ICON

This venture capital firm invests primarily in Israeli-founded startups, focusing on innovative technologies and companies addressing global challenges.

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Updated: Feb 17, 2026 ·

About

ICON is a Silicon Valley-based Non-profit with an impressive community of Israeli founders, VCs, and Corporate Executives.

Recent News & Mentions

May 1, 2024FundingICON - Seed Aug 1, 2021FundingICON - Series B Aug 1, 2020FundingICON - Series A Jul 1, 2020FundingICON - Seed Oct 1, 2018FundingICON - Seed

Financial History

ICON has raised $258.0M across 5 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $1.0M Seed in May 2024.

Total Raised

$258.0M

Valuation

N/A

Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
May 1, 2025	Sequence	$8.0M Venture Round	—	Andreessen Horowitz, DCM, Dig Ventures, Golden Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Morgan Creek Capital Management, Polygon, Seven Seven Six, Aleksander Leonard Larsen, Alex Adelman, Mandeep Singh, Sebastien Borget, Tobias Lutke
Apr 1, 2025	Chainguard	$360.0M Series D	—	Gautam Gupta, Kevin Hartz, Amplify Partners, Banana Capital, Bond, Cyberstarts VC, Hanabi Capital, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Menlo Ventures, Carmen Chang, Paradigm, Salesforce Ventures, Sand Hill Angels, Sequoia Capital, SNR, Spark Capital, Tiger Global Management, Assaf Rappaport, Brandon Philips, Dean Sysman, Guy Podjarny, Jehan Chu, Megan Quinn, Rakesh K. Loonkar
Nov 1, 2024	PointFive	$20.0M Series A	—	Aglae Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Cyberstarts VC, Greenoaks Capital, Index Ventures, Insight Partners, IVP, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Hans Tung, Patron, Play Ventures, R-Squared Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Anton Gauffin, Assaf Rappaport, Bernard Arnault, Dean Sysman, Eric Seufert, Guy Podjarny, Howard Schultz, Neil Parikh, Rakesh K. Loonkar, Ziv Elul
Nov 1, 2024	Twine	$12.0M Seed	—	Blu Venture Investors, Cyberstarts VC, Dawn Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, IVP, Salesforce Ventures, StageOne Ventures, Ten Eleven Ventures, YL Ventures, Dean Sysman, Deepak Jeevan Kumar, Guy Podjarny, Rakesh K. Loonkar
Jul 1, 2024	Enso	$6.0M Seed	—	14W, Aya, Bessemer Venture Partners, Cyberstarts VC, IVP, lool ventures, Meron Capital, NFX, Operator Collective, Plug & Play Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, S Capital VC, Sequoia Capital Israel, Assaf Rappaport, Boaz Hecht, Charlie Songhurst, Dan Adika, Dean Sysman, Eilon Tirosh, Guy Podjarny, Ofir Ehrlich, Omer Kaplan, Rakesh K. Loonkar, Rami Lipman, Yossi Matias
Jun 1, 2024	Entro Security - Non-human Identities	$18.0M Series A	—	Cyberstarts VC, Dell Technologies Capital, Forgepoint Capital, IVP, Mayfield, Preface Ventures, Rain Capital, Salesforce Ventures, StageOne Ventures, Anand Babu Periasamy, Assaf Rappaport, Dean Sysman, Deepak Jeevan Kumar, George Kurtz, Guy Podjarny, Rakesh K. Loonkar
Jun 1, 2024	PointFive	$16.0M Seed	—	9Yards Capital, Afore Capital, Alumni Ventures, Cyberstarts VC, DN Capital, Gutter Capital, Hetz Ventures, Index Ventures, IVP, Lifeline Ventures, Jeff Richards, Primary Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Assaf Rappaport, Dean Sysman, Guy Podjarny, Jeremy Yap, Miki Kuusi, Rakesh K. Loonkar, Robert Gentz, Shlomo Kramer, Thijn Lamers
Jun 1, 2024	Arya	$8.0M Seed	—	Ada Ventures, Alumni Ventures, BBG Ventures, Craft Ventures, Jenny Fielding, Fabric Ventures, Hanaco Ventures, Kearny Jackson, Patron, Play Ventures, R-Squared Ventures, Tamar Technology Ventures, Touch Capital, Abe Burns, Anton Gauffin, Eric Seufert, Jas Purewal, Neil Parikh, Oren Dobronsky, Rupert Loman, Steph Korey, Ziv Elul
Jan 1, 2024	Annabella	$9.0M Seed	—	Tamar Technology Ventures, Y Combinator, Adam Gross, Christian Bach, Ido Yablonka, Jeremy Stoppelman, Kevin Lin, Mathias Biilmann Christensen, Michael Stoppelman, Oren Dobronsky, Ran Makavy
Dec 1, 2023	Gotiva	$1.0M Seed	—	Creandum, Earlybird Venture Capital, Felix Capital, Patron, Play Ventures, R-Squared Ventures, Scale Asia Ventures, SMOK Ventures, Y Combinator, Bartek Pucek, Chris Murphy, Christian Bach, Eric Seufert, Heini Zachariassen, Mathias Biilmann Christensen, Neil Parikh, Ziv Elul
Oct 1, 2023	Toposware	$5.0M Seed	—	Andreessen Horowitz, DCM, Dig Ventures, Golden Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Morgan Creek Capital Management, Polygon, Seven Seven Six, Aleksander Leonard Larsen, Alex Adelman, Mandeep Singh, Sebastien Borget, Tobias Lutke
Sep 1, 2023	Mocaverse	$20.0M Series A	—	Alchemy Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Animoca Brands, CMCC Global, DCM, Dig Ventures, Goat Capital, Golden Ventures, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Morgan Creek Capital Management, NFX, Nova Founders Capital, Polygon, Possible Ventures, Prefix Capital, Seven Seven Six, Alex Adelman, Mandeep Singh, Mark Pincus, Sebastien Borget, Tobias Lutke
