S Capital gives Israeli entrepreneurs a set of tools designed to help them in the market. On one hand, S Capital brings with it all of the experience and methods that were acquired while working at one of the best firms on the globe. On the other hand, S Capital is a boutique fund. Today, S Capital uses the advantages of both of these worlds, bringing the knowledge and know-how of an established firm as well as the agility of a boutique firm. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

S Capital

Inovia Capital is a venture capital firm that works with founders to create influential and permanent businesses. The team leverages an operator mindset to provide founders with support, mentorship, and access to a worldwide network. Inovia manages over US$2.2B with operations in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, San Francisco, and London.

Inovia Capital

A community of Top Israeli and Jewish investors in Silicon Valley

J-Angels

MS&AD Ventures is an early-stage venture fund focused on big data businesses related to the insurance industry. It specializes in the fields of venture capital, financial services, and finance. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

MS&AD Ventures

J- Ventures is a Silicon Valley based group of VC funds with over $60m under management. Backed by 400+ leading Investors ( 140+ Serial founders, 100+ VCs, 170+ Fortune 500 Executives) as LPs. Our active-LP  venture fund brings the power of this connected & intellectual capital to add real value to the companies we invest in and create a remarkable difference by helping our founders grow and scale to markets quicker. Based in Silicon Valley with investors from 15 communities - Tel Aviv, NYC, LA, London, Miami, Boston, and more. Since 2016 the group made over 50 investments, 4 unicorns and over 10 exits.

J-Ventures

Glilot Capital Partners is a venture capital firm founded by entrepreneurs with a solid success record and with the aim of accelerating the success of those starting out. The firm's early growth fund focuses on post-Series A startups in the enterprise software and cybersecurity sectors. They seek to provide flexible funding solutions by leading or participating in early growth rounds and offering convertible notes. Glilot+ includes a large community of industry leaders, strong financial backing, and extensive resources to drive the growth of their business.  Glilot Capital Partners was founded in 2011 by Kobi Samboursky and Arik Kleinstein and is headquartered in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Glilot Capital Partners

Vintage is a global venture firm that invests in venture funds and startups via primary and secondary transactions. Through its secondary strategy, the firm acquires limited partnership interests in Israeli, European, and select U.S. venture capital funds as well as holdings in technology startups. It also invests directly into growth-stage startups across all 3 geographies, alongside partner VC funds.

Vintage Investment Partners

Evolution-VC is involved in investments and strategic partnerships to create a global platform that unites leaders, investors & corporates.

Evolution Ventures

Upshot Ventures curates a platform based investment strategy to scale returns from seed to unicorn.

Upshot Ventures

Sienna Venture Capital is a venture capital investment firm.

Sienna Investment Managers

Hourly

Hourly is an insurtech/fintech that simplifies workers’ comp insurance, payroll, and time tracking for small business owners. They built the platform to manage, pay, and insure the hourly workforce. They bring enterprise-level technology solutions to small and medium-sized businesses. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Hourly is a payroll and benefits platform for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The company’s clientele is located in California and has access to benefits in the form of worker compensation insurance. Hourly’s payroll function complements its services with payroll tracking to calculate worker compensation premiums.

Distributed workforces require new solutions for office operations, HR, payment, and more.

Remote Work Infrastructure

Hourly.io Implements Origami Risk Core Solution to Automate Workers' Comp Policy Rating, Provide Instant Quotes

Nationwide Mutual Insurance

Hourly.io will leverage Nationwide’s expertise to gain access to insurance capacity and expand its product offering.

Simplifying the insurance experience for businesses using technology

InsurTech: Commercial Lines

Startups that provide coverage for medical expenses and lost wages incurred by employees injured or falling ill while on the job.

Hourly is a payroll and benefits platform for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The company’s clientele is located in California and has access to benefits in the form of worker compensation insurance. Hourly’s payroll function complements its services with payroll tracking to calculate worker compensation premiums.The company claims that it is the first platform that lets employers run payroll, track time and attendance, and manage workers’ comp insurance premiums in a singular platform.The company generates revenue through monthly subscriptions per employee (USD 12 - USD 16) on top of a base fee (USD 80 - 120).&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsIn July 2023, Hourly partnered with Nationwide to roll out its payroll services to a wider client base, including construction, landscaping, painting, companion care and other skilled trades.Funding and financialsThe company’s latest funding round was in August 2023, where it raised USD 27 million in a Series A round led by Glilot Capital Partners. Funds were earmarked to expand its insurtech platform outside the state of California.

