Slow Ventures is a community built on the collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. Investing at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture, Slow gives founders the resources, connections, experiences, and empathy required to build strong, sustainable companies.

Slow Ventures

Aleph is an early stage venture capital fund focused on partnering with great Israeli entrepreneurs to build large, meaningful companies and impactful global brands. Founded in 2013, Aleph is a partnership of Michael Eisenberg, Eden Shochat, Yael Elad and Tomer Diari with $850M under management. Aleph has invested in over 50 companies (not all announced) including Lemonade, Melio, Healthy.io, SparkBeyond, JoyTunes, Fabric, Freightos and Bringg.  Aleph is redefining the kind of support entrepreneurs and the local high tech community can expect from a venture capital firm. We aim to service the hell out of our entrepreneurs with high-touch, partner-level service. We built a startup within our firm - Ampliphy, the Aleph Value Generation Platform - to meet the greatest startup challenges like talent recruitment, business development and follow-on funding - at scale. Ampliphy leverages our people, network, software and resources to help companies succeed on the global stage. The team at Aleph are committed to supporting startups and the entire Israeli tech ecosystem as they harness the power of new technologies to develop and grow transformational companies.

Aleph

Maniv Mobility is helping to expedite the new age of advanced transportation technology, including safety, business model innovation, and vehicle autonomy (''driverless cars''). They believe that in the 21st century, the public should not have to endure the daily tragedy of automotive fatalities, the frustration and productivity loss of traffic congestion, and the polluted air and public space that slow-moving and parked cars bring to their urban centers. In the last 20 years technology has made information and communication ubiquitous and close to free. In the next 20 it will do the same for mobility. They work with start-up companies, entrepreneurs, financiers and others to overcome the hurdles that will herald a grand new age.

Maniv Mobility

Expansion Venture Capital, is a venture capital firm focused in early and growth stage companies. Located in New York City, EVC was founded by brothers, Joseph and Ryan Melohn.   EVC’s team is comprised of entrepreneurs. Fifteen years of combined experience has enabled EVC to help build great companies across the US.  As entrepreneurs, “we have been in their shoes and speak the same language”.  We pride ourselves on being available for our teams of entrepreneurs 24/7. We work side by side with them, providing intellectual capital and assistance in any way we can. From mentorship to business development, raising capital, getting the right press, are some of the ways “we work for you”. When one of our founders have a question we want to be the first place they turn. Their success is our success!  We are founder friendly! “Entrepreneurs, not VCs, build great companies”

Expansion Venture Capital

Founded in 2005, True Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups. With more than $3.8 billion under management, True provides seed and Series A financing to entrepreneurs in some of today's growing markets.  With more than 40 team members including special advisors, operations professionals, and founders-turned-investors, True represents one of the largest and most experienced teams dedicated to the ecosystem.  The True team believes creativity flourishes when founders are supported fully and empowered to pursue brave ideas. To that end, the True Platform offers programs that inspire professional and personal growth. To date, True has helped more than 350 companies launch and scale their businesses, creating over 85,000 jobs worldwide.  True was awarded Venture Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital Association in 2018. To learn more, visit www.trueventures.com.

True Ventures

We back founders who are reimagining the world. We invest $1-10m early, in those building daring adventures across Europe.  Our partners have worked in leading Silicon Valley startups since the dawn of the Internet and have collectively amassed over 50 years in tech on both sides of the Atlantic. We are a small team of investors and startup operators who typically make just a small number of new investments per year, so every relationship matters. We appreciate that success is not built overnight; we are in it for the long haul. We are humble, curious, open and straightforward — having learned from both mistakes and successes. Read about our thesis-driven approach to investing and what you can expect when working with us on our website.

Mosaic Ventures

Tusk Venture Partners is the only venture capital firm at the nexus of technology and regulation. TVP is an early-stage venture capital firm based in NYC, focused on investing in technology startups operating in highly-regulated markets.

Tusk Venture Partners

Nationwide Ventures invests in startups, pilots new technologies, and tests new solutions and business models. We focus on delivering next-generation experiences for Nationwide’s customers by exploring leading-edge topics from analytics and automation technology to new insurance and financial services platforms.

Nationwide Ventures

Alibaba Innovation Investment is an entrepreneurship incubation platform.

Alibaba Innovation Investment

Ibex Investors is a US based investment firm that invests in both public and privately held companies (Seed through IPO/acquisition) across enterprise software, cybersecurity, mobility, and other domains through its various funds. The firm was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado with an office in Tel Aviv.

Ibex Investors

Micron Ventures offers investment solutions to early-stage companies in the technology sector.

Micron Ventures

Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Inc. provides property and casualty insurance products in Japan and internationally. The company was formerly known as Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. and changed its name to Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Inc. in September 2014.

Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance

Samsung NEXT Ventures is an investment arm of Samsung NEXT, a multifaceted innovation group within Samsung Electronics dedicated to identifying new growth opportunities that will define the next decade. The firm prefers to invest in artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, health technology, infrastructure, and media technology sectors.

Samsung NEXT

La Maison is a club of highly renowned investors, led by Michel Cicurel and Marc Levy.  La Maison gathers a pool of outstanding shareholders that are entrepreneurs from diverse professional and geographical backgrounds such as the Dassault family, Michel David Weill, Carlo de Benedetti, Xavier Niel, Jacques Antoine Granjon, Maurice Levy and many others.  La Maison’s DNA, based on the prestige of its shareholding, is to co-invest in growth stage / late stage deals with very exclusive and highly qualified Venture Capital / Private Equity teams.  After investing in various funds and growing companies in Europe, the US, and China, La Maison decided to create a platform fully dedicated to investments in technology in Israel.

La Maison Compagnie d'Investissement

Atreides Management brings a long-term perspective to technology and consumer companies and invests across public and private markets. The firm was founded in 2019 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Atreides Management

Corner Ventures, re-branded from DAG Ventures (c. 2004) in 2018, with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Tel Aviv and Tokyo, focuses on building category leading companies in a variety of industries including information technology, cyber-security, financial services, healthcare, software among others.

Corner Ventures

Valor Equity Partners is an operational growth investment firm that focuses on growth companies across various stages of development. For decades, it has served its companies with the expertise to solve the challenges of growth and scale. Valor Equity partners with companies and entrepreneurs who are committed to the highest standards of excellence and the courage to transform their industries.

Valor Equity Partners

Catalyst employs a research-driven deal flow origination process to identify high-growth sectors and businesses within technology-enabled services.  Catalyst targets  growth-stage businesses with proven business models and attractive unit economics and sectors that are being driven by fundamental, long-term growth trends and have substantial addressable markets.  Catalyst makes both control and influential minority investments, typically has meaningful influence and board representation, and seeks to create value after investment through active involvement in creating, evaluating, and monitoring a portfolio company's business strategy, performance against budget, acquisition efforts, and capital structure evolution.  Catalyst leverages its Advisory Group of seasoned industry professionals to provide portfolio companies with access to experienced industry executives and referrals to potential customers or strategic partners.

Catalyst Investors

Banca Generali is a leading banking group in the Asset Management, stronger than one of the broadest offerings of investment solutions on the market and assistance in financial planning to clients. Aware of the need for different approaches for each customer, the Bank Group General has structured two different distribution networks: Banca Generali and Banca Generali Private Banking.

Banca Generali

Qumra Capital is an Israeli Venture Capital fund that focuses on the Israeli late-stage market and technology-driven companies. They focus on highly analytical, data-driven companies that can successfully scale to the power of enterprise and invest in rapidly growing companies with a proven market fit. Qumra Capital was founded in 2012 by Boaz Dinte, Erez Shachar, and Sivan Shamri Dahan.

Qumra Capital

State Farm Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in companies that disrupt conventional modes of operation to help each of individual live smarter and safer lives.

State Farm Ventures

Regah Ventures invests in visionary entrepreneurs who are developing transformational technologies, products, and solutions that are powering the future. It invests across a diverse range of industries like AI/ML, data analytics, and cloud edge computing enterprise software platforms, and in venture rounds alongside committed VCs, institutional, and other notable investors.

Regah Ventures

Nexar

Nexar creates powered dash cams that enable new vision-based applications for better driving. Nexar's mission is to reduce the chance of collisions and to make the road safer for everyone. Like a school of fish or a flock of birds, we want to get every car on the road moving safely and smoothly together.  Using a Nexar-powered dashcam, AI, and inter-vehicle networking, Nexar makes every car a smart car and is building the world’s first safe driving network.

<div>Nexar specializes in dash cams that enable new vision-based applications. Nexar’s core products include Nexar App and Nexar Dash Cams. Nexar Dash Cams are said to record the road and the cabin in up to 4K resolution, while the Nexar App shows the user’s video history, lets them see what’s going on in the car when they're not around, and sends smart alerts. It offers solutions for logistics, mapping, alternative data, cities, car insurance, autonomous vehicles, and parking. Nexar is a privately held company.</div>

Simplifying the insurance experience for businesses using technology

Commercial InsurTech

<div>Nexar is a developer of smart dash cams that gathers real-time street footage to create a digital twin of the physical world and provide data to users for decision-making. As of November 2022, the company had covered over 1.5 billion miles of imagery and holds 4T images in a neural library.&nbsp;</div>

Using real-time data to create dynamic virtual representations of the real world

Digital Twin

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 Nexar specializes in dash cams that enable new vision-based applications. Nexar’s core products include Nexar App and Nexar Dash Cams. Nexar Dash Cams are said to record the road and the cabin in up to 4K resolution, while the Nexar App shows the user’s video history, lets them see what’s going on in the car when they're not around, and sends smart alerts. It offers solutions for logistics, mapping, alternative data, cities, car insurance, autonomous vehicles, and parking. Nexar is a privately held company.
 
