SNA — Startup Nation Angels

01 · The moment

The category is crossing a threshold.

Strategic demand

Defense, autonomy, physical AI and dual-use technologies are moving rapidly into real operational demand.

Israeli capability

Israel already has exceptional technology, operators, aerospace expertise and strategic relevance. Israel’s westward launch constraint, driven by regional security considerations, also pushed Israeli space programs toward smaller, lighter and highly efficient satellite architectures.

Capital + infrastructure

Specialized capital, labs, testing environments and public infrastructure are beginning to form around the category.

Strategic demand is real. Infrastructure is arriving.
Specialized capital is forming. The operators already exist.

$19.2B

Israeli defense exports in 2025 — a fifth consecutive record year.

Israel Ministry of Defense

312+

Israeli defense-tech companies mapped, roughly 90–150 of them in aerospace & space.

Startup Nation Central

For the first time, demand, capital, infrastructure and experienced operators are arriving at the same moment.

SNA is being built at the point of convergence.

02 · The gap

The best companies may not fail in the lab. They may fail between the lab and the market.

TechnologyProven in the lab

The Gap

Where strong technology stalls

ExpertsValidationCustomers RegulationCapitalScale

Investable companyFundable · buildable · scalable

The gap is access and specialist underwriting. Not technology.

ValidationExpert accessRegulationCustomersOperatorsCapitalScale

03 · What we do

A co-investment platform with an execution layer.

Capital.Experts.Infrastructure.Customers.Operators.Global access.Connected around the company.

Turning complex technology into investable companies and better-informed capital decisions.

CapitalSelective angel investment, deal by deal.

ExpertsDomain specialists who can judge the technology and de-risk it.

InfrastructureLabs, testing environments and physical facilities.

CustomersAccess to the institutions and industries that actually buy.

OperatorsPeople who have run missions, fleets, factories and companies.

Global accessRoutes into international markets, partners and follow-on capital.

AI-enabled supportFaster diligence, mapping and monitoring across the portfolio.

04 · What it means for investors

The investor advantage.

Institutional deal access

Co-invest alongside leading funds in sought-after transactions, with the ability to increase exposure in selected opportunities.

Access to institutional-quality opportunities without requiring a fund commitment.

Choose every investment

Investors evaluate and opt into each opportunity individually — without committing capital across the entire portfolio. No blind pool.

Expert-led investment intelligence

SNA members and domain experts strengthen investment decisions through specialist diligence, market-entry insight, POC access and connections to relevant international industry players.

Beyond the investment

Selected investors may engage directly with portfolio companies through advisory, board and strategic industry roles where relevant.

Where allocation is available, SNA can also help investors increase exposure to selected companies through co-investment and follow-on participation, including available pro-rata rights.

Liquidity optionalityWhere market conditions and transaction availability allow, SNA may explore secondary opportunities that could provide investors with earlier liquidity.

05 · How it works

Four moves.

AI-driven from signal to scale.
Expert-led where judgment matters.

Find

Source high-potential strategic deep-tech companies.

AI-assisted sourcing, mapping and signal detection

Understand

Combine investor judgment, domain experts and AI-enabled diligence.

AI-structured diligence, evidence and investment preparation

Unlock

Connect companies to infrastructure, operators, strategic partners and customers.

Expert, infrastructure, regulatory and customer matching

Fund & scale

Enable selective angel investment and support the next milestones toward follow-on capital and global growth.

Syndication, milestone intelligence and global scaling support

07 · Why this team

Why this team.

A dedicated operating team, backed by five partners across the investment and execution chain.

