Best Virtual Reality Companies in Israel
The 57 best Virtual Reality companies in Israel in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Mantis Vision.
Israel's Virtual Reality sector is smaller than you'd expect for a country this deep in deep-tech, but the $204M in disclosed funding across 57 tracked companies tells a real story about where the momentum sits. Mantis Vision leads the pack at $83M raised, with Lumus close behind at $57M, and those two alone account for the bulk of the capital. The rest of the field is scrappier: Replay Technologies at $26M, ByondXR at $7M, and then a long tail of early-stage bets. No unicorns yet, which I'd argue makes this one of the more honest snapshots of a sector still finding its ceiling.
The global backdrop is moving fast. The VR market was valued at roughly $17.2B in 2020, projected at a 29.5% CAGR, and the consolidation pressure is real: Meta's move on Within signaled how aggressively the platform giants are hoovering up immersive-tech IP. So where does that leave Israeli founders? Probably in the same place Israeli deep-tech always lands: building the component layer, the optics, the spatial compute, the things Sony and HTC need before they can ship. Hot themes this quarter include digital health consultation and analytics tooling, which tells you the sector's use-case map is broadening beyond gaming faster than most headlines suggest.
Our analysis of 50 Virtual Reality companies
$3.3b in tracked funding; 88% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2019.
Ranked: Best Virtual Reality companies in Israel
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mantis Vision Developer of 3D capturing technology for mobile devices or handheld scanners | $83M | 96 mo ago | Series D | Gur Bitan CEO | 2005 | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | 14 patents Structured-light 3D imaging and marker-based motion capture systems | — |
| 2 | Lumus Provider of optical displays for HMDs | $57M | 113 mo ago | Series C | Ari Grobman Ceo | 2000 | — | 2,059 patents Near‑eye waveguide displays and eye‑tracking optics for AR/VR head‑mounted systems | — |
| 3 | Replay Technologies Offers free dimensional 3D video broadcasting technology | $26M | 124 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 4 | 3DV Systems Developer of 3D video imaging technology | $15M | 235 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1997 | — | 32 patents 3D depth-sensing camera technology for imaging and measurement in industrial and medical applications | — |
| 5 | ByondXR Provider of an immersive AR, VR, and 360-degree content creation platform | $7M | 59 mo ago | Seed | Eran Galil Founder & CTO | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | — | — |
| 6 | HumanEyes 3D, animated content & display solutions | $6M | 286 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2000 | — | 73 patents Lenticular 3D imaging and printing technologies for depth‑adjusted, artifact‑reduced visual displays | — |
| 7 | Galigu VR Search engine for virtual reality content | $4M | 112 mo ago | Deadpooled | Ofir Hazan Co-Founder & CEO | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 8 | BioGaming 3D Virtual Reality games for Physiotherapy rehabilitation. | $4M | 140 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Dudi Klein Founder & CEO | 2011 | — | 20 patents Interactive motion‑tracked video‑game platforms for personalized physiotherapy and rehabilitation. | — |
| 9 | Leap gaming Independent game development studio | $835K | 49 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2015 | PHPBootstrapNew Relic+7 | — | — |
| 10 | Halo Virtual reality design platform | $500K | — | Early Stage | — | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Hypervision Developer of VR headsets | $272K | 37 mo ago | Seed | Arthur Rabner Co-Founder & CEO | 2020 | WixSentryBootstrap+10 | 6 patents Advanced optical lens designs for head‑mounted AR/VR displays | — |
Top 12 Virtual Reality companies in Israel
#1
Seed · Yokneam Illit, Northern District · founded 2020 · 6 employees$271.8Kraised▾
Developer of VR headsets. It develops extended reality headsets that have features like a full field of view, a Bionic hybrid lens, and integration into next-gen headsets. It enables users to have peripheral vision without turning their heads and prevents nausea while using it.
- Jun 2023Seed—
- Oct 2022Grant (prize money)$271.8K
#2
Acquired · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2015 · 50 employees$835.2Kraised▾
Leap Gaming is an independent game development studio that specializes in developing VR games. It develops VR games for mobile and console devices.
- Jun 2022Conventional Debt$267.2K
- Nov 2021Seed$506.8K
#3
Series D · Petah Tikva, Central District · founded 2005 · 50 employees$83Mraised▾
Mantis Vision is an Israeli company that develops software and hardware solutions to capture 3D content on mobile devices or handheld scanners. It uses its proprietary coded structured-light technology to enable a high resolution of 120K points and accuracy for lower MOS (minimal object size). Its software solution features depth sensing, auto-calibration, high-quality segmentation, VR/MR shading, data compression, and streaming. Its technology was used by Google for its 3D-sensing Project Tango smartphone. Applications are in the areas of automotive, CSI, military, among others.
