Scopus Ventures

We build breakthrough companies with remarkable entrepreneurs.

More Than Just Investors

Testimonials:

“Scopus has gone far beyond a financing round for Fuel Cycle; they feel like true partners and help sharpen our thinking on our market, our product, and our operations… A couple of years ago, our growth had momentarily flatlined. The Scopus team worked with us to revamp our positioning and bring on the talent necessary to reignite our growth. Rather than move on when we’d stalled out, they worked with us as committed partners to improve our outcomes.”

Rick Kelly

CPO of Fuel Cycle

“Scopus isn’t willing to just be a financial investor. They are also very supportive when it comes to operations; whether it involves recruiting, strategic planning, new investors, or customers, they’re always ready and available to help. It’s clear that Scopus always has our back and cares about the strategic success of the company and our team.”

Jonas Hellgren

CEO of Aperio Systems

“The Scopus team has proven to be patient and diligent investors. They seek to truly understand our business to provide insightful guidance while putting the founders first. As a first-time Scopus Home Page Copy founder, fundraising was unfamiliar and daunting. Scopus helped us process all of our opportunities…and was able to close and lead within 24 hours.”

Tim Gjonbalic

CEO of Butler Hospitality

“As opposed to many other investors out there, Scopus are entrepreneurs just like us. They understand our challenges and are always there to help with great advice. Scopus helped us laser-focus our ideal customer profile, which has improved our go-to-market and sales process tremendously.”

Guy Shachar

CEO of Perceptive AI

“Even at this early stage, Scopus has been an invaluable partner by connecting us with their LPs, potential customers, and other investors. The diversity of Bahram, Robert, and Eran’s experience and network allows them to be extremely helpful to early-stage companies like ours. They recently introduced us to a senior-level individual with decades of experience working with our target customers—exactly the introduction we needed.”

Enlai Chu

CEO of Phoneic

Our Entrepreneurs

We’re on the hunt for diamonds in the rough. We invest in startups led by exceptional founders that take on challenging business problems with scalable automated technology solutions. Scopus entrepreneurs come armed with transformational enterprise technologies and even bigger visions and goals, particularly for the most uncertain of environments. We partner with them to polish their stories, navigate big decisions, and build category-defining companies. Our investment approach isn’t one size fits all—we take time to assess each investment opportunity individually, focusing primarily on six main areas:

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Stage

We typically invest in late-seed and early-stage companies that have developed a product and have validated product-market fit.

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Markets

We look for companies developing enterprise software and technologies to transform business intelligence and automation, cybersecurity, SaaS, digital media, healthcare IT and fintech.

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Location

We focus primarily on Israeli entrepreneurs who are ready to make the leap to the US market and scale.

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Team

We seek out exceptional founders with a strong product and technology-driven mindset to lead and adapt to a rapidly changing world.

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Investment

We invest up to $500K at the seed stage and have the capital capacity for follow-up investments.

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We serve as full strategic, operational and financial partners. We work closely with our teams to get them to the next major milestone—and surpass it.

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Our Commitment

We’re more than just investors. We’re partners, friends, tech advisers, finance consultants, HR gurus, office buddies, and good people who are always around to grab coffee or chat. We pride ourselves on the close relationships we develop with our entrepreneurs and our accessibility and availability to them at all moments along their entrepreneurial journey. Our focus, above all, is on founders. We’re committed to sharing widely from our knowledge, experience, and network to arm them with the tools they need to see what’s possible and make it their reality. We strive to help our companies beat the entrepreneurial odds—we’re after 10 of 10. Our entrepreneurs can count on:

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Value

We’re constantly looking to see how we can add more value to make our entrepreneurs’ journey smoother and more successful.

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Talent

With our network of academics, sales executives, and researchers across the software industry, we help screen and onboard talent to fuel fast growth.

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Capital

We provide capital to scale organically and lay a robust foundation for future rounds.

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Network

We’ve built a great network of Fortune 1000 customers, partners, bankers, and vendors.

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Process

We know that every minute counts. Our investment committee is used to rapid decision-making, and we keep things incredibly simple.

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Strategy

We guide our entrepreneurs as they navigate the best exit strategy that is in alignment with their ultimate objectives.

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Transparency

Great companies are the result of strong, collaborative relationships built on two-way honesty, trust and, above all, no BS.

A Soft Landing

We know that a big move impacts not only our entrepreneurs, but also their families. We’re here to help them settle into their new chapter effortlessly.

About

Our story starts where yours starts.

