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VAST Data management team credit: VAST Data Vast Data $1b raise to be mainly a secondary offering

Most of the money the Israeli data storage management company is raising at a valuation of $30 billion will go to investors and employees, “Globes” has learned.

Elbit Systems Hermes UAV   credit: Elbit Systems Lowental Hybrid engines to extend missions of Elbit drones

The Israeli startup will provide Elbit Systems with electrical-hybrid motors that are suitable for tactical drones.

Ilya Sutskever credit: Cadya Levy Former SSI engineer founds AI startup in Tel Aviv

Shahar Papini is a co-founder of Attestable, a developer of technology to verify the authenticity of data in the AI era.

Tomorrow.io founders credit: PR Israeli weather satellite co Tomorrow.io raises $175m

The funds will be used to speed up deployment of DeepSky, an AI-native weather satellite constellation.

Orion Security team credit: PR Israeli startup Orion Security raises $32m

The AI-driven contextual data security has achieved rapid market penetration with tier-1 global customers.

Q.ai: Behind the $2b Apple acquisition

Israeli venture capitalist Eden Shochat tells the ‘science fiction’ story and inspired bet behind the Israeli startup that has become Apple’s second biggest-ever acquisition.

Falling US dollar  credit: Shutterstock Low shekel-dollar rate squeezes Israeli tech cos

With dollar capital and sales worth fewer shekels for paying salaries, companies face difficult manpower choices.

Dollars credit: Shutterstock Israeli startups raised $1.1b in January

Overall in 2025, Israeli privately-held tech companies raised $10.7 billion, according to IVC-LeumiTech, up from $9.58 billion in 2024 and $6.9 billion in 2023 but well below $15 billion raised in 2022, and the record $25.6 billion raised in 2021.

Aviad Maizels credit: YouTube screenshot Q.ai founders, employees share $1b from Apple exit

Aviad Maizels has pulled off the unique trick of selling two companies to Apple but this time with much greater financial success.

Adaptive6 founders credit: Eclipse Media Cloud costs savings co Adaptive6 raises $44m

The Israeli company claims the system is able to save between 15% and 35% of total cloud costs.

Prof. Matan Gavish credit: Yanai Yechiel Israeli co Factify raises $73m to make PDFs obsolete

Prof. Matan Gavish has raised a huge seed round to challenge Adobe’s 30 year old PDFs, with a more sophisticated digital format.

Investor signs MoU to buy BioProtect for $200m

The Israeli company has developed an implant to protect healthy tissue from radiation damage.

Memcyco cofounder and CEO Israel Mazin credit: Doron Latzer Israeli cybersecurity co Memcyco raises $37m

The company has developed a security platform that identifies and thwarts phishing attacks and account takeovers at an extremely early stage.

Amiram Shachar credit: Upwind Upwind Security raises $250m, becomes unicorn

The Israeli company has developed a comprehensive cloud security platform using a unique approach, powering traditional CNAPP capabilities with runtime context.

PayPal headquarters  credit Shutterstock PayPal buying Israeli startup Cymbio

Market sources estimate the acquisition price for the dropship automation company at $150-200 million.

Claroty CEO Yaniv Vardi crerdit: Docoart Cybersecurity co Claroty raises $200m at over $3b valuation

The funds include a secondary round of up to $50 million after the Israeli company, which protects critical infrastructures, has delayed a planned IPO.

Defense-tech credit: Shutterstock Defense Ministry orders boost Israeli startups

2025 was highly successful for defense startups in Israel, which won orders worth NIS 1.08 billion, about 25% of which came from foreign customers.

Datarails founders credit: Shani Zidkiyahu Israeli financial planning co Datarails raises $70m

Datarails has developed a software for Excel users, which it claims, transforms the CFO’s office.

Deep33 team credit: Ohad Kab Deep33 Ventures launches $150m deep tech fund

The US-Israel fund has closed the first $100 million and will invest in companies developing critical technologies for infrastructures in the US and its allies.

Starling UAV credit: Kela Israeli defense-tech co Kela teams with Starling on drones

As part of the agreement, Kela will receive exclusive rights to sell, integrate and deploy Starling's Pathfinder X autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system in the IDF.

Amit Chen Private photograph Tipalti laying off dozens of employees

The fintech company is not publishing the number of employees included in the layoff process, but according to industry estimates, it is more than 100 employees.

Ilan Yeshua credit: Eyal Izhar It’s never too late to be an entrepreneur

At 64, in the midst of giving evidence in the Netanyahu corruption trial, former Walla! CEO Ilan Yeshua cofounded Seraphic Security, acquired this week by Crowdstrike.

Cast AI founders and president credit: PR Vintage VC fund investment Cast AI achieves unicorn status

Based in Miami and with a development center in Tel Aviv, Cast AI develops software that manages the use of graphics processors (GPUs).

Novee founders credit: PR Israeli AI offensive security co Novee raises $51.5m

Novee provides continuous, AI-driven penetration testing, simulating the sophisticated tactics of real-world hackers.

VAST Data management team credit: VAST Data VAST Data more than doubling valuation in new raise

The Israeli data storage management company is raising $1 billion at a valuation of $25 billion, together with a secondary round in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Dr. Ziv Preis, Gary Copelovitz, Eyal Peled, and Yaron Ben Horin credit: Gal Cohen Record US interest in Israeli defense-tech innovations

A panel from Lipa & Co., Greenberg Traurig and Valley Bank examined the expansion of defense-tech companies into the US, exploring risks and focusing on opportunities and strategic considerations.

Converge Bio team credit: Omer Hacohen Israeli AI drug discovery co Converge Bio raises $25m

Over a dozen pharma and biotech customers already use Converge's solutions for target discovery, antibody design, and protein manufacturing optimization.

Ilan Yeshua credit: Eyal Izhar Crowdstrike buys Israeli co Seraphic Security for $420m

Seraphic Security is engaged in browser security and has developed a complementary product to Crowdstrike's endpoint protection system.

AI21 Labs founders Amnon Shashua, Yoav Shaham and Ori Goshen credit: Omer Hacohen AI21 Labs denies Nvidia acquisition talks

Following media reports on an acquisition of the Israeli AI company by Nvidia, AI21 Labs insists the reports are incorrect.

Dr. Pini Orbach credit: Shalev Ariel Arkin raises $100m for early-stage biotech fund

The main investors in Arkin Bio Ventures III together with Arkin Capital are Israeli institutional investors including Phoenix Finance, Clal Insurance, and Amitim pension fund.

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