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Feb 2025
Brandlight.ai empowers brands to shape their presence in the era of AI-driven search. As consumers increasingly rely on AI platforms like ChatGPT and Gemini for information and recommendations, traditional SEO strategies are no longer sufficient. Brandlight provides tools and insights to help brands monitor, optimize, and influence how AI models perceive and present their narratives.  
Our platform offers real-time tracking of brand mentions across AI platforms, sentiment analysis, and identification of key content sources influencing AI-generated answers. By understanding and managing these factors, brands can ensure accurate representation, enhance visibility, and maintain control over their digital narratives. 
With Brandlight, companies can proactively engage with the evolving landscape of AI search, ensuring their brand stories are accurately and favorably conveyed in AI-driven interactions.
Investor
Feb 2025
Malanta is redefining enterprise security for the pre-attack era. As the perimeter disappears and AI.Attacks accelerate, Malanta focuses on what happens before the breach: identifying and dismantling the infrastructure adversaries build to target enterprises. Instead of chasing alerts, security teams use Malanta to see what’s coming, act earlier and stay ahead of AI.Attackers that never make the news.
Board Member
Mar 2024
bananaz is a cutting-edge AI-powered design management platform that helps modern engineering teams streamline collaboration, design change tracking, and validation in real time. Built for the complexities of today’s product development cycles, bananaz empowers teams to efficiently manage and optimize their design process, while reducing risk and avoiding costly late-stage errors.
From aerospace to medical devices, leading companies across industries trust bananaz to help ensure their products are safe, compliant, and market-ready. By automating tedious design validation tasks and centralizing assets in a secure, cloud-based environment, bananaz makes it easier than ever for teams to stay aligned and move faster.
With our AI-driven insights and seamless integrations, bananaz helps engineering teams catch mistakes before they catch you, minimize the risk of recalls, and maintain the highest standards of product quality. Don’t let the challenges of growing complexity slow you down. bananaz is here to supercharge your product development process and help you bring better products to market, faster.
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Dec 2023
Substrata optimizes B2B sales and high-ticket dealmaking by analyzing multiple communication layers: verbal, nonverbal, and contextual, in deal-related interactions. The platform continuously assesses the dealmakers position at every stage, providing impactful, data driven guidance that significantly boosts win rates, shortens sales cycles, and enhances overall goal and quota attainment.
Powered by deep-learning social signal processing technology, Substrata is the ultimate dealmaking assistant. It equips dealmakers with transformative insights into the hidden dynamics between sellers and prospects, from mutual social status appraisals and prospect-side perceptions of seller competence to nuanced evaluations of relevancy, scarcity, urgency, consistency, and more.
Taking it a step further, Substrata recommends optimal deal-closing tactics tailored to specific market categories, target audiences, perceived solution value, relationship history, deal momentum, and additional contextual factors.
Investor
Dec 2023
Verax AI is a B2B deep tech software start-up led by seasoned entrepreneurs whove already conquered the enterprise software landscape and sold their previous company to Amazon Web Services. We know how enterprises think, having delivered complex B2B solutions that resonated with industry giants. Now, were turning our focus to the future of Enterprises: Generative AI.
Our vision is to enable enterprise companies to adopt Generative AI based solutions by removing main obstacles by being the leading provider of enterprise-grade trust solutions in the Generative AI space. Verax AI stands as the gatekeeper, ensuring Correctness, Visibility, Compliance and Governance of this powerful technology.
Board Member
Jan 2023
In today’s market, traditional outbound methods like email and cold calling are becoming increasingly ineffective, with response rates below 1% for emails, 1-2% for cold calls.
Convrt.ai is changing the sales paradigm by building the first social selling platform to help revenue teams turn social connections into revenue using data, insights and automations.
Board Member
Nov 2022
DoControl is the leading SaaS Security Platform modernizing CASB and DLP to secure SaaS applications. DoControl helps organizations expose their SaaS risk surface, monitor user and OAuth app activity continuously, and automatically remediate it over time through granular, contextual, and drag-and-drop workflows. DoControl uncovers all SaaS users, third-party collaborators, assets, OAuth applications, groups, and activity events. With DoControl, organizations control their SaaS attack surface to mitigate insider risk, 3rd party exposures, and programmatic data exfiltration.
DoControl has been featured 8x in Gartner Research across SSPM, DLP, and SaaS Security. A 2022 SINET16 Innovator, DoControl has received the Great Place to Work certification for 2023, over 35+ positive Glassdoor reviews, and a 5.0 in Gartner Peer Insights. DoControl is backed by world-class investors such as Insight Partners and the CrowdStrike Falcon Fund.
To learn more about DoControl, please visit www.docontrol.io.
Board Member
Sep 2022
IVIX is purpose-built to illuminate financial crime. Founded in 2020 in New York, IVIX is the first AI-powered platform designed specifically for governments to use open-source intelligence (OSINT) to address financial crime at scale. Led by tax, security, and tech experts, we built IVIX in partnership with authorities – for authorities.
With turnkey solutions for high-priority use cases such as eCommerce and Cryptocurrency, and powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, IVIX delivers immediately actionable evidence of criminal and civil non-compliance (hiding in plain sight).
IVIX is headquartered in the US with global operations, supporting government agencies around the world.
Board Member
Aug 2022
Configu is an end-to-end configuration management SaaS platform enabling R&D teams to prevent critical production failures caused by traditional, complex, and manual configuration management methodologies.