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 Next Insurance is an online-based insurance company issuing insurance policies to the self-employed. The company offers policies that can be bought in 10 minutes and provides services 24/7. It uses AI and machine learning to ease the purchasing process. Next Insurance acquired AP Intego in 2021. The company has been recognized as part of Forbes' Best Startup Employers, Forbes' Fintech 50, and JMP Securities InsurTech 50.
 
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Next Insurance

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 Pie Insurance is a tech provider offering workers&rsquo; compensation insurance for small businesses allowing for health coverage, partial wage replacement for employees, and financial benefits to families. The company recently launched a pay-as-you-go billing solution for its customers enabling policyholders to make payments on their individual payroll cycle instead of an initial deposit. Pie Insurance caters to a range of industries such as Retail, Electric, Restaurants, Plumbing, Auto, Manufacturing, Landscaping, and Beauty. The company&rsquo;s customer base includes small businesses such as DCL Outdoor Contracting, Gutter Plumber, Zoe&rsquo;s Coffee, J.J. Pfister Distilling Company, and Under the Sky Rentals.
 
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Pie Insurance

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 Zego is a motor insurance provider that combines technology and data sources to offer insurance products. It is said to have served over 200,000 vehicles for businesses, ranging from sole traders to fleets to global corporations. Solutions for self-employed drivers and riders include private hire insurance, car insurance, courier van insurance, van own goods insurance, and scooter insurance. Zego also offers solutions such as fleet insurance and micro-mobility insurance for fleets. The company is privately held, with its headquarters in the UK.
 
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Zego

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 Nauto is the world’s first AI-powered real-time fleet safety and driver platform that uses machine learning to analyze driver behavior. This enables companies with commercial fleets to reduce and prevent driving accidents in the transport industry. The platform analyzes data points from more than 1 billion video miles to help drivers improve their behavior. Nauto has helped some of the largest commercial vehicle fleets across the globe to avoid over 70,000 accidents, thereby generating almost USD 300 million in savings. The company has operations in North America, Europe, and Japan.
 
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Nauto

Infrastructure segments provide AI/ML-based products for carriers to use

Companies in the turnkey and value chain infrastructure segments operate under a B2B SaaS

Providers of solutions that target a specific part of the value chain, with solutions to support underwriting decisions, detect fraud, automate claims processing, automate customer service, etc

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 Nexar is a developer of smart dash cams that gathers real-time street footage to create a digital twin of the physical world and provide data to users for decision-making. As of November 2022, the company had covered over 1.5 billion miles of imagery and holds 4T images in a neural library.&nbsp;
 
 
 Using AI and computer vision, captured images and videos from cars are localized on a map to detect any changes in roads to provide actionable changed data across the platform CityStream and Nexar network. The platform provides features such as detecting changes on the road (such as road blockages, potholes, and construction), driver behavioural maps, autonomous vehicle systems, and compute and connectivity optimization.&nbsp;
 
 
 The company operates a B2B business model providing its services to enterprises and institutions in the logistics, road construction, and insurance industries.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Its key customers include the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, which partnered with Nexar in May 2021 to improve road management in Las Vegas.&nbsp;
 
 
 Also, in August 2021, the company partnered with Black Car Fund to provide cameras for Black car operators (rideshare drivers) in New York to protect Black Car Fund members in the case of an accident or assault.&nbsp;
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 The company raised USD 53 million in November 2021 in a Series D funding round led by Qumra Capital. The funds were used to scale its digital twin service using dash cam footage for automotive OEMs and cities.&nbsp;
 
 
 In August 2022, the company acquired Portugal-based Veniam to combine its data with Veniam&rsquo;s communications technology and provide real-time mapping for mobility applications.&nbsp;
 
 
 
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 Norway-based Cognite is a provider of digital twin modeling software for an entire operation through complex industrial data. With machine learning and physics simulators, companies are able to use these for predictive maintenance, production optimization, and better decision-making.&nbsp;
 
 
 Its main solution Cognite Data Fusion offers an open industrial digital twin by integrating IT, operational, and engineering data from sources such as ERPs, MES, and IoT platforms. The data is cleaned and contextualized into a single location and turned into insights for actionable advice, which then is used to build and automate workflows. The company claimed to be the first company to 
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 to accelerate (up to 10&ndash;25x) deployments of industrial digital solutions and reduce cost and complexity for users.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key Customers and Partnerships
 
 
 The company provides its solution mainly to the oil and gas, power and utilities, and manufacturing sectors. Its key customers include Siemens and Rockwell Automation.&nbsp;
 
 
 In June 2022, Cognite formed a joint venture, CNTXT, with Saudi Aramco to provide its digitization services in the Middle East region for the private and public sectors. Also, in October 2022, the company partnered with industrial automation company Rockwell Automation to develop an industrial data hub for the manufacturing sector by combining Rockwell&rsquo;s software, FactoryTalk, and the Cognite Data Fusion.
 
