Genesis Partners is an Israeli venture capital firm, founded in 1996 by Eddy Shalev and Dr. Eyal Kishon.
Genesis's investment strategy is focused on early-stage Israeli innovation-driven technology companies. Their companies operate in the following spaces: communications & wireless technologies, infrastructure software & hardware, enterprise software, internet applications and services, digital media, consumer applications and services, and mobile applications and services. Genesis has over the past 19 years invested in over 80 companies.
Genesis Partners co-invests alongside other leading venture capital firms and angel investors, like Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan Partners, Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, Greylock Partners, Joe Lonsdale (founder of Palantir Technologies), and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors and more.
In 2011, Genesis Partner's launched The Junction, Israel's first open house for entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs who are selected to work on their venture at The Junction for six months, before ending their experience in a Demo Day to Israeli angel investors and venture capital firms.
The firm's partners include Eddy Shalev, Dr. Eyal Kishon, Gary Gannot, Jonathan Saacks and Hadar Kiriati.
Any.DO - Developer of task management mobile appsAternity - User Experience Management solutionsDaPulse - Social communication tool for improving the internal information-sharing processes within an organizationDiscretix - Security solutions for mobile devices and flash-based storageEatWith - community marketplace that invites people to dine in other homesJoyTunes - Developer of computer and mobile games that are controlled by real musical instrumentsProfitect - Developer of software solutions for retailers that aim to increasing the client's overall profit margin.Radwin - Broadband wireless connectivity solutions.Riskified – a company that reviews, approves and guarantees high risk credit card transactions for online merchants.Sckipio Technologies – A semiconductor company focused on the new ITU standard, G.fast.Sisense - End-to-end business intelligence softwareSponDoolies - Tech build infrastructure technology for virtually mining cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin.Valens - Fabless manufacturing company providing semiconductor solutions for the development of HDBaseT devices.Allot Communications (IPO) - provider of IP service optimization solutions for service providers, carriers, and enterprisesAppilog (acquired by Mercury Interactive) - application mapping technologiesAudioCodes (IPO) - designs, develops, and sells advanced Voice over IP (VoIP) and converged VoIP and Data networking products and applications to service providers and enterprisesButterfly VLSI (acquired by Texas Instruments) - developed low cost chipsets that enabled RF wireless communicationsClickSoftware Technologies (IPO) - develops software solutions for workforce optimization, allowing companies to efficiently coordinate the dispatch of field service technicians to customer locationsColBar LifeScience (acquired by Johnson & Johnson) - develops, manufactures, and commercializes biosurgical productsCompugen (IPO) - develops and markets bioinformatics software platforms and engages in in silico drug discoveryFilesX (acquired by IBM) - storage software company that specializes in continuous data protection with near-instant recovery software for applications and dataFIS Software - Software solution for the Insurance industry, acquired by Sapiens International Corporation.Fundtech (IPO) - designs, develops, markets, and supports client/server products for electronic paymentsKidaro (acquired by Microsoft) - provider of desktop virtualization solutions for enterprises Modem Art (acquired by Agere Systems - developer of advanced processor technology for 3G/UMTS mobile devices Neebula Systems (acquired by ServiceNow) - business service monitoring (BSM) platform for virtualized data center environments Octalica (acquired by Broadcom) - home networking solutions over coaxial cableOptonol (acquired by Alcon) - devices for ophthalmologic applications PrimeSense developer of 3D sensing technology, acquired by Apple Inc. for $350 million on November 24, 2013.ProSight (acquired by Primavera) - enterprise IT portfolio management softwareScopus Video Networks (IPO) - end-to-end digital video networking products SolarEdge (IPO) - provides an intelligent inverter solution that has changed the way power is harvested and managed in solar photovoltaic systems Wintegra (acquired by PMC-Sierra) - multiprotocol semiconductors for broadband access networks Worklight (acquired by IBM) - Mobile application platform software Yedda (acquired by AOL, renamed to AOL Answers) - community-driven question and answer service
