Hetz Ventures

25/02/2024

Startup founders and fellow investors! Tomorrow, join Startup for Startup for an AMA with Judah Taub. Feel free to ask *anything* from how to think about valuations in challenging times to what he sees happening next on the Israeli data/AI front to the chances that Man United make a comeback... Join the group here to get access to the AMA thread: https://www.facebook.com/groups/startupforstartup

15/02/2024

Congrats Gomboc.ai on joining the second cohort of the Google for Startups Growth Academy: AI for Cybersecurity program 👏

An incredible opportunity for Iftach Ian Amit and team to make the world a safer place as they scale with access to Google’s tools, partners and practices.

We're proud to back you!

14/02/2024

While LLMs transform industries, they raise an urgent need for speed, efficiency and accessibility in LLM inference.

Join Guy Fighel as he examines the strengths of NVIDI, Intel and AMD along with what else is necessary for considering inference hardware:

Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming countless industries, bringing with them an urgent need for speed, efficiency, and accessibility in LLM inference. Nvidia is the dominant player, and Intel and AMD are compelling options. Let's examine the evolving landscape of LLM inference hardware and...

19/09/2023

One day Judah Taub joked with Gankster team, challenging them to a gaming competition. Only he wasn't joking, kicking off the Hetz-Gankster Call of Duty prank. Watch 𝘎𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘳 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘥 where a VC takes on its eSports portfolio company, and Gankster still comes out the winner 🎮 🏆

Thanks for playing Uriya Idan, Dan, Judah, Liz, Yael and our awesome team of pro Call of Duty players + advisor Sahar Cohen

(Stay alert Hetz portfolio 👀)

10/05/2023

"Everything starts with a human and ends with a human."

Hetz Presents: Rohit Parchuri, SVP & CISO at Yext, who shares a ton of insight into leading security, bringing empathy and respect for the job into your role, how the media is making it harder for us to truly understand the role of , and the biggest mistake a startup founder can make when pitching a CISO (spoiler: it's fear tactics).

Watch our Q&A with Rohit for more.

𝐇𝐞𝐭𝐳 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬: is a series featuring tech leaders and execs from around the world, exploring how they arrived at their professional milestones, how they approach and , and what comes next in their industries.

07/05/2023

Specialization is key in so many disciplines. Judah Taub says it's not any different in . As the market has matured, 'specialized' VC can be a better way forward for founders and investors:

To succeed in an increasingly competitive environment, we must play to our strengths and work to make those strengths even more apparent, meaningful and impactful.

26/04/2023

Happy Israeli Independence Day 🇮🇱 !

Making Calcalist כלכליסט's 50 most promising Israeli startups of 2023: 8fig (continuous funding for scaling e-commerce) and Tabnine (Gen AI assistant for developers), two homegrown Israeli cutting edge companies we are proud to support all year round.

17/04/2023

At today's Hetz portfolio meetup, our founders enjoyed breakfast + two timely topics on the menu:

👉 Valuations in 2023 with Judah Taub
👉 KPIs in the era of efficiency with Anat Eitan

Thanks to our founders for joining the discussion!
We'll share more of the team's insights soon.

13/04/2023

A founder asks: What's the ideal runway?

Consider this, says Judah Taub: The ideal is actually raising capital when you *can* vs. when you *must*. An ideal timeline (founders who've been there would likely agree) is raising your next funding long before you need it.

04/04/2023

With Passover this week, we're feeling reflective 🙌

During the 2022 holiday season, we invited our network to choose where Hetz's charitable donations should go: Helping children, supporting the environment, and creating social impact through career development in underserved communities. We're so grateful to have a caring and passionate network - and of course, there was plenty to go round for all three causes!

Stay tuned - we'll feature some of the organizations who received this support, and the impact we made together with our network! If you're looking to make a local impact here in Israel, consider Tech-Career or ClearGiving קליר גיבינג.

Thanks to Yala Impact for making it easy to make a difference!

Wishing you a happy and gratifying Passover holiday 🥂

Judah Taub Pavel Livshiz Moran Gelbart Anat Eitan Alex Shine Yael Barsheshet Liz Cohen

02/04/2023

Yes, 2023 feels chaotic, but with Q1 behind us we can say that our outlook for the year is still on track as far as which sectors to watch. Judah Taub highlights three in this month's Forbes column: , , and / :

Rising financial pressure and cost optimization are heavily affecting ROI calculations. It is up to savvy investors to detect which fields will hold fast in turbulent winds.

19/03/2023

What does it mean to build an company? How do you launch it? How do you hire for it? How do you measure success?

Last year, Philip Tannor, together with co-founder Shir Chorev, pivoted Deepchecks from solely enterprise-focused to community first. In this episode, he shares how they came to this decision, how they executed the launch, and - do open source developers have more fun?!

Here's Philip's 5-minute take on how to strategize your launch; head on over to Hetz Ventures on YouTube for the full episode.

Founder2Founder is a Hetz series where we flip the expert questions on our startup founders, who've accomplished something specific and have experience to share.

The team at Deepchecks made a bold move in January 2022: They pivoted their entire company approach from building enterprise-first to engaging the ML/data sc...