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Cisco is negotiating to acquire the Israeli cybersecurity company for $250-$300 million, “The Information” website reports.

The Israeli company brings together four physicists whose research spans decades at the forefront of neutral atom science.

Israeli privately-held tech companies have raised $3.1 billion in the first three months of 2026, according to IVC, after raising $10.7 billion in 2025.

Linx recently launched Linx Autopilot, an autonomous AI agent designed to fundamentally change how identity governance is managed.

Qodo’s platform has the ability to identify subtle logic errors, cross-file inconsistencies, and architectural violations while minimizing noise for developers.

The Israeli startup has developed a new category of Internet security management - Edge Security Management (ESM).

The Israeli startup autonomously and continuously manages and scales cloud and AI infrastructure in real time.

The figure is 34% higher than in the first quarter of 2025, but companies' strategic considerations in timing of announcements mean that it does not necessarily reflect wartime resilience.

The company, which is building a new clinical infrastructure designed to close one of healthcare’s most costly and overlooked gaps, the 30 days following hospital discharge, has raised $20 million to date.

Ron de Jesus has been appointed Chief Trust Officer and Head of Privacy Strategy by the Israeli startup.

Notch CEO Rafael Brosh: The insurance industry is beginning to understand the full potential of agentic AI.

“Globes” profiles defense-tech venture capital fund Kinetica general partner Frederic Landau, a former IDF intelligence commander, who seeks startups that “present a real technological leap.”

The Israeli cybersecurity company has positioned itself as a strong rival of cloud security company Wiz, now owned by Google, making it attractive to AWS and Microsoft.

NoTraffic transforms traditional traffic lights into software-defined infrastructure, effectively turning them into digital assets.

The Israeli company has developed a platform, which uses specialized AI investigators to continuously analyze behavior across identity, endpoint, SaaS, and AI environments.

The company addresses the central security challenge of the AI era – managing non-human identities and enabling control of AI agents' access to critical systems.

Native Security helps enterprises combat the new threat of AI-based attacks by fully exploiting cloud providers' existing security tools.

The company has developed an AI agent-based platform that continuously monitors all organizational assets, identifies anomalies in real time, and automatically activates remediation processes, under human supervision.

The company uses edge AI to transform endpoints from passive subjects of security monitoring into active agents.

Wonderful develops and deploys production-grade AI agents for enterprises in telecom, financial services, manufacturing, and healthcare.

The Israeli venture capital fund’s fifth fund will focus on startups developing the AI infrastructure layer.

The company is developing a platform that aims to give enterprises control and oversight over AI agents.

Wiz’s first investor Shardul Shah of Index Ventures tells “Globes” that products and markets change but extraordinary people like the Wiz team can adapt and rebuild.

Jazz CEO Ido Livneh: For years, security leaders have been stuck choosing between protecting their data and maintaining their business agility.

Tehran-born Zafran Security CEO Sanaz Yashar, a former Israeli army intelligence officer, is devoted to thwarting hackers in the AI era. She tells “Globes” about her childhood in Iran and hopes for the future.

The Israeli company’s platform identifies companies that market consumer products online that have commercial potential and provides them "With AI agent capabilities.

Cylake brings AI-native, data-driven protection to customers in a fully sovereign way with no public cloud required.

Private equity firms Apollo and Fortissimo have sought to lower the Israeli company’s valuation due to the decline in software stocks.

The Israeli startup has developed a platform that makes enterprise security operations resilient to constant change.

Sources tell “Globes” that some customers are not renewing contracts for the company’s flagship product and Gloat is performing a strategic pivot and developing products based on AI agents.