Tal Shoham

Co-Founder & CEO at Velocity

📍 Israel🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2025
Operator-angel🌍 Israel
12
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17y
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Portfolio

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Board Member
Jun 2025
Transform Gaming is a leading aggregator of free-to-play social casino online games, with a strong focus on the mobile gaming sector. Our mission is to unify the market by securing investment and acquiring established publishers, creating a streamlined and dynamic gaming ecosystem.
Investor and Board Member
Sep 2024
At Localbird, we believe travel should feel effortless, personal, and full of wonder. We’re building the first online concierge service for vacation rentals, helping hosts grow and guests discover stays that linger long after checkout. Our platform helps hosts earn more with less effort, while giving travelers curated recommendations that feel handpicked. Every interaction is designed to spark delight: a perfect local tip, a seamless booking, or a small surprise that makes a stay feel special. We build hospitality on trust. For hosts, that means reliable support, intuitive tools, and the confidence to offer more. For guests, it’s the joy of discovering something that feels made just for them. And for partners, it’s a commitment to meaningful growth built on empathy, quality, and care. We’re not here to reinvent travel - we’re here to reimagine how it feels. Because the smallest details spark the strongest memories, and true hospitality is never measured in transactions, but in the stories people carry home.
Seed Investor
Jan 2024
Eon is changing the cloud data backup space by introducing a new storage tier that turns backups into live strategic assets — seamlessly automated, radically cost-efficient, and instantly usable for AI and analytics. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greenoaks Capital and BOND Capital, among other prominent investors, Eon is led by the team that founded CloudEndure (Cloud Disaster Recovery and Migration startup, acquired by AWS), and built two native AWS services: AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, and AWS Application Migration Service, supporting the worlds largest enterprises.
Investor
2024
WiseStamp is an award-winning, enterprise-grade email signature management platform designed to scale with the needs of market-leading organizations. Trusted by over 1.5 million customers worldwide, WiseStamp enables businesses to centrally create, manage, and deploy professional, on-brand email signatures effortlessly. WiseStamp turns every email into a powerful brand asset, enabling enterprises to maintain brand consistency, enhance engagement, and drive business impact at scale. WiseStamp also works seamlessly with all email platforms - no coding needed! WiseStamp is a Certified Google & Microsoft Partner, and is the most secure email signature management platform on the market, meeting the compliance requirements of SOC2, HIPAA, ISO-27001, ISO-27018, GDPR, and more. WiseStamp in numbers: » More than 1,500,000 active customers » More than 9,700,000,000 (9.7B) emails are sent with WiseStamp each year. » More than 40 Apps. » Customers in over 194 countries. Website: ☛ www.wisestamp.com
Investor and Co-Founder
Jul 2023
At Geckos Games, we’re all about creating high-quality, social online gaming experiences that go beyond entertainment to foster excitement among players. Each game is crafted to inspire and challenge, keeping players engaged with bold, action-packed moments that only Geckos Games can deliver. This player-first approach ensures every experience not only entertains but also sets new standards for excellence in the gaming industry. Our mission is clear: to create social online gaming apps and set new benchmarks for fun, engagement, and accessibility, transforming ambitious ideas into industry-leading experiences. Powered by a top-notch team, Geckos Games is committed to driving innovation and leading the way in competitive gaming, creating experiences where every player feels the thrill and joy of gaming Step into the excitement with Thrillzz social sportsbook, Geckos Games’ free-to-play app, now live! Download Thrillzz on your App Store & Google Play in the US
Investor
Jun 2023
Celery’s AI-powered tools help payroll teams reduce costs and minimize risk to the bottom line, identifying discrepancies, inefficiencies and trends that aren’t visible in a spreadsheet. It is the extra pair of eyes you need to reduce your payroll costs. It finds needles in your haystack of records: like unauthorized overtime. Miscalculated pay. Inaccurate deductions. • Reduce your payroll costs with a clear visualization of trends, discrepancies & inefficiencies. • Minimize risk to the bottom line: reduce your time and error rates by up to 100%. • Free up time for strategic initiatives by automating manual processes with a clear audit trail.
Investor and Co-Founder
Aug 2022
The casual games powerhouse
Board Member
Aug 2022
