Program Goal
To enhance fundability by helping founders articulate value, refine business models, address investor concerns, and craft U.S.-focused fundraising strategies.
Program Structure
A 4-month program with ~50 sessions featuring mentors, experts, industry leaders, and potential customers, culminating in U.S. showcase events.
The program is supporting the founders to shape, sharp and execute their Strategy, story, market focus, Go-To-Market plans, channels, and pricing, Fundraising strategy and data room, Operations & Talent – Design execution plans, team structure, and workflows.
Strategic Partnerships
We strategically partner within our focus areas to identify exceptional early-stage investment opportunities.
What sets up apart
Our multi-stage funding approach begins with Pre-Seed investments in our program companies, enabling us to build a robust portfolio of promising solutions we strategically back through our follow-on Ventures fund in subsequent rounds.
Venture Studio Experts
The Tonbo Ventures team of experts and professionals provides an immersive, hands-on approach to refining strategy, product, go to market , financials , product economics, scalability and growth, team building, market validation, pitch dry runs and fundraising strategy.
Industry Partners
Startups invited to our program engage with a network of industry partners who offer decades of market expertise to help refine products, access potential customer bases, and accelerate startups' journeys to market leadership.
Co-Investor Network
Our collective network of investors support startups in future fundraising rounds.
The process
Apply
Get selected
The program
Continuance support
We review applications on a rolling basis.
We back our program companies with Pre Seed funding. .
This is smart money - our investors are strategic market leaders who can be instrumental in your customer acquisition and future networking with investors.
Our extensive 16 week program offers hands-on business and operational support. It is designed to propel startups into their target markets, for customer acquisition and funding rounds.
Founders of participating startups participate in ~ 50 sessions, including group sessions, 1:1 meetings with mentors, professionals, inventors and potential customers.
The last week of the program brings founders to the US for the program conclusion and for their showcase event.
Our commitment extends beyond the program's duration: successful program companies are prime candidates for follow-on funding from our Ventures fund, and we continue to empower their growth with strategic guidance and key connections to investors and customers.
The Dragonfly:CA program
This program is focus on the California US market. On June 2025 the companies visit LA and SF for showcase events hosted by the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles and by our partners UP.Partners in SF.
