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Protego Ventures
Venture capital · Israel · Middle East and Africa
Protego Ventures is a $125 million defense fund based in Israel. It invests in early growth-stage companies in defense technology areas and works with partners to help its companies secure contracts and reach exits.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningCybersecurity
In its own wordsdefensecybersecurityartificial intelligencemachine learningdronesuav
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Or find every investor that fitsProtego Ventures lists 5 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (70%), Cybersecurity (20%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (10%). 80% of its companies are based in Israel. It invests most often alongside 8090 Industries, 8VC and Adara Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Protego Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 25% |
| Series A | 50% |
| Series B | 25% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 1 |
| '26 | 3 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 4th | 5 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 60th | 25% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 100th | 80% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 91th | 70% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| 8090 Industries | 1 |
| 8VC | 1 |
| Adara Ventures | 1 |
| Berytech | 1 |
| Claltech | 1 |
| Edge VC | 1 |
| First In | 1 |
| Future Energy Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers5100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 70% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 20% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 10% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Protego Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Protego Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 20 Jul 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 23 Apr 2026 | Seed | |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Debt Led | |
| 15 Jul 2025 | Series B |
Round details for Protego Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Protego Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
5 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASIO develops and provides combat solutions for tactical forces, including aerial systems, ground systems, and technology for geospatial data and real-time imagery analysis. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Jul 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| The company equips businesses and governmental authorities with the tools they need to manage drones safely at any scale. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Prisma Photonics monitors large scale infrastructure to keep it up and running | CybersecurityIndustrial & Manufacturing | Oct 2025Debt | Funding round | |
| Rilian provides a security orchestration platform for defense and security teams to automate analyst workflows and capture institutional knowledge. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Apr 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| XTEND develops XOS, a hardware-agnostic operating system for autonomous robotic platforms used in defense, homeland security, and commercial security missions. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Jul 2025Series B | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- protego.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 15 Jul 2025
- Companies checked
- 5
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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