Aleph is an Israeli venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage company investments around the world. Aleph is a start-up venture capital firm that supports Israeli entrepreneurs and the local Israeli ecosystem.It has been involved with Israeli globally scalable businesses, such as Conduit, Wix, and Aternity.
Aleph VC is a privately held, venture capital & private equity company based in Tel Aviv, Israel and was founded on July 3, 2013, by Eden Shochat and Michael Eisenberg. Aleph is an early-stage venture capital fund. Aleph is an Equal Partnership of Eden Shochat, Michael Eisenberg and Aaron Rosenson.
Aleph is sector-agnostic and since its founding in 2013, the fund has invested in over 40 companies in a wide range of sectors such as Fintech (Lemonade, Colu), Transportation and logistics (Freightos, Nexar, Bringg, CommonSense Robotics), Shared Economy (Wework, Honeybook), AI (Anodot, Sparkbeyond) and Consumer Applications (Joytunes, Houseparty) .
Aleph specializes in early stage, growth capital, and Series A investments. The fund prefers to invest in Internet and mobile ventures. It also seeks to invest in the technology and entrepreneurial educational ecosystem. It seeks to invest in Israel.
Aleph has made over 40 investments. One notable investment was on Feb 5, 2019, when they invested $18M in Healthy.io. Aleph has had 1 exit, which was Luminate Security. Aleph has raised a total of $320M across 2 funds, one of them being Aleph II. This fund was announced on Sep 26, 2016, and raised a total of $180M.
Timeline
Series B
$18M
Series C
$25M
Seed Round - Workiz
$2.3M
Series C - Freightos
$44.4M
Series C
$44.4M
Series C - Windward
$16.5M
Series A - TinyTap
$5M
Venture Round - Panorays
$5M
Series B - LawGeex
$12M
Funded Companies
An insurance technology company using artificial intelligence and behavioural economics to offer home and renters insurance.
Honeybook is a San Francisco-based company founded by Shadiah Sigala, Oz Alon, Naama Alon and Dror Shimoni.
Melio is a payment platform that allows small- and medium-sized businesses to make payments to other companies electronically.
A technology company making urine analysis kits for detecting Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), Urinary Track Infections (UTI), and prenatal pregnancy complication monitoring.
Fabric is a D2C and B2B micro-order fulfillment company.
Bringg is an Israel-based company founded by Lior Sion.
Coralogix is a company founded by Lior Tal, Ariel Assaraf, Lior Redlus and Guy Kroupp.
YEVVO is a San Francisco-based company founded by Itai Danino.
Panorays is a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity company enabling companies to view, manage, and engage the security posture of their third-parties, vendors, and business partners.
A company offering an internet of things (IoT) platform for cybersecurity, compliance, and operational management.
Workiz is a San Diego-based company founded by Adi Azaria.
Centrical is a Charlotte, North Carolina-based company founded in 2012 by Gal Rimon.
TinyTap is a Tel Aviv-based company founded by Yogev Shelly.
LawGeex is a Tel Aviv-based company founded by Noory Bechor.
Frank is a New York-based company.
Windward is an artificial intelligence company founded by Ami Daniel.
GeoQuant is an artificial intelligence company founded in 2016.
Funding rounds
Associated investment funds
People
Aaron Rosenson
Partner
Avigail Levine
Marketing & Community
Avishai Ish-Shalom
Engineer in Residence
Eden Shochat
Founder
Michael Eisenberg
Founder
Uri Ar
EIR
Yael Elad
CFO
Further reading
77:How a Israel's Top VC Chooses Startups to Invest in
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Aleph VC leads $10 mln round for HoneyBook - PE Hub
Iris Dorbian
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Aleph VC Transitions Olim into Tech | Nefesh B'Nefesh
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An Israeli startup with ties to America's most popular hummus brand says it made the world's first lab-grown steak -- a holy grail for the industry
Erin Brodwin
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Benchmark's Eisenberg And Face.com's Shochat Raise $140M For Aleph, An Early-Stage Fund For Israeli Startups
Rip Empson
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Executive Profile: Michael Eisenberg, Partner at Aleph VC and Investor in WeWork - The Commentator
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Israel's Aleph closes $180m venture capital fund
Globes correspondent
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Israeli technology investors raise $140m. for Aleph venture fund
Viva Sarah Press
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TechNation: Aleph raises $180 million for second venture capital fund
TheMarker
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We are happy to announce Aleph VC as a pre-sale investor
CLN
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Why Top Israeli Venture Firm Aleph Is Making A 26-Year-Old An Equal Partner
Alex Konrad
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Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Michael Eisenberg - Co-Founder and partner at Aleph VC
3 September 2016
Companies
Platterz
Anodot
Bringg
CommonSense Robotics
Conduit
Healthy.io
Houseparty
Karma App
LawGeex
Lemonade
Luminate Security
Panorays
Windward
Wix
Workiz