Andreessen Horowitz boosting Israel VC investments

Andressen Horwat has been absent from Israel for many years, as the investment capital company preferred investments near the home in the United States. She was one of the largest investors on Facebook and companies like Airbnb, Twitter, Stripe, Roblox, Coinbase and Lyft.

Mark Anderson, founder, is one of the largest influencers in the Silicon Valley, who said the famous “software eats the world.” Now, according to the IVC-Gornitzy-KPMG-VISRAEL investor, Andressen Horowitz has become one of the most active foreign investors in Israel.

The report found that Andressen Horowitz, which runs 45 billion dollars, according to Pitchbook, invested in seven new Israeli companies in 2024. A new investment in the company is generally a long -term commitment to continuing investment in additional rounds, and thus the investment fund activity is measured through the rate of investment in new companies instead of investing in past companies.

In general, Andressen Horowitz was one of the most active investor in foreign capital in Israel after two funds directed towards Israel: NFX, whose partners include Gigi Levy Wece, Saray Bronfield, Derry and the United States, which invested in nine new companies in Israel; And Ibex Fund, who invested in eight new companies but underwent great stability at the end of the year when he left most of the Israeli investment team. In 2023, the report, Andresson Horwitz, was placed even with only four new investments in Israel. Although new partners entered funds such as Sikoya and Gariok in Israel, the money did not increase significantly from the frequency of their new investments in Israel.

The main foreign funds that were active in Israel last year, unlike Andrien Horwatz, were Virtpeed Venture Partners with six new investments; Insight Partners, Index Ventures and Bessmer Venture Partners with five new investments each.

Looking at the table of the most active investors in Israel, the relatively small money that makes many small investments in a large number of companies – such as ORCROWD, Fusion and Iron NATION, are the most active investors in terms of new investments, followed by the Ehealth of Maccabi Health Fund and Amgen Fund with 11 investments; Gigi Levy-Wiss and Jibe Ventures of Assaf Jacobi with nine investments each; Grow Ventures, on projects, Reichman and Ibex with eight investments each, and finally: projects, Capital, Andressen Horowitz, Samsung Next, Fresh Fund and Fresh Fund with seven investments each.

The lowest point for more than a decade

In short, despite the changes in foreign money investment patterns, data related to the capital available for investment capital investments in startups is worrying. The volume of capital raised by Israeli investment funds reached more than a decade, where a total of $ 1.15 billion was raised in 2024 for the funds in Israel-with most of the money that Ates collected (200 million dollars), the state of Red (200 million dollars), V-games (142 million dollars), and wolves (125 million dollars).

For comparison, every year 2017 and 2022, the capital raised by Israeli funds exceeded $ 2 billion. Even a decade ago, in 2015, the amount was 1.662 billion dollars. The performance of Israeli funds, which have been largely in recent years, has led to foreign funds, high interest rates and opportunities for more Israeli institutions to invest in foreign funds to deplete the resources of Israeli capital partners. According to the report, Israeli institutional investors allocated only $ 82 million and participated in 29 transactions in 2024, which is a decapable amount, compared to $ 187 million in 44 transactions in 2023.

It was published by Globes, Israel Business News – En.globes.co.il – on March 3, 2025.

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