Itzik Parnafes

Advisor at Battery Ventures

📍 Israel, Israel🔄 Updated September 2026💼 29 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2021
VC🌍 Israel20+ investments
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Board Member
2021
Fiverr Enterprise is a Freelance Management System (FMS) which enables you and your team to hire, onboard and manage freelancers more effectively, while ensuring legal & tax compliance. Our platform reduces the time your team spend chasing after — and worrying over — sourcing talents, legal docs, tax forms, payment terms, budget approvals, granting system access and much more. It will provide your team with full visibility and total control over every single contractor your company works with — and every single project they’re working on from all aspects.
Board Member
2020
Xsight Labs is a fabless semiconductor company re-architecting the foundation of cloud infrastructure. Our breakthrough technology delivers exponential bandwidth growth while reducing power consumption and total cost of ownership, enabling next-generation, end-to-end data center connectivity. Headquartered in Kiryat Gat, Israel, with offices in Givataim and Haifa as well as Yerevan, Armenia and the United States (Billerica, MA; Durham, NC; San Jose, CA), Xsight Labs brings together a world-class engineering team with decades of experience developing and productizing cloud infrastructure solutions. Our mission is to redefine data center scale and efficiency through innovative architectures that power the connected world of tomorrow.
Board Member
2020
Lanes & Planes is a leading SaaS provider specializing in efficient B2B solutions for corporate travel. Dedicated to delivering innovative solutions, Lanes & Planes simplifies and enhances the corporate travel experience while maintaining a focus on growth and efficiency.
Board Member
Jul 2019
Soldo is the proactive spend management solution that frees up businesses to accomplish more. We champion the notion of Progressive Finance, because we believe in a decentralised approach to financial decision-making and greater spending autonomy for everyone. Over 25,000 organisations across 31 countries use Soldo to bring order, efficiency and agility to their decentralised spending, and empower the whole company to spend safely and responsibly. By combining pre-programmed cards, a user-friendly app and a powerful spend management platform, Soldo enables decentralised spend decisions and frees everyone from tedious admin, while ensuring compliance. Everyone gains back time to focus on the things that matter. For Finance teams, that means more time for the rewarding parts of your role, such as in-depth data analysis, defining overall business strategy, and implementing process improvements that empower everyone to achieving business goals. Liberate Finance. Accomplish More.
Board Observer
Dec 2018
Transform how your revenue team wins with AI✨ The Gong Revenue AI Operating System brings customer data, insights, and workflows together in one trusted place. 4,800+ companies rely on Gong to understand their business better, automate workflows, and win more. Follow our page for more updates.
Board Member
Feb 2018
Endlessly adaptable. Always reliable. Through the endless demands of a world in constant motion, Kodiak helps you get the job done. With purpose-built solutions to power autonomous movement in any environment, we make sure our partners save time, run clean, and keep safe.
Board Member
2018
Quantum Machines envisions a new technological age. A time when quantum computing revolutionizes entire industries, solves global problems, and drives unprecedented innovation. That’s why we made it our mission to build the Quantum Orchestration Platform (QOP): the platform to realize the full potential of quantum computing technologies at any scale and deliver the most advanced quantum capabilities to quantum system developers. Built by a world-class multidisciplinary team of quantum scientists and engineers, the QOP powers quantum breakthroughs and accelerates the path towards the new age of quantum computing.
Board Member
Oct 2017
GetYourGuide is a leading global online marketplace to discover and book experiences worth traveling for. Travelers can use GetYourGuide to find things to do in more than 18,000 cities, including tours from local experts, exclusive access to must-see attractions, as well as immersive bucket-list experiences. More than 50,000 supply partners leverage GetYourGuide’s easy-to-use platform to grow their businesses, offering 200,000 experiences to travelers around the world. If you share our passion for travel and tech, check out our open positions at careers.getyourguide.com or take a look behind the scenes of GetYourGuide on our blog: inside.getyourguide.com. Important notice: Protect yourself from recruitment scams. To ensure your safety during the application process, please be aware of potential scammers impersonating GetYourGuide recruiters. Remember, GetYourGuide will never request your payment or sensitive personal information during recruitment. All official job opportunities are exclusively posted on our Careers page. If you suspect fraudulent activity, report it to jobs@getyourguide.com.
Board Member
Sep 2017
Zeitgold enables accounting automation with intelligent software. Zeitgold’s software is based on artificial intelligence (AI). Tax advisors can use it to complete bookkeeping tasks digitally and in a fraction of the time. The AI-based software creates highly precise booking suggestions for more than 80 % of all booking incidents. The average time saved is over 50 % per month. This creates time for higher-volume consulting services and new clients. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin. Co-founders Stefan Jeschonnek (MBA, Stanford) and Jan Deepen (PhD, WHU) previously co-founded fintech startup SumUp. At Zeitgold, they teamed up with Kobi Eldar (8200 alum), who led a cybersecurity unit in the Israeli Defense Forces and had leading roles in several Israeli tech companies. We are backed by Battery Ventures (investor also in GoEuro and N26), Holtzbrinck Ventures (investor also in Zalando, Flixbus and SumUp) and a number of well-known business angels from Germany, Silicon Valley, and Israel. Privacy Policy / Imprint: https://www.zeitgold.com/datenschutz/
Board Member
Jun 2017
Zero Trust Security for All Your Cloud-Native Apps Octarine delivers zero trust, runtime security for cloud-native apps to give organizations total visibility and control over all their container and VM communications, so they can confidently maintain security and compliance when transitioning to cloud-native. Octarine makes it easy to define, enforce and audit fine-grained policies, based on the identity of each service, to ensure defenses always match current risk conditions. Because Octarine is tightly coupled with every workload, it can automatically inspect, authenticate, authorize and encrypt, as needed. It doesn’t matter whether the service is in a container, VM, public cloud, or serverless environment, or using HTTP/HTTPs, Kafka, or Istio, organizations can manage and secure it with Octarine.
