Investor Profile: Amiti Ventures — Thesis, Cheque Size & How to Apply

Amiti Ventures is not your typical venture capital firm, and it says so itself. The Tel Aviv-based firm, also known as Amiti Capital, backs deep-tech outliers: founders solving foundational problems, often before the market understands the category, the scale or the opportunity. Its tagline captures the stance: it does not wait for the future, it builds it.

Founded in 2010, Amiti Ventures invests at Seed and Series A, with a typical cheque size of $1 million to $5 million. Its current fund size is not publicly disclosed. The firm's focus spans telecommunications, software, security, SaaS, media and entertainment, electronics, automotive, transportation, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, semiconductors and quantum computing, with investments across the Middle East, Europe, North America and Asia.

Thesis: backing deep-tech outliers

Amiti Ventures partners with what it calls deep-tech outliers solving foundational problems. These are builders already living in the future, creating entirely new industries rather than incremental improvements on existing ones. That means the firm is comfortable with long technical timelines, hard scientific risk and categories that look strange at first glance, provided the team is exceptional and the breakthrough is real.

The team is led by founder, chief executive and chief investment officer Ben Rabinowitz, alongside general partner and chief operating officer Yafit Schwartz. The firm's founder-first reputation shows in the words of its portfolio chief executives. Elad Raz, founder and chief executive of NextSilicon, has said that Amiti was not just a first investor but a visionary partner whose commitment grew in value year after year. Omer Keilaf, co-founder and chief executive of Innoviz, has said Amiti was the first venture firm it met, backing the company from the beginning and helping it think big.

Cheque size and portfolio

Amiti Ventures typically invests $1 million to $5 million at Seed and Series A, often as a first institutional investor and, in several cases, as the round's lead. Its portfolio is a showcase of hard technology. NextSilicon is building a dataflow chip architecture designed to disrupt the processor landscape. Innoviz develops LiDAR and sensing technology for autonomous driving and physical AI. Quantum Art is building a trapped-ion quantum computer, with a public roadmap towards scalable commercial quantum advantage, and its Series A reached $140 million in total. Briya is building a clinical-grade AI platform for medical and epidemiological research.

For founders, that standard cuts both ways. A fast-following software product is unlikely to fit, but a chip, quantum system or foundational AI company needing a partner who understands technical risk will find a much stronger match here.

How to apply for funding

Amiti Ventures does not publish a public application portal. No public funding application form was found on its website. Founders should therefore approach the firm through its website, amiti.vc, or through its LinkedIn presence, ideally with a warm introduction from a portfolio founder, a technical advisor or a co-investor in the deep-tech ecosystem. A pitch should lead with the technical breakthrough, why it is defensible, and why the team is uniquely able to build it, rather than with market sizing alone.