Next Gear Ventures
Venture capitalTel Aviv · Pre-Seed–Late Stage · 16 people tracked
Investment thesis
Next Gear Ventures backs early-stage founders tackling major sustainability and mobility challenges. It seeks innovations spanning sustainable and smart cities, clean electric propulsion, and efficient manufacturing, aiming to build an interconnected ecosystem where portfolio companies complement one another. The firm selects entrepreneurs whose ideas combine strong market impact with a commitment to a smarter, more sustainable, and safer mobility future, and provides an ecosystem designed to help these ventures achieve enduring growth and innovation.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 16 people
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What they invest in
from 26 of 49 portfolio companiesMobility & Transportation ×13AI & Machine Learning ×12Deep Tech ×12Energy ×9Hardware ×9Cleantech ×8IoT ×5Cybersecurity ×2
HQs:Israel×9United States×3France×1
Investments · 49 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBattery technology company providing Smart 3D Current Collectors for cheaper, lighter and faster-charging batteries.
Apollo Power develops and manufactures flexible, high-efficiency solar cells and film for applications such as commercial and industrial solar roofs, embedded automotive solar, heavy-duty vehicle and RV kits, and portable energy products.
CleantechEnergyHardwareNew Materials
Oded Rozenberg(CEO, Co-Founder)Eran Mimon(CTO & Co-founder)Eran Maimon(CTO, Co-Founder)
4D imaging radar technology for OEMs and Tier 1s, scaling from ADAS to fully autonomous vehicles.
Arbell Energy develops quantum-dot NanoCrystal thin-film solar technology, printing solar inks into lightweight, flexible, and transparent panels for applications such as utility-scale PV farms, building-integrated facades, agriculture, and retrofits of existing panels.
CleantechDeep TechEnergyRa'anana, IL
Bib Batteries develops technology to standardize and certify battery health assessments for electric vehicles, enabling transparent condition evaluation across the second-hand EV market and value chain.
Circular EconomyCleantechEnergyIoTMobility & TransportationParis, FR
Non-contact, camera-free RF-based passenger monitoring system for safer vehicle cabins.
Carrar is a battery technology company that develops battery modules and systems using a proprietary two-phase immersion architecture to improve battery performance and longevity across cell types and climates.
CleantechEnergyHardwareMobility & Transportation
Erez Freibach(Co-Founder & Chairman)Eitam Friedman(Co-founder & CEO)Yael Wilf-Shoham(CFO)
CorrActions develops NeuroMonitor, a software-only system that detects driver and passenger cognitive states such as alcohol impairment, fatigue, and inattention using data already available in vehicles, deployed via over-the-air updates without hardware changes.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechMobility & Transportation
Deontic builds generative AI tools and intelligent agents for validation and verification of ADAS and autonomous driving systems, including AI-driven scenario generation that converts natural language into OpenDRIVE/OpenSCENARIO formats.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsMobility & Transportation
Software-based GPS solutions enhancing receiver accuracy; acquired by Lear.
Safety verification and validation solutions for ADAS and autonomous driving systems.
infiniDome builds GNSS/GPS anti-jamming and protection systems that detect, filter, and suppress radio-frequency interference to keep satellite navigation reliable.
CybersecurityDeep TechDefense TechHardwareCaesarea, IL
Voice user interface technology improving speech recognition reliability in noisy environments.
Kardome develops voice user interface technology using edge AI and distributed intelligence models, combining spatial hearing and cognition capabilities to enable voice systems with human-level contextual awareness.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsIoTTel Aviv, IL
Make My Day provides technology to help companies and fleet operators transition their vehicle fleets to electric vehicles.
Climate TechEnergyMobility & TransportationSaaSHerzliya, IL
Foretellix provides a Physical AI toolchain for autonomous vehicle developers, using real-world data curation, verification & validation, and synthetic data generation to accelerate training, validation, and safety evaluation.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechMobility & Transportation
Ziv Binyamini(CEO & Co-Founder)Yoav Hollander(CTO & Founder)Gil Amid(Chief Regulatory Affairs Officer, VP Operations & Co-founder)
Plug-and-play retrofit autonomy kits for outdoor material handling machinery in geofenced areas.
Moodify builds an AI-driven "autonomous digital perfumer" that uses Artificial Olfactive Intelligence to translate brand briefs into fragrance formulations, encoding scent perception into smell vectors and generating ranked formulas that account for cost, IFRA compliance, and sustainability.
AI & Machine LearningDeep Tech
Cloud correction service and on-device positioning engine improving GNSS accuracy for micro-mobility.
nT-Tao develops compact 20 MWe fusion systems, marketed as Tao Energy Boxes, designed to provide distributed, 24/7 firm on-site power on or off the grid.
CleantechDeep TechEnergy
Oded Gour-Lavie(CEO & Co-founder)Doron Weinfeld(Chief Scientist & Co-founder)Boaz Weinfeld(CTO & Co-founder)Uzi Yemin(Chairman of the Board)
Off-grid, solid-state-hydrogen chargers for EV charging that activate with water.
Nugen Power Systems offers a tool for organizing, tracking, and sharing work in a single place, aimed at teams and solo users.
SaaS
SafeFields develops active magnetic field cancelation technology that reduces low-frequency electromagnetic fields generated by electric and hybrid vehicles to safe levels for drivers and passengers.
Deep TechHardwareMobility & TransportationHerzliya, IL
SaiFlow provides cybersecurity for distributed energy infrastructure, using unified cyber and energy data with AI to protect it in real time.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnergyIoT
Formerly MDGo; provides accident impact insights and operates as an insurance MGA in the US.
Software-controlled optics and novel optical infrastructures for imaging systems using nanotechnology.
Thermagix develops patented Phase-Change Thermoacoustic technology to capture and convert industrial low-grade waste heat that was previously unrecoverable.
CleantechDeep TechEnergy
Gil Aginsky(Chief Executive Officer)Guy Ramon(Chief Technology Officer)Yehuda Agnon(Chief Scientific Officer)Nir Halup(Vice President of R&D)
Whilx Technologies builds an automotive platform with autonomous tire pressure optimization systems that provide real-time tire intelligence to improve vehicle safety and efficiency.
Deep TechHardwareMobility & Transportation
Exits · 2
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioLearNYSE: LEAExo Technologiesacq. by Lear
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesMake My Day · makemydayapp.com · Mar 29, 2026
NoTraffic · finsmes.com · Mar 24, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Next Gear Ventures invest at?
- Next Gear Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Late Stage stages.
- What is Next Gear Ventures's typical check size?
- Next Gear Ventures typically writes checks of $1.6M – $74M.
- What sectors does Next Gear Ventures focus on?
- Next Gear Ventures focuses on Advanced Manufacturing, AI & Machine Learning, Cleantech, Climate Tech, Consumer, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Energy, Enterprise Software, Hardware, InsurTech, Mobility & Transportation, New Materials, Robotics, SaaS.
- Where is Next Gear Ventures located?
- Next Gear Ventures is headquartered in Tel Aviv, IL.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamEp727: Tal Cohen | Founding Partner, Drive and Next Gear Ventures
20MinuteLeaders · Tal Cohen
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