Scopus Ventures is a founder-focused early-stage venture capital firm founded by visionary entrepreneurs and investors. Our core team brings together unparalleled experience in finance and investing tech and business operations, and building companies from the ground up. We’re proud to be able to give our portfolio companies unique access to a wealth of knowledge and game-changing connections.

We were in your shoes once—and we want to help you be in our shoes someday soon.

Team

Bahram Nour-Omid

Chairman, Managing Partner

Expertise: Technological Operations

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Bahram Nour-Omid

Chairman, Managing Partner

Bahram is a serial entrepreneur who began his career as a technologist specializing in large-scale computing and software systems. Later on, he founded several companies building and growing teams to significant success. He has been venture investing since 1990 bringing with him decades of business leadership in technology companies with many successful exits. He has a PhD in Scientific Computing, a MA in Mathematics, and a MS in Engineering, all from the University of California, Berkeley. His Bachelor of Science is in Civil Engineering from the Imperial College of London.

Eran Gilad

Managing Partner

Expertise: Business Operations and Entrepreneurship

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Eran Gilad

Managing Partner

Eran has been an Operator his entire career. He started his career at the IDF as an Officer and continued scaling organizations for two decades. Before making the leap into entrepreneurship, he got his start as a management consultant at Bohlin & Stromberg Sweden focused on mergers, acquisitions and growth strategies. Since then he has been building and growing successful B2B companies. Today, Eran finds his passion at helping entrepreneurs who truly swing for the fences. He holds an Engineering degree from Coventry University, England and an MBA from Lund University, Sweden. He currently attends the OPM Program at the Harvard Business School.

Robert Mai

Managing Partner

Expertise: Finance and Investment Banking

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Robert Mai

Managing Partner

Robert is focusing on fund management as they pertain to Scopus Ventures investments, partnerships, operations and regulatory compliance in the U.S. and abroad. Robert has over 25 years of experience working in investment banking and asset management throughout Asia and the US at Lehman Brothers, UBS and Citigroup. Prior to teaming up with Eran and Bahram, Robert spent a decade working in private equity and venture capital markets, including managing a $300 million alternative investments portfolio and fixed income trading platform at Klingenstein Fields Wealth Advisors. Robert graduated from the University of California, Irvine, with a BS in Biological Sciences and received an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.

Why LA?

When it comes to expanding business operations abroad, we know that founders, especially Israeli ones, have many options and, likewise, many factors to consider.

We’re not in the Bay Area—and we think that’s a real advantage.

Beyond the great Israel-like weather and nature (and, if we’re honest, traffic), which make getting acclimated more than a little bit easier, Southern California’s entrepreneur community and tech scene is uniquely vibrant and welcoming. The sense of community, the familiar terrain and the more accessible cost of living soften the landing for our founders (and their families).

More than that, at Scopus Ventures, we lay the groundwork for successful next steps by offering full daily access: to our partners, our extensive knowledge and experience, our network of advisers and partners, inspiring office space, tools for scaling, hiring managers and so much more.

Join us to go beyond the realm of la-la land.

Portfolio

We invest in enterprise software companies with game-changing technologies led by ambitious entrepreneurs.

Using AI to analyze and timeline medical records for personal injury law firms.

LawPro.ai leverages proprietary, contextualized LLMs to deliver an AI-driven platform that quickly ingests, organizes, and analyzes medical records for personal injury cases, completing the process within minutes, instead of weeks or months.

Growth Machine For Product Teams

Spotnix was built to help product managers and growth managers grow their top-line metrics. It leverages a unique methodology (adopted by only the most successful companies in the world), AI models and analyses in scale to identify opportunities and recommend the best actions.

Hotel room service hasn't evolved since it was introduced in 1930

Butler provides a technology platform to streamline the operations and logistics associated with in-room dining service for hotels. It aggregates room service demands across multiple locations to provide a cost effective and high-quality room service experience for their guests. Its technology results in more efficient food preparation operation, faster delivery to their rooms while giving the customer multiple payment options including the hotel bill.

The Market Reseach Cloud that empowers real-time business decisions

Fuel Cycle is the leading market research cloud that combines both qualitative and quantitative data to power real-time business decisions. Through online communities, product exchanges, panels, and more, Fuel Cycle offers the only all-in-one market research platform for brands to connect to their customers. With Fuel Cycle, organizations can quickly act upon reliable data to help predict the future of their industry and stay one-step ahead of the competition.

Jitterbit is a cloud level integration platform that helps professionals connect the applications, data and systems that help them do their jobs.

