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Genesis Partners

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Last activity: 30.11.2016

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Genesis Partners (“Genesis”) is a leading early stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build successful, fast-growing companies. Genesis believes technological innovation creates tremendous business opportunity, and shares this vision and passion with all of the entrepreneurs in which it invests. The investment team focuses on building long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs whose vision, passion, integrity, and execution skills build market leaders. The fund manages over $600 million in capital commitments across four funds, and focuses on seed and early stage investments in the information and communication technology (ICT) sectors. Genesis is also the proud owner of “The Junction”, Israel’s leading and first-ever startup accelerator. Genesis’ strong ties to the Israeli entrepreneurial community and the global technology industry have led the fund to an impressive track record with close to 30 successful exits. At its core, Genesis invests in people and their passion to realize their dreams. “It’s all about the people”

Notable investments include: Activepath, Allot Communications (Nasdaq: ALLT), Any.Do, Appilog (acquired by Mercury), Aternity, AudioCodes (Nasdaq: AUDC), ClickSoftware (Nasdaq: CKSW), Colbar LifeScience (acquired by J&J), Commerce Sciences, Compugen (Nasdaq: CGEN), DaPulse, EatWith, FilesX (acquired by IBM), FIS (acquired by Sapiens), Fundtech (Nasdaq:FNDT), Innovid, JoyTunes, Kidaro (acquired by Microsoft), Neebula (acquired by ServiceNow), Optonol (acquired by Alcon), Octalica (acquired by Broadcom), Powerinbox, Preen.me, PrimeSense (acquired by Apple), Profitect, ProSight (acquired by Primavera), Riskified, Sckipio, Scopus Video Networks (Nasdaq: SCOP), Sensible, SiSense, SolarEdge (Nasdaq:SEDG), Spondooliestech, StoreAge (acquired by LSI), Tradair, Valens Semiconductor, VisIC Technologies, Wintegra (acquired by PMC-Sierra), Worklight (acquired by IBM), Yedda (acquired by AOL)

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Location: Israel, Tel Aviv District, Herzliya

