THE POWER OF 3

We help entrepreneurs build great businesses faster through seed investments, mentorship and the creation of synergies with our global Partner-Investors.

Extracting outstanding value from i3 Equity’s Partner-Investors

PORTFOLIO

SMART CITIES

zencity

SMART CITIES

ZenCity is the “Google Analytics for Cities”. It allows top-level urban stakeholders to understand how people view and use their city, by automatically analyzing live data streams and turn them into real-time insights, using an AI model.

Smart Infrastructure

prisma Photonics

Smart Infrastructure

Prisma-Photonics’ platform revolutionizes the Fiber optic sensing market by dramatically increasing the detection sensitivity and the target classifications capabilities and allowing the use of already installed optical communication fibers as sensors.

PRECISION MANUFACTURING

nanofabrica

PRECISION MANUFACTURING

Nanofabrica brings the power of 3D printing to precision manufacturing. Their patent pending technology opens new markets for 3D printing such as: sensors, robotics, optics electronics and more

AI ACCELERATION
(Stealth)

deep aI

AI ACCELERATION
(Stealth)

Deep AI accelerates neural networks to help AI vendors develop their applications faster and cheaper

EXTENDED REALITY

XTend

EXTENDED REALITY

Xtend extends humanity skywards by empowering people to interact with drones and other unmanned machine technologies. It enables individuals to expand their present experience and utilize remote physical realities (XR) anywhere in the world.

Smart Manufacturing

Vanti

Smart Manufacturing

Vanti automates data science for technologists.
It is an intutive, code-free platform delivering actionable insights that can be implemented across the lifecycle of products, from exploration through production.

Saas Enablement

Frontegg

Saas Enablement

Frontegg provides a platform where SaaS companies can set up their fully managed, scalable and brand-aware – SaaS features and integrate them into their SaaS portals with just several lines of code. 

Shared Economy

Tulu

Shared Economy
Tulu is reshaping the way urban dwellers access household and lifestyle products by making them available on demand in a nearby unit, accessible by app. 
 
ECG

zencity

SMART CITIES

ZenCity is the “Google Analytics for Cities”. It allows top-level urban stakeholders to understand how people view and use their city, by automatically analyzing live data streams and turn them into real-time insights, using an AI model.

ECG

prisma Photonics

Smart Infrastructure

Prisma-Photonics’ platform revolutionizes the Fiber optic sensing market by dramatically increasing the detection sensitivity and the target classifications capabilities and allowing the use of already installed optical communication fibers as sensors.

ECG

nanofabrica

PRECISION MANUFACTURING

Nanofabrica brings the power of 3D printing to precision manufacturing. Their patent pending technology opens new markets for 3D printing such as: sensors, robotics, optics electronics and more

ECG

deep aI

AI ACCELERATION
(Stealth)

Deep AI accelerates neural networks to help AI vendors develop their applications faster and cheaper

ECG

XTend

EXTENDED REALITY

Xtend extends humanity skywards by empowering people to interact with drones and other unmanned machine technologies. It enables individuals to expand their present experience and utilize remote physical realities (XR) anywhere in the world.

ECG

Vanti

Smart Manufacturing

Vanti automates data science for technologists.
It is an intutive, code-free platform delivering actionable insights that can be implemented across the lifecycle of products, from exploration through production.

ECG

Frontegg

Saas Enablement

Frontegg provides a platform where SaaS companies can set up their fully managed, scalable and brand-aware – SaaS features and integrate them into their SaaS portals with just several lines of code. 

ECG

Tulu

Shared Economy

Tulu is reshaping the way urban dwellers access household and lifestyle products by making them available on demand in a nearby unit, accessible by app. 
 

THE INVESTMENT TEAM

noga kap
managing partner

noga kap

managing partner
Our mission is to provide outstanding value to seed-stage startups by offering exclusive access to top-tier international Corporations, our partner investors, to accelerate growth and build successful companies.

Noga Kap brings over twenty years of hands-on experience in sales, finance and management in the high-tech sector.

Before she joined i3 Equity Partners, Noga was working closely with a prominent group of angels and handled all seed and early-stage investments on their behalf. The group included some of the Israeli high-tech icons, including Moshe Lichtman and Rafi Gidron.

Noga also worked as the Managing Director at BRM – an Israeli family office – responsible for all tech investments in the BRM group between 2008 and 2013.

Prior to BRM, Noga served as a General Partner at the US-based Walden Venture Capital. She also founded the EMEA subsidiary for MINT Technologies – a provider of intelligent middleware solutions for the financial services industry – leading the company to become a leader in the EAI market and the acquisition of SunGard Data Systems Inc. (NYSE:SDS).

