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Portfolio
Voca’s virtual agent platform enables companies to reach their customers at scale, with a personal human voice.
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.
NoTraffic is on a mission to reduce traffic and vehicle collisions. A smart network of plug and play AI sensors, underpinned by a set of computer vision and deep learning algorithms reacting and communicating with cars in real time.
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.
A leading content discovery platform for kids, the KIDOZ Network allows content publishers to promote, distribute, and monetize their child-friendly content. Kidoz was acquired by Shoal Games Ltd. (TSXV:SGW) in December 2019.
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.
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.
Chapter #6 — VC Meeting Dynamics 101
Looking at raising a seed round? Learn about VC meeting dynamics in chapter 6 of Raising your Seed Round – a Playbook for Israeli Entrepreneurs by Max Marine #venturecapital #seedfunding #raisingcapital #israel
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Photos from last weeks ScaleUp event – Sales Strategy & Hacks. Huge thanks to all who came and our speakers Avi Wiesenberg, Ilya Spitalnik and Gilad Komorov. #loolscaleup #earlystage #masteringsales
Chapter #5 — Preparing for the First Partner Meeting
Looking at raising a seed round? Learn how to prepare for the first meeting with the Partner at a VC in chapter 5 in Raising your Seed Round – a Playbook for Israeli Entrepreneurs by Max Marine #venturecapital #seedfunding #raisingcapital #israel
Brodmann17
Congrats to Brodmann17 on closing their Series A Round! We’ve backed you from the beginning and are excited for this next chapter! #EdgeComputing #AutonomousVehicles #ScaleUp
Raising your Seed Round — a Playbook for Israeli Entrepreneurs: Chapter #4
Looking at raising a seed round? Learn how to get your meeting with a Partner at a VC in this fourth instalment of a playbook for Israeli entrepreneurs by Max Marine #venturecapital #seedfunding #raisingcapital
A warning to early-stage founders: – looltalk – Medium
Early stage startups selling to enterprise often find themselves stuck in POCs. Lool ventures’ VP Value Creation Tony Saigh offers ways to avoid this in a 5 step framework. #startup #enterprisesales #saas #earlystage
A warning to early-stage founders: – looltalk – Medium
medium.com Avoid the POC death trap (1/2)
Raising your Seed Round — a Playbook for Israeli Entrepreneurs: Chapter #3
Looking at raising a seed round? Learn about how VCs are organized and how to engage with Partners, Principals, Associates, and Analysts in third instalment of a playbook for Israeli entrepreneurs by Max Marine #venturecapital #seedfunding #raisingcapital
LawGeex
Congrats to LawGeex on being selected as a 2019 Red Herring Top 100 Europe Winner! #RedHerringEurope #legaltech
Brodmann17
Congrats to Brodmann17 on winning 2019 #RedHerring Top 100 Europe Award! #edgecomputing, #computervision, #autonomousvehicles, #adas
hackathon
We’re proud to be participating in the Global Legal Hackathon which starts today. Avichay Nissenbaum will be judging, Max Marine and Tony Saigh mentoring and lots of clever legal minds will be hacking 🙂 #hackathon #legaltech #glh2019
Raising your Seed Round — a Playbook for Israeli Entrepreneurs: Chapter #2
Looking at raising a seed round? Learn about different funding sources in second instalment of a playbook for Israeli entrepreneurs by Max Marine. #venturecapital, #seedfunding, #raisingcapital
Best Of Show Finovate Europe 2019
Voca.ai wins Best of Show at Finovate Europe, after earning the same accolade at Finovate Asia only a few months ago. See the world’s best virtual agent in action: #conversationalai, #fintech, #finovateeurope, #finovate, #killingit
Raising your Seed Round — a Playbook for Israeli Entrepreneurs
Looking at raising a seed round? Read the first instalment of a playbook for Israeli entrepreneurs by Max Marine. #venturecapital, #seedfunding, #raisingcapital
Hugely proud of Alan Bekker of Voca.ai for making this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list https://www.forbes.com/under30/list/2019/europe/ #forbes30under30, #forbesmagazine, #30under30
These four AI trends will accelerate AV development
Learn more from Adi Pinhas of Brodmann17 on the AI trends that will accelerate development of self driving cars #autonomousvehicles #deeplearning #edgecomputing #artificialintelligence
Our 2018 end of year party!
Photos from lool’s end of year party for all our portfolio company employees! Thanks to all all superstars who joined us to celebrate from Brodmann17, DBmaestro, Farm Dog, Home365 – Smart Property Maintenance, KIDOZ, LawGeex, Lightico, Mabaya, MarketMan, Medisafe, MyPrivacy, NoTraffic, Saga Foundation, Sensibo, SiteAware, Talenya, UrbanLeap, Voca.ai, Wibbitz, Zooz !
Why we invested: Voca – Avichay Nissenbaum – Medium
We’re delighted to welcome Voca.ai as the newest addition to the Lool ventures family. Read on to hear from Avichay Nissenbaum on why we chose to invest and support Einav Itamar and Alan Bekker on their mission to enable companies reach their customers at scale, with a personal human voice! #artificialintelligence, #ai, #voiceassistant, #callcenter, #contactcenter
NoTraffic: Why We Invested – looltalk – Medium
We’re thrilled to officially welcome NoTraffic to the Lool ventures family. We’re excited to be joining founders Or Sela, Uriel Katz, Tal Kreisler and their team on a mission to help cities make their roads “smart” and ready for tomorrow’s world of connected and autonomous vehicles. Read on to hear from Yaniv Golan on why we invested.
