Alexa Fund

Alexa Fund is the corporate venture capital arm of Amazon, launched in June 2015 with hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in AI, voice technology, robotics, and hardware startups. As a subsidiary of Amazon, the Alexa Fund operates under the same corporate structure named complicit in Israeli apartheid and genocide by the 2025 UN Human Rights Council report A/HRC/59/23. Amazon provides cloud infrastructure to the Israeli occupational forces through the $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract and launched the AWS Israel Region with a $7.2 billion investment commitment through 2037.

Israeli Portfolio Investments

The Alexa Fund has actively invested in Israeli voice technology startups:

Voiceitt, a Tel Aviv-based speech recognition company, received Alexa Fund investment after participating in the 2018 Alexa Accelerator program.

Kardome, an Israeli voice AI startup based in Ramat Hasharon, graduated from the Alexa Next Stage accelerator program.

Sources:

• +972 Magazine ‘No restrictions’ and a secret ‘wink’: Inside Israel’s deal with Google, Amazon
• Amazon Developer Blog Alexa Next Stage, Powered by Techstars Welcomes a New Class of Startups Innovating with Voice
• Times of Israel Amazon to invest $7.2b in Israel as it rolls out local cloud data region
• Times of Israel Voiceitt launches speech recognition app for people with disabilities
• UN Human Rights Council A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide

Portfolio Companies & Investments