About Ginossar Ventures
Ginossar Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2021. It is primarily based out of United States. As of Aug 2025, Ginossar Ventures has invested in 14 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in Israel based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Retail and Enterprise Infrastructure. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series A round of Dig Overall, Ginossar Ventures portfolio has seen 2 acquisitions, namely Illumex and DeepSurface. A lot of funds co-invest with Ginossar Ventures, with names like New Era Capital Partners sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Ginossar Ventures has team of 3 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
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Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed & Series A
Portfolio Acquisitions
Portfolio Soonicorns
Ginossar Ventures' List of Top Investments
Ginossar Ventures has a portfolio of 14 companies. Their most notable investments include AttackIQ and AppWork.Their portfolio spans across Israel and United States. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Retail, Enterprise Infrastructure and 6 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by Ginossar Ventures:
1. AttackIQ
Provider of security validation and exposure management through adversarial emulation. The company's platform offers continuous, comprehensive, and targeted testing to maintain defense readiness. It validates threats, controls, and attack paths across cloud, identity, and infrastructure. The platform evaluates defenses across endpoints, hybrid environments, and third parties at scale. It prioritizes exploitable exposures and validates security control effectiveness. The company's offerings include attack path management, active threat monitoring, and vulnerability prioritization.
Key facts about AttackIQ
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: San Diego (United States)
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $95.2M
- Employee Count: 195 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and 12 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, May 12, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. AppWork
Key facts about AppWork
- Founded Year: 2022
- Location: Ramsey (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $20.1M
- Employee Count: 81 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Resolve Growth Partners and Ginossar Ventures
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Mar 13, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. Illumex
AI based cataloging and data management solution provider. It provides a business intelligence platform that offers a data catalogue for assisting companies in using data assets for planned decision making. It offers a generative AI engine trained on domain specific technologies that automatically maps and interprets metadata and connects data and analytics layers. The platform uses artificial intelligence technology to provide solutions such as prescriptive data management and fragmented analytics.
Key facts about Illumex
- Founded Year: 2021
- Location: Tel Aviv (Israel)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $13M
- Employee Count: 13 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Amdocs, toDay Ventures and 8 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Jun 25, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
4. Gloss AI
AI-based platform for the creation of video highlights. The platform allows users to create short video campaigns. It enables cost minimization, user engagement, and more. It also provides analytics solutions.
Key facts about Gloss AI
- Founded Year: 2021
- Location: Tel Aviv (Israel)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $8M
- Employee Count: 120 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: New Era Capital Partners, Ginossar Ventures and 7 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Feb 07, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. DeepSurface
Provider of adversarial exposure validation and continuous threat exposure management. The company's platform validates security controls and simulates real-world scenarios. It offers visibility across environments to pinpoint high-risk areas. The platform integrates with threat intelligence and vulnerability management platforms. It validates detection pipelines and endpoint defenses. The company's offerings test firewall rules, segmentation policies, and cloud defenses. It provides active threat monitoring and attack path management. The platform prioritizes vulnerabilities based on adversary exploitability. It scales offensive testing with automated adversary emulations.
Key facts about DeepSurface
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Portland (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $5.5M
- Employee Count: 2 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Peninsula Ventures, Osage Venture Partners and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Feb 08, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
Ginossar Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Ginossar Ventures has invested in 14 companies over the last 4 years, with an average of 1 new investment annually in the last 3 years. In 2025, it made 1 investment. Its most recent first time investment was in Dig.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Ginossar Ventures' Investments by Stage
Ginossar Ventures has made 3 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $8.5M and 1 investment in Series A stage with an average round size of $14M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 3 |
Series A | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Ginossar Ventures' Investments by Sector
Ginossar Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications and Enterprise Infrastructure. Notably, it has invested in 14 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 14 Software companies, 14 Tech companies and at least 8 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 4 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Ginossar Ventures' Investments by Geography
Ginossar Ventures has made most investments in Israel (3), followed by United States where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Israel | 3 |
United States | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Ginossar Ventures' recent investments
Ginossar Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Ginossar Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Aug 18, 2025 | Israel | Series A | 1019 | ||
Jun 25, 2024 | Israel | Seed | 2060 | [+6] | |
Feb 07, 2023 | Israel | Seed | 9549 | ||
Feb 08, 2022 | United States | Seed | 7334 |
Acquired companies in Ginossar Ventures' Portfolio
2 companies from Ginossar Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Illumex in Feb 2026 by Nvidia for $*****.Here are Ginossar Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 25, 2026 | Jun 25, 2024 | Seed | 4618 | |
Feb 04, 2025 | Feb 08, 2022 | Seed | 6186 |
Team profile of Ginossar Ventures
Ginossar Ventures has a team of 3 members located in United States. Ginossar Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of Ginossar Ventures
Over the past 4 years, 22 investors have co-invested in Ginossar Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Ginossar Ventures: Ideaship, Cascade Seed Fund and 2 others have invested in rounds before Ginossar Ventures. There is 1 company where Ideaship has invested before Ginossar Ventures and 1 company where Cascade Seed Fund has invested before Ginossar Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of Ginossar Ventures: 18 investors entered a company along with Ginossar Ventures. These include investors like New Era Capital Partners (2 companies).
Recent News related to Ginossar Ventures
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Illumex Secures $13M to Advance GenAI Capabilities for Structured DataDatanami•Jul 02, 2024•Illumex, Cardumen Capital, Samsung Venture Investment, Amdocs and 6 others
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Ilumex Closes $11m Seed Round Leaded By Cardumen, Amdocs And SamsungWebcapitalriesgo•Jun 25, 2024•Illumex, Cardumen Capital, Amdocs, Samsung and 9 others
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GlossAi Raises $8 Million Seed Round to Accelerate Adoption of its Generative V-Ai Platform for Content Generation at ScaleTechgist Africa•Feb 09, 2023•Gloss AI, New Era Capital Partners, 97212, MindCET and 3 others
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DeepSurface Security Raises $4.5M in Seed FundingFinSMEs•Feb 09, 2022•DeepSurface, Differential Ventures, Osage Partners, Ginossar Ventures and 1 other
