Cerca Partners

Founded in 2014 and based in Ra'anana, Israel, Cerca Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in seed/startup transactions. It primarily invests in Israeli technology startups.

Amit Ashkenazi

Venture Partner

Haleli Barath

Co-Founder and General Partner

Nir Falevich

Principal

Ronnie Zahavi

Partner

Past deals in Israel

FundGuard

Series B in 2022
FundGuard is a software company that develops an AI-powered, cloud-based funds operating system for investment management and administration. Its platform automates exception resolution, detects anomalies, identifies potential fraud, and suggests operational improvements, providing real-time transparency across mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, insurance, and pension programs. Delivered as a SaaS solution, the platform helps asset managers and fund administrators reimagine product offerings as digital experiences and monitor key performance indicators. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel.

HiBob

Series C in 2021
Founded in 2015, HiBob develops Bob, an intuitive cloud-based HR management system designed for global, remote, and collaborative work environments. Bob empowers employees, fosters company culture, and maximizes employee experience through tools for time management, performance tracking, attendance records, compensation management, and more. Over 1,000 modern companies worldwide rely on Bob to drive organizational success.

Juno Journey

Series A in 2021
Founded in 2017 by Dor Nachshoni, Juno Journey is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel. The company offers a platform designed to support employee personal growth and professional development. It provides tools for employees to engage with their own growth journey, revealing relevant internal career opportunities aligned with both individual aspirations and organizational objectives.

Salto

Series B in 2021
Founded in 2019 by veteran entrepreneurs, Salto specializes in streamlining business application configuration. Its innovative solution automatically extracts configurations from various applications like Salesforce and NetSuite, translating them into a collaborative, version-control-friendly language called NaCl. This enables easy testing, tracking, and rollback of configuration changes across multiple platforms.

Granulate

Series B in 2021
Granulate Cloud Solutions Ltd. is an Israeli company established in 2018, specializing in AI-powered optimization software. Its platform focuses on enhancing the performance of applications by optimizing machine processes at the kernel and operating system levels. The Granulate solution offers real-time, continuous optimization for specific and repetitive tasks, ensuring high performance and scalability. The software’s agents can be installed on any Linux server and are compatible with various architectures, including data centers and multi-cloud environments. By analyzing resource usage patterns, these agents intelligently adjust resource allocation to alleviate performance bottlenecks, ultimately enabling businesses to improve application performance while reducing operational costs.

HiBob

Series B in 2020
Founded in 2015, HiBob develops Bob, an intuitive cloud-based HR management system designed for global, remote, and collaborative work environments. Bob empowers employees, fosters company culture, and maximizes employee experience through tools for time management, performance tracking, attendance records, compensation management, and more. Over 1,000 modern companies worldwide rely on Bob to drive organizational success.

Wiz

Series A in 2020
Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing enterprises with a platform that enables them to identify security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Wiz's innovative solution offers a comprehensive, cloud-native visibility tool that analyzes the entire cloud environment, delivering a 360-degree view of security risks across various platforms, including clouds, containers, and workloads. The platform utilizes actionable, graph-based analysis to facilitate in-depth risk assessment and root cause analysis without the need for agents, allowing organizations to enhance their security posture effectively.

Epsagon

Series A in 2020
Epsagon Ltd. is a technology company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2017. It specializes in developing solutions for monitoring serverless architecture systems, providing a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that enhances visibility and troubleshooting capabilities for Dev and Ops teams. Epsagon's platform enables organizations to achieve end-to-end observability in microservice environments by offering automated data correlation, payload analysis, and performance tracking. This comprehensive monitoring allows enterprises to predict and address potential performance issues before they impact operations, thereby reducing application downtime and enhancing engineering efficiency. With a focus on ease of use, Epsagon's lightweight agent SDK facilitates automated instrumentation and tracing without the need for manual coding or maintenance. The company aims to optimize operational costs through scalable pricing and unlimited free monitoring, catering to organizations of all sizes.

Tipalti

Series D in 2019
Tipalti, Inc., established in 2010, specializes in accounts payable automation and global mass payments. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an additional office in Israel, the company offers a comprehensive software solution that streamlines and automates the process of paying suppliers, partners, and publishers worldwide. Tipalti's platform covers all aspects of the payables workflow, including supplier onboarding, invoice processing, global funds disbursement, tax compliance, and payment reconciliation. By utilizing Tipalti, businesses can significantly reduce their supplier payment workload, strengthen financial controls, ensure regulatory compliance, and improve partner payment experiences, enabling them to focus on strategic growth.

HiBob

Series A in 2019
Founded in 2015, HiBob develops Bob, an intuitive cloud-based HR management system designed for global, remote, and collaborative work environments. Bob empowers employees, fosters company culture, and maximizes employee experience through tools for time management, performance tracking, attendance records, compensation management, and more. Over 1,000 modern companies worldwide rely on Bob to drive organizational success.

