Samsung NEXT

Samsung NEXT is an innovation group within Samsung Electronics that focuses on identifying and pursuing new growth opportunities. Through Samsung NEXT Ventures, it acts as the company’s venture capital arm, investing in early-stage startups and technologies with potential to redefine multiple industries. The group targets areas including artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, health technology, infrastructure, media technology, software, and related fields such as robotics and drones. By combining internal startup acceleration with external investments, Samsung NEXT aims to accelerate technology adoption and create scalable platforms that complement Samsung’s hardware and software ecosystems.

Sam Campbell

Investor

Carlos Castellanos

Venture Capitalist

Leo Chang

Principal

Andy Duong

Principal

Lizzy Goldman

Investor

Antonio Key

Investor

Brendon Kim

Managing Director | Vice President | Head of Investments

Joan Kim

Investor

Emily Koster

Director of Communications

Amy Lee

Investor

Raymond Liao

Managing Director

Jonathan Machado

Investor

Yonatan Machado

Senior Investment Director

Eyal Miller

Vice President

Nick Nigam

Principal, Seed to Series B Venture Capital Investments

Caroline Rehfuss

Investor

John Rodkin

Managing Director

Past deals in Israel

TailorMed

Series B in 2024
TailorMed Medical Ltd., established in 2017 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializes in health IT solutions. The company develops and provides financial navigation technology and systems, designed to streamline and automate financial processes for both patients and healthcare providers. Their offerings include TailorMed Financial Navigation, a platform to manage and automate financial processes; TailorMed Financial Insights, an analytics and reporting dashboard to track and measure key performance indicators; and TailorMed Pharmacy, a platform to simplify drug ordering, tracking, and billing based on patient treatment regimens.

Nym

Venture Round in 2024
Nym Health Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, specializes in medical coding technology for healthcare facilities. Its core product, Nym, is an autonomous coding solution that streamlines revenue cycle management. Nym reduces denials and operational expenses by directly billing and accurately assigning medical charge codes from patient charts, improving payment cycles and audit-readiness. It identifies relevant clinical aspects, assigns codes, and provides an audit trail explaining its coding decisions. With a research and development center in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Nym enables healthcare providers to enhance coding quality, lower costs, and focus more on patient care.

AI21 Labs

Series C in 2023
AI21 Labs is an Israeli artificial intelligence company that develops generative AI and large language models along with tools to understand and generate natural language. Founded in 2017 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, it provides AI-based writing and reading assistance that understands context and meaning, including a writing companion that can rephrase text to convey the intended message and generate summaries. The company's tools help users read more efficiently, analyze and visualize complex knowledge structures, and apply deep learning and NLP to transform writing and comprehension for businesses and individuals.

Intuition Robotics

Venture Round in 2023
Founded in 2015, Intuition Robotics designs AI-driven robots focused on enhancing the lives of older adults. Their robots utilize artificial intelligence to facilitate seamless connections with loved ones, promote active lifestyles, and provide intuitive technology for daily care.

Anzu.io

Series B in 2023
Anzu.io, Inc. is an innovative advertising company that specializes in integrating brand advertisements seamlessly into digital game environments, including mobile, PC, console, and the metaverse. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with an additional office in Berlin, Germany, Anzu provides a non-disruptive in-game ad solution that prioritizes player experience while enabling advertisers to engage with their target audiences programmatically. The company utilizes a patented 3D ad tracking engine for viewability measurement and partners with established AdTech vendors to ensure compliance with industry standards. Anzu's platform supports various game engines and offers developers a comprehensive ad monetization solution, allowing them to enhance revenue through strategically placed ads that align with gameplay. By catering to both brands and game developers, Anzu aims to improve the advertising landscape in gaming, making it more effective for advertisers while enriching the experience for players.

Mitiga

Series A in 2023
Mitiga, Ltd is a cybersecurity company based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, specializing in hybrid managed security services for cloud environments. The firm offers a comprehensive solution for detecting, investigating, and responding to threats in Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud settings. Mitiga's services include incident response, breach readiness, and emergency assistance, enabling businesses to enhance their security posture. The company's technology automates preliminary investigative work during incidents, streamlining the response process and improving overall breach readiness. Additionally, Mitiga leverages artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to help organizations model and quantify potential losses from various catastrophic events, addressing the unique security challenges faced in modern digital environments.

