About Disruptive AI
Disruptive AI is a venture capital firm founded in 2020. It is primarily based out of Herzliya, Israel. As of Dec 2025, Disruptive AI is an active investor, having invested in 11 companies, with 1 new investment in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Seed round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Retail. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series A round of Quantum Art Overall, Disruptive AI portfolio has seen 1 unicorn and 1 acquisition, namely Verbit and Staircase. A lot of funds co-invest with Disruptive AI, with names like Samsung NEXT sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Disruptive AI has team of 2 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed, Series A & 2 more
Portfolio Acquisitions
Portfolio Unicorns
Portfolio Soonicorns
Deals in last 12 months
Disruptive AI's List of Top Investments
Disruptive AI has a portfolio of 11 companies, one of which is a Unicorn. Their most notable investments are in Ironblocks and Vendict.Their portfolio spans across United States and Israel. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Retail and 5 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A and 2 more. Here is the list of top investments by Disruptive AI:
1. Verbit
Provider of cloud and AI-based natural language processing platform to develop speech recognition applications. It is leveraging a cloud-based speech recognition technology that is based on the latest advances in the field of deep learning neural networks. It has applications in court reporting and depositions, education and disability needs, distance learning and relearning, media production, and business analysis.
Key facts about Verbit
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series E
- Total Funding till date: $550M
- Employee Count: 1,624 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Sapphire Ventures, Vertex Ventures Israel and 38 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series E, Nov 23, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. Quantum Art
Developer of scalable commercial quantum computing solutions. It designs and builds quantum computers for commercial applications. The company utilizes advanced multi-qubit gates and a dynamically reconfigurable multi-core architecture to accelerate quantum algorithms. Its solutions are designed for efficiency and are targeted at governments, high performance computing providers, enterprises, and research institutions. Applications include chemistry and materials science, machine learning, process optimization, and finance.
Key facts about Quantum Art
- Founded Year: 2022
- Location: Ness Ziona (Israel)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $164M
- Employee Count: 68 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Vertex Ventures Israel, Hudson Bay Capital and 20 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Apr 27, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. Calibaja
Developer of software identifying financial crime and unreported business activity. This platform utilizes open-source intelligence to analyze public business data and internal records. It assists authorities in detecting non-compliance and identifying illicit financial networks. The technology integrates with existing infrastructure to support investigative processes and enforcement efforts.
Key facts about Calibaja
- Founded Year: 2020
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $85.5M
- Employee Count: 117 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Citi, Cerca Partners and 10 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Aug 18, 2025, $*****
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4. Vendict
Provides vendor management automation solution. Features include automatic vendor discovery, extensive vendor profiles, process-oriented automation, and more. Also, it offers an assessment interface composed of the intuitive editor and response modes with response progress, enables to downloading of the questions and their response as a PDF, uses AI to automate the filling out of questionnaires, and provides responses to questions, and more.
Key facts about Vendict
- Founded Year: 2019
- Location: California City (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $19.5M
- Employee Count: 46 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: JAL Ventures, NFX and 7 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Aug 06, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. nSure.ai
Provider of AI-based fraud protection solutions for sellers. It offers a solution for digital goods sellers with fraud protection tools that analyze each online transaction and purchase for approval. It uses sophisticated machine-learning predictive technology to differentiate between legitimate buyers and fraudsters, enabling retailers to approve sales of digital products. It offers services for goods like e-gift cards, airline tickets, concert and sports tickets, software, games, and more.
Key facts about nSure.ai
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: Tel Aviv (Israel)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $25.4M
- Employee Count: 48 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Alpha Wave Global, Kamet and 6 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Mar 02, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Disruptive AI's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Disruptive AI has invested in 11 companies over the last 5 years, with an average of 2 new investments annually in the last 5 years. In 2025, it made 5 investments. Its most recent first time investment was in Quantum Art and most recent follow-on round was in Vendict.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2023 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2022 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2021 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Disruptive AI's Investments by Stage
Disruptive AI has made 7 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $6.76M, 2 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $58.5M, 1 investment in Series B stage with an average round size of $60M and 1 investment in Series E stage with an average round size of $250M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 7 |
Series A | 2 |
Series B | 1 |
Series E | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Disruptive AI's Investments by Sector
Disruptive AI has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Enterprise Infrastructure, FinTech and Artificial Intelligence - Industry Applications. Notably, it has invested in 11 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 11 Software companies, 11 Tech companies and at least 7 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 10 |
High Tech | 6 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 4 |
FinTech | 2 |
Artificial Intelligence - Industry Applications | 1 |
Others | 6 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Disruptive AI's Investments by Geography
Disruptive AI has made most investments in United States (7), followed by Israel where it has made 4 investments.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 7 |
Israel | 4 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Disruptive AI's recent investments
Disruptive AI has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Disruptive AI:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Dec 10, 2025 | Israel | Series A | 6382 | [+13] | |
Aug 18, 2025 | United States | Series B | 6274 | ||
Aug 06, 2025 | United States | Series A | 1111 | [+4] | |
Jun 12, 2025 | Israel | Series B | 9754 | [+3] | |
Jan 16, 2025 | United States | Seed | 3452 | [+3] |
Unicorns in Disruptive AI's Portfolio
Disruptive AI has 1 unicorn in its portfolio - Verbit. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Verbit which became a unicorn in 2021.Here is a list of unicorns in Disruptive AI's portfolio:
Tracxn Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
75 | Provider of cloud and AI-based natural language processing platform to develop speech recognition applications | 2017 | New York City | Series E | mlsvzby |
Acquired companies in Disruptive AI's Portfolio
1 company from Disruptive AI's portfolio has been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Staircase in Aug 2024 by Gainsight for $*****.Here are Disruptive AI's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aug 08, 2024 | Oct 27, 2021 | Seed | 2864 |
Team profile of Disruptive AI
Disruptive AI has a team of 2 members including 1 Partner and 1 Principal located in Israel. Disruptive AI's team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of Disruptive AI
Over the past 5 years, 88 investors have co-invested in Disruptive AI's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Disruptive AI: Microsoft Accelerator, Third Point Ventures and 33 others have invested in rounds before Disruptive AI. There is 1 company where Microsoft Accelerator has invested before Disruptive AI and 1 company where Third Point Ventures has invested before Disruptive AI.
- Top Co-investors of Disruptive AI: 42 investors entered a company along with Disruptive AI. These include investors like Samsung NEXT (2 companies).
- Invested after Disruptive AI: A total of 11 investors have invested in Disruptive AI's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Hudson Bay Capital (1 company), Poalim Equity (1 company) and LIP Ventures Boutique (1 company).
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