Sequoia Capital Israel

Sequoia Capital Israel is a venture capital firm that backs startups and growth companies across seed to late-stage rounds, with a focus on Israel. It invests across sectors including fintech, financial services, internet, mobile, technology, and healthcare, spanning banking, payments, advertising, ecommerce, data, security, software, and related enabling tech. Typical commitments range from 100,000 to 1 million in seed, 1 to 10 million in early venture, and 10 to 100 million in growth rounds. The firm is based in Tel Aviv and operates as part of Sequoia Capital's global network.

Rohit Agarwal

Managing Director

Mohit Bhatnagar

Managing Director

Sakshi Chopra

Managing Director

Fu Xin

Partner

Shmil Levy

Investor

Ishaan Mittal

Managing Director

Abhishek Mohan

Principal

Javier Ng

Associate

Enita Pu

Partner

Yoav Shaked

Investor

Pavel Vyhnalek

Operating Partner

Wang Chenyu

Vice President

Past deals in Advertising

Just Words

Seed Round in 2024
Just Words is a software company that simplifies the creation of self-optimizing content variations for emails and advertisements. Its AI-powered platform analyzes and improves marketing copy, such as landing page titles, email subject lines, and push notifications, to help businesses scientifically select wording that boosts user acquisition and engagement.

HeyGen

Seed Round in 2022
HeyGen operates an artificial intelligence video platform that converts text into realistic spokesperson videos using digital avatars. The browser-based solution enables users to create videos without actors, cameras, or traditional editing, simply by inputting a narrative. The platform supports voice replication, avatar customization, and multilingual output, allowing content to be produced efficiently for diverse audiences. By removing production complexity, HeyGen helps organizations generate engaging video content at scale for marketing, training, and communications purposes.

Sigmoid

Series B in 2022
Sigmoid is a Data Solutions company offering best-in-class services in Data Engineering and Data Science. With over 110 team members driven by a passion for unraveling data complexities, Sigmoid generates actionable insights and translates them into successful business strategies. The company leverages expertise in Open Source and Cloud Technologies to develop innovative frameworks tailored to specific client needs, positively influencing the performance of Fortune 1000 clients worldwide.

BIK

Series A in 2021
BIK is the most intelligent e-commerce marketing platform. Helping Brands to increase their ROI. Our platform enables brands to do personalized marketing delivering higher conversions. Using our data driven broadcasting, chatbots, CRM & growth tools, we have enabled brands driving up to 66x ROI.

Ke.com

Series D in 2020
KE Holdings Inc., known as Beike, operates a comprehensive platform for housing transactions and services in China, enhancing the user experience through both online and offline channels. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Beijing, the company facilitates a range of housing-related transactions, including the sale and rental of existing and new homes, home renovation, and real estate financial solutions. Beike operates through its branded Lianjia stores in major cities like Beijing and Shanghai, while also collaborating with various third-party agencies, including franchise partners. The platform aims to create a high-quality ecosystem for real estate services, supporting over 100,000 property agents and reaching more than 200 million households. Additionally, Beike has expanded its offerings internationally, providing services for Chinese families seeking overseas properties across 11 countries. The company's growth strategy includes plans to cover over 300 cities in China and build a robust network of accredited partners.

BUY QUICKLY

Venture Round in 2019
Buy Quickly is a one-stop full-service e-commerce solution with a fashion focus. It offers a comprehensive range of online and offline services, including brand consulting, store operations, digital marketing, logistics and warehousing, IT solutions, and new retail.

Kuaishou Technology

Series F in 2019
Kuaishou Technology, founded in 2011 and based in Beijing, China, operates an online video and photo sharing application known as Kuaishou. The platform enables users to broadcast their daily activities and engage with a global audience through short videos, photos, and live streams. Kuaishou aims to enhance individual happiness by leveraging big data and artificial intelligence technology, promoting equal opportunities through its algorithms and ethical values. The app empowers everyday individuals in China to share their experiences and connect with fans worldwide. Additionally, Kuaishou has an international counterpart, Kwai, which offers similar features tailored for users outside of China. With an average of 275.9 million daily active users, Kuaishou generates revenue by selling virtual items, online marketing, and earning commissions from e-commerce transactions on its platform.

Tikin Media

Series A in 2018
Tikin Media is an innovative advertising company that specializes in elevator marketing solutions, connecting properties with advertisers. It focuses on creating high-end commercial building media experiences through the installation of advanced projector systems in elevators. This unique approach offers advertisers a new channel to engage consumers, enhancing product visibility in a novel environment. The company has developed proprietary elevator projection equipment, which integrates mobile connectivity, programmatic ordering, and big data analytics, thus transforming traditional advertising methods. With backing from prominent investors, Tikin Media aims to redefine the landscape of advertising within commercial spaces.

