BRM
Overview
Israeli venture capital / investment firm. Family business in guy-barkat’s family — Guy’s father is owner / managing partner; Guy’s uncle Eran is a partner (the SaaS / hi-tech specialist, ~8 years younger than Guy’s father, “in the earlier part of his career” per Guy). Surfaced in 2026-05-27-directions-vertical-pivot-and-prediction-markets as a future intro pipeline for the directions exploration: the BRM partners frequently meet entrepreneurs across SaaS / hi-tech and could broker introductions where useful.
Relationships
- Family connection to guy-barkat; potential intro source for entrepreneurs and ideas in SaaS, hi-tech, and adjacent verticals.
- Also runs deal-flow review meetings (one was cancelled the morning of 2026-05-27 with no explanation — Guy plans to ask why).
Notes
- Guy’s framing in the meeting: “I’d hold off going to BRM directly — but it’s still the case my uncle is the partner who sees interesting hi-tech entrepreneurs, and we can ask him for warm intros under any reasonable pretext.”
- Eran (uncle) is positioned as junior partner — Guy explicit that the role is partly a function of family.
- 2026-06-13 update: meitav reportedly referred an unnamed context-AI startup to BRM after becoming a satisfied customer; Guy treated that reference as enough signal to investigate despite the startup’s generic deck.
- 2026-06-20 update: Guy said BRM is less useful for open-ended early brainstorming because the firm expects entrepreneurs to arrive with an interesting wedge rather than prescribing a theory of the world. VC input remains nice-to-have, behind direct user friction.
Mentioned in
- 2026-05-27-directions-vertical-pivot-and-prediction-markets — flagged as a future intro source; same meeting noted a cancelled BRM portfolio call.
- 2026-06-13-directions-revenue-cycle-and-construction-poc — deal-flow anecdote: Meitav-backed context-AI startup referred into BRM.
- 2026-06-20-directions-planning-the-week-18-30 — discussed as a limited source for early ideation compared with direct user interviews.