Noga teaches entrepreneurship at the Recanati School of Management at Tel-Aviv University and serves as a Board Member at different companies. She has also shown her commitment to the Community by getting involved in two non-profit organizations, Tsofen and Moona.

Noga holds a B.Sc. degree in Economics and Psychology from Tel-Aviv University and an MBA from Washington University, Seattle, USA.

 

Companies in which noga was involved:
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eran wagner
managing partner

eran wagner

managing partner
We look forward to back entrepreneurs and inventors with pioneering contrarian ideas that have the potential to revolutionize global markets.

Eran Wagner has been focused on the Internet of Things revolution for over a decade. This includes sensor networks, robotics, autonomous vehicles, industrial solutions and more. Eran co-founded i3 Equity with over two decades of rich investment background, entrepreneurial experience and executive knowledge in developing and scaling hi-tech businesses, from the early stages to successful exits. Before i3 Equity, Eran was a General Partner at Gemini Israel Ventures. He is also the co-founder of multiple companies as well as the IEFF in the Silicon Valley and the IoT Israel Summit in Tel-Aviv. He is an active fellow of the Aspen Institute as part of the Middle East Leadership Initiative and is also a Board Member at Technoda.

Eran holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University and is a serial inventor with multiple granted patents.

Companies in which eran was involved:
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OUR PARTNER-INVESTORS

Our Partner-Investors (PIs) are worldwide industry leaders who share the vision that innovation is a major catalyst of key industries’ digital transformation.

GE Ventures is a part of the GE Business Innovations organizations. GE Ventures invests in startups that develop transformational technologies and applications to solve big problems.

M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures) are building tomorrow’s future by giving entrepreneurs unparalleled access to Microsoft’s ecosystem, guided by the experience of trusted partners who move at the pace of innovation. M12 typically invests in enterprise software companies from Series A to Series C.

Pitango has been investing in exceptional founding teams and disruptive ideas since 1993. Pitango’s team has more than 100 years of accumulated experience in building companies into category leaders. With over $2 billion under management and investments in over 250 companies, Pitango invests in core technology across all stages, via two parallel funds: Pitango VC and Pitango Growth.

Qualcomm Ventures is the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated. Founded in 2000, Qualcomm Ventures has 140+ active portfolio companies. Investing in start-ups targeting the wireless ecosystem, the group focuses on investments in the sectors of automotive, data center and enterprise, digital health, Internet of Things (IoT), and mobile.

Tata Industries promotes and incubates the Tata group’s entry into new businesses. The Tata group is a global enterprise, headquartered in India. The group operates in more than 100 countries across six continents. The revenue of Tata companies, taken together, was $110.7bn in 2017-18.

FOCUS AREAS

At i3, we view IoT as the space where physical and digital environments meet to create a better world.

  • Agriculture
  • Automotive and Mobility
  • AI
  • AR/VR
  • Consumer Tech
  • Cyber
  • Digital Health
  • Drones
  • Insurance
  • Industry 4.0
  • Proactive Maintenance
  • Government Tech
  • Robotics
  • Smart City
  • Smart Home
We are looking for outstanding teams who can blend technology and domain expertise in emerging and traditional markets. Let us fast-track
your invention

NEWS AND EVENTS

Senior Liquidation Preferences and Why You Should Care About Them

Founders and Early Stage investors should understand the various aspects of Liquidation Preferences and what the market is doing at any point in time. Hope this post will at least start a discussion that will lead us to better dealmaking, better outcomes and overall more honesty and transparency.

Deep Tech — the name of the game in investing for the coming decade

This article was originally written in Hebrew by Anat Messing and published in the TheMarker HiTech book of 2019. We’ve translated it and wanted to share it also with our English speaking followers.

Selling Machines. To Humans

Tovit Neizer, VP business development at Nanofabrica, invites you to be less techie and more personal with your customers

The Israeli Robotics Industry

In recent years we have a seen a leap in the amount of Israeli startups in the automotive industry as well as drones. Robotics are becoming more tangible than ever to intertwine with the current industry fortes.

Why IoT Startups are revolutionizing Insurance

A couple of weeks ago, I met the Executive Committee of GROUPAMA (a major French Insurer Group with $13.8 B in Revenue).

Why We Invested in Nanofabrica

or What’s Between Additive Manufacturing and IoT

Smart Cities Need Smart Startups… and VCs

Smart cities are an increasingly hot topic. When I had the idea of holding an event about “data in the city” in Tel Aviv, together with our portfolio company ZenCity, we never imagined that over 200 people would register — with only a one week notice.

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