Meituan

Series F in 2017
Meituan is a Beijing-based Chinese technology platform that combines on-demand food delivery, local commerce, and social shopping. It retails and delivers Chinese food from local restaurants online and operates a social commerce website offering online group discounts for food, groceries, tickets, and other services, including entertainment and health/fitness sectors. Meituan is described as the largest food delivery platform in China, with a market share of roughly 60-70% in 2024 according to Morningstar estimates. In the third quarter of 2024, about 74% of revenue came from the core local commerce segment, encompassing on-demand food delivery, retail and in-store services such as visits to beauty and entertainment venues after purchasing deals, and hotel and travel booking, while the remaining 26% came from newer initiatives like Meituan Select and overseas food delivery. The company originated as Meituan Group in 2010, became Meituan-Dianping in 2015, and rebranded to Meituan in 2020.

Tapzo.

Series C in 2016
Tapzo (formerly Helpchat) is an All in One App for high frequency use cases. This could be anything from finding best offers, deals & coupons, booking cabs/taxis & autos, ordering food, recharging prepaid mobile & DTH, paying postpaid mobile bills, reading news, following & sharing trending, funny & viral stories, checking live cricket scores and daily horoscope! Tapzo is a 500+ people company with offices in Bangalore, New Delhi and Mumbai. You can check out the mobile app here. Android: bit.ly/Tapzo iOS: bit.ly/TapzoApp

Innovid

Series D in 2015
Innovid is an independent omni-channel advertising and analytics platform designed specifically for television. The company offers a comprehensive software solution that enables advertisers to personalize, deliver, and measure innovative advertising experiences across various devices and media outlets. Its services encompass ad serving, measurement, and creative optimization for TV advertisements, catering to advertisers, publishers, and media agencies. With a strong presence in the U.S., Canada, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM, Innovid focuses on enhancing the effectiveness of TV advertising by providing tools that facilitate the creation and analysis of ads in connected TV, mobile TV, and desktop environments.

Tapzo.

Series B in 2015
Tapzo (formerly Helpchat) is an All in One App for high frequency use cases. This could be anything from finding best offers, deals & coupons, booking cabs/taxis & autos, ordering food, recharging prepaid mobile & DTH, paying postpaid mobile bills, reading news, following & sharing trending, funny & viral stories, checking live cricket scores and daily horoscope! Tapzo is a 500+ people company with offices in Bangalore, New Delhi and Mumbai. You can check out the mobile app here. Android: bit.ly/Tapzo iOS: bit.ly/TapzoApp

Innovid

Series D in 2015
Innovid is an independent omni-channel advertising and analytics platform designed specifically for television. The company offers a comprehensive software solution that enables advertisers to personalize, deliver, and measure innovative advertising experiences across various devices and media outlets. Its services encompass ad serving, measurement, and creative optimization for TV advertisements, catering to advertisers, publishers, and media agencies. With a strong presence in the U.S., Canada, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM, Innovid focuses on enhancing the effectiveness of TV advertising by providing tools that facilitate the creation and analysis of ads in connected TV, mobile TV, and desktop environments.

Taykey

Series D in 2015
Taykey is a technology company specializing in real-time advertising solutions for Fortune 500 brands. It mines data from thousands of online sources to identify trends specific to target audiences, automating the media buying process. This enables brands like American Express and Volkswagen to create more relevant ads and improve marketing strategies by leveraging real-time insights into consumer sentiment and trending conversations.

Near Pte.

Series B in 2014
Near Pte. Ltd., also known as AdNear, operates a location-based intelligence platform that delivers real-time insights about places, people, and products. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Singapore, the company specializes in data-driven solutions that help brands and publishers engage and analyze audiences. Its offerings include Allspark, a mobile-first audience cloud solution, and Carbon, which analyzes real-world consumer behavior across significant locations. Near's platform processes data from approximately 1.6 billion unique user IDs and 70 million points of interest across over 44 countries, enabling clients to better understand consumer behaviors and preferences. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including retail, technology, travel, telecommunications, and financial services, with additional offices in major global cities such as San Francisco, New York, London, Bengaluru, Tokyo, and Sydney.

Tapzo.

