Oded HermoniInvestor

United States - Los Altos, California

A VC and impact investor. A former Tech Journalist, who turned to be a founder of a startup which exited and ended a while ago as a VC and social/ impact investor and entrepreneur. I invested in over 80 companies and feel fortunate more than 3rd exited. My investments are across different industries and in multi $B start ups. In the past years as a managing partner and co founder at J-Ventures group / J-Impact ( Datarobot, Visby Medical, Omada, Veev, Cents, Beehero, Afresh) and before as a partner @Rhodium VC ( which invested in - Yotpo, Outbrain Storedot, Zooz), Coin Ventures ( Yotpo, Yieldmo, Imgn), Capital Point and as an Angel. I see a greet mission beyond the check - being real value add and help.
Most of my investments were in Silicon Valley ( where I’m based), NYC and Israel.
Parallel to VC investments and consulting, I led creation of eco systems and NGOs- I headed the Israeli VC association (IVA) and formed the Largest Tech associations in Israel (IATI),a founding member of ICON and INTRO which I also co chaired for 7 years.
Founding team and board members of Shomrim, Board - Jewish federation SF, JFCS, Executive board Friends of the Hebrew university West coast, Trustees, OPEN university, member of the association of Forward, board of United Hatzalah.
Investments :
Consumer/Media/ Marketing: Yotpo, IMGN (Werner) , Outbrian ( IPO) ,Yieldmo , Wevo, Hoopla ( Exit) , Calmigo, Joylux, Circles

Automotive/Mobility: Swifmile, Adway, Storedot, Hidden Level, Hopstop ( Apple) , MDGo

Life Sciences: Physera ( Omada), Calmigo, Visby Medical Neuroderm ( Mitsubishi Pharma ), Conversa Health ( Amwell), Heartvista ,
Connie Health, XP health, Babyation , BioCep, Dermipsor ( NextGen/TASE), GrayMatters

Enterprise, SaaS, and cyber: Cents, Kameleon, Ananda Networks, Reniac(Marvell), Hexatier ( Huawei ), Concerto ( Synopsis), Bright Security, Soc Prime, Finout.

AI : Face.com (Facebook), MachEye, Cognizer, Datarobot, Heartvista

Fintech and Insurance : Home365, Zooz ( PayU), Compass ( Sage), Hourly, Futora, Atidot, Reframe

AgTech and industry 4.0 : BeeHero, Phylagen, Afresh

Insuretech: Hourly, Reframe, , MDGO, home 365, ConnieHealth, Atidot, Reframe

B2C : Rounds ( Kik), Chosen, Ecomom ( Exit ) , DaysUnited


Named Top 20 Early Stage investors in Israel.


Speaker at: 500 Startups Pre-Money, TIECON, GMIC SV, TIECON, HTIA, TheMarker, SVOD, Wharton Business School, Stanford Business School, Hebrew University Business School, Fudan University, Hispanicize, CKGSB, Haaretz, Startup Grind, ICON, Angels Global.