Racheli Kogan stands out for treating founder psychology and relationships as real research topics, publishing survey-based work on co-founder conflict and founder spouses that looks closely at things like mental load at home and how a spouse's career affects a startup's resilience. She also takes a practical approach to support, breaking her help to founders into small, specific tasks like pricing research or hiring, and she has written about using structured intern groups to build a hiring pipeline and ease the load on early teams, which fits her broader focus on the people and organizational side of building a company rather than just providing capital.
About their Fund
Symbol is a venture fund built around backing "pre-consensus" Israeli founders and markets that don't fit typical VC checklists but are likely to become obvious later, often prioritizing young or first-time founders without traditional pedigree over their learning curve and adaptability, while steering away from crowded sectors like cyber in favor of areas like HPC, procurement, and cargo insurance. It supports companies from before they even raise a round—helping with ideation, co-founder search, and hands-on product, UX, HR, and storytelling work—and extends that support to a company's first employees through dedicated peer groups, positioning itself as a highly personal, high-conviction first-check fund for what it calls Israel's "weirdest" venture opportunities.
















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