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.
About their Fund
Hetz Ventures is a seed-stage VC where the entire investment team consists of ex-engineers with deep infrastructure backgrounds, deliberately built so partners resemble the highly technical founders they back rather than generalist financiers, and they operate with an unusually startup-like internal culture where everyone sits in the same open room and decisions are made transparently in group brainstorms. They specialize narrowly in infrastructure software and have built a proprietary network of roughly 120-150 senior data, AI, and infrastructure executives who behave like an extended team for product validation and early sales, while running a highly structured, data-instrumented deal funnel that they treat as an optimization problem rather than an informal craft.




















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