Series A in 2014
Tapzo (formerly Helpchat) is an All in One App for high frequency use cases. This could be anything from finding best offers, deals & coupons, booking cabs/taxis & autos, ordering food, recharging prepaid mobile & DTH, paying postpaid mobile bills, reading news, following & sharing trending, funny & viral stories, checking live cricket scores and daily horoscope! Tapzo is a 500+ people company with offices in Bangalore, New Delhi and Mumbai. You can check out the mobile app here. Android: bit.ly/Tapzo iOS: bit.ly/TapzoApp

Meituan

Series C in 2014
Meituan is a Beijing-based Chinese technology platform that combines on-demand food delivery, local commerce, and social shopping. It retails and delivers Chinese food from local restaurants online and operates a social commerce website offering online group discounts for food, groceries, tickets, and other services, including entertainment and health/fitness sectors. Meituan is described as the largest food delivery platform in China, with a market share of roughly 60-70% in 2024 according to Morningstar estimates. In the third quarter of 2024, about 74% of revenue came from the core local commerce segment, encompassing on-demand food delivery, retail and in-store services such as visits to beauty and entertainment venues after purchasing deals, and hotel and travel booking, while the remaining 26% came from newer initiatives like Meituan Select and overseas food delivery. The company originated as Meituan Group in 2010, became Meituan-Dianping in 2015, and rebranded to Meituan in 2020.

Kontera

Series D in 2013
Kontera Technologies is a San Francisco-based company established in 2003 that specializes in Internet-based big data marketing solutions for marketers and publishers. The company offers a content activation platform that analyzes and correlates over 400 million daily conversations and content views in real-time, utilizing data from 15,000 exclusive publishers and many top-ranking websites. This platform dynamically activates brands' owned content, advertising, and organic content to enhance marketing effectiveness across display, mobile, and social environments. Kontera's services include an in-text advertising solution, ContentLink, which identifies contextually relevant keywords on publishers' web pages and matches them with appropriate advertisements. The company reaches more than 170 million consumers monthly and serves notable advertisers such as Chrysler, GM, Kraft, P&G, and Microsoft. Kontera is supported by several venture capital firms and maintains offices in multiple cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, London, and Tel Aviv.

Taykey

Series C in 2013
Taykey is a technology company specializing in real-time advertising solutions for Fortune 500 brands. It mines data from thousands of online sources to identify trends specific to target audiences, automating the media buying process. This enables brands like American Express and Volkswagen to create more relevant ads and improve marketing strategies by leveraging real-time insights into consumer sentiment and trending conversations.

Innovid

Series C in 2013
Innovid is an independent omni-channel advertising and analytics platform designed specifically for television. The company offers a comprehensive software solution that enables advertisers to personalize, deliver, and measure innovative advertising experiences across various devices and media outlets. Its services encompass ad serving, measurement, and creative optimization for TV advertisements, catering to advertisers, publishers, and media agencies. With a strong presence in the U.S., Canada, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM, Innovid focuses on enhancing the effectiveness of TV advertising by providing tools that facilitate the creation and analysis of ads in connected TV, mobile TV, and desktop environments.

Near Pte.

Series A in 2012
Near Pte. Ltd., also known as AdNear, operates a location-based intelligence platform that delivers real-time insights about places, people, and products. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Singapore, the company specializes in data-driven solutions that help brands and publishers engage and analyze audiences. Its offerings include Allspark, a mobile-first audience cloud solution, and Carbon, which analyzes real-world consumer behavior across significant locations. Near's platform processes data from approximately 1.6 billion unique user IDs and 70 million points of interest across over 44 countries, enabling clients to better understand consumer behaviors and preferences. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including retail, technology, travel, telecommunications, and financial services, with additional offices in major global cities such as San Francisco, New York, London, Bengaluru, Tokyo, and Sydney.

Tapzo.

Seed Round in 2011
Tapzo (formerly Helpchat) is an All in One App for high frequency use cases. This could be anything from finding best offers, deals & coupons, booking cabs/taxis & autos, ordering food, recharging prepaid mobile & DTH, paying postpaid mobile bills, reading news, following & sharing trending, funny & viral stories, checking live cricket scores and daily horoscope! Tapzo is a 500+ people company with offices in Bangalore, New Delhi and Mumbai. You can check out the mobile app here. Android: bit.ly/Tapzo iOS: bit.ly/TapzoApp

Innovid

Series B in 2011
Innovid is an independent omni-channel advertising and analytics platform designed specifically for television. The company offers a comprehensive software solution that enables advertisers to personalize, deliver, and measure innovative advertising experiences across various devices and media outlets. Its services encompass ad serving, measurement, and creative optimization for TV advertisements, catering to advertisers, publishers, and media agencies. With a strong presence in the U.S., Canada, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM, Innovid focuses on enhancing the effectiveness of TV advertising by providing tools that facilitate the creation and analysis of ads in connected TV, mobile TV, and desktop environments.

