Roi Bar-Kat

Head of Intel Capital Israel

📍 Israel, Israel🔄 Updated September 2026💼 18 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Intel Capital Investor
Dec 2024
Voyantis empowers growth teams at companies like Miro, Rappi, Nerdwallet, P&G and Deel to effortlessly attract and retain their top customers with our prescriptive AI. As a Value-Bidding partner, our AI helps clients attract high-value customers on Google, Meta, and TikTok, then delivers timely actions to effectively activate, engage, nurture, and retain them. Customers report a 20%-50% increase in ROAS, at least 35% more high-value subscriptions, more than 25% increase in ARPU, and at least a 25% reduction in CAC
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
Oct 2023
Xyte turns connected devices into intelligent services. With AI Teammates and a unified Device Cloud, companies can automate support, deliver seamless experiences, and scale new business models. One platform. Infinite possibilities.
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
Sep 2023
DustPhotonics provides a comprehensive technology platform for Silicon Photonics, and works with leading supply chain partners to enable high data rates, lower power, lower cost and high-volume scalability. Founded in 2017 with venture funding from leading private technology investors, DustPhotonics is headquartered in Modi​in, Israel with business operations located in Cupertino, California.
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
Nov 2021
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.
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
Jan 2021
WSC Sports, the pioneer in AI-powered sports content technology, empowers the NBA, ESPN, YouTubeTV, LaLiga and 460 other sports organizations to connect with their fans through AI-tailored sports content experiences. WSC Sports platform automates the creation, management and distribution of content, enabling sports rights holders to expand reach, grow fan bases, and unlock revenue opportunities across digital platforms.
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
Oct 2020
Nexite brings merchandise to life. Passive products are transformed into active digital communicators, delivering retailers a continuous stream of real-time data. The data automatically flows in from the merchandise, telling their complete life story from their first stitches in the factory, to their final destination at the customer's closet. In a world full of scanners, manual processes, and almost no data at all, Nexite merges the online and the offline, optimizes revenue based on real-time insights, and deliver game-changing retail experiences.
Intel Capital Investor & Board Observer
Sep 2020
A complete data platform to run mission-critical workloads on the cloud offering performance, security, and reliability on par with on-premises enviornments. Lightbits is compatible with any cloud and orchestration system delivering unmatched performance speeds for analytics, high-performance databases (i.e. Oracle, SQL, Cassandra, Kafka), and transactional workloads. The platform makes cloud-native applications run 6X faster and at half the cost than native cloud solutions. We help our customers store data on the cloud more simply, flexibly, and efficiently. WE ARE HIRING! ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Lets help our customers reimagine a faster, more secure, and reliable cloud platform. At Lightbits Labs, this is the goal we work toward every day: faster and more efficient cloud infrastructure for a sustainable future and delighted customers. Join us in our quest to remake modern clouds on a global scale. We are looking for really good software engineers. And by really good we mean, really, really good. If you hack kernels and write device drivers for fun; if you enjoy pushing systems to their limits and beyond; if you enjoy writing good, clean, well-documented, high-performing code that works; then you should work with us. ✉ info@lightbitslabs.com ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
Jul 2020
EasySend helps you evolve forms into easy digital experiences with no code. By going digital, you’ll streamline customer data intake and automate your enterprise workflow.
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
Feb 2020
Umbrella, the business unit born from Anodot’s cloud cost solution, is the all-in-one platform for MSPs and enterprises. Built for multi-tenant environments, it offers real-time control over cloud and SaaS expenses. With AI-driven insights and workflow automation, Umbrella helps eliminate waste, optimize spend, and forecast costs—fueling growth and acting as your Cloud CFO.
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
Sep 2019
Dualitys breakthrough innovative technologies eliminate the conflict between data protection and business growth and innovation. The Duality Data Analytics and AI platform is built upon advanced encryption methods, hardware technologies, and machine learning techniques that protect sensitive data while in use. Duality is the only multi-PET platform with the ability to combine various technologies to meet the unique needs of sensitive data operations. These guardrails streamline and enhance the data operations critical for data-driven insights and innovations by eliminating bulky, expensive, and limiting processes like data anonymization and tokenization. Traditional data protection methods prevent organizations from truly adopting and leveraging advanced models to their benefit, resulting in restrictive policies like "no sensitive data can be used for model training." With Duality, organizations can confidently customize 3rd party models on their own data without fear of data leaks. Model providers can scale model customization knowing that their proprietary model is never exposed to the customer, preventing competitive intelligence leaks. Financial institutions can turn their manual KYC requests into self-service operations, greatly enhancing the speed and success of these expensive requirements. The benefits of data protection guardrails span from efficiency gains, to unlocking previously inaccessible data, to slashing costs on high-security infrastructure.
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
May 2019
NeuroBlade is reinventing infrastructure for data analytics by setting a new standard for query processing speed and scale. Founded in 2018 and led by veterans of the systems, storage, and data analytics industries, NeuroBlade is rethinking processor design with its proven Compute For Analytics approach, built to maximize throughput at petabyte-scale so that queries can run multiple orders of magnitude faster. NeuroBlade is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Palo Alto, California, with operations in Taipei, Taiwan, and New York City. To learn more, visit www.neuroblade.com.  
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
Apr 2019
Leave the SOC grunt work to Intezer. Automatically triage alerts 24/7, respond faster, and cut out noise & false positives. Try free: analyze.intezer.com
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
Apr 2019
Leave the SOC grunt work to Intezer. Automatically triage alerts 24/7, respond faster, and cut out noise & false positives. Try free: analyze.intezer.com
Board Member
Jun 2011
Meet the AI native AppSec platform built for enterprise scale At Mend.io, we believe security should empower, not block. Our mission is to make application security frictionless for developers and scalable for security teams without compromise.
Board Member
Dec 2010
WayBetter is a behavior change company going after the fragmented $78B weight-loss space, which is fraught with ineffective solutions. Our novel solution is a mix of gamification, social support, and financial incentives. It works! We’ve had 1.2M users and sky-high efficacy and engagement: players lose 14% of their weight in six months and take 37% more steps a day. Bootstrapped to 50 employees with $7.5M from angels. Founder dropped out of HBS to launch his first startup which he sold for $33M. Want to join a passionate, supertalented team applying fun and innovation to empower people to live better? We're hiring!!
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2024
Intel Capital Investor
Dec 2024
Voyantis empowers growth teams at companies like Miro, Rappi, Nerdwallet, P&G and Deel to effortlessly attract and retain their top customers with our prescriptive AI. As a Value-Bidding partner, our AI helps clients attract high-value customers on Google, Meta, and TikTok, then delivers timely actions to effectively activate, engage, nurture, and retain them. Customers report a 20%-50% increase in ROAS, at least 35% more high-value subscriptions, more than 25% increase in ARPU, and at least a 25% reduction in CAC
2023
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
Oct 2023
Xyte turns connected devices into intelligent services. With AI Teammates and a unified Device Cloud, companies can automate support, deliver seamless experiences, and scale new business models. One platform. Infinite possibilities.
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
Sep 2023
DustPhotonics provides a comprehensive technology platform for Silicon Photonics, and works with leading supply chain partners to enable high data rates, lower power, lower cost and high-volume scalability. Founded in 2017 with venture funding from leading private technology investors, DustPhotonics is headquartered in Modi​in, Israel with business operations located in Cupertino, California.
2021
Intel Capital Investor & Board Member
Nov 2021
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.
Head of Intel Capital Israel
Jan 2021
Intel Capital is a force multiplier for early-stage startups - inspiring and investing in the future of compute via investments in Cloud, Silicon, Devices, and Frontier.
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