Employees: 11-50

Founded date: 1996

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30.11.2016	Genesis Partners spins out $50 million fund, F2 Capital, to back early-stage startups in Israel	Three members of the senior investing team at Genesis Partners, a major Israeli venture firm, are stepping out with a new, early-stage fund of their own called F2 Capital. For the unfamiliar, Genesis Partners’ portfolio companies have been ...
30.03.2016	Daily funding roundup - March 30, 2016	Zavante closed $45M Series A funding; MapD secured $10M; Invoca closed $30M Series D funding Invoca, a marketing platform for call analytics and automation, closed a $30 million Series D round of funding led by Morgan Stanley Alternative In...
14.02.2016	The Land Of Milk, Honey And Fraud Prevention	Barak Rabinowitz Contributor Barak Rabinowitz is a venture partner at Genesis Partners, an early-stage Israeli venture capital fund. Israel has become a hotbed for startups in the fields of identity verification and fraud prevention. The ID...
24.08.2015	Daily funding roundup - August 24, 2015	Mirantis announced $100M; PlanSource received $70M; CB Insights raised $1.15M As anyone who writes about tech can tell you, getting information on private companies is not easy to get. Unlike with public companies, where the information is ...
24.10.2014	Spondoolies-Tech Takes Aim at BitFury With $5 Million Funding Round	Spondoolies Spondoolies-Tech has raised $5m from a pool of both new and existing investors as part of its ongoing Series B funding round. Participants in the round included Agile Wings, BRM Group and Genesis Partners, as well as a group of ...
04.05.2014	The CoinDesk Mining Roundup: Hot Issues, Lawsuits and Eco Mining	A bit of good news came from FinCEN recently, when it ruled that cloud mining services do not have to register as money transmitters. This is good news for consumers who wish to stay out of purchasing mining equipment for themselves and mer...
14.05.2013	Any.Do Raises $3.5M in Funding	Any.Do, a Palo Alto, CA-based to-do list application, raised $3.5m in funding. The round was led by Genesis Partners, with participation from existing investors Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, Joe Lonsdale, Blumberg Capital, Joe Greens...
03.05.2013	JoyTunes Raises $1.5M in Seed Funding	JoyTunes, an Israel-based platform that allows users to learn music through games, raised $1.5m in seed funding. The round was led by Genesis Partners, with participation from Founder Collective, Kaedan Capital, and angel investors Dana Mes...
30.04.2013	Traveling Abroad? EatWith Wants To Help You Break Bread With The Locals In Their Own Homes	Nothing makes traveling to a new land more amazing than befriending a local or two. Meet the right person — someone outgoing, with knowledge of the locale — and it’s like punching in a cheat code. You’ll do better things, see better places,...
03.04.2013	SiSense Completes $10M Series B Funding	SiSense, a San Francisco, CA-based Big Data Analytics Company, completed a $10m Series B round of funding. The round was led by Battery Ventures, with participation from Opus Capital and Genesis Partners. The company intends to use the capi...
10.10.2012	Preen.Me Closes $800k Seed Funding	Preen.Me, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based social beauty site, has closed an $800k seed funding. Backers include Horizons Ventures, Genesis Partners and Oren Zeev. The company intends to use the capital to grow its team and offering. Led by CEO and...
01.08.2012	Standing On Its Own: Wix Spin-Off daPulse Scores 1.5m Series A For Its Internal Communications Tool	It’s always interesting to see when a company builds a product on the side purely to scratch its own itch, and then decides that said product has the making of a startup in itself. That appears to be the case with daPulse which, broadly spe...
19.09.2011	Email banking company ActivePath raises $10M	The company's interactive email solution allows consumers to make bank transactions via email Banking-by-email company ActivePath announced Monday that it has raised $10 million in a Series B round of funding led by Battery Ventures and Gim...
30.08.2011	Innovid gets $9.5M for interactive video ads	The company is backed by Sequoia, Genesis Partners, and T-Venture Video ad engagement company Innovid on Tuesday announced a $9.5 million round of funding led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from existing investors Genesis Partners a...
17.02.2010	Columbus, Ohio, gets Sensible	By Mary Vanac COLUMBUS, Ohio — Sensible Medical Innovations Ltd., an Israeli company developing a non-invasive device to monitor patients with congestive heart failure, is opening its first U.S. office, according to the Columbus Dispatch. I...
16.02.2010	Sensible Medical Innovations Ltd. opening first U.S. office in Columbus, Ohio	In June, Sensible Medical won a $7 million investment from venture firms SPC Vitalife, in Wayne, Pa., andÂ Tel Aviv, Israel,Â and Genesis Partners Ltd.Â of Herzliya Pituach, Israel, according to VCgate.com. Founded in 2007 as the brainchild...
29.12.2008	SolarEdge absorbs $23M to boost solar energy output	Israeli cleantech company SolarEdge has raised $23 million in a second round of funding to continue developing technology that could significantly increase the output of solar energy installations. The round — which included Vertex Venture ...
27.10.2008	LucidLogix raises $18M for parallel graphics processing technology	LucidLogix Technologies has raised $18 million in a third round of funding for its business of tying together multiple graphics cards in a computer. The company makes a chip that allows a computer to take advantage of multiple graphics chip...
05.05.2008	Prime Sense claims to have the best 3D game controller	A few months ago, VentureBeat editor Matt Marshall highlighted the various players in the gesture recognition technology space, speculating that “one day, very soon, you’ll be able to control an avatar or character on a screen with a mere g...
10.04.2008	IBM acquires FilesX for reported $70-90M	FilesX, a data recovery startup started in Israel and now based in Newton, Mass., has been acquired by IBM (NYSE: IBM). The purchase price for the deal was undisclosed, but reported to be between $70 and $90 million dollars, according to Gl...
21.03.2008	Genesis Partners raising $150M fourth fund	Genesis Partners, an Israeli venture firm with ties to Silicon Valley, is raising $150 million for its fourth fund, according to Globes. Most Genesis investments are in semiconductors and wireless technology. However, the company also funds...
12.03.2008	Microsoft laying down $100 million for desktop virtualization firm Kidaro	Microsoft must be set on the idea of acquisitions as the major driver for growth and innovation in the company, because it’s adding to its lengthy list of recent acquisitions with a hefty offer for Kidaro, a desktop virtualization firm. The...
11.11.2007	AOL Gets Into Q&A Business, Acquires Israel's Yedda	I first met Yedda founders Avichay Nissenbaum and Yaniv Golan during a trip to Israel in February 2006. The company, which hosts a question and answer service that is similar in some ways to Yahoo Answers, launched later that year. Tonight ...
-	Sensible Medical Innovations Ltd. opening first U.S. office in Columbus, Ohio	COLUMBUS, Ohio — Sensible Medical Innovations Ltd., an Israeli company developing a non-invasive device to monitor patients with congestive heart failure, is opening its first U.S. office, according to the Columbus Dispatch. In May, Sensibl...

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