Wilco

Seed Round in 2022
Wilco is a platform designed to help software engineers of all experience levels enhance their skills through hands-on, immersive learning experiences. Founded in 2021 in Tel Aviv, Israel, by On Freund, Shem Magnezi, and Alon Carmel, Wilco simulates the environment of a tech startup, allowing users to engage in "quests" that cover everyday engineering tasks, such as deploying applications and troubleshooting production issues. By utilizing real-life tech stacks, the platform creates a safe and realistic space for developers to upskill at an accelerated pace, regardless of their background or skill level. This approach not only assists developers in their workflow but also enables them to improve site performance and implement observability tools, ultimately unlocking their full potential in the software development field.

DataGen

Series B in 2022
DataGen Technologies, founded in 2018 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializes in developing simulated data technology that is scalable, bias-free, and automatically annotated. The company focuses on creating hyper-photorealistic imagery and utilizes advanced algorithms to generate high-variance datasets. This technology allows clients to efficiently simulate large-scale data tailored to their specific needs and requirements, helping to enhance data-driven decision-making and analysis across various industries.

Zesty.co

Series A in 2021
Zesty Ltd. is a company that specializes in cloud cost management solutions, offering a platform designed to optimize cloud infrastructure for businesses. Founded in 2018 and based in Ramat Gan, Israel, Zesty’s AI-driven technology automates cloud cost optimization by dynamically adjusting resources in real-time according to application needs. Its key features include Commitment Manager, which manages reserved instances and savings plans; EBS Auto-scaler, which right-sizes EBS volumes automatically; Resource Cleaner, which decommissions unused resources; and Spot Instances. The platform provides users with full visibility and control over resource costs, enabling them to monitor utilization and predict expenses based on usage patterns. By automating these processes, Zesty helps engineering teams maximize cloud savings and minimize waste, significantly reducing overall cloud spending.

Deci AI

Series A in 2021
Deci AI Ltd. is a Givatayim, Israel-based company founded in 2019 that specializes in deep learning technology. It has developed an end-to-end deep learning acceleration platform designed to enhance the performance of AI models across various environments, including cloud, edge, and mobile. The platform allows AI developers to build, optimize, and deploy models more efficiently, achieving inference performance improvements of 3x to 15x while maintaining accuracy. Central to Deci's offering is its Automated Neural Architecture Construction (AutoNAC) technology, which optimizes model architectures for specific hardware, resulting in significant reductions in compute costs and development cycles. Deci's innovations have been recognized in the industry, including achieving notable performance benchmarks. The company's mission is to empower AI developers to create advanced AI solutions for complex challenges.

KB Investment

Series A in 2021
Established in 1990, KB Investment is a prominent South Korean venture capital firm with over USD 2.6 billion in assets under management as of December 2023. It is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea's leading financial group. KB Investment specializes in supporting early-stage and growth-oriented companies across various sectors, including consumer products, healthcare, information technology, life sciences, and clean tech, primarily in the United States, Southeast Asia, and Israel.

Cellwize

Series B in 2020
Cellwize specializes in accelerating next-generation mobile networks through its cloud-based automation platform, Chime. This AI-driven solution enables mobile network operators to swiftly deploy and manage 5G networks, optimize coverage, and enhance user experience across diverse environments.

Nexar

Series C in 2020
Nexar develops a mobile application called Dashcam, which uses AI and computer vision to predict and prevent road accidents. The app records the road while driving, detects hard breaks or accidents, and automatically uploads incident footage to the cloud. Nexar's mission is to make roads safer by connecting vehicles through its smart dashcam technology.

Anodot

Series C in 2020
Anodot is a SaaS-based autonomous analytics company offering an automated business analytics and anomaly detection platform. The platform continuously collects and analyzes data to identify outliers and abnormal patterns, automatically isolating issues and correlating signals across multiple parameters in real time to eliminate insight latency and support rapid business decisions. It serves data-driven sectors such as eCommerce, fintech, adtech, telecommunications, IoT, and gaming, and is distributed through a global network of resellers. Founded in 2014, Anodot is headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel, with offices in London and Sydney.

Intuition Robotics

Series B in 2020
Founded in 2015, Intuition Robotics designs AI-driven robots focused on enhancing the lives of older adults. Their robots utilize artificial intelligence to facilitate seamless connections with loved ones, promote active lifestyles, and provide intuitive technology for daily care.

