SeedIL Ventures

SeedIL Ventures is a boutique Israeli seed-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Herzliya. The platform began in 2014 as SeedIL Club, an accredited-angel syndicate of roughly 65 business angels, and was formalised into a dedicated fund in 2018 in a strategic partnership with Technion Drive — the Technion's innovation arm — giving the firm privileged access to deal flow from Israel's leading engineering university. SeedIL is co-founded and led by Managing Partners Audrey Chocron and Cynthia Phitoussi, both of whom also founded The Hive by Gvahim in 2010, one of Israel's earliest startup accelerators. The three-person investment team maintains a deliberately compact size to enable personalised, hands-on support for each portfolio founder. SeedIL's investment thesis covers seed-stage Israeli-related technology companies, explicitly excluding medtech and biotech. Fund II sharpens the focus to B2B in sectors where Israeli innovation has a proven edge: enterprise software, IT and cybersecurity, digital health, climate technology, agri and food tech, construction technology, and fintech. Initial checks range from $300,000 to $1 million. Across 31 to 34 investments, the firm has produced 7 exits — including Breezometer, Donde Search, Presenso, Smore, and most recently Dataloop in December 2025. Active portfolio names include Tolstoy (shoppable video commerce), xpander.ai (AI, co-invested with Samsung NEXT and Emerge Ventures), and Quack AI (the most recent disclosed investment, Seed-II in September 2025). SeedIL's model is built around deep founder relationships and intensive post-investment support: Chocron and Phitoussi work closely with each team on hiring, product positioning, international sales strategy, and access to follow-on investors, drawing on the networks they have built across more than a decade as ecosystem builders in the Israeli startup community.