Venture Capital
Anchored by Israeli Unicorn Founders
WHy We Win
40RTY Fund is an Israeli VC anchored by a select group of unicorn founders who invested the fund’s initial capital.
40RTY’s general partners have backed 38 companies to date, including 5 unicorns, creating over $1B in value for investors.
This combined experience gives us unparalleled access to unique early-stage opportunities in Israeli tech.
Our investment approach leverages AI-powered due diligence capabilities and benefits from our firsthand experience building companies from inception to category leadership.
Domains
Vertical AI & Infrastructure
We back companies that help organizations reinvent how they build products, make decisions, serve customers, and operate internally. From intelligent infrastructure and vertical AI to next-generation enterprise software, we invest in technologies that enable businesses to thrive in an AI-native world.
Security & Resilience
We invest in technologies that strengthen national security, critical infrastructure, cyber resilience, defense, and trusted digital systems. These companies create the technological foundation that allows governments and enterprises to maintain security, sovereignty, and operational continuity in an increasingly complex world.
We are committed to identifying and building future-defining companies.
Artificial intelligence is redefining how every organization is built and operated. At the same time, geopolitical instability is forcing governments and critical industries to rethink resilience, security, and sovereignty.
Organizations can no longer rely on legacy workflows, software, or operating models. Governments can no longer rely on traditional security architectures. Both require entirely new technology layers to operate with speed, trust, and resilience.
At 4ORTY, we invest in the founders building those layers.
Our
Unicorn Founders
Limited Partners
40RTY Fund's Unicorn Founder LPs play an integral part in our deal sourcing and due diligence process. They are recognized thought leaders, role models to entrepreneurs, and are committed to building the next wave of Israeli tech unicorns.
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Our Companies
Your AI partner for the creation of any app, giving product makers the precision and reliability needed to turn ideas into real software.
Playo is an AI platform that transforms anyone's spark of imagination into a living, playable 3D world in minutes - simply prompt, generate and play.
Bazak is the platform for AI Agents, Apps, MCP, Payments, and Data - across ChatGPT, Claude, and your website. No R&D effort. Live in 72 hours.
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Honey Labs is an AI operating system for end-to-end consumer market research, replacing fragmented agency, data and survey stacks, with a unified AI-native platform
Our team
Eyal Ben Yaakov
General Partner
Prior to 40RTY Fund, Itay was managing Mangrove’s investment team in Israel, partnering with founders from ideation to scale. Formerly at the Ministry of Finance, he later founded YEDC where he grew annual revenues to tens of million of dollars, and contracted projects totaling more than $150 million.
Itay Gil Asulin
General Partner
A Founder-Centric Venture Capital Firm.
