Ben Kaminski

Co-Founder & Chairman at Essor

📍 Israel, Israel🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2021
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Board Member & Investor
Jul 2021
YuLife is an all-in-one employee benefit that brings insurance, health and wellbeing together into a single, everyday experience. Built as an AI-forward insurtech, YuLife is redefining employee benefits for the way people live and work today - making wellbeing more engaging, preventative and genuinely joyful. By turning small daily actions into lasting habits, rewarding progress, and offering personalised support when it matters most, YuLife helps people engage with their benefits as part of everyday life, not just at the point of claim. That everyday engagement creates meaningful impact at scale. For employers, YuLife supports healthier, more resilient workforces and helps benefits deliver real value. For insurers, it enables earlier, more predictable intervention and more sustainable long-term risk management. YuLife partners with leading insurers, operates globally, and supports millions of people worldwide.
mid stageInsurance
Board Member & Investor
Mar 2021
High-quality and fresh groceries delivered to your door in minutes. We are Flink - your online supermarket revolutionising the way you do your grocery shopping. With a wide selection of over 2,400 high-quality products, we aim to deliver to your door in minutes. We put our customers first and ensure all products delivered are fresh and nutritious. We are able to customise our national assortment to be able to offer you unique local products in every city. Our delivery hubs are located in densely populated inner city locations and we strive to be sustainable by delivering on electric bikes and using packaging that can be recycled. Founded by experienced e-commerce professionals and backed by some of the most renowned investors in Europe, we are growing rapidly and have a great hunger to continuously challenge ourselves.
Board Member & Investor
Jul 2020
Drover is the UKs leading car subscription company and has been acquired by Cazoo in January 2021.
Investor
Jul 2020
Cazoo. Right for You. Search over 230,000 used cars from 6,000 dealers nationwide.
Investor
Jan 2020
Bird is on a mission to provide eco-friendly transportation for everyone.
Board Member & Investor
Jun 2019
Zego is a commercial motor insurance provider that powers opportunities for businesses, from entire fleets of vehicles to self-employed drivers and riders. It combines best-in-class technology with sophisticated data sources to offer insurance products that save businesses time and money. Since its inception, Zego has believed that the problem with traditional insurance is that it holds businesses back. It’s too expensive and time consuming, and it no longer suits businesses who use vehicles to earn money. Zego’s products represent a solution to this problem for businesses based across the UK, Europe and beyond.
mid stageInsurance
Board Observer & Investor
Mar 2019
The food supply chain is broken. We’re fixing it. Choco is building the AI infrastructure powering a secure, efficient, and resilient global food system. Across the US, UK, Europe, and the Middle East, we connect food distributors, operators, and suppliers on a single intelligent platform for order management, sales, and ecommerce. Our industry-leading AI removes friction and blind spots across the entire order lifecycle, helping food distributors protect margins, operate more efficiently, and serve customers better. In the past year alone, Choco processed over 8.8 million orders. That means millions of moments of friction removed, and counting. This is bigger than software. We’re building the operating system for modern food distribution. Sound ambitious? Good. It should.
Board Member & Investor
Sep 2018
REEF transforms facilities into thriving mobility and logistical hubs. Our mission is to be the ecosystem that connects the world to your block.
Board Member & Investor
Sep 2018
REEF transforms facilities into thriving mobility and logistical hubs. Our mission is to be the ecosystem that connects the world to your block.
Board Member & Investor
Aug 2018
klarx is a Munich based start-up operating a digital platform for construction equipment and heavy machinery rental. As an independent full-service provider, klarx digitalizes the entire rental process for rental stations and lessees. The platform offers efficient and transparent overviews of final rental prices – including logistics and insurance – and availabilities for equipment all over Germany. Thus, klarx enables the customer to get the best price in the shortest time. klarx was founded in 2015 by the siblings Matthias & Florian Handschuh together with Vincent Koch. Their mission: Revolutionizing the construction industry with their digital solutions and thereby making equipment rental as easy as buying a pair of new shoes online. https://www.klarx.de/impressum Career at klarx klarx is a young, dynamic and fast growing startup that is always looking for motivated talents. Besides working our vision to fully digitalize machinery rental, we enjoy all kinds of mountain activities in the lovely surrounding of Munich in our spare time. If you are eager to work on creative solutions in a high-performance environment, please do not hesitate to contact us: jobs@klarx.com https://klarx.de/jobs
mid stageConstruction
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2021
Board Member & Investor
Jul 2021
YuLife is an all-in-one employee benefit that brings insurance, health and wellbeing together into a single, everyday experience. Built as an AI-forward insurtech, YuLife is redefining employee benefits for the way people live and work today - making wellbeing more engaging, preventative and genuinely joyful. By turning small daily actions into lasting habits, rewarding progress, and offering personalised support when it matters most, YuLife helps people engage with their benefits as part of everyday life, not just at the point of claim. That everyday engagement creates meaningful impact at scale. For employers, YuLife supports healthier, more resilient workforces and helps benefits deliver real value. For insurers, it enables earlier, more predictable intervention and more sustainable long-term risk management. YuLife partners with leading insurers, operates globally, and supports millions of people worldwide.
mid stageInsurance
Board Member & Investor
Mar 2021
High-quality and fresh groceries delivered to your door in minutes. We are Flink - your online supermarket revolutionising the way you do your grocery shopping. With a wide selection of over 2,400 high-quality products, we aim to deliver to your door in minutes. We put our customers first and ensure all products delivered are fresh and nutritious. We are able to customise our national assortment to be able to offer you unique local products in every city. Our delivery hubs are located in densely populated inner city locations and we strive to be sustainable by delivering on electric bikes and using packaging that can be recycled. Founded by experienced e-commerce professionals and backed by some of the most renowned investors in Europe, we are growing rapidly and have a great hunger to continuously challenge ourselves.
2020
Co-Founder & Chairman
Sep 2020
Essor, where brands take flight. We find digital challenger brands and supercharge them into iconic global legends that consumers love. As a next-generation consumer products platform, we leverage technology, industry expertise, and strategic collaborations to ignite growth and launch brands beyond expectations. Essor’s brand portfolio today includes a broad range of rapidly growing health & wellness and lifestyle brands like Boka, ZitSticka, Puracy, OTOTO Design, FreshCap, Iron Flask, Fullstar, numnum, Key Nutrients, and Viking Revolution that are sold on Amazon, Direct to Consumer channels, and through national retailers like Target, CVS, and Walmart.
early stageRetail
Board Member & Investor
Jul 2020
Drover is the UKs leading car subscription company and has been acquired by Cazoo in January 2021.
Investor
Jul 2020
Cazoo. Right for You. Search over 230,000 used cars from 6,000 dealers nationwide.
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