The innovation of Israeli generation in protection fields continues to draw buyers, resulting in the status quo of a brand new Israeli defense-tech fund named “Stratos Ventures,” which studies elevating roughly $50 million with intentions to near the spherical at round $80 million within the coming months.
The fund has set a objective to put money into 15–20 Israeli startups on the pre-seed and seed phases with an preliminary funding starting from $2–4 million in every corporate, and studies that it has already achieved 5 preliminary investments thus far.
The fund’s anchor investor is reported to be an institutional frame from the United Kingdom, and its different buyers come with circle of relatives workplaces from america, Europe, India, South The us, Australia, and Israel, along Israeli and American marketers and Fund of Price range buyers.
Stratos Ventures was once based only a few months in the past (all over 2026) and specializes in making an investment in corporations from the fields of defense-tech, resilience, hometown safety, crucial infrastructure coverage, information middle answers, provide chains, and cyber for governments.
The fund’s founders and companions are Rotem Yehuda Kakon, Aviad Greenfeld, and Daniel Fouzailov. Kakon prior to now served as an guide to Ministers Moshe Kahlon and Eli Cohen within the Ministry of Economic system, and to Avi Gabbay within the Ministry of Environmental Coverage, and ranging from December 2021 led investments for the British circle of relatives administrative center Consensus Industry Workforce, which studies managing roughly $1.2–1.5 billion.
Greenfeld has been energetic for approximately 15 years within the fields of protection and hometown safety, and the fund said that over time he was once fascinated by investments and exits within the protection sector corresponding to: IRD, Skylock, MyDefence, and BeeSense, and Fouzailov is the grandson of Pinchas Fouzailov, some of the founders of the Diamond Trade. Fouzailov has additionally been making an investment in Israeli innovation for a while, basically within the deep-tech sector, inside the framework of a circle of relatives administrative center.
The fund has a number of strategic companions together with: Lieutenant Basic (Ret.) Michael D. Barbero, a four-star normal in america Military, who following his retirement in 2013 serves in different advisory and control positions, together with the American department of the Swedish protection massive SAAB and as an guide to corporations and governments within the Heart East area, with an emphasis on Saudi Arabia and the Kurdish area in Iraq, within the fields of safety, power, and infrastructure.
Along him, the fund states that there’s a former head of the CIA, whose title the fund does now not expose “in light of a major role he currently holds,” and Theo Williams, former head of strategic investments at Salesforce. The fund defines the staff’s function as “assisting the fund in formulating strategy, expanding the international network, and accelerating its growth.”
The fund additional studies that it has operations in america in cooperation with The Lab Miami, which grants Israeli corporations get admission to to entities such because the Port of Miami, america CENTCOM command, and extra, along get admission to to governments, decision-makers, and strategic buyers international.
