Vertex Ventures Israel

D-Fend Solutions is a provider of counter-drone takeover technology, specializing in the management of rogue drone incidents in complex and sensitive environments. Its flagship product, EnforceAir, is designed to address significant drone threats in various sectors, including military, public safety, airports, prisons, and critical infrastructure. The technology enables clients to detect and identify intruding commercial drones automatically, allowing for the forensic extraction of data, location tracking, and safe control and landing of these drones. D-Fend Solutions has established a strong presence with numerous deployments worldwide, including high-tier U.S. government agencies and major international airports. By autonomously executing RF and cyber-takeovers of rogue drones, EnforceAir ensures the continuity of communications, commerce, transportation, and daily activities, thereby positioning itself as a leader in counter-drone technology.

FireDome's revolutionary wildfire defense system takes a two-tiered strategy. First, a mechanical launcher quickly deploys a protective barrier to impede the direct route of advancing wildfires. Second, the system actively detects and promptly extinguishes spot fires created by airborne embers that bypass the primary barrier.

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.

D-Fend Solutions is a provider of counter-drone takeover technology, specializing in the management of rogue drone incidents in complex and sensitive environments. Its flagship product, EnforceAir, is designed to address significant drone threats in various sectors, including military, public safety, airports, prisons, and critical infrastructure. The technology enables clients to detect and identify intruding commercial drones automatically, allowing for the forensic extraction of data, location tracking, and safe control and landing of these drones. D-Fend Solutions has established a strong presence with numerous deployments worldwide, including high-tier U.S. government agencies and major international airports. By autonomously executing RF and cyber-takeovers of rogue drones, EnforceAir ensures the continuity of communications, commerce, transportation, and daily activities, thereby positioning itself as a leader in counter-drone technology.

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.

D-Fend Solutions is a provider of counter-drone takeover technology, specializing in the management of rogue drone incidents in complex and sensitive environments. Its flagship product, EnforceAir, is designed to address significant drone threats in various sectors, including military, public safety, airports, prisons, and critical infrastructure. The technology enables clients to detect and identify intruding commercial drones automatically, allowing for the forensic extraction of data, location tracking, and safe control and landing of these drones. D-Fend Solutions has established a strong presence with numerous deployments worldwide, including high-tier U.S. government agencies and major international airports. By autonomously executing RF and cyber-takeovers of rogue drones, EnforceAir ensures the continuity of communications, commerce, transportation, and daily activities, thereby positioning itself as a leader in counter-drone technology.

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.

NICE Actimize is a leading provider of financial crime, risk, and compliance solutions for financial institutions and government regulators. The company specializes in using innovative technology to combat financial crime, safeguard consumer and investor assets, and ensure regulatory compliance. Its offerings include real-time fraud prevention, anti-money laundering detection, and trading surveillance solutions, addressing issues such as payment fraud, cybercrime, sanctions monitoring, market abuse, customer due diligence, and insider trading. NICE Actimize serves a diverse range of clients, including financial institutions, telecom service providers, retailers, airlines, and security agencies, helping them identify critical events and make informed business decisions.

NICE Actimize is a leading provider of financial crime, risk, and compliance solutions for financial institutions and government regulators. The company specializes in using innovative technology to combat financial crime, safeguard consumer and investor assets, and ensure regulatory compliance. Its offerings include real-time fraud prevention, anti-money laundering detection, and trading surveillance solutions, addressing issues such as payment fraud, cybercrime, sanctions monitoring, market abuse, customer due diligence, and insider trading. NICE Actimize serves a diverse range of clients, including financial institutions, telecom service providers, retailers, airlines, and security agencies, helping them identify critical events and make informed business decisions.

CeLight Inc. is a company specializing in the research, development, and sale of opto-electronic sub-systems and integrated electro-optical components. Based in Silver Spring, Maryland, CeLight offers the VectorWAVE digital platform, which utilizes coherent optical technology and digital signal processing to synthesize, transmit, receive, analyze, and digitally process coherent optical signals and waveforms. The company's products have diverse applications, including standoff detection of explosives, chemicals, and trace gases, secure optical communications, remote sensing, tracking, discrimination, and signal intelligence. In addition to its standard offerings, CeLight provides customized services such as analysis, synthesis, simulation, design, and prototyping for advanced optical transmission technologies and devices. The company serves a wide range of sectors, including military, homeland security, government, industrial, and commercial markets. CeLight was founded in 1999 and continues to innovate in coherent optical communications with its patent-pending technologies.