Sweetwood Ventures

Sweetwood Ventures is a leading Israeli venture capital fund of funds and the venture arm of Sweetwood Capital, an Israel-based financial firm. Operating from Tel Aviv and Luxembourg, the firm invests through a diversified strategy that combines primary and secondary allocations into top-quartile Israeli venture capital funds with direct co-investments in leading Israeli startups. Its inaugural Luxembourg-incorporated fund of funds closed at $70M and commits capital to and alongside best-in-class Israeli VC managers over a roughly three-year investment period; its flagship series grew to around $140M. The fund is backed predominantly by European institutional investors, family offices and high-net-worth individuals, including a top-tier private Belgian bank and leading family offices in Belgium and Luxembourg. In 2022 Sweetwood launched a separate $20M vehicle, Sweetwood NextGen, led by General Partner Amit Kurz, dedicated to backing 'nano' and emerging Israeli managers, cutting checks of up to $2M into funds of $15M or smaller on the thesis that very small funds tend to outperform; it also matches angel investors' deals to create synthetic micro-funds. Across its three funds the firm has committed to multiple underlying VC funds, secondary positions and direct co-investments such as BlinkOps. It was co-founded by Manuel Sussholz, who serves as Managing Partner, alongside Samuel Cohen Solal and Amit Kurz. By blending fund-of-funds allocations, secondaries and co-investments, Sweetwood Ventures offers international investors diversified access to the Israeli venture ecosystem.