Board Member
Jun 2022
Alison is the world's best AI-powered video creative analysis platform. From ideation to optimization to production, Alison makes it easier than ever to create videos, banners, or playable ads with the highest likelihood of success.
Our unique SaaS technology allows businesses to identify their top-performing elements in creatives, get full-funnel data, and perform intelligent competitive analysis.
Stop the guesswork and start making results-driven creatives!
Learn more about Alison at www.alison.ai or email us at asaf@alison.ai for more info.
Board Member
Apr 2022
Blee helps startups grow fast across borders with a one-stop platform for company set-up and management of multi-country operations and ongoing compliance.
Our digital platform, automation tools, and network of partners help take away much of the hassle and uncertainty associated with setting up and running a global business.
Having had first-hand experience of the challenges in setting up and operating international entities, our team is driven by the mission to simplify global operations, allowing founders to focus on growing their business, helping customers, and building amazing products.
Backed by YC.
Investor
Mar 2022
We are building the future of communication with AI-powered tools that empower Deaf and hard-of-hearing people to communicate.
Check out our open positions on rylo.com/careers.
Board Member
Mar 2022
Vendict is redefining third-party risk management with advanced AI technology and GRC expertise. Vendict transforms previously slow, fragmented, and costly processes into fast, comprehensive, and affordable vendor risk reduction at scale across the extended enterprise
From security questionnaires and audit prep to third-party risk and trust center workflows, Vendict eliminates manual grunt work and delivers source-backed answers you can rely on.
Join the multi-billion-dollar companies and high-growth startups already using Vendict to move faster, reduce risk, and build trust with every response.
Board Member
Nov 2021
Munch Studio runs your social media for you so your business stays visible, looks professional, and grows online. We handle content creation, planning, and posting across all major platforms. This saves you hours every week and thousands of dollars compared to hiring freelancers or agencies. Munch Studio is built for busy business owners who know they should be active online but don’t have the time, budget, or team to do it right.
Board Member
Oct 2021
The first generative AI video expert that professionally edits, transcribes, and brands your teams video content - all in one place.
Turn your content team into #unstoppablecreators.
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Feb 2025
Brandlight.ai empowers brands to shape their presence in the era of AI-driven search. As consumers increasingly rely on AI platforms like ChatGPT and Gemini for information and recommendations, traditional SEO strategies are no longer sufficient. Brandlight provides tools and insights to help brands monitor, optimize, and influence how AI models perceive and present their narratives.  
Our platform offers real-time tracking of brand mentions across AI platforms, sentiment analysis, and identification of key content sources influencing AI-generated answers. By understanding and managing these factors, brands can ensure accurate representation, enhance visibility, and maintain control over their digital narratives. 
With Brandlight, companies can proactively engage with the evolving landscape of AI search, ensuring their brand stories are accurately and favorably conveyed in AI-driven interactions.
Investor
Feb 2025
Malanta is redefining enterprise security for the pre-attack era. As the perimeter disappears and AI.Attacks accelerate, Malanta focuses on what happens before the breach: identifying and dismantling the infrastructure adversaries build to target enterprises. Instead of chasing alerts, security teams use Malanta to see what’s coming, act earlier and stay ahead of AI.Attackers that never make the news.
2024
Board Member
Mar 2024
bananaz is a cutting-edge AI-powered design management platform that helps modern engineering teams streamline collaboration, design change tracking, and validation in real time. Built for the complexities of today’s product development cycles, bananaz empowers teams to efficiently manage and optimize their design process, while reducing risk and avoiding costly late-stage errors.
From aerospace to medical devices, leading companies across industries trust bananaz to help ensure their products are safe, compliant, and market-ready. By automating tedious design validation tasks and centralizing assets in a secure, cloud-based environment, bananaz makes it easier than ever for teams to stay aligned and move faster.
With our AI-driven insights and seamless integrations, bananaz helps engineering teams catch mistakes before they catch you, minimize the risk of recalls, and maintain the highest standards of product quality. Don’t let the challenges of growing complexity slow you down. bananaz is here to supercharge your product development process and help you bring better products to market, faster.
2023
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Dec 2023
Substrata optimizes B2B sales and high-ticket dealmaking by analyzing multiple communication layers: verbal, nonverbal, and contextual, in deal-related interactions. The platform continuously assesses the dealmakers position at every stage, providing impactful, data driven guidance that significantly boosts win rates, shortens sales cycles, and enhances overall goal and quota attainment.
Powered by deep-learning social signal processing technology, Substrata is the ultimate dealmaking assistant. It equips dealmakers with transformative insights into the hidden dynamics between sellers and prospects, from mutual social status appraisals and prospect-side perceptions of seller competence to nuanced evaluations of relevancy, scarcity, urgency, consistency, and more.
Taking it a step further, Substrata recommends optimal deal-closing tactics tailored to specific market categories, target audiences, perceived solution value, relationship history, deal momentum, and additional contextual factors.
Investor
Dec 2023
Verax AI is a B2B deep tech software start-up led by seasoned entrepreneurs whove already conquered the enterprise software landscape and sold their previous company to Amazon Web Services. We know how enterprises think, having delivered complex B2B solutions that resonated with industry giants. Now, were turning our focus to the future of Enterprises: Generative AI.
Our vision is to enable enterprise companies to adopt Generative AI based solutions by removing main obstacles by being the leading provider of enterprise-grade trust solutions in the Generative AI space. Verax AI stands as the gatekeeper, ensuring Correctness, Visibility, Compliance and Governance of this powerful technology.
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