
UK-based Hetz Ventures: A deep tech venture capital firm investing in early-stage Israeli startups.
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In an interview on “Likrat Sgira” with Dudu Holtzman (Channel 10), Hetz Ventures General Partner Pavel Livshiz explains why 2025 is shaping up as one of the strongest years yet for Israeli tech, from second-time founders to a surge of smart capital returning to the market. Interview in Hebrew.
At the Mind the Tech NY Conference, panelists stressed sustainable growth over growth at any cost. Insight Partners' Whitney Bouck discussed thoughtful investments and said the firm helps companies navigate challenging times.
Hetz Ventures identified generative AI as an investment theme in 2018. Its first investment in the field was Tabnine in 2019, and its most recent is Tymely, which uses AI for retailer customer support.
The team includes former founders, operators, and engineers with collective experience founding companies, building data systems at scale, managing finance through acquisitions, and working within organizations that became their first customers.
Hetz Ventures is an early stage investor in Israeli startups at seed stage, specializing in data and AI infrastructure, cybersecurity and enterprise software.
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Tel Aviv-based startup Keewano launches KeewanoDB, an event-oriented database built to give AI agents live context for analytics and decisions, and announces $12 million in funding from Hetz Ventures, a16z Speedrun and other investors. The system organizes events by entity and sequence, letting agents inspect histories without ETL pipelines; it supports Kafka ingestion, Parquet and Iceberg, and can run alongside systems such as Snowflake. Keewano also launches an analytics layer for product analytics and real-time operational decisions.
Sep 2026 · SiliconAngleNews article
Deepchecks raises $14 million in seed funding and makes its open-source machine-learning validation tool generally available. The Israeli startup’s software checks models and their data from development through production, while its commercial Deepchecks Hub offers enterprise features including security and authentication. The company says its open-source product has more than 500,000 downloads and is used by AWS, Booking.com and Wix; Alpha Wave Ventures leads the investment, joined by Hetz Ventures and Grove Ventures.
Jun 2023 · TechCrunchNews article