Sass Somekh

Musea Ventures (Musea Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Sass Somekh and Talli Somekh. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Superbrewed Food, Inc. is a nutrition and health company that focuses on developing natural ingredients using an anaerobic fermentation process. The company is based in New Castle, DE. The company's products are made from microflora native to our microbiome, which delivers superior nutritional and functional benefits compared to other plant and microbial proteins. The company has developed and scaled up a natural, non-GMO fermentation process that produces two products - a microbial-protein and a natural butyrate. Superbrewed Food's protein is highly nutritious, non-allergenic, non-GMO, and versatile enough to create products ranging from protein-rich bars, non-dairy milks, ice cream, non-dairy cheese, and meat replacements. Initial consumer products are expected to launch in early 2022. The company was founded by Bryan Tracy, Talli Somekh, and Bryan Tracy has been the CEO since incorporation.

Novellus Systems, Inc. manufactures and services advanced automated wafer fabrication systems. The company was founded by Brad Mattson on April 11, 1984 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Designer Energy Ltd. develops scaleable technology to extract cheap, fermentable sugars from lignocellulosic feedstocks. It specializes in chemical engineering, enzymology, and microbiology areas. The company was founded by Talli Somekh in August 2008 and is headquartered in Rehovot, Israel.

Ampulse Corp. developed and manufactured solar cell solutions based on proprietary and patented crystalline-silicon (c-Si) thin-film technology. The company was founded on August 22, 2008 and was headquartered in Golden, CO.

HelioFocus Ltd. provides CSP solar thermal solutions. The firm’s products include Heliobooster and EnergiX(Stand-Alone). It offers HelioBooster, a steam augmentation solution that enables combined cycle or fossil fuel power plants to increase their electricity output and reduce their O&M and system costs, slash their levelized cost of energy, and enhance the environmental profile of their operations; and EnergiX for standalone power generation using a steam turbine. The company was founded by Ory Zik, Sass Somekh, David Banitt, Nissim Gilam, and Jacob Karni in 2007 and is headquartered in Ness Ziona, Israel.

Kateeva, Inc. manufactures production equipment for flat panel display products like OLEDs. The company was founded by Vladimir Bulovic, Martin A. Schmidt, Conor F. Madigan, Valerie Leblanc, Somekh Sasson and Gerry Chen in 2008 and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

Nanosys, Inc. develops and manufactures inorganic nanostructures and other related products. It offers Ultra HD television. The company was founded by Paul A. Alivisatos, Stephen Empedocles, Peidong Yang, Robert M. Metcalfe, Jim Heath, Paul McEuen, Christoph H. Westphal, Moungi Bawendi, Lawrence A. Bock, Calvin Y. H. Chow, Chunming Niu, Karen Vergura, Hongkun Park, George Pontis and Charles M. Lieber in 2001 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.