Angular Ventures | Angular Ventures

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Investment Criteria

Angular is a specialist venture capital firm, and we’re looking to
back a very specific type of company

Enterprise-oriented

If your business requires consumer
adoption, it’s not for us. We back
companies that sell products and
services to other companies.

Global ambition

While it’s possible to build a great
business without targeting a global
opportunity, we are exclusively
focused on companies that are
chasing a truly global opportunity. In
most cases, this means a focus on US
market entry from day one.

Deep technology

We are firm believers in the value of
meaningful barriers to entry, and we
know there are a lot of ways to define
and construct those barriers.

Born in Europe or Israel

We know that great innovation can
come from anywhere. Our focus is on
companies born on the "right" side of
the Atlantic, specifically in Europe or
Israel.

Outstanding founding teams with domain expertise

We believe that great founders are
the main driver of success for any
entrepreneurial venture. We like “well-
rounded” founders, but tend to prefer
founders that are “angular,” bringing
unique technical or domain expertise
to bear.

Early stage

We like to be very early. We are not
religious about being first, but most
of our investments are into
companies that have raised less than
$1M before we engage.

For more, checkout out our FAQ.

Portfolio

Aquant.io

System of intelligence for field service
optimization

Tel Aviv

New York

Candu

System of intelligence for customer success

London

San Francisco

Crux OCM

Dynamic industrial process automation

Calgary

Houston

Datos

Remote patient management platform

Tel Aviv

Dust Identity

Product authentication and supply chain
security powered by nanodiamonds

Boston

Firebolt

Cloud-native data analytics

Tel Aviv

KintoHub

Cloud-native application lifecycle
management

Hong Kong

San Francisco

Planable

Collaboration tool for content creation

Bucharest

Trellis

System of intelligence for food supply chain management

Tel Aviv

Valohai

Version control for deep learning

San Francisco

Turku

Vault Platform

Workplace misconduct reporting platform

San Francisco

London

Pre Angular
Investments

Angular is proud to have invested in European and Israeli companies that have
been backed by some of the best VCs in the US

Team

London

Tel Aviv

Gil Dibner

General Partner

Gil has been an active venture investor focused on enterprise technology companies born in Europe and Israel since 2005. As a venture investor and angel, he has backed over 30 companies in Israel and across Europe. The majority of these companies have successfully relocated to the US, and many have been backed by leading global venture firms.

His portfolio includes Aquant, BitSrc, Chorus.ai, Cloud66, Datos, Flok (acquired by Wix), Front, The Gifts Project (acquired by Ebay), Imubit, Innovid, James, JFrog, Moltin, MomentumWorks, Resin, Rollout, ServiceFriend, Siemplify, SiSense, Shoppimon, Snyk, Styla, Swiftshift, and Yedda (acquired by AOL).

Gil grew up in Boston, calls Tel Aviv home, and works across Europe and Israel.

Prior to founding Angular Ventures, Gil was a Partner at DFJ Esprit in London, and a Principal at Index Ventures in London, where he helped manage Index's pan-European seed portfolio. Previously, he was a VC in Israel at Gemini Israel Ventures and Genesis Partners, based in Tel Aviv.

Anne Augusta Blum

Head of Platform

Anne focuses on providing the portfolio companies the connections and resources necessary to achieve their goals and scale globally. Prior to joining the Angular Ventures team, Anne co-founded Ellis Accelerator and worked at Facebook, Goldman Sachs, and German Accelerator. Anne graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University. She has lived in Silicon Valley, Paris, London, and is currently based in New York City. Anne is also passionate about giving back to the community and is the Co-Chair of the Red Cross Young Patrons Board.

New York

Andrew Poesaste

Associate

Prior to Angular, Andrew worked at the intersection of technology and capital markets as a Senior Derivatives Trader at Mako Global, leading their commodity trading team. At Mako, Andrew leveraged high throughput data, low latency and algorithmic trading to scale and augment the intelligence of capital allocation and risk decisions. Innately curious, obsessed with technology, building companies and markets, he loves supporting founders on their journey to power the enterprise of tomorrow.

London

Advisors

Our advisors are comprised of experts in their respective fields. Angular Ventures is
fortunate to have a diverse variety of skilled people we refer to and that support
the growth of our fund. Every one of our partners has one particular super power.

Eldad Farkash

Venture Partner
Co-Founder, SiSense & Firebolt

Eldad is the founder and former CTO of Sisense, a leader in big data analytics and business intelligence. With a few friends, he founded Sisense in Israel in 2004. The company now employs over 200 employees across the globe and is a recognized leader in the big data space. Eldad started his career developing database systems at 16 and has been at it ever since.

