We find and work with Israel’s best founders who are driven by a clear vision of how the world or an industry could be better. We share their obsession with bringing that vision to life. We do this at the very start of their journey. We are Israel’s Seed Fund.

lool ventures

Maccabee Ventures is a NYC based, early-stage venture capital fund dedicated to investing in exceptional entrepreneurs and outstanding teams in North America and Israel. Maccabee Ventures offers a distinctive investment strategy drawing upon the decades of successful investment experience of its managing members, Moshe Bellows and Bruce Taragin, investing into B2B SaaS, Converging Technologies (AI, ML, and NLP), Cybersecurity, FinTech, PropTech, Digital Health and SilverTech™ (enhancing the lives of seniors and their caregivers). As a strategic investor, Maccabee Ventures cultivates meaningful relationships with founders, providing a ''Trifecta of Added Value,'' including extensive networking/customer acquisition opportunities, introductions to top talent, and access to valuable co-investors. Now investing out of Fund II, notable companies from Fund I include industry disrupters such as Jiga, Gloss.ai,  FundGuard, Eleos Health, Cyabra and Agora. Dedicated to educating the next generation of financial professionals with moral clarity, Moshe and Bruce developed and teach a year-long Angel and Venture Capital Investing curriculum at Yeshiva University, Sy Syms School of Business.  Through the year-long, experiential venture capital curriculum, students at the Yeshiva University Sy Syms School of Business gain comprehensive exposure to the venture ecosystem.

Maccabee Ventures

aMoon is a leading healthtech & life sciences venture fund founded by Marius Nacht and Dr. Yair Schindel. Their team is passionate about building successful businesses and helping biopharma, digital health and medical technology companies realize their potential. They partner with management teams who use technology and cutting-edge science to accelerate cures for the world’s most life-threatening conditions and those providing solutions for global healthcare’s biggest cost drivers.

aMoon Fund

Gandyr Group owned by Judith Yoval-Recanati, combines broad financial activity & investments in over 30 companies from different fields, with familial philanthropic activity for the support of civil society organizations and young adults in Israel.  Gandyr invests in industry, technology, renewable-energy and real-estate and is actively involved with the various companies it invests in.

Gandyr Group

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital to date.  The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

Gaingels

Investing in early stage startups, led by Yossi Matias (VP Search, AI @ Google) and Michael Matias (Stanford CS, 8200).

Matias Ventures

Located in NY and Israel, Arkin Digital Health is a venture firm investing in early stage software-based healthcare companies and seeks to leverage the Arkin group extensive cross sector exposure with $2 Bn AUM in healthcare and life sciences.

Arkin Digital Health

Eight Roads Ventures is a global venture capital firm managing $11bn of assets across offices in the UK, China, India, Japan, and the US. Together with our associated funds, including our US sister fund F-Prime Capital, our 50-year history of investing includes partnerships with over 500 companies such as Alibaba, AppsFlyer, Chewy, Fareye, Fever, Flywire, Fireblocks, Funnel.io, Gloat, Hibob, Icertis, Neo4j, Otrium, Owkin, Paidy, Spendesk, Tibber, Toast, Wallapop and Xoom.

Eight Roads Ventures

F-Prime's roots are in one of America’s great entrepreneurial success stories. Fidelity Investments was founded in 1946 and grew from a single mutual fund into one of the largest asset management firms in the world, with over $2 trillion in assets under management. For the last forty years, this venture capital group has had the privilege of backing other great entrepreneurs as they built ground-breaking companies in technology and life sciences, including Atari, MCI, ROLM Corp., Alibaba, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, and Ultragenyx.  Today, F-Prime's funds are larger and more global, but its teams are still small and local. F-Prime stays true to its entrepreneurial roots. In the US and Europe, F-Prime Capital Partners is investing in healthcare (formerly Fidelity Biosciences) and in technology (formerly part of Devonshire Investors). In other geographies, its sister fund is called Eight Roads (formerly Fidelity Growth Partners), with investment teams in London, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Mumbai.   Together F-Prime brings a world of insight, domain expertise and relationships to support entrepreneurs. Without the pressure of fundraising from outside investors, F-Prime Capital Partners focuses all of its time finding and helping great entrepreneurs build important companies.

F-Prime Capital

Arkin Holdings is dedicated to empowering companies that create breakthrough pharma, biotech, medical device, and digital health technologies. Our synergistic healthcare investments are focused on creating innovations that benefit humanity and enhance medical care. We offer extensive experience, with a track record of successful healthcare investments. Experts in the dynamic world of healthcare development, we provide the know-how and close accompaniment that helps our portfolio investments achieve substantial value and growth. Arkin Holdings currently has a healthcare portfolio of $1.5 billion through its 5 investment arms. Its investors include a substantial amount of Israel’s top-tier institutional investors.

