Gabi Heller

Gabi Heller is a Partner and the Chief Financial Officer of Hanaco Ventures, a New York– and Herzliya (Tel Aviv)–based venture capital firm founded in 2017–2018 that invests in promising startups from the Israeli tech ecosystem. Based in the firm's Israel office, she oversees all finance, legal, and reporting functions for the fund. Beyond fund operations, she serves as a hands-on resource to Hanaco's portfolio companies — providing strategic financial counsel and helping founders recruit and build effective finance teams.

Before Hanaco, Heller spent roughly eight years as CFO of The Trendlines Group, a publicly traded Israeli incubator and investment company. There she led the company through two IPOs — a listing in Canada and a subsequent listing in Singapore — steering its transformation from a private company to one operating under public-company reporting standards, while managing a finance team of about eight professionals.

Earlier in her career, Heller was CFO of Walden Israel Ventures, a venture fund with approximately $185M in assets under management, where she worked directly alongside the fund's partners on forming, fundraising, deploying, and managing the fund. She began her career at EY (Ernst & Young). Over her career she has accumulated significant board-level experience across private and public companies.

Hanaco itself was founded by Alon Lifshitz, and its partnership includes Lior Prosor and Pasha Romanovski. The firm manages north of $2 billion across multiple early-stage and growth funds, and its work centers on bridging Israeli founders to U.S. capital markets and customers through its dual Israel–New York presence. Heller's combined venture-fund and public-company CFO experience makes her the operational and financial backbone of the firm.

• Invests in emerging Israeli-founded technology companies, spanning seed/early stage through growth equity, with the firm most active at Series A in Israel.
• Core sectors: cybersecurity, fintech/financial services, AI, infrastructure, enterprise software, consumer and marketing tech, and digital health.
• Firm-level checks commonly fall in the ~$10M–$50M range, typically entering at company valuations of ~$50M–$100M (larger for growth/late-stage funds).
• Emphasizes helping Israeli founders scale into the U.S. market, leveraging the New York office for go-to-market, hiring, and follow-on capital.
• Heller's specific value-add within this thesis is financial and operational rigor — she helps portfolio companies build finance teams and mature toward institutional/public-company standards, reflecting her two-IPO track record at Trendlines.