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MediSafe is the world’s leading medication management platform, enabling patients to better manage their daily routines and physicians to better understand their patients’ status.
Wibbitz is a market leading provider of automated video creation technology for publishers, enabling a great content experience with seamless integration.
Zooz, the market leading global payment platform designed to help merchants maximize their payments performance. In July 2018, Zooz was acquired by PayU, the fintech and e-payments division of Naspers, one of the largest technology investors in the world.
Farm Dog is a breakthrough cloud based platform that enables effective pest and disease control management, transforming the farming industry’s ability to predict, react to, and manage pest and disease.
LawGeex is disrupting the legal industry by offering an innovative online alternative for people and businesses who need to sign contracts by automatically reviewing contracts and providing users with simple English explanations on potential issues.
SiteAware (former Dronomy) is a provider of construction management solutions enabled by autonomous drone technology.
MarketMan is a network for the $1 trillion restaurant supply market. It connects restaurants and vendors all across the US, creating new revenue opportunities for both sides.
Shopial allows online businesses to reach new customers in 1-click at scale from social networks.
~ Acquired by Magento
Brodmann17 is enabling a state-of-the-art artificial visual intelligence technology compatible with every edge device out there and with almost no computing power limitation.
DBmaestro is a leading DevOps tool provider for the database industry, offering a unique solution for controlling the database continuous delivery processes.
KIDOZ is a leading content discovery platform for kids. The KIDOZ OS platform turns phones and tablets into child-friendly devices for playing and learning. The KIDOZ Network allows content publishers to promote, distribute, and monetize their child-friendly content.
Mabaya offers a unique SaaS platform that helps online retailers and marketplaces generate new revenue through promoting sponsored products in their virtual stores.
Lightico, a fintech SaaS platform for financial institutions and insurance companies. The solution enables collection and verification of customer identity, form completion and document signing during a single call.
SaaS project management platform for cities to increase capacity and speed to discover, evaluate and implement new technologies. Partner cities include Palo Alto, San Jose and Sacramento, already seeing huge benefits in innovation.
Sensibo brings magic to everyday life by turning physical objects into personalized experiences. Their first product, the Sensibo Sky, makes any air conditioner instantly smart, maximizes comfort, and saves energy.
Talenya is the world’s first technology-first talent recruiting platform. Using AI, big data, and a unique recruitment experts model, Talenya finds top talent, faster.
Saga is the first non-anonymous and reserve backed digital currency, with a formal KYC process for participants. It’s advisory council is made up of world leaders including Jacob Frenkel, Prof. Dan Galai and Prof. Myron Scholes.
Home365 is a “Property Maintenance as a Service” platform for property managers, offering all-inclusive flat-rate subscriptions to take care of all their portfolio maintenance needs.
MyPermissions, the world’s leader in app privacy protection, helps users protect their personal online information and helps developers be more transparent and build trust through certification.
Team
Avichay Nissenbaum
Entrepreneur, Mentor, Advisor with passion to products and technologies that make a real impact on our life, led by great people that have audacious plans and aspirations on a global scale.
Yaniv Golan
I’ve been building software products that people use since 1989.
That’s long enough to make a lot of mistakes in many diverse fields – technological, managerial, organizational, inter-personal.
Hopefully I’ve also learned a lesson or two along the way.
Wei Cheng
It is my habit to always choose the path less traveled by, which is where I find the most inspiring and awesome people.
I grew up immersed in Sci-Fi movies, and I love meeting people who can actually carry these visions out with clear goals and true grit, people who intent on creating something magnificent!
Ido Bar-on
Max Marine
I am passionate about learning, reading, writing, becoming a better communicator, thinking critically about ideas, applying my knowledge, and serving others.
I am grateful for loving parents, relatives, friends, and acquaintances, whose support and constructive criticism have shaped my ideals, values, desires, beliefs, and goals.
I love learning about markets, business models, competitive dynamics, and new technologies.
Tony Saigh
Scale up operator – early Skype director who led mobile growth and saw the business scale from 10m to 300m+ users worldwide.
I’m passionate about working alongside entrepreneurs in building and scaling disruptive technologies into category leading global businesses.
