Veritas Venture Partners

Veritas Venture Partners

Kaufmann and Shalom founded Veritas Venture Partners in 1998, establishing the firm in Ra'anana, Israel. The partnership emerged during a period when Israeli venture capital was still nascent, and the founders positioned Veritas to back early-stage technology companies primarily originating from Israel. The firm's footprint reflects a focus on companies built by Israeli technical founders, often with engineering teams based locally and go-to-market functions in the United States. Veritas concentrates on seed and early-stage investments across enterprise software, AI/ML, digital health, robotics, and cybersecurity. The firm participates in both initial seed rounds and follow-on start-up funding, structuring its positions as direct equity investments rather than fund-of-funds commitments. Publicly verifiable portfolio holdings are thin, though the firm has historically written checks into companies at the pre-revenue to early-revenue inflection point. Geographic emphasis spans Israel as the primary R&D and founding hub, with portfolio companies frequently maintaining commercial operations in North American markets. Veritas has operated multiple venture funds over its history, though current fund size and aggregate deployment remain undisclosed. The firm does not maintain additional offices outside Ra'anana, and no adjacent philanthropic vehicles or co-investor clubs tied to the firm are on public record. The partnership's long-running presence — spanning more than a quarter-century through multiple technology cycles and regional geopolitical volatility — provides continuity that few Israeli venture firms of its vintage can claim. What distinguishes Veritas structurally is its persistence as a focused partnership without evolving into a multi-strategy platform. While many peer firms of similar vintage in Israel added growth-stage vehicles, credit arms, or broader Middle East offices, Veritas has remained a dedicated early-stage practice led by its original co-founders. The succession architecture is not publicly addressed, but Kaufmann and Shalom remain the named investment decision-makers, preserving a founder-operator model that concentrates authority in a two-person general partnership rather than distributing it across a large investment committee.