Tel Aviv

New York

Eldad Farkash

Venture Partner
Co-Founder, SiSense & Firebolt

Tel Aviv

New York

Fred Simon

Advisory Partner
Co-Founder & Chief Data Scientist, JFrog

Fred Simon is a Co-founder and Chief Architect of JFrog, creator of the first universal artifact management platform, with thousands of customers, and millions of users globally. Before founding JFrog in 2008, Fred founded AlphaCSP, a Java consulting firm. Fred’s has been working with Java since 1992, and is a leading authority on Java, devops, and software engineering. He is the author of “Liquid Software.” When not coding, he is launching rockets into space from his backyard

Tel Aviv

Fred Simon

Advisory Partner
Co-Founder & Chief Data Scientist, JFrog

Tel Aviv

Guy Poreh

Advisory Partner - Marketing
Founder, Playground

Guy founded Playground, a startup label in New York focused on helping tech startups scale rapidly. He is an award-winning digital strategist with over 16 years of strategic growth experience, including a position as Chief Innovation Officer at Silver+Partners where he brought Wix.com to the US. He also has experience as EVP of New Media at BBDO Tel Aviv. He has worked with major global corporations and brands including Mars/ Wrigley, L’Oréal, Paramount, Dreamworks, and Unilever.

New York

Guy Poreh

Advisory Partner - Marketing
Founder, Playground

New York

Jerry Dischler

Product Sherpa
VP Product Management, Google

Jerry leads the product team for Google's search ads business, the product and engineering teams for YouTube advertising, and the product and engineering teams for Google's home-grown sales and support tools.

He has held product and engineering roles for the past 25 years at startups and large companies in a variety of industries, including consumer, enterprise, and security software and networking. Jerry has led global teams across the US and Europe, and chances are you've used his products.

Mountain View

Jerry Dischler

Product Sherpa
VP Product Management, Google

Mountain View

Jennifer Schear

Advisory Partner - Immigration
Founder, Schear Immigration

Jennifer is the founder of Schear Immigration, a boutique immigration firm in Tel Aviv specializing in U.S. business immigration law. She has helped countless entrepreneurs from around the world relocate to the US. Jennifer has extensive experience in representing both individuals and multinational corporations in a wide variety of complex immigration matters.

Tel Aviv

Jennifer Schear

Advisory Partner - Immigration
Founder, Schear Immigration

Tel Aviv

Keren Myr

Advisory Partner - Sales
COO, Oribi

Keren is the COO of Oribi, the future of web analytics. Prior to that, she was VP Sales at SiSense where she helped grow that business over 10x in less than six years. Keren brings a wealth of sales expertise having held nearly every conceivable sales role and closed nearly every conceivable type of sale – from large-scale outside field sales to highly scalable inside sales. Prior to her sales career, she held both product and engineering roles at a number of global companies. Keren is our resident expert on sales strategy and operations.

Tel Aviv

Keren Myr

Advisory Partner - Sales
COO, Oribi

Tel Aviv

Oren Raboy

Advisory Partner
Co-founder & CTO, noogata

Oren is the co-founder and CTO of Noogata, which uses machine-learning and AI technologies to solve complex enterprise challenges. He is both a leading machine-learning practitioner and subject-matter expert on customer success, having co-founded and led Totango, one of the leading companies in that space. Prior to that, he held senior product roles at Cisco and P-Cube.

Tel Aviv

Oren Raboy

Advisory Partner
Co-founder & CTO, noogata

Tel Aviv

Phil Wickham

Venture Partner
Founder, Sozo Ventures | Chairman, Kauffman Fellows Program

Phil is a Founder and General Partner of Sozo Ventures. He also serves as the Executive Chairman of the Kauffman Fellows Program. His venture investments include Twitter, Palantir, Coinbase, and ServiceMax. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Stanford University.

Palo Alto

Phil Wickham

Venture Partner
Founder, Sozo Ventures | Chairman, Kauffman Fellows Program

Palo Alto

Ron Yachini

Venture Partner
COO, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence-Israel

As a venture investor, Ron was an early-stage investor in Wintegra (acquired by PMC-Sierra), FilesX (acquired by IBM) and PrimeSense (acquired by Apple). As an operator, Ron served as EVP Business Development at IDE technologies. As an entrepreneur, Ron co-founded Global Village Telecom, a spin-off of Gilat Satellite Networks. As a technologist, Ron held positions with several R&D groups at Scitex, Motorola Semiconductors, and the IAF.

Tel Aviv

Ron Yachini

Venture Partner
COO, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence-Israel

Tel Aviv

Uri Baruchin

Advisory Partner - Branding

Starting his career in the early days of the Tel Aviv digital scene, Uri worked in some of the world's leading brand agencies. He's worked with blue-chip clients such as Nestle and Sony as well as smaller brands and start-ups. Frequently, "a strategist to the strategists", working with clients such as Deloitte, Kantar, and Bain & Company. His current 'side-hustles' include the D&AD's new strategy masterclass, and mentoring at the School of Communication Arts.

London

Uri Baruchin

Advisory Partner - Branding

London