Core Operating Team

Leadership · CEO, SNA

Heli Gerber

Co-Founder & former COO, ICON · Former Head of Investor Relations & Corporate Communications, Evogene

Investor engagementStrategic partnershipsPlatform execution

Head of Global Investors & Space Partnerships

Emma Vardimon

Former Sr. Director, Investors & Partnerships at Startup Nation Central · Founder & Board Member, WiSpace · International Space University alumna

Global investorsStrategic partnershipsSpace ecosystem

Operations & Investor Relations Manager

Romi Golan

Investor Relations & AI Operations, Moon2Mars Ventures · DeepTech Week TLV Project Manager · Former IAF Officer

Investor relationsOperationsAI-enabled workflows

Partners

Operations

Stav
Kaynar

B787 Captain, EL AL · Former IAF commander · Former COO, Twik

Scale

Orel
Hershkovitch

CEO, ISLINE · Co-Founder, Wisor.AI · Forbes 30 Under 30

Global Capital

Steve
Braverman

Co-Founder & Co-Chairman, Pathstone · $185B+ platform

Capital

Israel
Biran

Managing Partner, Moon2Mars · Co-Founder, Earth & Beyond · Chairman, Creation-Space

Infrastructure

Doron
Landau

General Partner, Moon2Mars · Former VP, SpaceIL · Partner, Stratos

SNA

Five capabilities
One platform

The capabilities already exist. SNA connects them around each company.

08 · Where companies come from

Deal flow doesn't start from zero.

Creation-Space programsCompany formation and acceleration inside the ecosystem the founding team operates.

Founder investment networksTwo decades of operators, funds and portfolio relationships.

Moon2Mars · Earth & Beyond · StratosSpecialized capital platforms the founding team already sits across — including Stratos Ventures, an Israeli-American early-stage fund focused on defense-tech, resilience and strategic technologies.

Universities & strategic industryResearch groups and corporate spin-outs at the point of formation.

Operator referralsAviation, defense and industry operators.

Founder-to-founder & inboundIntroductions from founders we have backed, and companies that approach us directly.

As part of SNA’s integrated sourcing model, team-linked platforms and funds including Moon2Mars, Earth & Beyond, Stratos and Creation-Space provide access to highly screened companies, including some already backed at the pre-seed stage.

Access is created through networks the founding team already operates inside. The founders' operating network also extends through Movilim, the IAF Flight Course Alumni organization, alongside relationships across aviation, defense, technology and investment.

09 · Who is around us

Strategic advisory board.

Senior strategic depth across national security, aerospace, space, venture capital and global networks.

Tamir PardoFormer Director of MossadNational Security · Global Networks · Strategic Access

Prof. Yitzhak Ben-IsraelFormer Chairman, Israel Space AgencySpace · Defense R&D · National Programs

Yossi WeissFormer CEO, Israel Aerospace IndustriesAerospace & Defense · Industrial Scale

Dr. Irit IdanFormer EVP R&D, RAFAELDeep Tech R&D · Technology Assessment · Development Risk

Adv. Liat AaronsonChairperson, Zell · Managing Director, ZEP FundVenture Capital · Early-Stage · Founder Ecosystem

Dr. Shlomo KalishFounder & Managing Partner, Jerusalem Global Ventures (JGV)Venture Capital · Syndication · Follow-on Capital

Six strategic board members provide complementary depth across national security, defense and space R&D, aerospace and industrial scale, venture capital and global investor networks.

10 · The pattern

We have seen this movie before.

From cyber to aerospace. Israel has built globally dominant technology categories before. The formation pattern is familiar.

Cyber — historical category formation Aerospace & strategic deep tech — illustrative trajectory

NIS 60M~$20M · Access to Space · incl. NIS 40M (~$13M) government grants — Creation-Space selected to lead

NIS 40M~$13M · Mitzpe Ramon R&D infrastructure

90–150Israeli aerospace & space companies mapped

Cyber became a category after capital, talent, demand and infrastructure converged. Aerospace and strategic deep tech are reaching that convergence now.

The question is not whether every company wins. The question is who is in the room while the category forms.

11 · Why join now

Founding circle — now forming.

Deal by dealAn angel club, not a fund. No blind pool — choose each investment independently.

Evidence firstExpert-backed, AI-structured diligence before the decision.

Early accessCompanies reached through the founders' capital, infrastructure and operating networks.

Selective circleA deliberately small group of investors and operators.

The operating platform is being built before the first investment.

Together, we can back the technologies that strengthen Israel’s security and resilience - and build the companies that define its next chapter as a global innovation leader.

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