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Juriaan Duizendstraal Bensoussan

Partner at Index Ventures

Tel Aviv District

Overview 

Juriaan Duizendstraal Bensoussan is a Partner at Index Ventures in Tel Aviv, specializing in venture capital investments in sectors like DeepTech, FinTech, and AI. With a background in entrepreneurship and finance, he has successfully navigated roles at Liberty Media and the Israeli Defense Forces, showcasing a diverse skill set in business development and investment strategies.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2022 - Current

    Investments: Tessl, Linx Security, Empathy, Apex Security, PointFive, Wonderful AI, Ryft, Otterize and 7 Stealth Companies.

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.

  • Seed Investor

    2025

  • Seed Investor

    2025

  • Series A Investor

    2024

  • Series A Investor

    2024

  • Series B Investor

    2024

Empathy is a support system mobile application that guides and supports families along the journey of loss.

Raised $90,000,000.00 from Entrée Capital, Allianz, General Catalyst, Sumitomo, Securian Financial Group, Brewer Lane Ventures, MetLife, New York Life Ventures, MassMutual and Index Ventures.

  • Seed Investor

    2023

PointFive provides ongoing cloud cost savings by providing deeper detection and collaborative repair solutions

Raised $36,000,000.00 from Tamar Yehoshua, Vesey Ventures, Index Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Sheva Capital, Dean Sysman, Amiram Shachar, Mickey Boodaei, Yasmin Lukatz and Entrée Capital.

  • Seed Investor

    2023

    Acquired by Tenable

  • Seed Investor

    2017

  • Investor, Team8 Capital

    2020 - 2022

    Investments: Setsail (acquired by ZoomInfo), Spiral, Planck (acquired by Applied Systems), Ionix, Fundguard, Classiq, Monogoto, Akeyless, Talon (acquired by PANW), Sayata (acquired by Penn-America), IVIX, Dig Security (acquired by PANW) and Finout.

Team8 Capital is a new venture capital vehicle leading investments in early stage enterprise technology and fintech startups.

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