Tech

Israeli high-tech is undergoing a transformation as entrepreneurs increasingly launch companies in the U.S. and reliance on foreign capital grows. Noam Kanty of EY notes that the industry has become a complex ecosystem facing new challenges.

American defense tech firm Ondas continues its Israeli expansion by acquiring Aran Defense for 100 million shekels. The deal will be settled through Ondas shares.

Foodtech company Ever After Foods, controlled by Israeli biotech giant Pluri, is acquiring the Belgian firm Fishway and securing a $2 million strategic investment to scale its cultivated protein production platform.

In the last two weeks, one word has been driving Wall Street and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange crazy: photonics. New funds are raising millions with the promise that light will replace electricity. But from in-depth checks I conducted, a surprising picture emerges.

The former head of the Mossad, who served as the manager of Israeli operations, will expand his powers to the international arena and will work closely with SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son and senior management. He will focus on the fund's new areas of activity: financing and developing server farms for AI processing and cloud computing, and investing in chip companies.

Israeli startup Xpander, founded by former AWS employees, has raised $7.5 million. The company has developed a platform for managing AI agents, providing security and flexibility without vendor lock-in.

Pentera notified 60 of its employees - half of them in Israel - that they will be laid off. The reason: "Preparing for the rapid changes occurring in the market against the backdrop of the dramatic growth and adoption of artificial intelligence capabilities." Earlier this year, it was reported that the company laid off 40 employees.

After nearly a decade at Nvidia as the company's sales manager in Israel, Nati Amsterdam will step into the shoes of Alon Haimovich, who recently resigned from Microsoft Israel.

DoiT is acquiring the startup Attribute, which developed a solution for monitoring AI and cloud costs, in a deal estimated at $65 million — its fifth acquisition in less than two years. The company, which has 30 employees, was founded in 2023 by veterans of Unit 81, Itzhak Zimmerman and Liad Trop.

DoiT, a cloud cost optimization firm, is acquiring the Israeli startup Attribute for approximately $65 million. The deal aims to enhance corporate visibility into AI and cloud infrastructure spending.

The Israeli fintech company Be The Bank (BTB) is investing 7 million shekels in zipper, the delivery and logistics management platform of the Katz Group. As part of the deal, which is being carried out at a valuation of approximately 40 million shekels, BTB will acquire about 19% of the company's shares.

The chip giant is raising capital to increase investments in its operations, a move that comes against the backdrop of attempts to strengthen its position in the global chip market.

PR expert Rani Rahav was not indifferent to the story of high-tech entrepreneur Maor Shlomo, who sold his company Base44 to Wix for $80 million after about 400 days of reserve duty. What caused Rahav to publicly salute him, and what does the entrepreneur think about academic studies?

Maor Shlomo is the new face of Israeli high-tech: a solo founder who achieved an $80 million exit in just six months. In a candid interview, he discusses sleepless nights, his skepticism toward academic degrees, the tragic loss of his mother, and his mission to use AI to fight cancer.

Maor Shlomo, founder of Base44, which was sold to Wix for $80 million, explains how he believes artificial intelligence is changing the job market and what young people should do.

The deal for Anthropic to acquire the Israeli company Decart is nearing completion. The company is valued at approximately $7 billion, with the majority of the consideration to be paid in Anthropic shares.

The technology developed following the Apache helicopter disaster in the IDF will undergo a dramatic test on a military aircraft of the American aviation giant, in a move that could lead to the built-in integration of the system directly from the production lines.

Nvidia revealed that its stake in SpaceX, the space company of Elon Musk, was worth about $21 billion at the end of the second quarter. The chipmaker holds 122.8 million class A shares of the company.

Yokneam Mayor Roman Peres does not view the chip giant Nvidia's decision to build its new campus in nearby Kiryat Tivon as a loss for the city. He presents an ambitious vision for Yokneam's development over the next decade, including the construction of over 14,000 housing units and large-scale urban renewal projects.

The company Next Vision announced the receipt of an order from an existing client for the supply of cameras and other products. The deal, worth approximately $5.6 million, will be fully supplied by the end of 2026.

