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SPARQL

Hetz's AI & Data Program for founders
ready to go from raw idea to first customers
A hands-on partnership with the Hetz team and the AI & Data Executive Network, for founders building what comes next in data and AI infrastructure.
Five stages
What you get
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Five stages.
One destination
SPARQL takes founders from raw ideas to a real first round, structured around what each stage actually needs.
1
Raw Idea

Stress-test against real demand and the technical leaders who'd be your first users.

2
Product Shape

Direct access to product and engineering leads at 50+ data and AI infrastructure companies.

3
Validation

Meet your first design partners. Not warm intros. Real enterprise buyers from the Hetz 50+ decision-maker network.

4
Funded

Hetz leads or co-leads at seed, while making introductions to US-based well-known angels and advisors to complement your bench.

5
GTM & Series A

Scale into Silicon Valley, with US enterprise sales and top-tier American VCs for your Series A.

What you get
A weekly cadence with Guy.
Direct sessions to shape the idea, pressure-test technical and commercial assumptions, and decide what to build first. 25 years inside the data and AI infrastructure companies founders today are trying to displace.
Your first design partners, not just your first check.
50+ VP and C-level executives across the US, Europe, and Israel. Active introductions from the people who trust Hetz to send them serious founders.
Roadmap visibility across the ecosystem.
The only Israeli VC inside the Tier 1 U.S. partner programs of Databricks, Snowflake, Confluent, Cloudflare, MongoDB, and Grafana,  plus working relationships across 16 more. We see where the ecosystem is heading before most people are asking the question.
~$1M in credits across the stack.
A combined pool of credits and discounts from 20+ data and AI infrastructure partners, negotiated exclusively for Hetz founders. Build without the infrastructure cost holding you back.
Built by proven operators
Guy Fighel

SPARQL is led by Guy Fighel, Partner & Head of Data & AI at Hetz Ventures. Guy co-founded SignifAI (acquired by New Relic), led data platform engineering and AI at New Relic post-acquisition, and has spent 25 years building data and AI infrastructure inside the companies founders today are trying to displace.

Itamar Mula

Itamar is a three-time exited technical founder. He brings pattern recognition on what it takes to go from zero to a company worth acquiring.

Chen Zvi

Chen is led large-scale, real-time data systems and applied AI initiatives in senior engineering roles before joining Hetz. She knows what serious data infrastructure looks like from the inside.

Meet the team
If you're at the ideation stage, talk to us
Read further documentation about the Hetz Data Program - SPARQL here, and fill in your details below if you're interested in getting involved.
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