Arkin Holdings

Menlo Ventures provides capital for multi-stage consumer, enterprise, and life sciences technology companies. Since 1976, the firm’s market-driven analysis has led to the identification of opportunities and successful investments in innovative markets. Notable areas of investment include Marketplaces (Uber, Rover.com, Poshmark); Consumer Services (Tumblr, Betterment, Roku, Siri); Dev/Ops (Harness, Edge Delta, Fire hydrant); SaaS (Carta, ScoutRFP, Qualia, Benchling, Everlaw); Fintech (Betterment, Bluevine, Chime); Cybersecurity (Cavium, IronPort, BitSight, Abnormal, StackRox); and Life Sciences Technology (Synthego, Cofactor Genomics, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, 3T Biosciences). Menlo’s portfolio includes more than 70 public companies, and more than 100 mergers and acquisitions, with $5 billion under management. The firm is currently investing in Menlo Ventures XV, a $500 million early-stage fund, as well as its $500 million Inflection Fund, which targets early-growth investments.

Menlo Ventures

Automation positively transforms the lives of people and business. Their software helps you improve decision-making, increase efficiency, simplify complex processes and empower your people. They enable financial institutions, central banks and corporations to digitize and automate their most business critical processes. They are reinventing the way business is done through innovations in automation technology.

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

Eleos Health

Eleos Health provides automated health tech solutions that accelerate clinicians’ decision-making via an AI-powered Speech-to-Insights system to ensure the provision of personalized and time and cost-effective care.

Eleos Health offers an AI-based voice analysis program that analyzes behavioral health sessions to provide real-time actionable insights to clinicians. The company's core technology leverages proprietary, behavioral health-specific large language models (LLMs) to interpret, analyze, and document behavioral health conversations. Eleos Health's platform embeds seamlessly into electronic health records (EHRs), telehealth tools, and existing provider workflows, operating in the background of clinician-patient conversations with full patient consent. The system captures and digitizes behavioral health sessions, autonomously identifying in-session themes and generating post-session clinical progress notes. This automation reduces provider documentation time by over 50%, allowing clinicians to focus more on therapeutic alliance and personalized care.

New technologies are opening up mental health services to previously overbooked and underserved populations.

Mental Health Tech

Eleos Health on LinkedIn: #behavioralhealth #morecarelessops #healthcareai #augmentedintelligence…

Eleos Health offers an AI-based voice analysis program that analyzes behavioral health sessions to provide real-time actionable insights to clinicians. The company's core technology leverages proprietary, behavioral health-specific large language models (LLMs) to interpret, analyze, and document behavioral health conversations. Eleos Health's platform embeds seamlessly into electronic health records (EHRs), telehealth tools, and existing provider workflows, operating in the background of clinician-patient conversations with full patient consent. The system captures and digitizes behavioral health sessions, autonomously identifying in-session themes and generating post-session clinical progress notes. This automation reduces provider documentation time by over 50%, allowing clinicians to focus more on therapeutic alliance and personalized care.As of November 2023, Eleos Health had analyzed more than 3 million minutes of therapy sessions, saving over 300 days of documentation time across all providers and organizations. The company has expanded its product offerings to support field-based providers in case management and community outreach, compliance management, and group therapy sessions.Key customers and partnershipsEleos Health’s notable customers include Gaudenzia Home, The Brookline Center for Mental Health, Coleman Health Services, and Mental Health Partners.&nbsp;In April 2024, Eleos Health was selected as a Gold partner of the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, a Washington, DC-based association of organizations across the country focused on mental health and addiction treatment and services. Additionally, in September 2023, Eleos Health partnered with Mend to integrate their technologies and make both platforms more accessible to organizations across the country. In November 2023, Eleos Health also announced a partnership with Kipu Health, an electronic medical record (EMR) platform provider, to enable Eleos' voice-based Natural Language Understanding technology within the Kipu EMR.

Boulder Care is a telehealth provider that offers virtual addiction treatment for substance use disorders, primarily focusing on opioid and alcohol use disorders. The company provides medical care, medication management, peer recovery coaching, and case management services through a mobile app, allowing patients to connect with a multidisciplinary care team, including physicians, nurse practitioners, peer recovery specialists, and social services support. Boulder Care's treatment approach includes medication-assisted treatment (MAT), prescribing medications such as buprenorphine-naloxone (Suboxone) for opioid use disorder and naltrexone, acamprosate, and others for alcohol use disorder. The company also delivers naloxone doses to patients to help reverse opioid overdoses.The company has implemented value-based payment arrangements with insurers, tying its financial success to patient outcomes. As of May 2024, Boulder Care had served over 12,000 patients across multiple states, with a concentration in Washington, Oregon, and Ohio. The company reports retention rates of 70%–80% of patients remaining in treatment after six months, significantly above the national average. Boulder Care had also expanded its services to include treatment for adolescents as of January 2024.Key customers and partnershipsBoulder Care has established partnerships with numerous health plans and employers to provide access to its services, including Elevance Health, UnitedHealth Community Plan, and Centene.

Boulder Care

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 7 Cups provides an emotional-support platform with a network of volunteer listeners. Users can anonymously access either one-on-one chats or group chats 24/7, free of charge for issues such as depression, anxiety, relationships and those related to the LGBTQ+ community. It also teaches users skills such as meditation to improve their lives. If users want additional support, the company also provides access to an online therapy platform with a network of 180 licensed therapists for a subscription plan of USD 150 per month. 7 Cups is available for users above 13 years of age (users between 13 and 17 years old engage with listeners who are specifically trained in teenage interactions).
 
