co-investorsRed Dot Capital Partners83NorthTemasekVertex Ventures
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-investors97212 Ventures
Upriver offers an AI agent for the data engineering lifecycle that connects to a company's warehouse, orchestrator, and code to build and validate pipelines, answer questions about the data environment, and detect and fix data quality issues.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsTel Aviv, IL
Omri Lifshitz(Founder)
Co-investorsClarim Ventures
Wilco was an AI-native learning platform that functioned as a "flight simulator" for developers, offering practical, real-world coding scenarios and quests to help engineers develop judgment and hands-on experience with complex systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEdTech
Co-investorsFlybridge Capital PartnersSamsung Next
Willow is a voice-to-text application that transcribes and formats spoken words into written text across desktop and mobile devices.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerDeveloper ToolsFuture of WorkSan Francisco, US
Allan Guo(Founder)
Co-investorsY Combinator
Willow makes breast pumps and pumping accessories for nursing mothers, including in-bra wearable pumps and collection cups that convert traditional electric pumps into hands-free devices.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerFemTechHardware
Co-investorsNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)PortfoliaWindham Capital PartnersBoxGroupBurst CapitalGoodwater Capital+1 more
Exits · 3
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioInfinipointacq. by Outpost24Medigateacq. by ClarotyTrigoacq. by Snappt
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Willow · enstarz.com · Aug 23, 2026
Medigate · jpost.com · Aug 19, 2026
Willow · techcrunch.com · Aug 17, 2026
Run · databricks.com · Aug 12, 2026
Arrakis · runtimewire.com · Aug 2, 2026
Prompt · thevccorner.com · Aug 1, 2026
Tabnine · themiddlemarket.com · Jul 30, 2026
Act Security · securityweek.com · Jul 30, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Hetz Ventures made?
- Hetz Ventures has 47 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO, including 4 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Hetz Ventures invest at?
- Hetz Ventures invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Hetz Ventures's typical check size?
- Hetz Ventures typically writes checks of $3.6M – $90M.
- What sectors does Hetz Ventures focus on?
- Hetz Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Developer Tools.
- Where is Hetz Ventures located?
- Hetz Ventures is headquartered in Tel Aviv, IL.
- Does Hetz Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Hetz Ventures leads investment rounds.
- Who does Hetz Ventures co-invest with?
- Hetz Ventures most often shares deals with JAL Ventures Ltd., Bessemer Venture Partners, Samsung Next, among 64 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
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Co-investors · 13
Viola is an Israeli technology investment group managing over $7 billion in assets, operating multiple independent investment arms spanning venture capital, growth equity, credit, and fintech.
Foundation Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that commits to founders at the idea stage and maintains long-term relationships with portfolio companies through their growth journey.
Greycroft is a venture capital firm that partners with founders across multiple industries and geographies, investing in software, sustainability, and consumer brands.
83North is a global venture capital firm that invests in and helps entrepreneurs build large, category-defining companies, backing startups across multiple stages and sectors.
Glilot Capital Partners is an Israel-based venture capital firm focused on cybersecurity and AI, supporting founders from seed through growth via a multi-program framework (G-Seed, G+, Mach5, G-Club).
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MizMaa Ventures is an early-stage, thesis-driven venture capital firm backing Israeli entrepreneurs building deep-technology solutions, offering hands-on support alongside long-term capital.
JLL Spark is the corporate venture arm of JLL, a global commercial real estate services firm with over 200 years of experience. The fund invests in early-stage technology companies that drive innovation in the real estate and built environment sector.
Impacta VC is a Latin American impact-focused venture capital firm that invests capital and provides mentorship and network access to early-stage startups whose purpose is to generate positive social and environmental impact.
Ridge Ventures is a focused venture capital fund that backs experienced founders building revenue-first enterprise software companies at the late seed and early Series A stages.
Vertex Ventures Israel is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 that partners early with startups and backs them as they scale into global market leaders. It has invested in more than 150 companies across its funds.
Okta Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Okta, investing in and supporting startups building technologies enabled by identity, security, and privacy.
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