Verissimo Monthly - December 2025
Thoughts on Investing and Starting Up
We’re switching things up this week. Instead of our usual deep-dive written commentary, we’re letting the founders and investors do the talking. We’ve curated our top recent podcast conversations covering everything from venture math to autonomous checkout.
The purpose of this podcast is twofold:
To share many of the same ideas, analyses and hot takes in a more digestible, flexible format.
To share unique and engaging conversations with founders, other investors and friends, which cover a variety of industry-related topics.
We’re open to any questions to cover in future episodes, just fill out the Q&A form.
Looking forward to a great 2026!
Very True by Verissimo
Investing in AI, Selling Secondaries and Venture Math with Nick Fitz of Juniper Ventures
From Craft Beer to Autonomous Checkout: Living Life in Chapters with Avi Moskowitz, CEO of PDQ
It’s Never a Straight Line: Why the Path to an Exit Often Starts with a Stop - Neri Bluman of XFunnel (acquired by HubSpot)
The Frameworks You Need to Navigate VCs and Raise Your Next Round
Portfolio Highlights
CoLab has announced a $72M funding round led by Intrepid Growth, Insight Partners, and Y Combinator.
CoLab is the AI-Powered Operating System that enables engineers to ideate, review, and make their most critical decisions effectively. CoLab brings your experts, collective knowledge, and AI agents together so decisions can be made quickly with context and confidence—getting life-changing products into the world years sooner. CoLab is trusted by leaders like Ford, GE, Johnson Controls, John Deere, and Schaeffler.
Datafold is the unified data-quality platform that helps data teams ship faster and with confidence. By combining proactive automated testing and observability, it prevents bad code and data issues before they reach production, integrating directly into development, migrations, and monitoring workflows.
Preql automates the hardest part of AI adoption: cleaning, reconciling, and contextualizing messy enterprise data. Their AI agents transform fragmented ERP, CRM, HR, and expense data into structured, auditable, AI-ready pipelines that scale across the enterprise.
P.S. Back in the Saddle
On a more personal note, as some of you may have seen from the videos I’ve been posting on LinkedIn, I’ve officially gotten back on the bike.
It’s been a journey—I took a few years off after a crash, and returning to the sport required overcoming some real mental hurdles. That experience is exactly why I’ve fallen in love with Get Into Geerz.
It is an incredible organization here in Israel that uses mountain biking as a therapeutic tool for children and teens. It’s not just about exercise; it’s about teaching kids how to navigate difficult terrain in life. I’ve signed up for their charity ride to support this mission.
If you’d like to cheer me on (and support kids conquering their own uphill battles), you can check out my fundraising page here. Thanks!
Who we are
Verissimo Ventures is a Pre-seed and Seed Venture Fund based in Israel and the US. We take a fundamentals-driven approach to early-stage investing. We work closely with founders to help them build the strongest, most fundamentally sound businesses with potential for explosive growth and a meaningful impact on the market.
We were founded in 2020 and are currently investing out of our third fund.