Here from (before) the start
We're a first-check VC, backing pre-consensus founders and companies and helping them build from zero to one
Our focus is on PRE-consensus
founders and ideas
We are excited about ideas often considered too niche or complex for small checks, and founders who don’t necessarily have the obvious credentials.
Might you be pre-consensus?
More on this in our investment thesis
NextSilicon
NextSilicon is pioneering a radically new approach to HPC architecture that drives the industry forward by solving its biggest, most fundamental problems.
Founder: Elad Raz
Yuval invested in NextSilicon's Seed round.
Founder: Elad Raz
Yuval invested in NextSilicon's Seed round.
Breeze
Breeze is reinventing cargo insurance through a fully automated and digital insurance solution and an industry-first machine learning platform.
Founders: Eyal Goldberg, Noam Grabinsky, Max Avgustevich
We led Breeze's Seed round.
Founders: Eyal Goldberg, Noam Grabinsky, Max Avgustevich
We led Breeze's Seed round.
Nilus
Nilus is building a plug-and-play platform that automates reconciliation, reporting, and payment workflows for finance teams.
Founders: Daniel Kalish, Danielle Shaul
We invested in Nilus' Seed round.
Founders: Daniel Kalish, Danielle Shaul
We invested in Nilus' Seed round.
Jiga
Jiga is building an all-in-one purchasing solution for advanced manufacturing.
We back Israeli founder teams
wherever they are
wherever they are
Write $500k to $3.5M checks
into priced rounds, CLAs, or SAFEs
into priced rounds, CLAs, or SAFEs
Invest across
sectors and GTMs
(Consumer, SMB, Enterprise)
sectors and GTMs
(Consumer, SMB, Enterprise)
Lead rounds,
selectively co-lead or join
selectively co-lead or join
It's Never
Too Early
We make most of our investments based on a team with a pre-consensus idea.
We’re happy to talk about – and help with – ideation, validation, finding co-founders, or building the initial team, well before you kick off the first funding round.
It’s truly never too early.
Post Investment
Embracing "Oh shit" moments
Coming from founder and operational backgrounds, we know things can go wrong: delayed launch, customer churn, slow hiring. Especially in pre-consensus, there's no playbook and things take time. We’ve lived these moments ourselves and will always have your back.
Microservices
Early on, companies need the help of experts in product strategy, UX, HR and storytelling, but can't take them on full-time. Our team includes top-notch operators in these areas who provide hands-on support with this heavy lifting.
First Employees
Your core employees are key to your success, but these are often lonely positions. We run programs to find, support and develop these employees so they can become force multipliers.
Symbol Programs
Ideation and validation
We run workshops for founders to help formalize frameworks and provide the investor and operator perspective on the process of finding and validating startup ideas and specific markets and concepts.
Core Employee Groups
Being a core employee is a unique experience. We have dedicated peer groups for non-founder Engineers, Product Managers, and Business Ops employees. Companies outside of our portfolio are welcome to join.
Looking for Co-Founder
We meet many entrepreneurs in search of “the one” (or two) with whom to start a company. We often leverage our networks for matchmaking purposes, based on domain, expertise or interests.