Amir Hermelin

Technology and Product Executive, Chief Product Technology Officer @ FICO, Ex-Google, Ex-SoFi, aspiring mountain biker **HIRING talent at all levels**

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2018
VC🌍 United States
13
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Seed Investor
Sep 2018
To help (you) individuals and businesses gain financial freedom through innovative systems and solutions.
Seed Investor
Sep 2018
Real estate investing just got easier with Doorvest.
Seed Investor
Sep 2018
Imagine if people loved buying cars as much as they love driving them? With Prodigy, that dream is now a reality. Were bringing the convenience of eCommerce to the $1.1 trillion dollar car sales industry. Our industry first platform allows consumers to handle the entire car purchase from the comfort of their own homes. Everything from trade-ins, upsells, extended warranties, to real time loans can be done in a matter of minutes, not hours. Were backed by top-tier investors and fueled by a passion to make a big impact in a big industry.
Investor
Sep 2018
Kraken helps people own the power of their money. Founded in 2011, were one of the worlds longest-standing crypto platforms, now offering crypto, stocks, futures, staking, payments and more. Trusted by millions of institutions, professional traders, and consumers across 190+ countries. Built on the belief that everyone should own the power of their money, Kraken has been a category leader in crypto since 2011. Weve grown into a global financial platform offering crypto, stocks, futures, staking, payments and institutional infrastructure — all on a single foundation built for the future of finance. Our product lineup: — Kraken: the worlds leading hybrid investment platform, built for the future of finance from the ground up — Kraken Pro: the all-in command center that unleashes your trading potential — Krak: the next-generation money platform that turns every type of asset into usable money Proof of Reserves since 2014. Assets held 1:1. Trusted by 13M+ people, thousands of institutions, and a growing community of developers building on Kraken rails. Our mission: accelerate the global adoption of crypto so everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. Risk Disclosure: https://www.kraken.com/en-ca/social-media-disclosure
Seed Investor
Sep 2018
Oxygen is a modern financial platform designed for the 21st-century economy, tailored to meet the unique needs of todays consumers and small businesses (freelancers, solopreneurs and modern SMBs). We believe beauty lies in simplicity, from design to utility, and build our ever-growing product suite with this in mind. And we’re just getting started. At Oxygen, we’re focused on lifting up those who dare to push boundaries and redefine whats possible by delivering on our promise to be a more fair financial partner. The next generation building the future is writing their own rules and shattering expectations. So are we. For those who reject the status quo, welcome to Banking for the Extraordinary. 502 Carnegie Center Blvd, Ste. 103 Princeton, NJ 08540 Oxygen is a financial platform. Banking services provided by The Bancorp Bank N.A, Member FDIC. For more information, visit www.oxygen.us and follow ‘Oxygenbanking’ on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
Seed Investor
Sep 2018
Jetty is the financial services platform on a mission to make renting a home more affordable and flexible. Jettys integrated suite of products helps property managers increase lease conversions, improve resident retention, reduce bad debt, and boost NOI. For renters, Jetty decreases the financial burden of moving into a new home and offers greater flexibility with how and when to pay rent. To learn more about Jetty, visit jetty.com.
Seed Investor
Jan 2018
Bloom Credit helps companies launch lending products, report consumers payments, and create innovative credit experiences. We do this by providing our clients with the data they need from all three credit bureaus, the expertise they are looking for to launch seamlessly, and the proprietary analytics to supplement credit insights - all delivered through Bloom’s developer-friendly API.
Investor
2018
Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR; BETRW) is the first AI-native mortgage and home equity finance platform, and first fintech to fund more than $100B in loan volume. Since 2016, Better has leveraged its industry-leading AI platform, Tinman®, to achieve its mission of making homeownership cheaper, faster, and easier for all Americans. In October 2024, the company launched Betsy™, the first voice-based AI loan assistant built exclusively for the mortgage industry. Better won the 2025 Fintech Breakthrough Awards for Digital Mortgage Innovation, 2025 Banking Tech Award for Digital Mortgage Innovation, and was named Best Online Mortgage Lender by Forbes and Best Mortgage Lender for Affordability by WSJ in 2023, and #1 on Fortune’s Best Small and Medium Workplaces in New York. Join us. © 2021 Better Holdco, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Home lending products offered by Better Mortgage Corporation. Better Mortgage Corporation is a direct lender. NMLS #330511. 1 World Trade Center, Floor 80, New York, NY 10007. Loans made or arranged pursuant to a California Finance Lenders Law License. Not available in all states. Equal Housing Lender. NMLS Consumer Access. Better Real Estate, LLC is a Virginia Licensed Real Estate Firm with its principal office located at 312-F East Market St., Leesburg, VA 20176. License #0266029484. Equal Housing Opportunity.Better Mortgage Corporation, Better Real Estate, LLC, Better Settlement Services, LLC and Better Cover, LLC are separate operating subsidiaries of Better Holdco, Inc. Each company is a separate legal entity operated and managed through its own management and governance structure as required by its state of incorporation, and applicable and legal and regulatory requirements. Products not available in all states.