ActivTrak is a cloud-based productivity monitoring software provider. The platform offers data and analytics which can be used to detect workplace productivity gaps. The platform collects data from employee activity logs and computer screenshots, although it does not log keystrokes or record video of a user’s screen. ActivTrak also facilitates a range of tasks for admins such as blocking websites, flagging suspicious activities, IP address connections, and monitoring web, and app traffic.Other features offered include productivity reports and coaching, headcount and workload management and personal insights. In November 2023, the company added capabilities to measure the usage of AI tools, automatically detecting and classifying the use of such tools and websites to help organizations manage and improve AI adoption across the workforce.Activtrak generates revenue via monthly subscriptions (USD 10 and USD 17) per user, and custom pricing for larger enterprises.Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, over 9,500 enterprises used ActivTrak’s platform, notably including Allstate, asembia and Nobu. ActivTrak closed 2023 with a 40% growth in its customer base (adding ~2,200 customers).Funding and financialsIn November 2020, ActivTrak raised USD 50 million in a Series B round led by Sapphire Ventures. Sapphire Ventures CEO and managing director joined ActivTrak’s board as part of the deal. The new proceeds were earmarked for scaling global sales and marketing campaigns, expansion of its platform using AI driven analytics, and improving integration with its technology partners.

ActivTrak

inFeedo is a people predictive analytics company based in India. The Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2013 is currently focused on “Amber” (launched in 2016), an AI-enabled bot that helps manage employee engagement, predict attrition, and get a pulse on company culture in real time. The company also offers AI-driven exit surveys and analytics to improve retention.Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, over 700,000 users across 250 organizations utilized inFeedo’s platform. Notable clients included GE Healthcare, Puma, Tata Group, and Lenovo.Funding and financialsIn its latest funding round (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9099">March 2022</a>) inFeedo raised USD 12 million in Series A funding led by Jungle Ventures, reportedly tripling its valuation from less than 18 months ago. The fresh funds will be used for its second employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) buyback for all employees and its go-to-market activities in North America. Further, the company claims it has achieved annual revenue of USD 1.6 million as of November 2020.

inFeedo

Donut provides solutions to keep employees engaged with casual conversations. Its first product, Intros, makes connections between teammates via Slack to emulate quick meetups and in-person introductions at work, which are now virtual.Donut’s new product, Watercooler, launched in October 2020. It attempts to reinvent the micro-interactions between employees at the office watercooler online. The product will integrate with Slack, where a newly-designated channel for Watercooler will be created. The product will post questions automatically within the customers’ desired frequency and pre-selected topics.The company uses a freemium subscription model with paid plans starting at approximately USD 2 per user per month.Key customers and partnershipsThe company claims it has supported four million connections (one million since the Covid-19 pandemic) across its 12,000 customers, including companies such as Okta, Zapier, Slack, The New York Times, and Invision.Funding and financialsDonut announced a USD 12 million funding round led by Accel, along with its new product, Watercooler. The USD 12 million raised was accumulated over multiple rounds before the Covid-19 pandemic, with proceeds earmarked for product development.

Donut

Matter is an employee feedback platform founded by Brett Hellman. Hellman was the founder of messaging app “Hall”, which was founded in 2011 and later sold to Atlassian for USD 20 million in 2015.Matter uses 360-degree feedback to evaluate skills in employees which are linked to career success. The platform links skills such as influence, inclusiveness, empathy, resourcefulness, and multitasking to evaluations. Matter is currently available in beta.

Matter

Mesh is a Y Combinator-backed company that allows employees to set goals, track tasks, share feedback, and engage in one-on-ones. The company also offers an AI coach (Mesh Maven) to help employees stay in line with their key objectives, improve the quality of feedback provided and summarize 1:1s. Mesh also offers nudges and surveys to improve employee engagement alongside relevant analytics.The company generates revenue via monthly subscriptions per user, priced at USD 4 (Base) and USD 7 (Premium).&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, the company served over 100+ enterprises, including NTT Data, Grant Thornton and Groww. The platform also offers integrations with third-party software such as Gmail, Microsoft Teams and Slack, among others.Funding and financialsIn its most recent funding round (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9768">April 2022</a>) Mesh raised USD 11 million in Series A funding led by RTP Global. The fresh funds were earmarked to expand its global footprint across the US and APAC regions. In line with this, the company planned to expand its headcount across the engineering and sales departments.

Mesh

Companies offering tools to infer employee morale (through surveys and quick assessments) and productivity, including functions for goal setting, review, and feedback.

Companies that offer the entire spectrum of HR tools including payroll processing benefits, onboarding, compliance, analytics, scheduling etc

Companies providing either standalone or combined payroll and benefits services to businesses.

EoR - Companies that assist businesses in hiring distributed teams globally in compliance with foreign labor laws. EoRs become the legal employer of offshore employees. Solutions include payroll, benefits, and taxes.

PEO - Companies that offer similar services to EoRs but establish a co-employment arrangement with businesses and do not become the legal employer.

Companies offering tools such as chatbots, surveys, games, and other activities to infer, assess and improve employee morale and sentiment.

Companies that provide a centralized space for employees to access internal and external resources, enterprise applications, and enable workers to communicate across departments, and stay up to date on organizational announcements.

Solutions in this industry hub are predominantly offered under a B2B SaaS model

Employee and performance management solutions use AI/Ml to infer engagement insights and sentiment analysis

Offers tools for companies to hire contractors globally, and conduct employee and performance management

Hourly

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