Tel Aviv VC fund aMoon gets $250M from Cred­it Su­isse, emerges as top play­er in Is­rael

Swiss multi­na­tion­al in­vest­ment bank Cred­it Su­isse is in­fus­ing $250 mil­lion in­to an Is­raeli life sci­ences VC firm, bring­ing the fund’s to­tal to over $400 mil­lion — a sum that sur­pass­es even Or­biMed’s pres­ence in Is­rael.

The Tel Aviv-based VC firm, called aMoon, was set up by Is­raeli bil­lion­aire Mar­ius Nacht (best known for his role in glob­al cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty for found­ing Check Point Soft­ware Tech­nolo­gies) and co-found­ed by Yair Schin­del, the for­mer CEO of the State of Is­rael’s Na­tion­al Dig­i­tal Bu­reau. This is aMoon’s sec­ond fund since its 2016 launch. Just last month, the firm an­nounced it raised $200 mil­lion for the sec­ond fund, with a goal of $500 mil­lion.

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