Cylus

Series B in 2019
Cylus is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting mainline and urban railway systems from cyber threats. Founded by experts from the elite technological unit of the Israel Defense Forces’ Intelligence Corps and seasoned executives from the railway industry, Cylus offers tailored solutions that address the unique challenges of railway signaling and control networks. The company's technology is designed to detect and manage cybersecurity events promptly, preventing potential harm and ensuring operational continuity. By securing both trackside and onboard systems, Cylus helps railway companies maintain safety and avoid service disruptions caused by cyber-attacks, thereby enhancing overall passenger comfort and operational integrity.

At-Bay

Series A in 2018
At-Bay is a cyber insurance and risk management company that underwrites tailored policies addressing information privacy, network security, business disruptions, cyber extortion, financial fraud, and media risk. It provides security assessments and exposure analysis to identify and mitigate cyber risk and combines proprietary technology with insurance to offer proactive risk management alongside coverage for Cyber, Tech E&O, and Miscellaneous Professional Liability. The company operates an InsurSec platform that analyzes, models, and predicts cyber risks to tailor coverage for clients and brokers, and it delivers proprietary cybersecurity solutions such as Stance MDR. Based in Mountain View, California, with a development center in Tel Aviv, At-Bay serves thousands of US businesses through admitted and non-admitted carriers, aligning insurance protection with proactive security controls to help organizations manage digital risk.

Tipalti

Series C in 2018
Tipalti, Inc., established in 2010, specializes in accounts payable automation and global mass payments. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an additional office in Israel, the company offers a comprehensive software solution that streamlines and automates the process of paying suppliers, partners, and publishers worldwide. Tipalti's platform covers all aspects of the payables workflow, including supplier onboarding, invoice processing, global funds disbursement, tax compliance, and payment reconciliation. By utilizing Tipalti, businesses can significantly reduce their supplier payment workload, strengthen financial controls, ensure regulatory compliance, and improve partner payment experiences, enabling them to focus on strategic growth.

prooV

Series B in 2017
ProoV, Inc. is a technology company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, that operates a Pilot-as-a-Service platform designed to streamline the proof of concept (PoC) process for software vendors and startups. Founded in 2015, ProoV consolidates the PoC process into a single, end-to-end ecosystem, allowing users to quickly identify collaboration opportunities with enterprises seeking to evaluate and adopt new technologies. The platform facilitates the rapid execution of multiple PoCs, enabling companies to assess various technology solutions from pre-screened vendors in a matter of days rather than months. ProoV also provides dedicated testing environments to support these evaluations, making it easier for organizations to demonstrate and sell their solutions effectively.

Prospera Technologies

Series B in 2017
Prospera Technologies Ltd. is a Tel-Aviv-based company founded in 2014 that specializes in developing computer vision technologies aimed at enhancing agricultural practices. The company's innovative solutions continuously monitor and analyze plant health, development, and stress by capturing both climate and visual data from the field. Prospera's technology provides actionable insights to growers through mobile and web platforms, enabling them to make informed decisions about their crops. The team's expertise comprises computer scientists, physicists, agronomists, and seasoned agri-business leaders, all dedicated to transforming the tools used in food production.

HiBob

Series A in 2017
Founded in 2015, HiBob develops Bob, an intuitive cloud-based HR management system designed for global, remote, and collaborative work environments. Bob empowers employees, fosters company culture, and maximizes employee experience through tools for time management, performance tracking, attendance records, compensation management, and more. Over 1,000 modern companies worldwide rely on Bob to drive organizational success.

Demisto

Series B in 2017
Demisto operates a security operations platform that integrates intelligent automation and collaboration into a single interface, facilitating incident response, process standardization, and threat hunting for security teams. The company's platform, which includes features like orchestration, incident management, and interactive investigation, helps organizations accelerate their response to security incidents and learn from them collaboratively. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with additional offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Tel Aviv, Israel, Demisto has a strategic partnership with ProtectWise. As of March 28, 2019, Demisto operates as a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks.

Alooma

Venture Round in 2017
Alooma Ltd. is a data platform company founded in 2013, with its headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel, and an additional office in California. The company specializes in enabling users to build and manage data pipelines quickly and efficiently, integrating various data sources into data warehouses in real-time. Alooma's platform supports numerous popular data sources and is designed for high availability and fault tolerance. It provides visibility and control over data pipelines, allowing users to track metrics such as throughput, latency, and error rates. The platform also offers notifications for any warnings or errors, facilitating proactive management of data workflows. As of March 2019, Alooma operates as a subsidiary of Google LLC.

Dynamic Yield

Series C in 2016
Dynamic Yield Ltd. is a technology company that specializes in machine learning and AI-driven personalization solutions. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, it operates globally with additional offices in major cities such as New York, Berlin, and London. The company's core offering, the Personalization Anywhere platform, empowers marketers to enhance customer experiences across various channels, including websites, mobile apps, emails, kiosks, and call centers. Dynamic Yield's platform provides tools for segmentation, omnichannel personalization, optimization, behavioral messaging, and dynamic advertising, catering to a diverse range of industries such as e-commerce, media, travel, and gaming. By integrating data from multiple customer touchpoints in real-time, Dynamic Yield enables organizations to deliver tailored content and offers, ultimately driving revenue growth and improving long-term business value.

