VentureIsrael

VentureIsrael is an Israeli early-stage deep tech venture capital fund that backs founders building breakthrough technology from seed to scale across quantum, space, neuro, semiconductors, AI infrastructure, cybersecurity and digital health. Its thesis centers on timing, investing where readiness, urgency and adoption are beginning to align, a defensible deep tech moat, and companies that can either dominate a market or force a fast acquisition; the fund describes itself as market-agnostic but conviction-driven on technology, time-to-market and people, and it is willing to lead. The firm is led by Managing Partners Rafael (Roman) Gold and Gadi Isaev, who have built the Israeli tech ecosystem together for more than 12 years across five joint ventures, supported by venture partners including Gil Don (Wib, acquired by F5), Ran Bar-Yosef (Spectralics) and Arkady Karpman (Rapyd co-founder and CTO), plus scientific advisors such as Prof. Shlomi Dolev and Prof. Simon Litsyn, co-inventor of the USB flash drive. Collectively the partners have made more than 50 investments in Israeli startups with over 10 exits and helped channel over $500M of VC funding into the country; their first fund ranks top-quartile by IRR and top-decile by DPI for its vintage. In May 2025 VentureIsrael launched its second fund, around $25M, to back roughly 20 Series A companies. Portfolio names include SSI (Safe Superintelligence), ClearML, Adversa AI, HEQA Security, NovaLink Space and Remondo, with prior exits including AppSee (ServiceNow), Revelator (Warner Music Group) and Splitit (ASX IPO). By pairing deep ecosystem experience with a timing-and-moat thesis, VentureIsrael backs Israeli deep-tech founders.