NextLeap Ventures
Venture capitalHerzliya · Pre-Seed–Series A · 8 people tracked
Investment thesis
NextLeap Ventures gives investors access to early-stage Israeli high-tech and deep-tech startups building breakthrough technologies that address global challenges. Focus areas include artificial intelligence, sustainability, digital health, mobility, Industry 4.0, and bio-convergence. The firm differentiates itself through a team of eight partners with more than 200 years of combined experience spanning global technology companies such as Intel, Adobe, and Siemens, as well as startups. This breadth covers investments, strategy, technology, innovation, IP, marketing, product, and finance, enabling rigorous due diligence and hands-on portfolio support after investment.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 8 people
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What they invest in
from 14 of 28 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×8Hardware ×5Medical Devices ×4Cleantech ×3Deep Tech ×3Digital Health ×3Healthtech ×2IoT ×2
HQs:Israel×3United States×1
Investments · 28 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathAirwayz provides defense-grade airspace management software for organizations operating in complex low-altitude environments, offering real-time planning, deconfliction, asset protection, and coordinated threat detection and mitigation through a single operational platform with an AI assistant.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechGovTech
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)
New York, US
NICHOLAS J. ADAMS(Director)TOMER MORAD(Executive Officer, Director)TOMER PAZ(Director)ANDREY GELMAN(Executive Officer)
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
Enervibe develops kinetic energy harvesting and battery-less sensing platforms that convert vibration, rotation, and motion into electrical power for industrial IoT and connected devices.
Deep TechHardwareIoT
Uses advanced computational algorithms to design sophisticated novel enzymes.
Geneyx offers a genomic data analysis platform for secondary and tertiary interpretation of NGS data, including exome, whole genome sequencing, and gene panels, with AI/ML-driven variant interpretation, automated annotation, and customizable reporting.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital Health
Enables early cancer detection using AI and heat diffusion imaging.
HT BioImaging develops HDI (Heat Diffusion Imaging), a patented medical imaging platform that measures heat diffusion in biological tissue and converts the signal into an image for non-invasive, real-time cancer detection.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechMedical Devices
Gideon Barak(Co-Founder & Chairman)
Marine Edge develops technologies that optimize vessel performance through real-time data analytics and predictive algorithms, including an Engine Load Management System that addresses ocean wave-induced inefficiencies in marine engines.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechIoTHaifa, IL
Mon4t offers a smartphone-based app that turns phones into neurological testing devices, capturing motor, cognitive, and affective data to support early diagnosis and remote monitoring of diseases such as Parkinson's, Huntington's, and Alzheimer's.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthMedical Devices
Brings AI and smartphones to neurological tests.
NewPhotonics designs highly integrated silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chips and all-optical signal processing technology for optical transceivers, pluggables, and co-packaged optics.
Deep TechHardwareSemiconductors
Polymertal manufactures lightweight products using materials, including a collaboration with UBQ Materials to produce sustainable components.
Advanced ManufacturingCircular EconomyNew Materials
Previously Bat-Call; delivers accurate medical diagnostics using smart auscultation with infrasound.
Ultra-compact MEMS-based speaker on a chip with high audio quality, improving design freedom and battery life in mobile devices.
TechsoMed develops BioTrace, an FDA-cleared software platform for image-guided minimally invasive cancer therapy that uses AI to provide real-time 3D visualization, tumor margin control, needle path planning, and post-ablation tissue response prediction.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthMedical Devices
Yossi AbuDasy MandelNitzan EvenYogev ZoharDubi Finklshtein
Uses eco-friendly, chemical-free electrical pulse discharge technology to disinfect and treat wastewater.
Wadis develops patented electrical pulse discharge (ED) based equipment for water and wastewater treatment and disinfection that operates without chemicals.
CleantechClimate TechHardware
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does NextLeap Ventures invest at?
- NextLeap Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does NextLeap Ventures focus on?
- NextLeap Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Climate Tech, Consumer, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Digital Health, Enterprise Software, Medical Devices, Mobility & Transportation, New Materials, SaaS.
- Where is NextLeap Ventures located?
- NextLeap Ventures is headquartered in Herzliya, IL.
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