Wochit

Series C in 2016
Wochit Inc. operates an online video creation platform tailored for publishers, newsrooms, media companies, and brands seeking to enhance audience engagement through social videos. Founded in 2012 and based in Yehud, Israel, Wochit's platform simplifies the video creation process, allowing users to produce short-form videos using a real-time and license-cleared media collection. This capability enables organizations to design socially-optimized video content that can be easily shared across various social and digital platforms. By providing powerful yet user-friendly video storytelling solutions, Wochit empowers a wide range of organizations, from brands to nonprofits, to connect with their audiences in innovative ways.

SafeBreach

Series A in 2016
SafeBreach Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in breach and attack simulation (BAS). Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel, SafeBreach offers a platform designed to enhance an organization's security posture by simulating real-world attack methods. The platform utilizes a comprehensive Hacker's Playbook, which includes a range of breach techniques derived from actual cyber incidents, to proactively identify vulnerabilities within an enterprise's network, cloud, and endpoints. By mimicking the tactics of cybercriminals, SafeBreach enables businesses to validate their security controls and improve the responsiveness of their security operations center (SOC) analysts. The platform can integrate with various security information and event management systems, ticketing solutions, and automation tools, providing continuous visibility into potential security threats and allowing organizations to address issues before they can be exploited by attackers.

HiBob

Seed Round in 2016
Founded in 2015, HiBob develops Bob, an intuitive cloud-based HR management system designed for global, remote, and collaborative work environments. Bob empowers employees, fosters company culture, and maximizes employee experience through tools for time management, performance tracking, attendance records, compensation management, and more. Over 1,000 modern companies worldwide rely on Bob to drive organizational success.

Demisto

Series A in 2016
Demisto operates a security operations platform that integrates intelligent automation and collaboration into a single interface, facilitating incident response, process standardization, and threat hunting for security teams. The company's platform, which includes features like orchestration, incident management, and interactive investigation, helps organizations accelerate their response to security incidents and learn from them collaboratively. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with additional offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Tel Aviv, Israel, Demisto has a strategic partnership with ProtectWise. As of March 28, 2019, Demisto operates as a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks.

E8 Storage

Series B in 2016
E8 Storage is a technology company specializing in advanced flash storage solutions designed for enterprise and software-defined cloud environments. Founded in 2014 by industry veterans Zivan Ori and Alex Friedman, the company has developed the E8-D24 appliance, which integrates high-performance NVMe drives with the reliability of centralized storage and the scalability of scale-out solutions. This innovative approach enables E8 Storage to deliver ten times the performance at half the cost of traditional storage products. In addition to its hardware offerings, the company provides a storage management application that simplifies storage management while ensuring high reliability and availability. This application includes features such as real-time analytics and supports clients in managing large and complex databases, optimizing performance and total cost of ownership for SSDs. E8 Storage operates research and development from Tel Aviv, Israel, while its sales and marketing efforts are based in Santa Clara, California.

Fiverr

Series D in 2015
Fiverr operates an online marketplace connecting businesses with freelance talent offering digital services. Its platform spans over 300 categories, including graphic design, digital marketing, writing, video animation, music audio, programming technology, business, and lifestyle services.

Fiverr

Series C in 2014
Fiverr operates an online marketplace connecting businesses with freelance talent offering digital services. Its platform spans over 300 categories, including graphic design, digital marketing, writing, video animation, music audio, programming technology, business, and lifestyle services.

Adallom

Series B in 2014
Adallom, Inc. is a cloud application security company that specializes in cloud access security brokerage services. Founded in 2012 by experts in cyber defense, Adallom's platform offers visibility, governance, and protection for various software-as-a-service applications. The company provides secure solutions for applications like Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Google Apps, along with services such as Box for file sharing, Dropbox for Business, and Ariba for monitoring user access and activities. Their technology, powered by advanced heuristics, ensures users can protect data and manage risks effectively in the cloud environment. Adallom is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with a research and development facility in Tel Aviv, Israel. Acquired by Microsoft in 2015, Adallom has established itself as an important player in the cybersecurity landscape.

Adallom

Series A in 2012
Adallom, Inc. is a cloud application security company that specializes in cloud access security brokerage services. Founded in 2012 by experts in cyber defense, Adallom's platform offers visibility, governance, and protection for various software-as-a-service applications. The company provides secure solutions for applications like Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Google Apps, along with services such as Box for file sharing, Dropbox for Business, and Ariba for monitoring user access and activities. Their technology, powered by advanced heuristics, ensures users can protect data and manage risks effectively in the cloud environment. Adallom is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with a research and development facility in Tel Aviv, Israel. Acquired by Microsoft in 2015, Adallom has established itself as an important player in the cybersecurity landscape.
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