Giza Venture Capital

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GIZA VENTURE CAPITAL established in 1992, is a pioneer investor in seed and early-stage technology companies. Giza currently manages five funds totaling about US$600 million.

Giza investment professionals bring wealth of expertise and experience in Communications, Semiconductors, Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Life Sciences, CleanTech, Media, Internet & Entertainment.

Giza established an office in Singapore in 2001 and in recent years has also been actively investing in Taiwan-based companies. It is also actively involved in supporting its Israeli related portfolio companies to expand and partner in Taiwan and the Greater China region.

Giza has invested in 97 companies in the sectors of Communications, Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Cleantech and Life Sciences, with 32 successful exits.

Giza's vision in recognizing future technology leaders led to the following winning investments; Actimize (acquired by NICE Systems), Prosight (acquired by Primavera Systems), Oplus (acquired by Intel), Cyota (acquired by RSA), X Technologies (acquired by Guidant), Precise (NASDAQ:PRSE, acquired by Veritas), Oridion (SWX:ORIDN), Zoran (NASDAQ:ZRAN), M-Systems (NASDAQ:FLSH), DSPG (NASDAQ:DSPG), Butterfly (acquired by TI), DSPC (acquired by Intel), Libit (acquired by TI), Scorpio (acquired by US Robotics), Telegate (acquired by Terayon) and Danen (TWSE:3686).

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Location

Israel, Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv-Yafo

Employees

11-50

Phone

+972 3-640-2323

Founded date

1992

Investment Type

Venture Capital

Investment Stage

Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A

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Mar 15, 2017	CareDox raises $6.4M Series A for student healthcare	Schools provide the front line of health for many Americans, but they're too often overlooked Editor's note: Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco. We'll have Mario Schlosser (Founder &...
May 30, 2016	Swanlaab Giza Innvierte Venture Fund I lleva a cabo su primer cierre por €40 millones	30/05/2016 SWANLAAB GIZA INNVIERTE VENTURE FUND I LLEVA A CABO SU PRIMER CIERRE POR €40 MILLONES. Giza Venture Capital, la firma de capital riesgo (venture capital) israelí, que entró en España en 2014 a través de la gestora de venture ca...
Oct 5, 2015	Logz.io Raises $8M in Series A Funding	Logz.io, a Tel Aviv, Israel- and NYC-based provider of a predictive log analytics cloud service, raised $8M in Series A funding. The round was led by 83North (formerly Greylock IL) and Giza Venture Capital. The company intends to use the fu...
Sep 2, 2015	Daily funding roundup - September 2, 2015	Tanium landed $120M; NewsCred bagged $42M; Universal Avenue secured $5M ConnectedYard, an innovator in smart technology and the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced that it has closed a $2.2-million seed round of funding led by Playgro...
Jul 16, 2015	Facebook’s Oculus Buys Gesture Control Firm Pebbles	Fergal Gallagher, Tech Times 16 July 2015, 01:07 pm Oculus is adding gesture control expertise to its team with the acquisition of Israeli firm Pebbles Interfaces. In the merry-go-round of tech buyouts, Oculus VR has bought Pebbles Interfac...
Jun 12, 2015	Daily funding roundup - June 12, 2015	WalkMe raised $25M; La Renon secured $16M; Boxful landed an $6.6M WalkMe, a San Francisco, CA-based enterprise class guidance and engagement platform, raised an $25 million in Series D funding. The round was led by new investor Greenspring ...
Apr 2, 2014	Nace Swanlaab Venture Factory con €40M procedentes de Israel para invertir en España	02/04/2014 NACE SWANLAAB VENTURE FACTORY CON €40 MILLONES PROCEDENTES DE ISRAEL PARA INVERTIR EN ESPAÑA. Giza Venture Capital, la firma de venture capital israelí, entra en España a través de la gestora española de capital riesgo (venture...
Jul 1, 2013	Altair Semiconductor Completes $25M Funding Round	Altair Semiconductor, a Hod Hasharon, Israel-based developer of LTE chipsets, completed a $25m funding round. Backers included existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, BRM, Giza Venture Capital, JVP and Pacific Technology. The company ...
Oct 25, 2012	WalkMe Raises $5.5M in Funding	WalkMe, a Tel Aviv, Israel- and San Francisco, CA-based developer of an interactive website guidance system, has raised $5.5m in funding. The round was led by Gemini Israel Ventures, with participation from Mangrove Capital Partners, which ...
Oct 2, 2012	Want to be smarter on the phone? CallApp’s 500 million phone numbers can help	It’s something most people in business experience daily: talking on the phone with someone you don’t really know. Would you get better results if you knew more about the people on the other end of the line? That’s the premise of CallApp, wh...
Oct 2, 2012	Want to be smarter on the phone? CallApp’s 500 million phone numbers can help	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. It’s something most people in business experience daily: talking on the phone with someone you don’t really know. Would you get better ...
Dec 14, 2011	Xeround Closes $9M Series C Financing	Xeround, a Mountain View, CA-based cloud database company, has closed a $9m Series C financing. The round was led by existing investors Benchmark Capital, Giza Venture Capital, Ignition Partners and Trilogy Partnership. The company intends ...
Oct 20, 2011	Infographics platform Visual.ly raises $2M	The seed round is led by Crosslink, SoftTech, and 500 Startups Infographics platform Visual.ly announced Thursday that it has raised $2 million in a seed round led by Crosslink Capital, SoftTech, and 500 Startups, with help from some notewo...
Oct 20, 2011	Visual.ly Raises $2 Million To Make Even More Infographics	Visual.ly, the team built from the infographics team behind Mint’s spectacular infographics, has raised $2 million in seed funding, led by Crosslink Capital, SoftTech and 500 Startups as well as angels Kapor Capital, Giza Ventures, Naval Ra...
Jun 24, 2011	Soluto nabs $10.5M for "anti-frustration software"	The company gets support from Index Ventures and existing investors Most of the world is relatively computer literate, but only a scattered few netizens and tech users can truly be considered early adopters. Why? Because technology is effin...
Feb 28, 2011	Cleveland-backed Israeli device firm gets FDA clearance	Promoted Telemedicine’s potential to provide healthcare to the world’s most vulnerable Teladoc Health Head of R&D Yulun Wang highlights the impact of virtual care in underserved populations around the globe through the World Telehealth ...
Feb 28, 2011	Navotek wins FDA clearance for radiation therapy monitor	Israeli company Navotek Medical Ltd., which is backed by a Cleveland-based venture firm, received U.S. regulatory clearance for its radiation therapy monitoring system. Navotek’s RealEye system obtained 510(k) clearance from the Food & ...
Jul 19, 2010	Mitralign wins $5 million credit line from GE Capital	GE Capital’s Healthcare Financial Services division gave Mitralign Inc. a $5 million line of credit. Mitralign is developing a catheter-based mitral valve repair device. The Tewksbury, Mass.-based firm plans to use the loan as working capit...
Jul 9, 2010	TaKaDu has VCs buzzing about smart water monitoring	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! More than four and a half billion gallons of wate...
Jul 9, 2010	TaKaDu has VCs buzzing about smart water monitoring	More than four and a half billion gallons of water are lost in transit every day in the United States, according to the U.S. Geological Survey — and 25 to 35 percent of water is lost every year worldwide, according to the World Bank. Now a ...
Nov 23, 2009	WinBuyer raises $6.9 million	Developer of onsite comparitive pricing application looking to expand market presence in the US WinBuyer, which develops an Onsite Comparitive Pricing (OCP) application, announced on Monday it raised $6.9 million in its first round led by P...
Nov 3, 2009	Exclusive: Soluto Raises $6.2M From Bessemer To Make Your PC Run Better	Israeli startup Soluto has closed a healthy $6.2 million second round of financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners and joined by Giza Venture Capital. This is on top of the $1.6 million round the company raised a year ago from Proxima, bri...
Mar 30, 2009	Pathway Medical lands generous $40M to treat arterial disease	Pathway Medical Technologies, maker of a non-invasive catheter capable of removing all kinds of artery blockages and build-up, says it just scored $40 million in a fourth round of funding — a pretty high figure for a life science device man...
Mar 2, 2009	Create content and let Triond do the rest	Triond raises $1.5 million from Giza Venture Capital, for its content distribution services In the world of blogging and media on the Internet, we all know that content is king. But without readers and a large audience, you’ll never monetiz...
Oct 27, 2008	LucidLogix raises $18M for parallel graphics processing technology	LucidLogix Technologies has raised $18 million in a third round of funding for its business of tying together multiple graphics cards in a computer. The company makes a chip that allows a computer to take advantage of multiple graphics chip...
	Cleveland-backed Israeli device firm gets FDA clearance	Israeli company Navotek Medical, which is backed by a Cleveland venture firm, has received U.S. regulatory clearance for its radiation therapy monitoring system. Navotek’s RealEye system obtained 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug...
	Flint Capital вложил миллион долларов в израильскую компанию Appsee	Венчурный фонд Flint Capital вложил $1 млн на раунде А в израильскую компанию Appsee, предоставляющцю платформу для мобильной аналитики. Общий объем раунда составил $2 млн. В нем также приняли участие текущие инвесторы компании — израильски...

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FAQ about Giza Venture Capital

When was Giza Venture Capital founded?

Giza Venture Capital was founded in 1992.

What has the press written about Giza Venture Capital?

Parsers VC has collected 28 articles mentioning Giza Venture Capital, among them “CareDox raises $6.4M Series A for student healthcare” (Mar 15, 2017) and “Swanlaab Giza Innvierte Venture Fund I lleva a cabo su primer cierre por €40 millones” (May 30, 2016).

Is Giza Venture Capital still active?

Yes, Giza Venture Capital is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Mar 22, 2018.