Rezilion

Seed Round in 2019
Rezilion, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in developing a cloud workload protection platform aimed at securing software and cloud networks. Founded in 2018 and based in Be'er Sheva, Israel, Rezilion offers a range of services, including dynamic whitelisting, application control, vulnerability management, and exploit prevention. Its innovative platform employs Dynamic SBOM technology to automate security operations, helping organizations identify, prioritize, and remediate software vulnerabilities more efficiently. By providing insights into software components across various environments—such as on-premises, cloud, and IoT devices—Rezilion enables clients to understand their attack surface and focus on critical vulnerabilities. The platform also streamlines the remediation process by clustering vulnerabilities and executing fixes automatically, ultimately freeing up development teams to concentrate on building rather than securing.

DayTwo

Series B in 2019
DayTwo Ltd. is a precision nutrition company based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, that focuses on leveraging gut microbiome analysis to provide tailored health solutions for metabolic diseases such as diabetes, prediabetes, clinical obesity, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Founded in 2015, DayTwo utilizes a web-based platform that offers personalized dietary recommendations through its innovative Food Prescriptions™, which are designed to help individuals manage their blood sugar levels and improve overall health. By sequencing gut microbiomes, the company identifies how different foods affect each person, allowing for customized nutrition plans. DayTwo's virtual care model is supported by Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialists and Registered Dietitians, who engage with patients through a smartphone application to track progress and ensure adherence to the dietary recommendations.

Healthy.io

Series C in 2019
Healthy.io Ltd is a Tel Aviv-Yafo-based company founded in 2013 that specializes in home urinalysis kits for diagnosing diseases, urinary tract infections, and pregnancy complications. The company has developed an innovative product, Dip.io, which transforms a smartphone camera into a clinical-grade medical device for urine analysis. This product enables users to conduct urine tests by guiding them through the testing process, capturing images of test strips, and analyzing the results. The findings are automatically sent to the patient's electronic medical record for clinical follow-up. Healthy.io has expanded its offerings with an additional urinalysis test, ACR, designed for individuals with diabetes or high blood pressure to monitor kidney health. Furthermore, the company has ventured into chronic wound monitoring, providing tools to assess and manage chronic wounds effectively. Healthy.io aims to enhance patient care and facilitate remote health monitoring through its digital health technologies.

DayTwo

Series B in 2019
DayTwo Ltd. is a precision nutrition company based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, that focuses on leveraging gut microbiome analysis to provide tailored health solutions for metabolic diseases such as diabetes, prediabetes, clinical obesity, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Founded in 2015, DayTwo utilizes a web-based platform that offers personalized dietary recommendations through its innovative Food Prescriptions™, which are designed to help individuals manage their blood sugar levels and improve overall health. By sequencing gut microbiomes, the company identifies how different foods affect each person, allowing for customized nutrition plans. DayTwo's virtual care model is supported by Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialists and Registered Dietitians, who engage with patients through a smartphone application to track progress and ensure adherence to the dietary recommendations.

Brodmann17

Series A in 2019
Brodmann17 Ltd, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Hod Hasharon, Israel, specializes in developing advanced computer-vision technology aimed at enhancing safety in mobility. The company focuses on creating an architecture code for applications such as pedestrian and face detection, leveraging deep learning neural networks to efficiently extract information from video feeds. This technology significantly reduces computing power needs, making artificial intelligence more accessible across various sectors, including mass-market passenger vehicles and micro-mobility solutions. Brodmann17’s patented perception software is scalable and hardware-agnostic, allowing seamless integration across different platforms, from low-power edge devices to cloud environments. The company's innovative approach has attracted considerable attention from high-profile players in the technology and automotive sectors, receiving backing from prominent venture capital firms and leading corporations.

Healthy.io

Series B in 2019
Healthy.io Ltd is a Tel Aviv-Yafo-based company founded in 2013 that specializes in home urinalysis kits for diagnosing diseases, urinary tract infections, and pregnancy complications. The company has developed an innovative product, Dip.io, which transforms a smartphone camera into a clinical-grade medical device for urine analysis. This product enables users to conduct urine tests by guiding them through the testing process, capturing images of test strips, and analyzing the results. The findings are automatically sent to the patient's electronic medical record for clinical follow-up. Healthy.io has expanded its offerings with an additional urinalysis test, ACR, designed for individuals with diabetes or high blood pressure to monitor kidney health. Furthermore, the company has ventured into chronic wound monitoring, providing tools to assess and manage chronic wounds effectively. Healthy.io aims to enhance patient care and facilitate remote health monitoring through its digital health technologies.