- Jul 2018Series D$55M
- Jun 2015Series A$9.7M
- Jun 2014Series A$12.5M
#4
Seed · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2015 · 54 employees$7Mraised▾
Byond provides a platform that allows enterprises to create immersive AR, VR, and 360-degree content. Clientele includes Google, Coca-Cola, Turner, Samsung, McCann, HP, KT, and Amdocs. Features include real-time publishing and managing content, drag and drop predefined objects with no prior coding requirement, reports and analysis, allows uploading of existing 2D, 3D or 360-degree content, and enterprise-wide scalability. The platform and content is compatible with Android, iOS, Oculus, HTC Vive, and Daydream.
- Aug 2021Seed$7M
#5
Series C · Ness Ziona, Center District · founded 2000 · 63 employees$57Mraised▾
Lumus develops solutions for AR headsets that claims to give users information without interrupting their vision. Its offering LOE is a patented, ultra-thin lens technology that embeds mini-projector at temples of glass that take information from smartphones and projects into the side of LOE using coupling optics, which later appears as a virtual large screen to the user. Using its proprietary tech the company has developed its DK-Vision range of head-mounted displays namely, DK-51, and DK-52. Its DK-51 is a Snapdragon 820 powered HMD AR development kit that runs on Android Marshmallow 6.0. Partners are DAQRI, Quanta Computer and HTC among others.
- Jan 2017Series C$6M
- Dec 2016Series C$30M
- Jun 2016Series B$15M
- 2012Series B$6M
#6
Acquired · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2011 · 100 employees$26.5Mraised▾
Replay Technologies' proprietary freeD 3D video rendering format allows the viewer to experience the 3D view of sports events live. Combines virtual reality and augmented reality also. The patented data algorithms create 3D pixels of surface area to create a view in real-time.
- Feb 2016Series B$13.5M
- 2015Conventional Debt—
- 2014Conventional Debt—
- Jun 2014Series A—
#7
Acquired · Yokneam Illit, Northern District · founded 1997$15Mraised▾
Developer of 3D video imaging technology
- Dec 2006Series A$15M
#8
Deadpooled · Jerusalem, Jerusalem District · founded 2000 · 10 employees$6Mraised▾
HumanEyes Technologies provides photographic 3D and computer vision. It claims to have over 70 patents and uses mathematical algorithms to create unique projections and reconstruct multiple viewpoints which lead to the effect of viewing a scene from different directions. Its application includes lenticular printing and virtual reality solutions. Some of its global partners include Kodak, HP, Oce and Fuji Film, along with thousands of photographers, graphic artists, printers, etc.
- Aug 2002Series A$5M
- 2001Seed$1M
#9
Deadpooled · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2016$3.7Mraised▾
Galigu is developing a search engine for virtual reality content. Claims that users can search for VR content in VR environment allowing navigation through voice & hand gestures. Also, claims to provide most relevant & top-rated VR organic and sponsored content by connecting all the islands of VR content. Alumni of Startupbootcamp accelerator in 2016.
- Feb 2017Seed$2.5M
- Nov 2016Seed—
#10
Acqui-Hired · Petah Tikva, Central District · founded 2011 · 18 employees$3.7Mraised▾
BioGaming offers 3D Virtual Reality games for Physiotherapy rehabilitation. BioGaming is a patent-pending interactive e-Health platform for in-clinic and home use, providing cloud-based, professionally-managed physiotherapy exercise programs. The platform utilizes 3D sensors and machine learning algorithms to help physiotherapists and patients and aims to improve treatment compliance and quality of performance.
- Oct 2014Series A$3.7M
#11
Early Stage · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2016$500Kraised▾
Halo Labs provides a virtual reality design platform. Users can create VR prototypes using their own design files, images, and textures. These designs can be previewed in VR environment and shared with team members and customers.
#12
Seed · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2017 · 11 employees—raised▾
VR-based treadmill for elderly care. It enables improved mobility and reduced falling risks primarily among the elder population. Its patent-pending solution called V-TIME involves the trainee walking on the treadmill whose foot movement will be recorded by a motion capture camera. These images are then projected onto virtual environments displayed on a front screen which helps the trainee gradually advance through the adaptive motor and cognitive challenges.
- Feb 2023Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Virtual Reality coverage by sub-theme.
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How research on AR / VR / Metaverse is moving in Israel
A read on the academic research around AR / VR / Metaverse — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 155 Israel-affiliated papers.
- Tel Aviv University32
- University of Haifa21
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev20
- Bar-Ilan University19
- Sheba Medical Center19
- Virtual reality2→12
- Human–computer interaction1→7
- Augmented reality1→5
- Virtual reality8→39
- Augmented reality2→13
- Human–computer interaction3→11
- Perception1→6
- Psychological intervention1→4
- Virtual reality1→13
Where ar vr is researched across Israel
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.