Israel-based early progress enterprise capital agency Pink Dot Capital Companions has introduced the closing of its third fund. The agency has secured $320 million in commitments, bringing its whole belongings beneath administration to $750 million. The partnership consists of Yoram Oron and Yaniv Stern (Founding Companions), Barak Salomon (Managing Companion), Atad Peled, and Danielle Ardon Baratz.
Pink Dot says that the brand new fund will proceed to put money into early-stage progress corporations throughout a broad vary of sectors, specializing in corporations that display early indicators of product-market match and which might be laying the groundwork for scalable progress. Pink Dot sometimes meets founders as early because the seed stage and leads Collection A to C rounds in corporations producing $1-5 million in annual income. Preliminary investments sometimes vary from $10 million to $20 million. The brand new fund has already invested in 4 corporations: Finout, which was voted “Globes” Most Promising Startup of 2025, Stigg, Oligo, and Bria AI.
In line with Pink Dot, its buyers incessantly collaborate with its portfolio corporations by business partnerships and, in some instances, follow-on investments. The brand new fund’s investor base has expanded to incorporate Israeli institutional buyers akin to Harel, Mor, and Meitav, in addition to buyers from nations with out official diplomatic relations with Israel.
“For some, investing in an Israeli tech enterprise fund serves as an financial bridge, a primary trust-building transfer towards potential future growth of the Abraham accords” Yaniv Stern mentioned. “In at present’s advanced setting, their determination to put money into Israel’s tech ecosystem displays their curiosity and belief – not simply in Pink Dot, however within the broader Israeli innovation panorama.”
Pink Dot notes that the fundraising was accomplished in opposition to a backdrop of a difficult enterprise capital setting: diminished liquidity has restricted the supply of capital for different investments, uncertainty round firm valuations has difficult fund efficiency assessments, and better rates of interest have made competing asset courses extra enticing. Moreover, the scenario in Israel following October 7 added additional complexity. “We encountered distinctive circumstances – from air raid sirens disrupting investor calls to touring after October 7 to satisfy LPs in nations with out diplomatic ties to Israel so as to safe signatures,” mentioned Barak Salomon. “Nonetheless, the popularity by international buyers of Israel’s place as a number one innovation hub, significantly in AI, cloud, cyber, quantum, protection, and silicon, offered significant momentum.”
Notable Pink Dot exits embrace International-e, which made its Nasdaq IPO in 2021 and has a present market cap of some $6 billion; Armis, which was acquired by Perception Companions and Google’s funding arm for $1.1 billion, and wherein Pink Dot nonetheless holds shares; Granulate, acquired by Intel for $650 million; Paragon, acquired in early 2024 by non-public fairness agency AE for some $900 million; and Sealights, acquired by Tricentis.
Amongst Pink Dot’s different portfolio corporations are Coralogix, Quantum Machines, Travelier, Ctera, Anecdotes, EverC, SupPlant, and Trigo.
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on July 7, 2025.
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