Our Story
Amiti stands at the forefront of Israel's venture capital landscape.
Amiti is a deep tech venture capital fund with a unique approach: generalist by structure, thematic by nature. We identify major transformational shifts in deep technology and build a concentrated portfolio around those themes, developing deep expertise in key areas like semiconductors, and auto-technology, tech-bio, compute, quantum and more. This strategy allows us the freedom and flexibility of a generalist fund with the focused knowledge and network of a specialist.
We believe the only constant in deep tech is change. Our investment thesis is ever-evolving, adapting to the dynamic landscape of emerging technologies. We actively engage in venture building to stay ahead of the curve and identify the next generation of transformative companies. This forward-looking approach, combined with our proven track record of successful investments in companies like Innoviz, Valens, and Core Photonics, allows us to identify and support the companies that will shape the future.
We’ve been investing in deep tech before it was hyped. We have the experience, know-how, reputation, and access to identify, evaluate, and support the most promising deep tech startups. Our portfolio boasts strong success stories, including M&As and IPOs of companies like Innoviz, Valens, and Core Photonics. We also have a strong track record of opportunistic investments with successful exits from companies like Flow, Qwak, and Spectral.
Our Team
At Amiti, we believe that our team's unique combination of skills and perspectives is a key advantage. We leverage our strong network and expertise to identify the best teams for each mission and provide strategic guidance and support throughout their growth journey.
Our Edge
Passion for Identifying Tech Disruptors
High Hit Rate in Picking Winners
The Time is Always Now in Transformational Tech
A Community-Centric Approach to Deal Flow
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Anticipation & Transition Towards Most Promising Transformational Tech
FAQs
We invest in Israeli, seed stage, deep-tech teams. Amiti seeks transformational technology that changes the world for the better and can deliver outsized returns regardless of macro conditions. In every fund, we focus on where transformational technology is going and not where it was previously. Our investments in the past include leading Israeli companies in industries such as AI/ML, Semiconductors, Automotive, High Performance Computing and Cyber Security. Our current focus for Amiti IV is in Computational Biology, Synthetic Biology, and Quantum Computing.
The mission that drives us: We want to live in a better world than the one we live in today. Our mission is to back the best founders in Israel – those who not only dream big but who can also execute and deliver the greatest product in the market, who can transform the world as we know it.
Our proven track record – In our 12 years of existence, we’ve achieved a high hit rate in picking winners and backing successful deep and transformational tech founders Fund after Fund. Amiti has achieved top-tier returns, proving its ability to identify and support founders from the earliest stage. We have many promising companies still growing and others have already exited or had an IPO.
Our technology focused investment themes– We have developed a mechanism to help us source, filter, identify, and support the best founders for the mission within our investment themes. Our investment themes are carefully selected based on our experience and thesis. We focus on areas we believe have promising potential to transform the world in this decade, and where those areas align with expertise that we are seeing in Israel. We invest in deep technologies and unique and proprietary know-how, that has the potential to change the world for the better. Within these industries, we build our communities and partnerships to ensure we have access to the best deal flow in the country.
Founder Friendly–Our “partnership approach” provides guidance, support, and resources for our entrepreneurs during strategic junctions and in daily challenges. Mutual trust is the main drive of these relationships, and we aim to maintain a healthy line of engagement with our founders, to enable our startups to grow and scale, supporting them every step of the way.
Community and Partnerships – We highly believe in communities and have built and are leading many of them within our investment themes and beyond, resulting in a significant advantage in generating proprietary deal flow for Amiti, as well as added value for our founders.
Commitment to diversity and inclusion - Our values are what make us who we are. Amiti is currently the only Israeli early-stage fund that has a clear diversity language, including metrics, in documents for seed financing rounds.
We support our portfolio companies in many ways, to help them grow, succeed, and reach their objectives in the best way possible:
Guidance in Crucial Decisions: We meet regularly with our founders and management teams to discuss businesses, strategies, and challenges. We are always happy to mentor, guide, support and collaborate when tough decisions are needed.
Network: We have a large and active network of both local and global entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, and executives. We use this network to connect our portfolio companies with potential customers, partners, and investors. There’s a strong sense of responsibility for everybody in our team, who see themselves as a semi biz dev extension for our companies and actively leverage their own network to strengthen our companies.
Resources: We provide our portfolio companies with access to resources such as legal, financial, and marketing support. We also help portfolio companies raise additional capital and help them in future rounds.Advising: We are very experienced in facilitating growth. We are active board members and full partners for the ride.
Value Creation: We operate forums for our portfolio companies in Finance, Marketing, HR and other areas to support them across functions. We bring our portfolio companies’ founders to the spotlight through Amiti’s collaborations and partnerships and maintain strong relationships between the founders.
We expect founders to have the vision and a very thorough understanding of the market they want to disrupt or create, and the market must be big. We need to believe that the winner in this market will require unique deep tech know-how within transformational technologies and that that these are the best founders for us to join forces and partner in building a great company.
The founders must be super passionate for the huge problem they are attempting to solve and must have the fire, resilience and commitment to potentially dominate their market. We do not want founders that want to be among the top three in a market or say the market is big enough for a few players. We want the entrepreneurs that believe they will dominate the market. The core team must be able to back this dream to dominate with clear unique ingenuity and the ability to attract the needed talent anywhere in the world.
Amiti does not attempt to pursue small or incremental improvements – we find the outliers – the founders that create or disrupt markets and change the world. We are after transformational technology that changes the world and can deliver outsized returns regardless of good or bad macro conditions. We believe that in deep-tech, the strongest teams have defined expertise in the field of technology, which makes it easy to identify the founders who have the required talent and experience.
R&D: Highest R&D Investment as a % of GDP of any country
Innovation: Greatest density of startups per capita worldwide
Talent: More Nobel Prizes per capita than the US, Germany and France, and more Nobel laureates, in real numbers, than India, Spain and China
Unicorns: just 0.1% of global population, Israel produced almost 10% of all global unicorns.
Culture: Unique culture of creativity and collaboration fostered by high level of education and compulsory military service.
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Derech Menachem Begin 150,
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel