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Hetz Ventures

20 stories about Hetz Ventures

Judah Taub, Managing Partner at Hetz Ventures.

“When Taiwan gets tense, every AI chip gets expensive. Companies building around that constraint will own the next decade.”

27.01.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal

Judah Taub, Managing Partner at Hetz Ventures, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey.

Hetz Ventures secures $140 million to invest in Israeli cyber and AI startups

The fund comes as the firm marks $1 billion in portfolio exit value and nearly $500 million under management.

AI in 2026: Abundance is cheap. Trust is not.

28.12.25|Itamar Mula

"AI makes intelligence cheap. Context, trust, privacy, and judgment become expensive. AI does not remove humans. It makes them more valuable. AI does not kill software. It makes it disposable. AI does not centralize power. It rewards focus and specialization," writes Itamar Mula, Principal at Hetz Ventures.

The new logic behind today’s oversized Israeli Seed rounds

01.12.25|Judah Taub

"Starting off with tens of millions of dollars and a high valuation you will need to grow into, isn't a feature or a bug but rather a strategy. And, both founders and VCs should be fully aware of what it implies," writes Judah Taub, Managing Partner at Hetz Ventures.

גיא פיגל שותף וראש תכנית (SPARQL) Hetz data

If we don’t build a data brand in Israel, we’ll miss the AI revolution

26.10.25|Guy Fighel

"Israel doesn’t have to remain just the 'Cyber Nation'. It can also become the 'Data Nation.'," writes Guy Fighel, a Partner at Hetz Ventures and Head of the Hetz Data (SPARQL) Program.

Israeli AI lacks a “Flywheel”. Hetz Ventures wants to change that

04.08.25|James Spiro, Elihay Vidal

For CTech’s VC AI Survey, Hetz Ventures Managing Partner Judah Taub explains why conviction still matters more than metrics, and what Israel must fix to become a true AI leader.

Judah BiblioTech

WATCH: ‘How To Move Up when the Only Way is Down’ by Judah Taub

29.10.24|James Spiro

Hetz Ventures Co-founder and Managing Partner Judah Taub, spoke to CTech for a wide-ranging interview discussing the inspiration for his new book, his IDF experience, Jewish philosophy, and what modern-day business lessons founders can learn.

Prompt Security

Prompt Security receives $5 million in Seed to secure generative AI

24.01.24|James Spiro

The recent lawsuit against OpenAI filed by The New York Times alleging that ChatGPT can output almost-verbatim article excerpts in its responses highlights the potential for generative AI tools to leak training data.

The clock is ticking for effective GPT data management

11.07.23|Judah Taub

"Attention and investment is going to startups attempting to build on top of GPT and less to those building solutions for data management and infrastructure," warns Judah Taub

Hetz Ventures launches program to support data and AI engineers and entrepreneurs

06.07.23|James Spiro

Confirmed participating advisors include data executives from companies like Salesforce, Twilio, Shopify, and Meta.

Hetz Ventures launches network of engineering and cyber experts to help foster startup growth

12.12.22|James Spiro

The Hetz Executive Network has more than 200 international members and is designed to help companies scale at their early stages

Gankster raises $4.25 million for its all-in-one competitive gaming platform

07.12.22|James Spiro

“We offer a comprehensive and accessible environment for professional growth for every gamer in the world,” said Uriya Schwarz, Gankster CEO

Hetz Ventures Judah Taub יהודה טאוב

Founders must “come to terms with reality,” says Hetz Ventures

23.11.22|Elihay Vidal, James Spiro

Judah Taub, Managing Partner of Hetz Ventures joined CTech to discuss the winners and losers of the year

Tymely Founders

Tymely raises $7 million to fix “broken” eCommerce customer service

19.09.22|James Spiro

The company’s solution automates customer service capabilities using natural language processing (NLP)

ועידת Mind the Tech ניו יורק שולחן עגול חץ מימין פבל ליפשיץ שותף Hetz Ventures איאן עמית מייסד משותף ומנכ"ל Gomboc.ai ו ארקדי גויקברג סמנכ"ל אבטחת מידע DMGT

"If you recruit the wrong person, you end up paying for it twice"

19.09.22|Roee Bergman

Arkadiy Goykhberg, VP of Information Security at DMGT, was speaking in a panel on the economic crisis and its effects on high-tech, which included Ian Amit, Co-founder & CEO of Gomboc.ai, and was hosted by Pavel Livshiz, Partner at Hetz Ventures

וידאו Ctech Mind the tech NY conference – Judah Taub

“I am super bullish for the long term”

Judah Taub, Managing Partner at Hetz Ventures, spoke to CTech at Mind the Tech NY about the changes in the market during the current crisis

פבל ליבשיץ שותף כללי בקרן Hetz Ventures

Embedded finance is already here - what comes next?

04.09.22|Pavel Livshiz

"The time is ripe for all parties involved in financial transactions - financial institutions, businesses and end-users - to embrace the combined benefits of embedded finance, including payments, lending, and other financial products and services," writes Pavel Livshiz, General Partner at Hetz Ventures

Judah Hetz Bibliotech

CTech’s Book Review: How to live in a world of randomness

26.06.22|Judah Taub

Judah Taub, Managing Partner at Hetz Ventures, shares insights after reading “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

פבל ליפשיץ Hetz Ventures

Pavel Livshiz, Hetz: Ability to pivot is what we look for in startups

06.12.21|Elihay Vidal

Speaking to CTech as part of a special investor survey, Pavel Livshiz, Partner at Hetz Ventures, noted that a “few verticals in the cybersecurity space are already oversaturated - SaaS security, open source security, and a few others”

Israel-based Acumen raises $7 million in seed for engineering solutions platform

24.02.21|James Spiro

Customers of the engineering intelligence platform include Bizzabo, Cloudshare, and Logz.io