Meituan

Series B in 2011
Meituan is a Beijing-based Chinese technology platform that combines on-demand food delivery, local commerce, and social shopping. It retails and delivers Chinese food from local restaurants online and operates a social commerce website offering online group discounts for food, groceries, tickets, and other services, including entertainment and health/fitness sectors. Meituan is described as the largest food delivery platform in China, with a market share of roughly 60-70% in 2024 according to Morningstar estimates. In the third quarter of 2024, about 74% of revenue came from the core local commerce segment, encompassing on-demand food delivery, retail and in-store services such as visits to beauty and entertainment venues after purchasing deals, and hotel and travel booking, while the remaining 26% came from newer initiatives like Meituan Select and overseas food delivery. The company originated as Meituan Group in 2010, became Meituan-Dianping in 2015, and rebranded to Meituan in 2020.

Taykey

Series B in 2011
Taykey is a technology company specializing in real-time advertising solutions for Fortune 500 brands. It mines data from thousands of online sources to identify trends specific to target audiences, automating the media buying process. This enables brands like American Express and Volkswagen to create more relevant ads and improve marketing strategies by leveraging real-time insights into consumer sentiment and trending conversations.

Meituan

Series A in 2010
Meituan is a Beijing-based Chinese technology platform that combines on-demand food delivery, local commerce, and social shopping. It retails and delivers Chinese food from local restaurants online and operates a social commerce website offering online group discounts for food, groceries, tickets, and other services, including entertainment and health/fitness sectors. Meituan is described as the largest food delivery platform in China, with a market share of roughly 60-70% in 2024 according to Morningstar estimates. In the third quarter of 2024, about 74% of revenue came from the core local commerce segment, encompassing on-demand food delivery, retail and in-store services such as visits to beauty and entertainment venues after purchasing deals, and hotel and travel booking, while the remaining 26% came from newer initiatives like Meituan Select and overseas food delivery. The company originated as Meituan Group in 2010, became Meituan-Dianping in 2015, and rebranded to Meituan in 2020.

Taykey

Series A in 2010
Taykey is a technology company specializing in real-time advertising solutions for Fortune 500 brands. It mines data from thousands of online sources to identify trends specific to target audiences, automating the media buying process. This enables brands like American Express and Volkswagen to create more relevant ads and improve marketing strategies by leveraging real-time insights into consumer sentiment and trending conversations.

Kontera

Series C in 2009
Kontera Technologies is a San Francisco-based company established in 2003 that specializes in Internet-based big data marketing solutions for marketers and publishers. The company offers a content activation platform that analyzes and correlates over 400 million daily conversations and content views in real-time, utilizing data from 15,000 exclusive publishers and many top-ranking websites. This platform dynamically activates brands' owned content, advertising, and organic content to enhance marketing effectiveness across display, mobile, and social environments. Kontera's services include an in-text advertising solution, ContentLink, which identifies contextually relevant keywords on publishers' web pages and matches them with appropriate advertisements. The company reaches more than 170 million consumers monthly and serves notable advertisers such as Chrysler, GM, Kraft, P&G, and Microsoft. Kontera is supported by several venture capital firms and maintains offices in multiple cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, London, and Tel Aviv.

ideacts innovations

Series B in 2009
ideacts innovations is an India-based web advertising platform. The company offers CLINCK, an active desktop application designed to create media platforms in the cyber cafe environment. Ideacts Innovations Pvt., Ltd. was founded in 2007 and is based in Mumbai, India.

Amobee

Series C in 2008
Amobee is a global marketing technology company specializing in unified advertising solutions. It offers platforms for cross-screen audience targeting, brand intelligence monitoring, and sales acceleration, serving agencies and brands worldwide through channels such as display, video, mobile, email, social, content ads, and 3D.

ideacts innovations

Venture Round in 2008
ideacts innovations is an India-based web advertising platform. The company offers CLINCK, an active desktop application designed to create media platforms in the cyber cafe environment. Ideacts Innovations Pvt., Ltd. was founded in 2007 and is based in Mumbai, India.

