Genesis Partners is an

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firm, founded in 1996 by Eddy Shalev and Eyal Kishon.

Overview

Genesis Partners investment strategy is focused on early-stage Israeli innovation-driven technology companies. The company invests in communications & wireless technologies, infrastructure software & hardware, enterprise software, internet applications and services, digital media, consumer applications and services, mobile applications and services. Genesis has over $20 billion in assets under management and has invested in over 300 companies. In 2011, Genesis Partners launched The Junction, Israel's first open house for entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs who are selected to work on their venture at The Junction for six months, before ending their experience in a Demo Day to Israeli

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and venture capital firms. The firm's partners include Eddy Shalev, Eyal Kishon, Gary Gannot, Jonathan Saacks and Hadar Kiriati. In 2016, three members of the senior investment team, including Jonathan Saacks and Eddy Shalev, spun out with a seed stage fund, F2 Venture Capital, and took over management of The Junction. In 2019,

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announced purchasing a majority of the portfolio of Genesis Partners fourth fund named Genesis Partners IV.

Portfolio companies

* Any.DO – Developer of task management mobile apps * Aternity – User Experience Management solutions * DaPulse – Social communication tool for improving the internal information-sharing processes within an organization (now renamed to

Monday.com Monday.com (styled in lowercase as monday.com) is a cloud-based platform that allows users to create their own applications and project management software. The product was launched in 2014 and in July 2019, the company raised $150 million, ...

) * Discretix – Security solutions for mobile devices and flash-based storage * EatWith – community marketplace that invites people to dine in other homes * Homeis – social networking app for immigrants *

Innovid Innovid is an online advertising technology company that offers services used by advertisers and publishers for the distribution and management of digital ads. Originally launched as a video marketing platform, the company expanded its offering to ...

JoyTunes JoyTunes Ltd. (DBA Simply ) is a privately held company developing software that teaches creative hobbies, from playing music to drawing and more. The company started out creating mobile apps that teach learners around the world how to play musica ...

Radwin Radwin is a wireless broadband hardware manufacturing company that develops and creates wireless point-to-point, wireless point-to-multipoint and wireless mobility systems. Its products are used by telecoms carriers, city and town councils, ...

– Broadband wireless connectivity solutions. * Riskified – a company that reviews, approves and guarantees high risk credit card transactions for online merchants. * Sckipio Technologies – A semiconductor company focused on the ITU standard,

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. * Sisense – End-to-end business intelligence software * SponDoolies –Tech build infrastructure technology for virtually mining cryptocurrency such as

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. *

Valens Semiconductor Valens Semiconductor (Valens) is an Israeli fabless manufacturing company providing semiconductors for the automotive and audio-video industries. Valens provides semiconductor products for the distribution of uncompressed ultra-high-definition ( ...

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company providing semiconductor solutions for the development of HDBaseT devices.

Exits

Allot Communications Allot Ltd., formerly Allot Communications, is an Israeli high-tech company that develops telecommunications software. The company is headquartered in Hod Hasharon, Israel. History Allot was founded in 1996, by Michael Shurman and Yigal Jacoby. By ...

(IPO) – provider of IP service optimization solutions for

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, carriers, and enterprises * Appilog (acquired by

Mercury Interactive Mercury Interactive Corporation was an Israeli company acquired by the HP Software Division. Mercury offered software for application management, application delivery, change and configuration management, service-oriented architecture, change r ...

) – application mapping technologies *

AudioCodes AudioCodes Ltd. is a provider of advanced communications software, products and productivity solutions. Its services enable enterprises and service providers to build and operate all-IP voice networks for unified communications (UC), contact cen ...

(IPO) – designs, develops, and sells advanced

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(VoIP) and converged VoIP and Data networking products and applications to service providers and enterprises * Butterfly VLSI (acquired by

Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globall ...

) – developed low cost chipsets that enabled RF wireless communications *

ClickSoftware Technologies ClickSoftware is an American technology company which offers automated mobile workforce management and service optimization solutions for enterprise and small businesses, both for mobile and in-house resources. Since 2020, it has been a subsidiary ...

(IPO) – develops software solutions for workforce optimization, allowing companies to efficiently coordinate the dispatch of

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to customer locations * ColBar LifeScience (acquired by

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) – develops, manufactures, and commercializes biosurgical products * Compugen (IPO) – develops and markets

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software platforms and engages in ''in silico'' drug discovery *

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and multi-asset

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company that focuses on providing financial and

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services * FilesX (acquired by IBM) – storage software company that specializes in continuous data protection with near-instant recovery software for applications and data * FIS Software – Software solution for the Insurance industry, acquired by

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* Fundtech (IPO) – designs, develops, markets, and supports client/server products for electronic payments *Jeeng (formerly PowerInbox) – AI-powered autonomous marketing platform * Kidaro (acquired by

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) – provider of desktop virtualization solutions for enterprises * Modem Art (acquired by

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) – developer of advanced processor technology for 3G/UMTS mobile devices * Neebula Systems (acquired by

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) - business service monitoring (BSM) platform for virtualized data center environments * Octalica (acquired by

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) – home networking solutions over coaxial cable * Optonol (acquired by Alcon) – devices for ophthalmologic applications *

PrimeSense PrimeSense was an Israeli 3D sensing company based in Tel Aviv. PrimeSense had offices in Israel, North America, Japan, Singapore, Korea, China and Taiwan. PrimeSense was bought by Apple Inc. for $360 million on November 24, 2013. History Pri ...

developer of 3D sensing technology, acquired by

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for $350 million on November 24, 2013. * ProSight (acquired by Primavera) – enterprise IT portfolio management software * Scopus Video Networks (IPO) – end-to-end digital video networking products *

SolarEdge SolarEdge is an Israeli company that develops and sells solar inverters for photovoltaic arrays, energy generation monitoring software, battery energy storage products, as well as other related products and services to residential, commercial a ...

(IPO) – provides an intelligent inverter solution that has changed the way power is harvested and managed in solar photovoltaic systems * Wintegra (acquired by

PMC-Sierra PMC-Sierra was a global fabless semiconductor company with offices worldwide that developed and sold semiconductor devices into the storage, communications, optical networking, printing, and embedded computing marketplaces. On January 15, 2016, ...

) – multiprotocol semiconductors for broadband access networks * Worklight (acquired by IBM) – Mobile application platform software * Yedda (acquired by

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, renamed to AOL Answers) – community-driven question and answer service

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*{{Official website, http://www.genesispartners.com Venture capital firms of Israel Investment companies of Israel Financial services companies established in 1996 1996 establishments in Israel

Overview

Portfolio companies

Exits

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