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Real-Life Innovations
Venture capitalPre-Seed–Seed · 2 people tracked
Also known as Real-Life Innovations (RLI)
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Investment thesis
The firm focuses on early-stage companies, investing at the pre-seed and seed stages while actively working alongside founders. Rather than only providing capital, its partners contribute operational 'sweat equity' — helping craft and execute strategic and marketing plans, structure financial and legal aspects, support negotiations and strategic-account engagements, and facilitate first-customer deployments. The stated goal is to reduce risk and accelerate a startup's path to a successful Series A round. This blended model of hands-on partnership plus early funding is presented as a distinctive approach in the pre-seed to seed venture space.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 2 people
from the firm's website
Ofer Shapiro is CEO, Chairman, and Co-Founder of Resolight.ai. He previously served as co-founder and CEO of Vidyo for ten years, where he led architectural innovations in videoconferencing and raised over $150 million. Shapiro holds 80 patents related to video coding standards including H.264, H.265, and VP8, and has been involved in developing industry specifications such as H.323 and scalable video coding architectures since 1996.
Uri Zilberman is Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at ZutaCore, where he focuses on connecting AI infrastructure providers, strategic partners, and investors. He works on the company's development of water-less, 2-phase cooling systems for AI factories and modular data centers designed to increase computational capacity while reducing power consumption. His background spans strategic business development and venture investment in the technology sector.
What they invest in
from 4 of 8 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×2Healthtech ×2AdTech ×1Consumer ×1Digital Health ×1E-commerce ×1Enterprise Software ×1Hardware ×1
HQs:United States×2Israel×1
Investments · 8 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathAnchora Medical develops a suturing device based on Anchor Based Continuous Suturing to simplify suturing in endoscopic and open surgery.
HardwareHealthtechMedical DevicesCaesarea, IL
Yoni(Co-founder)
Co-investorsTal VenturesHoya Corporation
Toonimo provides a digital adoption platform that overlays web, mobile, and enterprise applications with patented audio-visual guidance, combining real human voice, animated visual cues, and step-by-step instructions to help users self-serve.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSTel-Aviv, US
Dan Kotlicki(Founder & CEO)in
BoardTuvia Barak(Chairman)Ofer Shapiro(Director)in
Co-investorsLightspeed Venture Partners
Wellsheet builds a clinical workflow support system that uses machine learning to predict physicians' information needs and present a structured, comprehensive view of patient data at the point of care.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechNew York, US
Craig Limoli(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inDaniel Larkin(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Co-investorsBeni Venture CapitalBioAdvanceREDO VenturesSpringTide VenturesStartXNewark Venture Partners+1 more
Waterless liquid cooling solution for data centers and AI superchips.
Erez Freibach(Founder)in
Co-investorsLIP Ventures BoutiqueNextLeap VenturesOurCrowd
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
EyesOnTNewPhaseZutaCar
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Real-Life Innovations made?
- Real-Life Innovations has 8 tracked investments.
- What stage does Real-Life Innovations invest at?
- Real-Life Innovations invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What sectors does Real-Life Innovations focus on?
- Real-Life Innovations focuses on Sector Agnostic.
- Does Real-Life Innovations lead rounds?
- Real-Life Innovations typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does Real-Life Innovations co-invest with?
- Real-Life Innovations most often shares deals with Lightspeed Venture Partners, OurCrowd, SpringTide Ventures, among 10 tracked co-investors.
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