Hetz Ventures
Actively deployingSeedโSeries A
Investment thesis
Hetz invests in seed-stage AI infrastructure and cybersecurity companies, leveraging deep operational experience from the team's background in founding, scaling engineering, and enterprise sales. The firm believes founders benefit from active deal leadership, sustained post-investment support, and early access to a curated network of 50+ enterprise executives and CISOs who can serve as advisors, customers, and partners. The fund has led 80+ seed rounds and manages a portfolio of 50 companies.
Source: firm website, verified Jul 20, 2026.
What they invest in
from 11 of 58 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ร8Developer Tools ร4Enterprise Software ร4Cybersecurity ร3Consumer ร2Data & Infrastructure ร2Fintech ร2SaaS ร2
HQs:United Statesร3Israelร1Mexicoร1
Investments ยท 58 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathAnima builds a design intelligence platform that converts visual designs into working code, powering visual-to-code workflows for software developers and AI agents. The platform serves developers, design teams, and AI-powered coding platforms, enabling translation from design intent to production software.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareTel Aviv-Yafo, IL
Avishay Cohen(Co-founder & CEO)inMichal Cohen(Co-founder & CPO)inAlex ShiraziOfer LaOr(CTO)
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
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. The platform serves DevOps and platform teams seeking to reduce security risk without impacting delivery speed.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsLas Vegas, US
Ian Amit(CEO & Co-Founder)Matt Sweeney(CTO & Co-Founder)
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. The platform serves families seeking to build financial responsibility in children through features like spending controls, automated allowances, and savings goals.
ConsumerEdTechFintechMexico City, MX
Nimble provides an AI-powered web search and data extraction platform that orchestrates autonomous agents to collect, process, and monitor real-time data from the internet across multiple verticals including ecommerce, competitive intelligence, business directories, social media, and news.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSaaS
Oak provides identity management solutions for enterprise organizations, with implementation support for Fortune 500 companies.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Opti provides AI-native identity and access management (IAM) software for enterprises, automating privilege management and access decisions through domain-trained machine learning models. The platform integrates with existing directories and applications to enforce least-privilege access and continuous compliance.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Trigo develops computer vision AI solutions for retail, enabling loss prevention, grab-and-go shopping, and store analytics. The company serves retail operators seeking to optimize store operations and customer experience through intelligent computer vision technology.
AI & Machine LearningRetail Tech
Trigo aggregates rental payment data to help underwriters assess creditworthiness and enables renters to build credit profiles using housing payment history. The company targets the under-banked and those with thin credit files, addressing a gap in credit data access for millions of Americans.
Data & InfrastructureFintechPropTechNew York City, US
BigPanda provides an AI-powered platform for IT operations that automates incident management, change management, and service desk workflows for enterprise IT teams. The platform uses agentic AI to reduce manual ITOps work, accelerate incident resolution, and prevent outages.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Willow is a voice-to-text application that transcribes and formats spoken words into written text across desktop and mobile devices. It serves professionals and knowledge workers across any app or device, using AI to handle formatting, punctuation, and style adaptation.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerDeveloper ToolsFuture of WorkSan Francisco, US
Allan Guo(Founder)
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Hetz Ventures invest at?
- Hetz Ventures invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does Hetz Ventures focus on?
- Hetz Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure.
- Does Hetz Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Hetz Ventures leads investment rounds.
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