Jun 1, 2023	Maza	$8.0M Seed	—	Andreessen Horowitz, DCM, Dig Ventures, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Golden Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mischief Venture Capital, Morgan Creek Capital Management, Polygon, Seven Seven Six, Aleksander Leonard Larsen, Alex Adelman, Brian Goldsmith, Mandeep Singh, Michael Chow, Sebastien Borget, Tobias Lutke
May 1, 2023	Entro Security - Non-human Identities	$6.0M Seed	—	Cyberstarts VC, Dell Technologies Capital, Forgepoint Capital, IVP, Mayfield, Rain Capital, Salesforce Ventures, StageOne Ventures, Assaf Rappaport, Dean Sysman, Deepak Jeevan Kumar, George Kurtz, Guy Podjarny, Rakesh K. Loonkar
Apr 1, 2023	SuperDuperSecret	$1.0M Seed	—	Andreessen Horowitz, CoinFund, DCM, Dig Ventures, Golden Ventures, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Morgan Creek Capital Management, Polygon, Seven Seven Six, Softbank Latin America Fund, Sunset Ventures, Aleksander Leonard Larsen, Alex Adelman, Mandeep Singh, Tobias Lutke
Nov 1, 2022	Methodical Games	$15.0M Series A	—	Andreessen Horowitz, DCM, Dig Ventures, Golden Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Morgan Creek Capital Management, Polygon, Seven Seven Six, Transcend Fund, Aleksander Leonard Larsen, Alex Adelman, Mandeep Singh, Sebastien Borget, Tobias Lutke
Oct 1, 2022	Humaans	$15.0M Series A	—	Accel, Adverb Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Adeyemi Ajao, Benchmark, Bond, Creandum, DCM, Dig Ventures, Emergence Capital, EQT Ventures, Founders Fund, Golden Ventures, GSV Acceleration, Iluminar Ventures, LGF, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Matrix, Morgan Creek Capital Management, Ed Mathers, NextView Ventures, NFX, Jeff Richards, Polygon, Prototype Capital, Seven Seven Six, Spark Capital, Stellar Capital, True Ventures, Uncork Capital, Aaron Levie, Aleksander Leonard Larsen, Alex Adelman, Charlie Cheever, Eric Feng, Kulpreet Singh, Mandeep Singh, Matt Mazzeo, Michael Stoppelman, Sean Behr, Sebastien Borget, Simon Willnauer, Zachary Sims
Oct 1, 2022	Methodical Games	$15.0M Seed	—	Andreessen Horowitz, DCM, Dig Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Golden Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, London Venture Partners, Morgan Creek Capital Management, Polygon, Seven Seven Six, Transcend Fund, Aleksander Leonard Larsen, Alex Adelman, Mandeep Singh, Sebastien Borget, Tobias Lutke, Trevor Wright
Apr 1, 2022	Tribute	$3.0M Seed	—	Patron, Play Ventures, Reign Ventures, R-Squared Ventures, Anton Gauffin, Eric Seufert, Neil Parikh, Ziv Elul
Mar 1, 2022	Arya	$2.0M Seed	—	Acequia Capital, Patron, Play Ventures, R-Squared Ventures, Tamar Technology Ventures, Andreas Mihalovits, Anton Gauffin, Eric Seufert, Greg Tseng, Henrik Kraft, Janis Zech, Neil Parikh, Nir Erez, Oren Dobronsky, Yigal Jacoby, Ziv Elul
Feb 1, 2022	Nous	$9.0M Seed	—	Acequia Capital, AlleyCorp, Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bling Capital, Catapult Capital, Change Ventures, Contrarian Ventures, DCM, Dig Ventures, Dreamers VC, DVx Ventures, Elaia Partners, Felix Capital, Firstminute Capital, FJ Labs, Golden Ventures, Hoxton Ventures, Khosla Ventures, L Catterton Growth, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Morgan Creek Capital Management, Mosaic Ventures, Moxxie Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Polygon, Scribble Ventures, Seven Seven Six, Tapas Capital, Two Small Fish Ventures, Walden Catalyst Ventures, Adrian Aoun, Aleksander Leonard Larsen, Alex Adelman, Ameet Ranadive, Bob Young, Bradley Horowitz, Evan Moore, Gokul Rajaram, James Blouzard, Joshua Schachter, Kevin Lin, Kevin Weil, Mantas Mikuckas, Markus Villig, Martin Henk, Martin Villig, Oleg Tscheltzoff, Ott Kaukver, Pascal Gauthier, Pete Koomen, Ragnar Sass, Richard Branson, Rohini Pandhi, Scott Belsky, Sebastien Borget, Steve Chen, Thomas Plantenga, Tobias Lutke, Varsha Rao
Dec 1, 2021	GoodGood	$5.0M Seed	—	Andreessen Horowitz, DCM, Dig Ventures, Entrepreneur First, Golden Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Morgan Creek Capital Management, Polygon, Seven Seven Six, Tet Ventures, Aleksander Leonard Larsen, Alex Adelman, Gokul Rajaram, Mandeep Singh, Sebastien Borget, Tobias Lutke
Dec 1, 2021	Gotiva	$900K Seed	—	Craft Ventures, Fabric Ventures, Kearny Jackson, Patron, Play Ventures, R-Squared Ventures, Abe Burns, Eric Seufert, Jas Purewal, Neil Parikh, Ragnar Kruse, Rupert Loman, Ziv Elul
Nov 1, 2020	Eclipse Foods	$12.0M Series A	—	305 Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, DCM, Dig Ventures, Dreamers VC, Goat Capital, Golden Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Morgan Creek Capital Management, Polygon, Seven Seven Six, U.S. Department Of Defense, Y Combinator, Aleksander Leonard Larsen, Alex Adelman, Mandeep Singh, Ron Suber, Sebastien Borget, Stanley Tang, Tobias Lutke
Apr 1, 2019	Eclipse Foods	$4.0M Seed	—	305 Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, DCM, Dig Ventures, Dimension Capital, Dreamers VC, Footwork, Goat Capital, Golden Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lux Capital, Morgan Creek Capital Management, Polygon, Seven Seven Six, Spark Capital, Trajectory Ventures, U.S. Department Of Defense, Y Combinator, Aleksander Leonard Larsen, Alex Adelman, Mandeep Singh, Ron Suber, Sebastien Borget, Stanley Tang, Tobias Lutke

