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Investor profile

Yael Barsheshet

Principal, Hetz Ventures

About

Yael Barsheshet brings an unusual combination of hands-on AI product experience from her role as Director of Product and Operations at Zebra Medical Vision and 11 years in Israeli elite intelligence, including Unit 8200, where she served as a Cyber Operations Commander at the rank of Major. This technical and operational background allows her to evaluate AI and cybersecurity startups from a practitioner's perspective rather than a purely financial one, and she has developed structured frameworks for investing in generative AI since 2019 with companies like Tabnine. Yael Barsheshet brings an unusual combination of hands-on AI product experience from her role as Director of Product and Operations at Zebra Medical Vision and 11 years in Israeli elite intelligence, including Unit 8200, where she served as a Cyber Operations Commander at the rank of Major. This technical and operational background allows her to evaluate AI and cybersecurity startups from a practitioner's perspective rather than a purely financial one, and she has developed structured frameworks for investing in generative AI since 2019 with companies like Tabnine.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Sectors
AI
Cybersecurity
Devtools
Enterprise
FinTech

Investment details

Avg check size$1M - $10M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
Israel
Europe
USA