Moonscape Ventures

Moonscape Ventures was an Israeli early-stage venture capital firm founded in August 2014 and headquartered in Tel Aviv. The vehicle was launched with USD 120 million of committed capital by global entrepreneur Mati Kochavi — the founder of AGT International, one of the world's largest privately held IoT solutions companies, and media company Vocativ, built on deep-web technologies. The fund operated as a corporate business development and opportunity vehicle, with an investment thesis focused on the Internet of Things, smart cities, big data, and news and media technologies. Initial check sizes ranged from USD 500,000 to USD 5 million across seed and Series A. Moonscape was led by Managing Directors Tammy Mahn — a veteran investment professional with more than a dozen years across Hamilton Lane, Pitango Venture Capital, Evergreen Venture Capital, and McKinsey, who later became Verizon Ventures' Tel Aviv Managing Director in 2020 — and Yonit Golub Serkin, who had served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Economic Development for the City of New York under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The fund's first publicly announced investment was a USD 3.1 million check into SocialStudios, whose technology uses social-media data to automatically generate personalized video content. Portfolio companies benefited from access to Kochavi's network through AGT International and Vocativ, spanning IoT, smart-city infrastructure, and media analytics. Moonscape Ventures has since been permanently closed, with no major exits reported and the fund website no longer maintained. The vehicle's short operating history reflected the difficulty of sustaining a specialized IoT and smart-cities fund at a time when the commercial adoption of those technologies remained nascent.