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A community comprised of cybersecurity leaders and experts, with exposure to early-stage (Seed/ Series A) start-ups and innovation, access to private investment opportunities, leveraging domain expertise and connections to assess and contribute to the success of early stage cybersecurity ventures.

Hetz Ventures is a global-facing VC investing in highly talented and ambitious Israeli founders who operate at the cutting edge of deep technology. Our approach is to lead with an entrepreneurial mindset, partnering with our portfolio companies to help them become the next market leaders. Our team serves as a tech and data-driven, active, hands-on partner from the moment we start due diligence all the way to helping raise future rounds of financing. Our international network consists of active connections to corporate executives and investors, empowering both founders and network members to engage and rise to the top of their industries through innovation.

We not only take disruption to market – we make it mainstream. Emerging cybersecurity companies have options for where they take funding from. But Merlin Ventures brings much more than funding and is unlike any other strategic investment firm. We provide infrastructure for market readiness, cybersecurity engineering expertise, and go-to-market muscle for all of our partners. At Merlin Ventures, we have our finger on the pulse of what’s next in cybersecurity. We scour the globe for the world’s most innovative emerging cybersecurity technologies. We then invest and rapidly scale them – dramatically increasing their valuation while equipping enterprises with unique ways to solve critical cybersecurity challenges.

A community comprised of cybersecurity leaders and experts, with exposure to early-stage (Seed/ Series A) start-ups and innovation, access to private investment opportunities, leveraging domain expertise and connections to assess and contribute to the success of early stage cybersecurity ventures.

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.

Talon transforms the browser into a secure workspace with the market’s most leading Enterprise Browsing Platform, which includes the Talon Enterprise Browser, Talon Extension, and Talon Mobile. With Talon, IT and security teams benefit from deep visibility and tight control over all SaaS and web applications, enabling them to secure any user, in any location, on any device. Talon was named the Most Innovative Startup of 2022 at the prestigious RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox Contest.