Board Member
Mar 2017
CHEQ is the global leader in Go-to-Market Security, trusted by over 15,000 customers worldwide to protect their marketing, revenue and data operations. With CHEQ, organizations can secure their entire Go-to-Market effort, eliminating bots, fake users, client-side threats, cyber attacks, data contamination and compliance risk. We are proud to be Great Place to Work certified.
Board Observer
Feb 2016
N26 SE is Europe’s leading digital bank with a full German banking licence. Built on the latest technology, N26’s mobile banking experience makes managing money easier, more secure and customer friendly. N26 is headquartered in Berlin with offices in multiple cities across Europe, including Vienna and Barcelona, and a 1,500-strong team of more than 90 nationalities. Founded by Valentin Stalf and Maximilian Tayenthal in 2013, N26 has raised close to US$ 1.8 billion from some of the world’s most renowned investors. Need support? Please send us a direct message over on our N26 Support LinkedIn page: http://www.linkedin.com/company/n26support. Our team is here to help. Social media imprint and privacy policy: https://n26.com/en-de/social-media-imprint-and-privacy-policy
Board Member
Oct 2015
Excelero enables customers to build distributed, high-performance Server SAN with standard hardware for applications at any scale. NVMesh is a truly converged Software-Defined Block Storage solution designed to meet storage requirements for applications of any scale, without compromise.  The solution features an intelligent management layer that abstracts underlying hardware with CPU offload, creates logical volumes with redundancy, and provides centralized management and monitoring. Customers benefit from the performance of local flash, with the convenience of centralized storage and the cost savings of standard hardware. The solution has been deployed for Industrial IoT services, machine learning applications and simulation visualization.
Board Observer
Jun 2013
Scodix Ltd. is a leading provider of digital print embellishemnt solutions for the Graphic Arts industry, giving print service providers and converters real, measurable added value to the products they deliver to their customers. Scodix gives you the tools you need to expand your product portfolio to put you one step ahead of the competition. Through our Scodix S Series, Scodix Ultra series, and Scodix E106™ press, we offer a range of applications including: Scodix Sense™ with exceptional tactile results for embosomed effects, Scodix Foil™ utilizing all types of foil, Scodix Spot™ for silkscreen effects, Scodix VDP/VDE™ (with barcode) for personalization, and Scodix Metallic™, Scodix Glitter™ and Scodix Braille™. What’s more, all Scodix applications are manufactured on a single Scodix digital enhancement press. The company’s aim is to lead print enhancement into the digital age and to be known for its passion and commitment to providing what our customers need the most – true brand differentiation for today’s highly competitive printing environment. For more information please visit www.scodix.com
Board Member
Mar 2013
Sisense is an API-first analytics platform that modernizes businesses by seamlessly embedding in-context analytics within applications, leading to action-oriented insights that enhance decision intelligence. Established in Israel in 2004, Sisense currently has locations in New York, London, and Tel Aviv, and has served over 2000 customers. To learn more, visit www.sisense.com.
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2021
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Oct 2021
Battery invests in potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer-internet and mobile services, and industrial technologies. Founded in 1983, the firm backs companies at stages ranging from seed to growth and private equity, and invests globally from offices in Boston, Silicon Valley, New York, London and Israel. For a full list of our portfolio companies, please visit https://www.battery.com/list-of-all-companies/.
Board Member
2021
Fiverr Pro is an all-in-one premium business solution tailored to your business needs, enabling you to recruit, onboard, manage, and pay talent without worry or hassle, so you can seamlessly execute complex projects of any size.
Board Member
2021
Fiverr Enterprise is a Freelance Management System (FMS) which enables you and your team to hire, onboard and manage freelancers more effectively, while ensuring legal & tax compliance. Our platform reduces the time your team spend chasing after — and worrying over — sourcing talents, legal docs, tax forms, payment terms, budget approvals, granting system access and much more. It will provide your team with full visibility and total control over every single contractor your company works with — and every single project they’re working on from all aspects.
2020
Board Member
2020
Xsight Labs is a fabless semiconductor company re-architecting the foundation of cloud infrastructure. Our breakthrough technology delivers exponential bandwidth growth while reducing power consumption and total cost of ownership, enabling next-generation, end-to-end data center connectivity. Headquartered in Kiryat Gat, Israel, with offices in Givataim and Haifa as well as Yerevan, Armenia and the United States (Billerica, MA; Durham, NC; San Jose, CA), Xsight Labs brings together a world-class engineering team with decades of experience developing and productizing cloud infrastructure solutions. Our mission is to redefine data center scale and efficiency through innovative architectures that power the connected world of tomorrow.
Board Member
2020
Lanes & Planes is a leading SaaS provider specializing in efficient B2B solutions for corporate travel. Dedicated to delivering innovative solutions, Lanes & Planes simplifies and enhances the corporate travel experience while maintaining a focus on growth and efficiency.
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