At lool, I work hands on with our portfolio to accelerate time to market and scale team, product and business to serve millions of customers globally.
Zooz’ Acquisition and Why Israel’s Global Thinking is its’ Ecosystem’s Superpower
Thoughts on PayU’s acquisition of Zooz and the Israeli startup ecosystem’s superpower by Avichay Nissenbaum
ScaleUp Series - Pricing Strategy & Hacks, July 2018
Photos from our July ScaleUp Series event on pricing.
The Future of Communities Is Agile
How the smartest cities can embrace new technology and innovation at pace – Ash Roughani from the City of Sacramento, California and Arik Bronshtein from UrbanLeap share their thoughts on bringing agile to cities, #SmartCity, #UrbanInnovation
Arm
Brodmann17 shares details of how its working with the Arm developer community to realise vision of bringing deep-learning vision applications to mainstream, #computervision, #facedetection, #ai
Arm
Learn how to deploy State-of-the-art deep learning on edge devices in just MINUTES!
The Transportation Transformation – looltalk – Medium
As active investors in mobility (Brodmann17, more to follow soon!) – lool ventures’ Max Marine shares some thoughts and raises interesting questions about the future of transportation
Wibbitz
Way to go Wibbitz! No mean feat in establishing a strong culture of diversity and an inspirational workplace whilst achieving outstanding business results. All this, in a high growth, fast paced environment. Congrats to Zohar Dayan, Yotam Cohen and the rest of the team!
Get customers to love your pricing in 10 steps – Tony Saigh – Medium
Thinking about what you should be charging your customers? How do you go about develop an effective pricing model? Find out here: https://bit.ly/2JOzvwj
Medisafe
Medisafe selected as headline app yesterday as Apple announces Health Records API. Great news for users and partners. Congrats to the team – further recognition that Medisafe is the global leader in the medical adherence space. Lool ventures is proud to be working alongside you in your mission to help patients with medication adherence worldwide.
UrbanLeap: Why We Invested – looltalk – Medium
Excited to welcome San Francisco based UrbanLeap to the Lool ventures portfolio. Learn about the team’s mission to accelerate urban innovation and why we invested.
Lool ventures
Check out photos from our ScaleUp Series event in May. Stay tuned for our next one! #loolscaleup
ScaleUp Series - Marketing Strategy & Hacks, May 2018
Photos from our May ScaleUp Series event. Thanks to Amir Mizroch, Lior Student, Omer Kaplan, Shmuli Goldberg and all those that joined!
Saga — Why We invested – looltalk – Medium
Excited to share why we backed The Saga Foundation, alongside Mangrove Capital Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Singulariteam and other investors.
Aleph VC
Congratulations to our friends at LawGeex – Noory, Ilan and the team – for the recent funding. Warm welcome to our friends at Aleph VC, who are joining us on this journey. LawGeex is now positioned better than ever to achieve its mission – helping companies achieve their business objectives by automating and scaling contract review using AI.
Lool ScaleUp Series - Startup Recruitment, 6 March 2018
Watch video highlights of our startup recruitment masterclass in March. #loolscaleup
Blueprint: Sexual Harassment Prevention best practice for the Israeli VC industry
Calling our friends in the Israeli VC industry. Let’s make sure entrepreneurs feel safe when engaging with us, regardless of their gender.
Lightico: Why We Invested – Avichay Nissenbaum – Medium
Lightico joins the lool ventures family, with the mission of Improving customer experience by enabling call center reps to complete sales during a single phone call. Read on for more and why we invested.
ScaleUp Series - Startup Recruitment March 2018
Check out photos from our March masterclass – startup Recruitment Strategy & Hacks. Stay tuned for our next masterclass – startup marketing on May 2nd. #loolscaleup, #loolventures.
Welcome Tony Saigh to lool ventures! – looltalk – Medium
We’re excited to announce our newest team member Tony Saigh, who joins us as VP Value Creation! Learn more about Tony and what he’ll be working on at lool here: https://medium.com/looltalk/welcome-tony-saigh-to-lool-ventures-2d8e170913bc