 
 Volunteer peer listeners get free training and support as well as flexible scheduling. Once a user requests a chat, it will be directed to available listeners and if the user requests a specific listener, he will be connected as soon as the listener accepts the demand. The service is anonymous and the listener has no access to the details of the user unless the information is disclosed to the listener by the user in their conversations. As of January 2022, 7 Cups has facilitated more than 51 million conversations, served 25 million individuals, and had 300,000 trained listeners. The listeners serve in 180 countries in 140 languages.
 
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7 Cups

wayForward provides technology-supported behavioral health and emotional wellness services for employers planning to make services available to their employees. It uses a screening procedure designed by neuropsychologists to triage and help employee members get clinically relevant mental healthcare. The company provides a self-guided app, text-based coaching, video visits, telepsychiatry, and if required, in-person visits or an on-site counselor. wayForward leverages its evidence-based approach and artificial intelligence in delivering its services and claims that it has been able to reduce anxiety symptoms by 48% and depression symptoms by 59%.The company raised USD 2 million in a seed round in June 2020, which brought total funding to USD 4.5 million. DarioHealth, a chronic disease management platform based in Israel, signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of wayForward in May 2021 for a total consideration of USD 30 million. As of May 2021, the wayForward had approximately 20,000 members and was available in North America, Australia, and Europe.

wayForward

Coa is a mental health company that conducts online classes led by licensed therapists for mental health users. The classes focus on conditions such as stress, anxiety, confidence and relationships. The company raised USD 3 million in a seed round in October 2020 from investors led by Crosslink Capital.

Meru Health is an online platform that connects patients experiencing stress, depression, anxiety, burnout, and other mental health issues to licensed therapists. The company was founded by Kristian Ranta in 2016 after his older brother died from suicide after battling depression. The platform offers a 12-week program and personalized text-based coaching services and virtual workshops. Meru also provides access to progress reports and anonymous peer support groups as well as sleep, nutrition, and mindfulness advice. The program utilizes a wearable device that monitors heart rate variability and provides real-time feedback, allowing patients to visualize the connection between their mental and physical health.In March 2024, Meru Health introduced a 100% fees-at-risk pricing model for healthcare payers and employers, guaranteeing outcomes, access, and engagement. This value-based care approach aims to incentivize enrollment, quality care delivery, cost management, and medical cost savings.The company reported a 10x YoY growth in its customer base in 2020 and plans to serve 10 million users by 2027. The company also achieved 8x YoY growth in revenue in 2020 amid an increase in demand in mental health services brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic.Key customers and partnershipsMeru Health partners with major health insurance providers, including Humana, Aetna, and Moda Health. In January 2022, the company joined Evernorth's national behavioral health provider network, making its services available to Cigna health plan customers accessing benefits through their employer or individual and family plans.Meru Health also works with employer groups to provide mental healthcare for employees. In September 2022, Meru Health and clinical trial platform Curebase <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13230">announced a partnership </a>to carry out a three-year clinical trial to measure the effectiveness of Meru Health’s 12-week digital depression treatment targeting primary care patients. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health’s Small Business Innovation Research program.

Meru Health

Online peer-to-peer platform and support system that connects mental health communities.

Mobile-based apps and FDA-approved software that incorporate evidenced-based cognitive behavioral therapy to prevent, treat, or manage mental and behavioral conditions in conjunction with or as a replacement for traditional medication.

Products for behavioral health and mental health tracking, measurement-based care, and real-time remote monitoring of patients.

Subscription or membership-based platforms and apps to connect therapists, psychiatrists or behavioral health coaches with patients.

Offers virtual offerings for mental health consultations

Mental healthcare services offer personalized care tailored to a user's needs and treatment progression

There are mental health providers offering services specifically to help LGBTQ+ or BIPOC individuals

Several mental health technology providers offer therapy services rendered by AI/ML technology

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 <li>Eleos Health has raised USD 40 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from F-Prime Capital, Eight Roads, Arkin Digital Health, SamsungNEXT, and ION. Previous investors aMoon and lool ventures also participated. With these funds, the total funds raised amounts to USD 68 million.</li>
 <li>The company expects these funds to be used to support its product development strategies, including the creation and improvement of its AI solutions focused on group therapy sessions, compliance automation, case management, concurrent documentation, and value-based care support. The company also aims to expand its workforce, intending to hire more than 50 personnel by the end of 2024.</li>
 <li>Since its inception in 2020, Eleos Health has reported a 3x increase in YoY revenue growth, more than doubling its customer base, and expanded its services to cover 23 states.</li>
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Eleos Health has raised USD 40 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. F-Prime Capital, Eight Roads, Arkin Digital Health, SamsungNEXT, and ION also participated. The company expects to use the funds for product development, expanding its AI solutions for group therapy sessions, compliance automation, case management, concurrent documentation, and value-based care support. The company plans to hire over 50 personnel by 2024. Since its launch in 2020, Eleos Health has seen a 3x increase in YoY revenue growth and doubled its customer base, expanding services to 23 states.

Eleos Health

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