Assaf Segal

Founder of a new venture and former CEO at Clal Biotechnology (CBI)

📍 Israel, Israel🔄 Updated October 2026💼 9 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2025
Angel investor🌍 Israel
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Aug 2025
Reit 1 Ltd is a company based out of Israel.
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Jun 2022
eXIthera Pharmaceuticals LLC is a pharmaceuticals company based out of 1900 W Park Dr, Westborough, Massachusetts, United States.
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Jun 2022
Elicio is committed to transforming the lives of patients and their families by re-engineering the body’s immune response to cancer. By combining expertise in materials science and immunology, Elicio is engineering potent vaccines and immuno-therapies for an array of aggressive cancers. The Elicio Amphiphile platform enables precise targeting and delivery of immunogens directly to the lymphatic system, the “brain center” of the immune response, to significantly amplify and enhance the body’s own system of defenses, to defeat cancer and stop its recurrence. This substantially enhanced anti-tumor functionality and long-term protective memory could unlock the full potential of the human immune response to eliminate cancer. Elicio's lead Amphiphile vaccines targeting pancreatic, colorectal, and head and neck cancer will begin initial patient studies in early 2020. Elicio was founded to expand and apply the ground-breaking Amphiphile technology invented and developed in the labs of Darrell Irvine Ph.D., Professor of Biological Engineering and Materials Sciences and Howard Hughes Investigator, at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Preclinical studies have demonstrated that Elicio’s Amphiphile vaccines target and concentrate in the lymph nodes resulting in unprecedented tumor-specific immune responses and durable cures of aggressive tumor models in mice.
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Sep 2019
Detecting rare diseases early with the help of AI Imagine a world where every person’s genome serves as their medical record to guide health decisions. We’re well on our way—genomic analysis is becoming the clinical standard in diagnostic evaluations, and artificial intelligence is the cornerstone of technologies that enable it. Used by 70% of the world’s geneticists across 2,000 clinical sites in over 130 countries, FDNA’s next-generation phenotyping (NGP) technologies capture, structure and analyze complex human physiological data to produce actionable genomic insights. FDNA’s database includes an unprecedented depth of phenotypic and genotypic information associated with more than 10,000 diseases, crowdsourced from real-world patient cases through our broad network of users. This de-identified data is collected and stored in a private and secure cloud-based clinical warehouse, and integrated to LIMS, EMR and variant interpretation systems through a set of open APIs. While our roots stem from facial recognition, our future lies in the phenotype, and as a leader in AI we aim to always provide innovative, impactful solutions. Since its founding in 2011, FDNA continues to aid clinicians, researchers and genetic testing labs in finding answers and treatments for hundreds-of-millions of patients globally living with a genetic disease.
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Aug 2019
Pi-Cardia is a medical device start-up company developing a novel low profile catheter for the treatment of Aortic Stenosis. The company's proprietary technology is based on delivering mechanical impact for creating scoring lines in valve calcification, without injuring the surrounding soft tissue. This treatment, which only takes several seconds, is intended to increase the valve effective orifice area without the need to replace the valve.
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Aug 2019
Colospan offers a unique alternative to the diverting stoma by providing a temporary intraluminal bypass which helps reduce the contact of fecal materials with the anastomotic site. This temporary diversion solution is removed without surgery in under two weeks and aims to minimize post-operative complications for a comfortable recovery.
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Mar 2019
Biokine Therapeutics Ltd. is a biotechnology company based out of 13 Mikve Yisrael Street, Ness Ziona, Center District, Israel.
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2025
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Aug 2025
Reit 1 Ltd is a company based out of Israel.
2022
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Jun 2022
eXIthera Pharmaceuticals LLC is a pharmaceuticals company based out of 1900 W Park Dr, Westborough, Massachusetts, United States.
Board Member
Jun 2022
Elicio is committed to transforming the lives of patients and their families by re-engineering the body’s immune response to cancer. By combining expertise in materials science and immunology, Elicio is engineering potent vaccines and immuno-therapies for an array of aggressive cancers. The Elicio Amphiphile platform enables precise targeting and delivery of immunogens directly to the lymphatic system, the “brain center” of the immune response, to significantly amplify and enhance the body’s own system of defenses, to defeat cancer and stop its recurrence. This substantially enhanced anti-tumor functionality and long-term protective memory could unlock the full potential of the human immune response to eliminate cancer. Elicio's lead Amphiphile vaccines targeting pancreatic, colorectal, and head and neck cancer will begin initial patient studies in early 2020. Elicio was founded to expand and apply the ground-breaking Amphiphile technology invented and developed in the labs of Darrell Irvine Ph.D., Professor of Biological Engineering and Materials Sciences and Howard Hughes Investigator, at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Preclinical studies have demonstrated that Elicio’s Amphiphile vaccines target and concentrate in the lymph nodes resulting in unprecedented tumor-specific immune responses and durable cures of aggressive tumor models in mice.
2019
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Sep 2019
Detecting rare diseases early with the help of AI Imagine a world where every person’s genome serves as their medical record to guide health decisions. We’re well on our way—genomic analysis is becoming the clinical standard in diagnostic evaluations, and artificial intelligence is the cornerstone of technologies that enable it. Used by 70% of the world’s geneticists across 2,000 clinical sites in over 130 countries, FDNA’s next-generation phenotyping (NGP) technologies capture, structure and analyze complex human physiological data to produce actionable genomic insights. FDNA’s database includes an unprecedented depth of phenotypic and genotypic information associated with more than 10,000 diseases, crowdsourced from real-world patient cases through our broad network of users. This de-identified data is collected and stored in a private and secure cloud-based clinical warehouse, and integrated to LIMS, EMR and variant interpretation systems through a set of open APIs. While our roots stem from facial recognition, our future lies in the phenotype, and as a leader in AI we aim to always provide innovative, impactful solutions. Since its founding in 2011, FDNA continues to aid clinicians, researchers and genetic testing labs in finding answers and treatments for hundreds-of-millions of patients globally living with a genetic disease.
Board Member
Aug 2019
Pi-Cardia is a medical device start-up company developing a novel low profile catheter for the treatment of Aortic Stenosis. The company's proprietary technology is based on delivering mechanical impact for creating scoring lines in valve calcification, without injuring the surrounding soft tissue. This treatment, which only takes several seconds, is intended to increase the valve effective orifice area without the need to replace the valve.
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