Seed Investor
Feb 2017
Akash Systems, Inc. is a venture-backed, late-stage, Bay Area company that makes and sells Diamond Cooled GPU-based servers to AI companies, Cloud Service Providers, and data centers worldwide. The deep tech company pioneered Diamond Cooling® technology wherein the world’s most thermally conductive material, lab-grown diamond, is brought into intimate contact with GPUs – the densest heat source chip in a modern high compute server. The resulting Akash server is one that exhibits more compute in FLOPS (>50%) and FLOPS per Watt (by 2x) than any other server in the market today. Akash’s Diamond Cooled servers also reduce the energy cost of cooling the entire data center since the servers can operate in an ambient temperature of up to 120oF. The company’s lead investors include Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund. Akash Systems recently deployed its Diamond Cooling® technology in space, where many Akash satellite radios are now in operation.
Investor
2017
Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by an AI security graph, our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments – stopping the spread of attacks before they become disasters. Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Microsegmentation, Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure, systems, and organizations that keep the world running.
Investor
2017
Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) is delivering the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly to make transportation safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient than ever before. The Aurora Driver is a self-driving system designed to operate multiple vehicle types, from freight-hauling trucks to ride-hailing passenger vehicles, and underpins Aurora Horizon and Aurora Connect, its driver-as-a-service products for trucking and ride-hailing. Aurora is working with industry leaders across the transportation ecosystem, including Toyota, FedEx, Volvo Trucks, PACCAR, Uber, Uber Freight, U.S. Xpress, Werner, Covenant, Schneider, and Ryder. For Aurora’s latest news, visit aurora.tech and @aurora_inno on Twitter.
Investor
2017
Cockroach Labs is the creator of CockroachDB, the cloud native, distributed SQL database for the planets most demanding enterprise applications.
Investor
2016
Acorns believes that anyone can achieve financial wellness — that’s why they’ve been building simple, powerful money tools for everyday Americans and their kids since 2014. Acorns is the app that makes it easy to spend smarter today, save for tomorrow, and invest for your future. Acorns Early is a smart money app and debit card that helps kids grow their money skills — and their money — while they grow up. Named one of Time’s “World’s Best Brands of 2024,” Acorns has helped over 13 million all-time customers save and invest over $22 billion dollars, much of it from spare change.
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2022
Advisor
Jan 2022
GTM Capital is an early-stage VC investing in Enterprise IT Startups at the post-product, post-revenue stage: the Seed Extension to Series A stage. We are singularly focused on helping our portfolio companies gain a massive competitive advantage by providing them access to hundreds of early-adopting CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and Channel Partners around the world and rapidly accelerate customer traction. To further enable our startups to become category winners, we do not invest in competing startups.
2020
Technology Advisor
Oct 2020
Glilot Capital Partners is a leading Israeli venture capital fund renowned for its impressive portfolio of innovative startups in Cybersecurity, AI, Cloud, DevOps, SaaS, and Fintech, driven by visionary entrepreneurs. Ranked consistently among the top five performing venture capital funds globally by Preqin, Glilots success lies in its hands-on approach. Through its unique Value Creation team, the fund provides personalized attention to each portfolio company, ensuring their growth into successful global entities. With Glilot Seed, the fund supports startups from their early stages and remains involved at the board level to facilitate business expansion. Glilot+ focuses on post-Series A startups in enterprise software and cybersecurity, reinforcing the funds outstanding track record. The fund creates an environment that makes it possible to generate real lasting value for both sides of the investment equation. An amazing eight of the funds first eight portfolio companies have been acquired.
2018
Seed Investor
Sep 2018
To help (you) individuals and businesses gain financial freedom through innovative systems and solutions.
Seed Investor
Sep 2018
Real estate investing just got easier with Doorvest.
Seed Investor
Sep 2018
Imagine if people loved buying cars as much as they love driving them? With Prodigy, that dream is now a reality. Were bringing the convenience of eCommerce to the $1.1 trillion dollar car sales industry. Our industry first platform allows consumers to handle the entire car purchase from the comfort of their own homes. Everything from trade-ins, upsells, extended warranties, to real time loans can be done in a matter of minutes, not hours. Were backed by top-tier investors and fueled by a passion to make a big impact in a big industry.
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