Funding Rounds Raised

Date	Round	Other Investors
May 1, 2024	$1.0M Seed	AngelList, DSG Consumer Partners, Good Startup, V3 Ventures
Aug 1, 2021	$210.0M Series B	Alex, Alpha Edison, Bling Capital, Bond, Bullpen Capital, Drive Capital, Ensemble VC, Gradient Ventures, ‎GreatPoint Ventures, Hiro Capital, Initialized Capital, Insight Partners, Khosla Ventures, Learn Capital, Lightbank, Menlo Ventures, MHS Capital, Moderne Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Hans Tung, Paradox Capital, Roble Ventures, RWT Horizons, Smash Capital, The Hit Forge, Wildcat Ventures, Anne Wojcicki, Jeremy Stoppelman, Larry Braitman, Lawrence Braitman, Rashaun Williams, Russell Fradin, Russ Fradin
Aug 1, 2020	$35.0M Series A	Alex, Alpha Edison, Bond, Drive Capital, Ensemble VC, ‎GreatPoint Ventures, Hiro Capital, Menlo Ventures, Moderne Ventures, RWT Horizons, Wildcat Ventures, Anne Wojcicki
Jul 1, 2020	$3.0M Seed	Cocoa, Foundamental, Prototype Capital, Reach Capital, Rethink Impact, Social Starts, Larry Braitman, Lawrence Braitman
Oct 1, 2018	$9.0M Seed	Cantos Ventures, Embedded Ventures, EVE Atlas, Flucas Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, Hiro Capital, Infinite Capital, Moderne Ventures, RWT Horizons, Venrock, WestCap, Wildcat Ventures

Financial History

ICON has raised $258.0M across 5 funding rounds.

