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lool ventures
lool ventures is Israel's Seed Fund. They are seed to scale specialists whose sole purpose is to ensure Israel's best founders receive the guidance, support...
lool ventures
lool ventures is Israel's Seed Fund. They are seed to scale specialists whose sole purpose is to ensure Israel's best founders receive the guidance, support and capital needed to make their world-changing company a reality. They lead seed rounds at the very start of founders' journeys and take a proactive stance to help startups reach Series A.
General information
Firm type
Venture Capital
Year founded
2011
Location
Region
Middle East
Country
Israel
City
Tel Aviv
Corporate office
Tel Aviv, Israel
Principals
Avichay Nissenbaum
General Partner & Co-Founder
Yaniv Golan
General Partner & Co-Founder
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at lool ventures?
General Partners Avichay Nissenbaum and Yaniv Golan lead investment decisions. Both are co-founders of the firm and brought prior operational experience as startup founders themselves. The partnership has historically been small, keeping decisions concentrated among active operating partners rather than a broad investment committee.
What investment stages does lool ventures target?
lool targets seed and early-stage rounds, with occasional follow-on investments into later-stage rounds for existing portfolio companies. The firm writes first checks into pre-traction and early-traction startups, primarily in the Israeli market.
Which sectors does lool ventures focus on?
The firm's core sectors include enterprise software, artificial intelligence and machine learning, fintech, digital health, and cybersecurity. These align with Israel's broader strengths in deep-technology and B2B software, where lool's operator-investor model has the most direct applicability to portfolio support.
What is lool ventures' most notable portfolio company?
WalkMe is lool's most prominent investment. The digital adoption platform went public on Nasdaq and was later acquired by SAP in 2024. The firm was an early backer of WalkMe, which became one of Israel's most visible enterprise software exits.
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