My Seed Tech Fund

Mayer Group, the parent of Mayer's Cars and Trucks, is a strategic partner and co-founder of My Seed Tech Fund. The conglomerate provides industrial assets, distribution networks, and fleet infrastructure that portfolio companies can leverage as testing and deployment sandboxes. This arrangement makes My Seed Tech Fund effectively a captive venture arm with external startup investing independence.

Both entities are managed by Dr. Tal Cohen. My Seed Tech Fund focuses on seed and pre-seed mobility investments, while Next Gear Ventures is structured as a successor vehicle that can make larger, later-stage commitments — effectively a continuation fund strategy. The two share deal flow and investment thesis but operate with distinct entry points along the maturity curve.

The fund invests in Israeli-founded companies with global, particularly US, market ambitions. Its dual-office presence in Tel Aviv and Mountain View reflects this cross-border model. The fund sources startups from Israel and helps them establish US go-to-market, sales, and fundraising operations through its Silicon Valley base.

DriveTLV is a smart-mobility innovation hub in Tel Aviv co-founded by Tal Cohen. It acts as a physical cluster where startups, corporate partners, and researchers co-locate. This hub provides My Seed Tech Fund with proprietary early visibility into mobility startups, founders, and technologies before they reach the broader venture market.

My Seed Tech Fund is capitalized through its strategic partnership with Mayer Group rather than a traditional LP base. This gives the fund patient capital with an industrial lens, bypassing typical venture fund constraints around deployment pace and return-to-LP timelines. Whether the fund has subsequently opened to outside investors is not publicly disclosed.

The fund's mandate is mobility, enterprise software, and applied AI. It does not target consumer apps, pure-play life sciences, or capital-intensive hardware manufacturing outside the smart-mobility stack. The tight sector focus reflects both Cohen's domain expertise at DriveTLV and Mayer Group's strategic interest in transportation technology.

The Mountain View office places portfolio companies in proximity to autonomous-vehicle labs, US automotive OEMs, and Tier 1 suppliers concentrated in Silicon Valley. It facilitates direct introductions to US-based co-investors and potential commercial partners, accelerating the path from Israeli deep-tech prototype to American commercial deployment.