StreamElements

Series A in 2019
StreamElements is a company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2016. It specializes in developing a web-based platform tailored for live content creators, offering tools for monetization, audience management, and community growth. The platform allows creators to display unblockable ads, collect donations, and reward viewers with loyalty points. Key features include a stream dashboard, overlay manager, chat statistics, leaderboard, spam filters, and custom stream pages. StreamElements also facilitates revenue generation through viewer purchases using currency earned by watching streams. Additionally, the company provides cloud-based overlays, alerts, chatbots, loyalty programs, sponsorships, and brand-safe moderation services. It supports creators across various platforms like Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok, connecting them with brands for performance marketing campaigns.

KZen Networks

Seed Round in 2018
KZen Networks is a technology company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializing in the development of a non-custodial digital currency wallet. Incorporated in 2018, KZen Networks combines advanced cryptography with a strong emphasis on security, user interface, and user experience to create a reliable platform for digital asset management. The company's innovative approach to blockchain technology reflects its commitment to providing secure solutions for cryptocurrency users, leveraging expertise in both cutting-edge technology and consumer product marketing.

Intuition Robotics

Venture Round in 2018
Founded in 2015, Intuition Robotics designs AI-driven robots focused on enhancing the lives of older adults. Their robots utilize artificial intelligence to facilitate seamless connections with loved ones, promote active lifestyles, and provide intuitive technology for daily care.

Intuition Robotics

Series A in 2017
Founded in 2015, Intuition Robotics designs AI-driven robots focused on enhancing the lives of older adults. Their robots utilize artificial intelligence to facilitate seamless connections with loved ones, promote active lifestyles, and provide intuitive technology for daily care.

Brodmann17

Seed Round in 2017
Brodmann17 Ltd, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Hod Hasharon, Israel, specializes in developing advanced computer-vision technology aimed at enhancing safety in mobility. The company focuses on creating an architecture code for applications such as pedestrian and face detection, leveraging deep learning neural networks to efficiently extract information from video feeds. This technology significantly reduces computing power needs, making artificial intelligence more accessible across various sectors, including mass-market passenger vehicles and micro-mobility solutions. Brodmann17’s patented perception software is scalable and hardware-agnostic, allowing seamless integration across different platforms, from low-power edge devices to cloud environments. The company's innovative approach has attracted considerable attention from high-profile players in the technology and automotive sectors, receiving backing from prominent venture capital firms and leading corporations.

StreamElements

Seed Round in 2017
StreamElements is a company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2016. It specializes in developing a web-based platform tailored for live content creators, offering tools for monetization, audience management, and community growth. The platform allows creators to display unblockable ads, collect donations, and reward viewers with loyalty points. Key features include a stream dashboard, overlay manager, chat statistics, leaderboard, spam filters, and custom stream pages. StreamElements also facilitates revenue generation through viewer purchases using currency earned by watching streams. Additionally, the company provides cloud-based overlays, alerts, chatbots, loyalty programs, sponsorships, and brand-safe moderation services. It supports creators across various platforms like Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok, connecting them with brands for performance marketing campaigns.

SafeDK

Series A in 2016
SafeDK is a mobile SDK management platform based in Herzliya, Israel, designed to assist enterprises and mobile developers in managing third-party tools within their applications. The company provides an infrastructure solution that enhances the security, stability, and quality of service of mobile apps by monitoring and controlling the behavior of integrated SDKs in real-time. SafeDK’s platform enables application publishers to gain comprehensive insights into the advertisements displayed in their apps while identifying and reporting privacy, performance, and stability issues. This helps clients maximize the advantages of using third-party tools while minimizing associated risks.

MobileSpaces

Series B in 2013
MobileSpaces, established in 2011 by former McAfee and Check Point Software executives, specializes in enterprise mobility management. Headquartered near Washington, D.C., with additional offices in Israel, the company enables businesses to securely mobilize their applications while governing data and respecting employee privacy. MobileSpaces offers a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy-managed workspace that safeguards mobile enterprise apps and data against loss or leakage. The company is backed by Accel Partners and Marker LLC.

MobileSpaces

Series A in 2012
MobileSpaces, established in 2011 by former McAfee and Check Point Software executives, specializes in enterprise mobility management. Headquartered near Washington, D.C., with additional offices in Israel, the company enables businesses to securely mobilize their applications while governing data and respecting employee privacy. MobileSpaces offers a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy-managed workspace that safeguards mobile enterprise apps and data against loss or leakage. The company is backed by Accel Partners and Marker LLC.
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