 
 Furthermore, in September 2022, the company partnered with Schlumberger to integrate the Cognite Data Fusion into Schlumberger&rsquo;s Enterprise Data Solution to contextualize data in an interoperable platform.&nbsp;
 
 
 Funding and Financials
 
 
 The company raised USD 150 million in May 2021 in an equity funding round from TCV, which brought the valuation of the company to USD 1.6 billion. The new funds were allocated toward expanding its platform to global industries.&nbsp;
 
 
 Furthermore, in January 2022, petroleum and gas company Saudi Aramco purchased 100% of Aker BP's shares in Cognite to own a majority stake of 7.4% at a value of USD 183 million.
 
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Cognite

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 Seeq is a provider of data analytics enabling insights, predictions, and collaboration for better production and business outcomes.&nbsp;
 
 
 The company&rsquo;s product portfolio includes software for data analytics including 1) Seeq Workbench for advanced analytics, 2) Seeq Organizer for publishing reports and dashboards, 3) Seeq Data Lab for accessing Python libraries, and 4) Seeq Cortex for IT governance, data connectivity, and calculation features. Furthermore, the company provides deployment via cloud, SaaS solutions, and on-premise depending on the customer&rsquo;s system.&nbsp;
 
 
 The company provides its services in more than 40 countries focusing on process manufacturing industries, including oil and gas, pharmaceutical, chemical, energy, mining, and food and beverage.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Seeq&rsquo;s software is built on long-term vendor partnerships such as SIsoft, Honeywell (since 2017), and Siemens (since 2017).&nbsp;
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 The company raised USD 50 million in April 2021 in a Series C round led by Insight Partners. The new funds were used for market expansion, development, and sales and marketing.&nbsp;
 
 
 
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Seeq

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 Q Bio provides a predictive assessment platform to analyse existential risk in an individual&rsquo;s health. The company claims its platform, Q Bio Gemini, is the fastest and safest scanner which takes 15 minutes for the whole body to be scanned.&nbsp;
 
 
 The company provides the Q Exam, which gathers millions of data points from the individual&rsquo;s body, such as blood, saliva, and vitals, and sends results via a web-based Q Dashboard to the individual&rsquo;s physicians. Data is facilitated via the Q Bio Gemini, a digital twin platform that captures whole-body patient vitals in a non-invasive manner.&nbsp;&nbsp;
 
 
 The company operates a B2B2C business model offering services via employers and individuals. It charges membership plans for one year at USD 3,495 for one exam and USD 6,495 for two exams.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 In May 2021, the company partnered with Amazon Web Services to provide Q Bio&rsquo;s services on its cloud platform.&nbsp;
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 The company raised USD 60 million in February 2020 in a Series B funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. The new funds were used to improve its proprietary platform.&nbsp;
 
 
 
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 Israel-based Locusview has developed a digital construction management platform to allow companies to manage projects from start to end. The platform is supported by technological capabilities in physical assets, such as plastic and steel pipes, to enable a digital thread (information of an asset such as model or size) and for supply chain and asset traceability.&nbsp;
 
 
 The platform provides features to manage construction projects in and off the field including GPS and sensor-based data collection, fieldwork validations, cloud-based deployment and scaling, real-time progress tracking, online approvals, and built-in reports. Furthermore, companies can lease the complete solution or get a consultation for a customized solution.
 
 
 The company operates a B2B business model, providing its services mainly to the energy, utilities, and telecom industries.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 The company&rsquo;s customer base includes more than 30 leading energy utilities and telecom companies. The company has a market presence in India, the US, Australia, Mexico, the UK, and Israel.&nbsp;
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 The company raised USD 64 million in April 2021 in a Series A funding round led by Israel Growth Partners. The new funds were used to expand the platform capabilities and for market expansion.&nbsp;
 
 
 
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Locusview

Digital twins are the primary enabling technology for the digital twin industry

Startups can create digital twins of cities; enables modeling/simulation to improve efficiency/quality of life

Digital twins can be applied in the telecommunications industry for remote monitoring of communication towers

Startups can use digital twins to automate and proactively monitor industrial production lines and facilities

Uses edge computing for cost-effective and real-time data processing by reducing transmission costs

Uses AI/ML for the creation of digital twins and when running simulations

Digital twin startups use IoT for remote data collection from sensors to create digital twins

Platforms that facilitate digital twin modeling by either collectively or individually offering any combination of data capture and analytics solutions.

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