Total Raised

$258.0M

Valuation

N/A

Leadership Team

Key people at ICON.

Leadership Team

Key people at ICON.

Deep Dive

High-Level Overview

ICON is a dynamic non-profit venture capital organization focused on bridging the Israeli and Silicon Valley tech ecosystems. Its mission is to empower Israeli-founded startups by facilitating their entry and growth in the U.S. market through tailored programs, events, and a strong network of venture capital partners, industry experts, and entrepreneurs. ICON primarily invests in early-stage companies (seed and Series A) that focus on innovative technologies addressing global challenges, fostering collaboration and innovation to drive growth in both regions[1][3].

Origin Story

Founded by prominent Silicon Valley leaders, including co-founders Yasmin Lukatz, and co-chaired by Oren Zeev and Adam Nash, ICON was established to close the gap between Israeli innovation and Silicon Valley resources. The organization has evolved to become a key platform for Israeli startups seeking to scale globally, leveraging the experience and networks of its partners, which include influential tech executives and venture capitalists from both ecosystems[1][3].

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: ICON operates as a non-profit that combines venture capital investment with ecosystem-building programs, focusing on early-stage Israeli startups entering the U.S. market[1].
Network Strength: It boasts a diverse membership of top-tier Silicon Valley and Israeli tech leaders, including founders and CEOs of major companies like CrowdStrike, Zoom, and Box, as well as venture capital heavyweights from Sequoia Capital, Accel, and Khosla Ventures[3].
Track Record: The fund manager has executed over 30 deals across North America and Europe, with notable exits and a thematic, operator-first investment approach emphasizing long-term growth[1].
Operating Support: ICON provides startups with tailored programs, mentorship, and access to corporate partners, enhancing their ability to scale and succeed in competitive markets[1][2].

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

ICON rides the trend of increasing globalization and cross-border collaboration in technology entrepreneurship, particularly between Israel—renowned for its innovation—and Silicon Valley, the world’s leading tech hub. The timing is critical as Israeli startups seek to expand internationally, and U.S. investors look for cutting-edge technologies. ICON’s facilitation of connections, knowledge exchange, and capital flow strengthens the global startup ecosystem and accelerates the commercialization of breakthrough technologies[1][3].

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, ICON is poised to deepen its influence by expanding its programs and partnerships, potentially increasing investment volume and sector diversity. Trends such as AI, cybersecurity, and health tech—areas where Israeli startups excel—will likely shape its portfolio and strategic focus. As global tech ecosystems become more interconnected, ICON’s role as a bridge will grow, helping Israeli innovation scale on a global stage while enriching Silicon Valley’s pipeline with fresh, high-potential ventures[1][3].

This unique positioning underscores ICON’s mission to not only invest but also cultivate a thriving bilateral tech ecosystem that addresses global challenges through innovation.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much funding has ICON raised?

ICON has raised $258.0M in total across 5 funding rounds.

Who are ICON's investors?

ICON's investors include AngelList, DSG Consumer Partners, Good Startup, V3 Ventures, Alex, Alpha Edison, Bling Capital, Bond, Bullpen Capital, Drive Capital, Ensemble VC, Gradient Ventures.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much funding has ICON raised?

ICON has raised $258.0M in total across 5 funding rounds.

High-Level Overview

Origin Story

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: ICON operates as a non-profit that combines venture capital investment with ecosystem-building programs, focusing on early-stage Israeli startups entering the U.S. market[1].
Network Strength: It boasts a diverse membership of top-tier Silicon Valley and Israeli tech leaders, including founders and CEOs of major companies like CrowdStrike, Zoom, and Box, as well as venture capital heavyweights from Sequoia Capital, Accel, and Khosla Ventures[3].
Track Record: The fund manager has executed over 30 deals across North America and Europe, with notable exits and a thematic, operator-first investment approach emphasizing long-term growth[1].
Operating Support: ICON provides startups with tailored programs, mentorship, and access to corporate partners, enhancing their ability to scale and succeed in competitive markets[1][2].

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

Quick Take & Future Outlook

This unique positioning underscores ICON’s mission to not only invest but also cultivate a thriving bilateral tech ecosystem that addresses global challenges through innovation.