The founder of Wiz, who brought about the $32 billion exit, is shifting his center of gravity from the cyber world to mega-deals in media, social networks, and retail that touch every home in Israel.

Odysight.ai's technology, based on computer vision and predictive maintenance, will be demonstrated at the American aircraft manufacturer's test sites. The agreement expands the company's operations, whose developments are already installed on IDF combat helicopters and are being tested by the US Navy.

OpenAI announced the departure of Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser less than a year after she joined. She will be replaced by Dali Rajic, former president and COO of the Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz.

The technology giant Alphabet, Google's parent company, is known primarily for its dominant search engine and cloud services. However, an official report recently filed by the company with US authorities reveals that it also functions as a prominent investor in the market. The report presents for the first time the scope of Google's investment in Elon Musk's aerospace company SpaceX, which has...

LTX, a company born from the planned split of Lightricks, is launching a new video model for training robots. In an interview with Globes, CEO Dr. Zeev Farbman explains the activity and who it will help: "We want to build the expensive part, so that startups in the field have a base to work with."

Winners of the MerageNext 2025 competition will receive grants, mentoring, and access to the Innovation Bridge program in California.

Jeff Dean, one of Google's most renowned engineers, has left the company after 27 years and is already generating significant buzz in Silicon Valley. Dean is in advanced talks to raise $1 billion for his new startup, Discovery Loop. The planned fundraising round is expected to value the company at approximately $10 billion, an exceptionally high figure for a startup at such an early stage.

There is quite a bit of synergy between the two companies that makes the potential acquisition deal a logical step: while Anthropic holds the largest market share in the field of code generators, Decart's models, which are capable of making decisions, planning tasks, analyzing the environment, and understanding language, could help Anthropic enter worlds where it is less dominant. And this is not...

The developer of the Claude AI models is in talks to acquire the Israeli company Decart, founded by Unit 8200 alumni. If completed, the deal would be one of the largest exits in Israeli high-tech history. Earlier reports suggesting Elon Musk's interest in the company were denied by the billionaire.

Aero Sentinel is shifting to mass production after an Iranian missile destroyed its factory, forcing a relocation to Tel Aviv. The goal is to replace Chinese products within the IDF. The company's VP calls it a "strategic necessity."

Israeli startup Remepy has raised $36 million in a Series A funding round. The company is developing "hybrid drugs" that combine traditional medication with digital code to enhance treatment efficacy.

Remepy has raised $36 million in a Series A funding round. The startup develops hybrid drugs that combine prescription medication with AI-based therapeutic applications.

Israeli technology company Stratasys has been awarded $7.8 million by the US Department of Defense and America Makes to advance 3D printing quality control.

Swedish AI startup Lovable has completed a $400 million funding round, reaching a valuation of $13.3 billion. This marks a significant increase from the $6.6 billion valuation recorded in December of last year.

According to a new report by PitchBook, Israel leads the global ranking in the number of exits per capita, outperforming the USA and the UK. The country also shows strong results in investment attraction and AI sector development.

$265 million will be invested in young companies at the seed and Series A stages, including in the fields of software infrastructure and artificial intelligence, and more than $100 million is intended for follow-on investments in portfolio companies. The new fund has already recorded its first exit with the sale of Koi Security to Palo Alto Networks for approximately $400 million.

Unframe CEO and co-founder Shay Levi explains how abandoning rigid planning to focus on solving specific customer problems helped the company reach $100 million in TCV within a year.

AI developer Manus will return to independent operations after the Chinese regulator ordered Meta to cancel its approximately $2 billion acquisition deal.

The startup Attestable has raised $20 million in a seed round to develop AI verification technologies. The team of mathematicians is building tools that allow for proving the correctness of computations without exposing sensitive data.

Just three months after the previous round, Globes has learned that the Israeli AI company has launched a massive round at double the valuation. Insight Partners is expected to lead the move and is looking for additional partners alongside it. In the background is a surge in revenue run rate, which is aimed at $100 million by the end of the year.