Using the Jitterbit API integration platform companies can rapidly connect SaaS, on-premise and cloud applications and instantly infuse artificial intelligence into any business process. Our intuitive API creation technology enables companies to reuse business-critical applications and data to bring new offerings to market in days, not months. Best of all, our team of industry experts works side by side with you to accelerate innovation beyond anything you previously thought possible.

Gain Insights from your text based data

Pienso is an interactive machine learning platform that enables enterprises with large amounts of text data to derive insights without having to program. Domain experts can rapidly train and classify machine models from structured or unstructured text data – real-time social media feeds, qualitative surveys, customer reviews, researcher notebooks, news articles, patient documents, emails, etc. and deploy via a RESTful API to any data driven applications or dashboards.

Apply AI to help you hire people who perform best and stay longer

Empirical allows large enterprises to recruit the right people for the organization's most important job. It uses machine-learning algorithms to capture essential performance drivers in your company and create a predictive model that identifies the candidates who mirror your top performers. Deep learning technology enables ongoing optimization based on actual performance data, helping you find better people faster.

Contractors on construction sites still manage with pen and paper.

Riskcast develops user-friendly digital capture tools to provide powerful construction data analytics. Its software solution allows crews on site to record daily information including labor hours, equipment usage and work details. Leveraging and combining these onsite data with projects’ budgets provide managers real-time team productivity and job cost analytics.

More than 10,000 SMBs already created an App with its solution tool! Build your company Mobile App now in less than 30 second!

AppsVillage provides an easy and inexpensive SAAS solution that allows small-to-medium businesses to create and manage their own mobile applications as a means of connecting with their customers and growing their business. AppsVillage’s technology has automated the design, development, maintenance, and marketing of mobile apps, allowing any business to build, preview and launch their own application without have any code writing or digital marketing knowledge.

Secure your industrial systems with the most advanced operational data integrity software

Aperio Systems provides a continuous monitoring solution that seamlessly integrates into existing SCADA and industrial control solutions to secure critical infrastructure systems by ensuring ironclad operational data integrity. The system protects against mission-critical sensor malfunctions and sophisticated cyberattacks that target digital systems controlling physical assets. The end result – enhanced business continuity, dramatically lower risk of shutdowns and service outages, and unprecedented operational integrity.

Automatically record, transcribe, and organize cell phone calls

Phoneic has developed a software solution to automatically record, transcribe, and organize an individual’s cell phone calls with the tap of a button or be set to capture calls automatically. The company’s product, “Productive™”, is installed on a mobile device and phone number. Calls are automatically routed through Phoneic's server. It works on both incoming and outgoing calls without the need to obtain a second phone number.

Class.Me - The first chat-based Online Classroom-Learning Center in each student's pocket.

Class.Me provides a chat-based Online Learning Center for schools which enables effective social learning with classmates and teachers, when you need them the most: homework after school or before an exam. Class.Me provides a Market Network of virtual tutors to assist students achievements and contributes to the teacher's success and effectiveness, by leveraging significant insights on their class, based on in-depth analytics platform and future AI capabilities.

Blockchain Application Platform for the Industrial Enterprise

The Authenticiti Blockchain Network Platform synchronizes data from third party applications and supply chain partners into a single, decentralized database. It provides an unprecedented level of security and resilience to ensure no central intermediary controls ecosystem data and all parties can trust recorded events. Asset records, trade documents, and location data are auto-reconciled on the blockchain ledger in real-time to increase your working capital and eliminate disputes without disrupting existing business processes.

Manages all your SaaS applications used in an enterprise in one single place

Torii SaaS application management solution helps IT teams to drive their business forward by making the best use of all SaaS solutions deployed in the enterprise. With the rapidly growing number of SaaS solutions in the market and the ability to deploy these solutions with a single click, the management to these productivity tools has become a big challenge. Torii's solution makes it easy to centrally manage these applications without hindering the positive trend of SaaS solution while allowing people throughout the organization to adapt technology and drive the business forward.

Digitize brick & mortar retail operations

TOPeration’s SaaS application provides brick and mortar retail stores with a one-stop-shop solution to manage all of their in-store operations. Its technology platform can map any retail store's operational needs in minutes and offer store employees and managers a digital way to manage and perform in-store operations. TOPeration takes manual check-lists and task management to the digital age by streamlining in-store tasks creation, allocation and monitoring. Using its software increases employee utility by 30% and moves management from micro-managing to strategic thinking.

Contact Us

Scopus Ventures Management, LLC
11859 Wilshire Blvd 5th Floor Suite 500
Los Angeles, CA 90025
info@scopusventures.com