Eli Kugel

Director of Sales - Cyber | 0 to 1 GTM expert | Angel Investor

📍 Israel🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2023
VC🌍 Israel
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Investor
Nov 2023
Founded in 2019, Remi is a direct-to-consumer company focused on offering sleep and wellness related products that elevate customers well-being. Its core values are comfort, convenience and affordability, striving to elevate customers experiences when searching for and purchasing daily items. Remi offers high quality custom mouth guards and teeth whitening kits at an affordable price.
mid stageManufacturing
Investor
May 2023
illumex empowers enterprises to confidently deploy AI agents that deliver reliable, explainable, and compliant decisions at scale. Its Generative Semantic Fabric (GSF) platform transforms an enterprise’s organizational corpus of knowledge into AI-ready, business context embedded into semantic ontologies. These ontologies, which serve as a basis for data management, analytics, and agentic workflows, orchestrate AI agents to collaborate around shared context (via MCP) and interpret prompts with precision – eliminating hallucinations, ensuring compliance, and reducing TCO by up to 80%. Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Agentic AI for Data Management and Tech Pioneer in AI Governance by World Economic Forum, illumex is setting the new standard for unified governed semantic data infrastructure in the age of agentic AI. illumex was founded by Inna Tokarev Sela, former Senior Director of Machine Learning at SAP, who brings two decades of experience leading large-scale initiatives to leverage data and AI.
Investor, LP & Scout for The Israeli Start Up Ecosystem
Dec 2021
Sweater is the first VC fund for everyday investors. Until now, venture capital investing has been an asset class exclusively available to a select few. Sweater is transforming that. Our mobile-first experience allows everyone direct access to the worlds most exclusive asset class—Venture Capital. Sweater’s mission is to empower everyone to become investors in the next generation of venture-backed startups. https://www.sweaterventures.com/socialmedia
Investor
Nov 2021
Readlee is a digital platform for students and teachers dedicated to solving the literacy crisis. Our speech-integrated system personalizes reading instruction for learners by listening to them read any text out loud and immediately providing feedback.
early stageE-learning
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2023
Investor
Nov 2023
Founded in 2019, Remi is a direct-to-consumer company focused on offering sleep and wellness related products that elevate customers well-being. Its core values are comfort, convenience and affordability, striving to elevate customers experiences when searching for and purchasing daily items. Remi offers high quality custom mouth guards and teeth whitening kits at an affordable price.
mid stageManufacturing
Investor
May 2023
illumex empowers enterprises to confidently deploy AI agents that deliver reliable, explainable, and compliant decisions at scale. Its Generative Semantic Fabric (GSF) platform transforms an enterprise’s organizational corpus of knowledge into AI-ready, business context embedded into semantic ontologies. These ontologies, which serve as a basis for data management, analytics, and agentic workflows, orchestrate AI agents to collaborate around shared context (via MCP) and interpret prompts with precision – eliminating hallucinations, ensuring compliance, and reducing TCO by up to 80%. Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Agentic AI for Data Management and Tech Pioneer in AI Governance by World Economic Forum, illumex is setting the new standard for unified governed semantic data infrastructure in the age of agentic AI. illumex was founded by Inna Tokarev Sela, former Senior Director of Machine Learning at SAP, who brings two decades of experience leading large-scale initiatives to leverage data and AI.
2021
Investor, LP & Scout for The Israeli Start Up Ecosystem
Dec 2021
Sweater is the first VC fund for everyday investors. Until now, venture capital investing has been an asset class exclusively available to a select few. Sweater is transforming that. Our mobile-first experience allows everyone direct access to the worlds most exclusive asset class—Venture Capital. Sweater’s mission is to empower everyone to become investors in the next generation of venture-backed startups. https://www.sweaterventures.com/socialmedia
Investor
Nov 2021
Readlee is a digital platform for students and teachers dedicated to solving the literacy crisis. Our speech-integrated system personalizes reading instruction for learners by listening to them read any text out loud and immediately providing feedback.
early stageE-learning
Limited Partner
Sep 2021
Phoenix Fund (”Phoenix”) is a pre/seed stage venture capital firm investing in startups founded by students and alumni of Harvard and HBS. As a community-oriented fund, we bring together 400+ Harvard/HBS students and alumni through treks, happy hours, dinners, retreats, and more. Additionally, we harness the collective power of our community to provide outsized value to our portfolio. At Phoenix Fund Research we share valuable data, insights, and stories from the Harvards legendary startup ecosystem. Read here: https://phoenixfundresearch.substack.com/ To submit a deal or for general inquiry, you can reach us at: hello@phoenixclub.vc
Investment activity
2021–2023 · 4 investments
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