Red Dot Capital Partners

Red Dot Capital Partners

Yaniv Stern, a former McKinsey private-equity specialist, and Barak Salomon, who previously led NTT DoCoMo Ventures’ Israel coverage, co-founded Red Dot alongside Yoram Oron in Tel Aviv in 2016. The firm was built with an explicit cross-border architecture: Temasek Holdings of Singapore anchors the funds, and the LP base consists exclusively of operating companies with large industrial portfolios across Asia. That structure was intended from inception to create hardwired distribution channels for Israeli enterprise-software, fintech, and cybersecurity companies seeking market access east of Europe. Red Dot writes first checks of $10–20M into late-Series-A through Series-C rounds, typically leading the deal. The strategy targets companies that have already demonstrated product-market fit and need capital and relationships to scale internationally, not to iterate on product. Confirmed portfolio positions include cyber-physical security platform Claroty, cross-border e-commerce enabler Global-e (NASDAQ: GLBE), IoT security firm Armis, observability platform Coralogix, digital-asset infrastructure provider Utila, and retail computer-vision company Trigo. The firm’s reach extends from Israel into Singapore, Tokyo, and other South East Asian markets — regions where its LPs provide on-the-ground commercial introductions rather than passive capital. Red Dot operates with roughly 15 professionals from its Tel Aviv headquarters. The team reflects the firm’s thesis: partners include former operators from Cisco, Akamai, and AWS, alongside a Head of AI who previously built Facebook’s AI data-optimization organization and scaled x.ai through its acquisition. In 2025, the firm added Roni Sendik Shoham — most recently Program Director at Intel Ignite — to lead business development and portfolio support, reinforcing its systematic approach to helping companies bridge Israel and Asia. The website states over $500M managed across three funds, committing Red Dot to deploy at a pace that maintains its early-growth specialty as larger multi-stage funds crowd the Israeli market. Red Dot’s structural differentiator is the bilateral anchor relationship with Temasek and its curated LP syndicate of Asian industrials. This is not a fund-of-funds overlay or a marketing arrangement — the LPs routinely co-invest directly into portfolio companies, creating a built-in, balance-sheet-backed path to commercial partnerships in markets that Israeli founders often struggle to access without a local sponsor. The model makes Red Dot a de facto distribution partner as much as a growth-equity investor, a dual role that larger Israeli venture platforms do not replicate at the same stage of entry.