GDEV is a gaming and entertainment powerhouse, focused on growing and enhancing its portfolio of studios. With a diverse range of subsidiaries, including Nexters, Cubic Games, Dragon Machines, and more, GDEV strives to create games that inspire and engage millions of players for many years. Its franchises, such as Hero Wars, Island Questaway, Pixel Gun 3D and others have accumulated hundreds of millions of installs worldwide. For more information, please visit gdev.inc
Investor
2022
Ship winning ads, faster. Uplifted enables you to create, measure, and iterate high-performing video ads by combining ad assets with creative reporting and AI, unlocking more revenue from every ad dollar. Built for today’s performance-focused marketers, Uplifted makes ad creation and creative iteration seamless by connecting key creative elements with actionable performance data and an intuitive UX. With all insights and assets in one place, you’ll be fully equipped to create your next winning ad in minutes.
Investor & Board Member
Nov 2021
As a visionary Technology Gaming Lab, we believe that a little bit of fun can go a really long way and make a true impact on humans. Our team of creators are passionate about storytelling and sharing our creations with the world.
Investor
Jun 2021
vgames is the venture fund for game entrepreneurs. Having both worked with some of the youngest and most mature developers, we have a deep understanding of what it takes to build a great game. We are passionate about games, and about supporting companies as they grow to become global leaders.
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2025
Co-Founder & CEO
Dec 2025
Velocity is the AI-native monetization and distribution platform powering revenue and growth for the next generation of AI-native applications. By transforming real-time user intent into monetization, engagement, and distribution opportunities, Velocity enables AI products to build sustainable businesses around their users and experiences. Backed by NFX, Red Dot Capital Partners, AppLovin and leading angels and venture investors, Velocity was founded by the team behind some of the worlds largest monetization, advertising, and growth platforms. The Growth Engine for the AI Era.
Board Member
Jun 2025
Transform Gaming is a leading aggregator of free-to-play social casino online games, with a strong focus on the mobile gaming sector. Our mission is to unify the market by securing investment and acquiring established publishers, creating a streamlined and dynamic gaming ecosystem.
2024
Investor and Board Member
Sep 2024
At Localbird, we believe travel should feel effortless, personal, and full of wonder. We’re building the first online concierge service for vacation rentals, helping hosts grow and guests discover stays that linger long after checkout. Our platform helps hosts earn more with less effort, while giving travelers curated recommendations that feel handpicked. Every interaction is designed to spark delight: a perfect local tip, a seamless booking, or a small surprise that makes a stay feel special. We build hospitality on trust. For hosts, that means reliable support, intuitive tools, and the confidence to offer more. For guests, it’s the joy of discovering something that feels made just for them. And for partners, it’s a commitment to meaningful growth built on empathy, quality, and care. We’re not here to reinvent travel - we’re here to reimagine how it feels. Because the smallest details spark the strongest memories, and true hospitality is never measured in transactions, but in the stories people carry home.
Seed Investor
Jan 2024
Eon is changing the cloud data backup space by introducing a new storage tier that turns backups into live strategic assets — seamlessly automated, radically cost-efficient, and instantly usable for AI and analytics. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greenoaks Capital and BOND Capital, among other prominent investors, Eon is led by the team that founded CloudEndure (Cloud Disaster Recovery and Migration startup, acquired by AWS), and built two native AWS services: AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, and AWS Application Migration Service, supporting the worlds largest enterprises.
Investor
2024
WiseStamp is an award-winning, enterprise-grade email signature management platform designed to scale with the needs of market-leading organizations. Trusted by over 1.5 million customers worldwide, WiseStamp enables businesses to centrally create, manage, and deploy professional, on-brand email signatures effortlessly. WiseStamp turns every email into a powerful brand asset, enabling enterprises to maintain brand consistency, enhance engagement, and drive business impact at scale. WiseStamp also works seamlessly with all email platforms - no coding needed! WiseStamp is a Certified Google & Microsoft Partner, and is the most secure email signature management platform on the market, meeting the compliance requirements of SOC2, HIPAA, ISO-27001, ISO-27018, GDPR, and more. WiseStamp in numbers: » More than 1,500,000 active customers » More than 9,700,000,000 (9.7B) emails are sent with WiseStamp each year. » More than 40 Apps. » Customers in over 194 countries. Website: ☛ www.wisestamp.com
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