Genesis Partners

Genesis Partners is an Israeli venture capital 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 angel investors 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, Insight Venture Partners 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)
* 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
* JoyTunes
* Radwin – 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, G.fast.
* Sisense – End-to-end business intelligence software
* SponDoolies –Tech build infrastructure technology for virtually mining cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin.
* Valens Semiconductor – Fabless manufacturing company providing semiconductor solutions for the development of HDBaseT devices.

Exits

* Allot Communications (IPO) – provider of IP service optimization solutions for service providers, carriers, and enterprises
* Appilog (acquired by Mercury Interactive) – application mapping technologies
* AudioCodes (IPO) – designs, develops, and sells advanced Voice over IP (VoIP) and converged VoIP and Data networking products and applications to service providers and enterprises
* Butterfly VLSI (acquired by Texas Instruments) – developed low cost chipsets that enabled RF wireless communications
* ClickSoftware Technologies (IPO) – develops software solutions for workforce optimization, allowing companies to efficiently coordinate the dispatch of field service technicians to customer locations
* ColBar LifeScience (acquired by Johnson & Johnson) – develops, manufactures, and commercializes biosurgical products
* Compugen (IPO) – develops and markets bioinformatics software platforms and engages in ''in silico'' drug discovery
*eToro – a social trading and multi-asset brokerage company that focuses on providing financial and copy trading 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 Sapiens International Corporation
* Fundtech (IPO) – designs, develops, markets, and supports client/server products for electronic payments
*Jeeng (formerly PowerInbox) – AI-powered autonomous marketing platform
* Kidaro (acquired by Microsoft) – provider of desktop virtualization solutions for enterprises
* Modem Art (acquired by Agere Systems) – developer of advanced processor technology for 3G/UMTS mobile devices
* Neebula Systems (acquired by ServiceNow) - business service monitoring (BSM) platform for virtualized data center environments
* Octalica (acquired by Broadcom) – home networking solutions over coaxial cable
* Optonol (acquired by Alcon) – devices for ophthalmologic applications
* PrimeSense developer of 3D sensing technology, acquired by Apple Inc. 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 (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) – multiprotocol semiconductors for broadband access networks
* Worklight (acquired by IBM) – Mobile application platform software
* Yedda (acquired by AOL, renamed to AOL Answers) – community-driven question and answer service

See also

* Venture capital in Israel
* Silicon Wadi
* List of Israeli companies quoted on the Nasdaq
* List of multinationals with research and development centres in Israel

References

External links

*{{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