Kontera

Series B in 2007
Kontera Technologies is a San Francisco-based company established in 2003 that specializes in Internet-based big data marketing solutions for marketers and publishers. The company offers a content activation platform that analyzes and correlates over 400 million daily conversations and content views in real-time, utilizing data from 15,000 exclusive publishers and many top-ranking websites. This platform dynamically activates brands' owned content, advertising, and organic content to enhance marketing effectiveness across display, mobile, and social environments. Kontera's services include an in-text advertising solution, ContentLink, which identifies contextually relevant keywords on publishers' web pages and matches them with appropriate advertisements. The company reaches more than 170 million consumers monthly and serves notable advertisers such as Chrysler, GM, Kraft, P&G, and Microsoft. Kontera is supported by several venture capital firms and maintains offices in multiple cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, London, and Tel Aviv.

Amobee

Series B in 2007
Amobee is a global marketing technology company specializing in unified advertising solutions. It offers platforms for cross-screen audience targeting, brand intelligence monitoring, and sales acceleration, serving agencies and brands worldwide through channels such as display, video, mobile, email, social, content ads, and 3D.

Amobee

Series A in 2006
Amobee is a global marketing technology company specializing in unified advertising solutions. It offers platforms for cross-screen audience targeting, brand intelligence monitoring, and sales acceleration, serving agencies and brands worldwide through channels such as display, video, mobile, email, social, content ads, and 3D.

HdtMEDIA

Series B in 2006
HdtMEDIA is a Chinese digital advertisement network specializing in technological marketing solutions. The company collaborates with major online media outlets in China, including the top five portals and search engines, as well as over 90% of premium vertical sites. HdtMEDIA operates digital and mobile advertising networks, facilitating the dissemination of information to targeted customers and helping clients enhance their profitability through effective online advertisements. Its platform includes innovative offerings such as iCast, which focuses on rich media technology, and iFocus, which serves as an online ad network.

Kontera

Series A in 2006
Kontera Technologies is a San Francisco-based company established in 2003 that specializes in Internet-based big data marketing solutions for marketers and publishers. The company offers a content activation platform that analyzes and correlates over 400 million daily conversations and content views in real-time, utilizing data from 15,000 exclusive publishers and many top-ranking websites. This platform dynamically activates brands' owned content, advertising, and organic content to enhance marketing effectiveness across display, mobile, and social environments. Kontera's services include an in-text advertising solution, ContentLink, which identifies contextually relevant keywords on publishers' web pages and matches them with appropriate advertisements. The company reaches more than 170 million consumers monthly and serves notable advertisers such as Chrysler, GM, Kraft, P&G, and Microsoft. Kontera is supported by several venture capital firms and maintains offices in multiple cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, London, and Tel Aviv.

Waps.cn

Series A in 2006
WAPS is a Chinese mobile marketing service provider founded in 2005. The company specializes in mobile internet-based advertising and integrated marketing services tailored for mobile developers and advertisers. WAPS is focused on constructing a comprehensive intelligent mobile advertisement network and offers a mobile internet marketing platform. Its platform features tools for advertising management and monitoring, including a WAP advertising affiliation and eSite application, enabling users to create mobile internet marketing portals and build WAP sites. Through its services, WAPS aims to enhance the effectiveness of mobile marketing strategies for its clients.

CTS Media

Series A in 2006
CTS Media (Click To See Media) is a Sequoia-backed instream online video advertising network. It serves ads at the beginning, middle or end of any video programming. As of January 2008 the company has over 100 partner video publishers and remains the largest ad provider in China.

Amobee

Seed Round in 2005
Amobee is a global marketing technology company specializing in unified advertising solutions. It offers platforms for cross-screen audience targeting, brand intelligence monitoring, and sales acceleration, serving agencies and brands worldwide through channels such as display, video, mobile, email, social, content ads, and 3D.

Kontera

Venture Round in 2005
Kontera Technologies is a San Francisco-based company established in 2003 that specializes in Internet-based big data marketing solutions for marketers and publishers. The company offers a content activation platform that analyzes and correlates over 400 million daily conversations and content views in real-time, utilizing data from 15,000 exclusive publishers and many top-ranking websites. This platform dynamically activates brands' owned content, advertising, and organic content to enhance marketing effectiveness across display, mobile, and social environments. Kontera's services include an in-text advertising solution, ContentLink, which identifies contextually relevant keywords on publishers' web pages and matches them with appropriate advertisements. The company reaches more than 170 million consumers monthly and serves notable advertisers such as Chrysler, GM, Kraft, P&G, and Microsoft. Kontera is supported by several venture capital firms and maintains offices in multiple cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, London, and Tel Aviv.
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