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Venn founders credit: DADA Studio Israeli housing rental platform Venn raises $52m

By owning the resident relationship, Venn helps housing operators unlock new revenue from services like insurance, credit, cellular, utilities, on-demand home services, maintenance, and more.

Prof. Amnon Shashua  credit: Nasdaq Nvidia joins $200m round raised by Shashua’s AI startup

Lightspeed led the round in Amnon Shashua’s AA-I Technologies, which develops AI agents and expert language models.

Wix Campus credit: Eyal Izhar Mangrove’s Israel partners launch new VC fund

As Mangrove Capital Partners closes its Tel Aviv office, Roy Saar and Itay Gil-Asulin have founded the 40RTY fund.

Exit credit: Shutterstock Itron buys Israeli startup Locusview for $525m

Locusview, which has developed a digital construction management platform, has only raised $75 million, according to PitchBook.

Ysrael Gurt  credit: Eyal Marilus Portrait: The haredi entrepreneur who wants to become ordinary

Ysrael Gurt taught himself programming while at yeshiva, and went on to co-found successful cyber company Reflectiz.

Eon founders Gonen Stein, Ron Kimchi, Ofir Ehrlich credit: Eon Cloud backup co Eon raising funds at $4b valuation

The company, founded less than two years ago, is in high demand for investment. The current round is led by US-Israeli investor Elad Gil.

Salesforce credit: Reuters Rafael Henrique Salesforce buys year-old Israeli startup for $100m

Doti has developed an AI-based “enterprise brain” that centralizes data and makes it accessible to workers.

Classiq founders credit: Eyal Toueg Israeli quantum computing co Classiq raises $40m

The company acts as the software foundation for practical, scalable quantum computing, spanning algorithm design, software optimization, deploying across the most advanced computing infrastructures.

Wonder Robotics Prodigy assault drone credit: Wonder Robotics Wonder Robotics to unveil innovative assault drone

The Israeli company has developed a first-person view drone capable of attacking both horizontally and vertically.

Sweet Security founders credit: Ben Itzhaki Israeli AI security co Sweet Security raises $75m

The company meets rapidly growing enterprise demand for real-time protection across the entire cloud, AI systems, and production environments.

Tenzai founders credit: PR Israeli AI cybersecurity co Tenzai raises $75m

The company is redefining penetration testing through autonomous, agentic AI.

Venture capital fund raising: Shutterstock - Pushish images Israeli VC fundraising back on the rise

After raising only $260 million in the first half of the year, Israeli venbture capital firms have announced $1.37 billion in new funds since the end of the war, IVC-Gornitzky-KPMG reports.

ironSource founders Omer Kaplan  and Tomer Bar-Zeev  credit: Gil Gibli Cosmetics and dog food meet AI

The founders of ironSource have an e-commerce startup that acquires pet food and cosmetics brands. Zyg Edge has raised over $40 million.

Majestic Labs cofounder and CEO Ofer Shacham credit: Tal Givoni AI server co Majestic Labs raises $100m to challenge Nvidia

The Israeli-US company, founded by senior Google and Meta chipmakers, provides 1,000 times more memory to each graphics processor.

Island founders Dan Amiga and Mike Fey credit: Antonio Delucci Browser security co Island opens second Israel R&D center

The 900 square meters center, is scheduled to open in November 2025 in BIG Glilot, and will join the company’s existing center in Tel Aviv.

Oren Zeev credit: Tamar Green Oren Zeev: A lone wolf venture capitalist

“Globes” speaks to the Israeli tech investor, who made an estimated $1 billion profit on Navan’s IPO, and has no partners, no employees and not even a personal assistant.

Mori Arkin  credit: Shalev Ariel Arkin group digital health arm raises $40m second fund

Arkin Digital Health is being rebranded as A-Squared Ventures, as it brings in more outside investors and operates more independently.

VAST Data management team credit: VAST Data Israeli co VAST Data wins $1.17b contract with CoreWeave

VAST Data will provide US artificial intelligence cloud giant CoreWeave with data storage services.

Pitango's team credit: Biana Caro Vitkin Pitango closes $300m for early-stage, healthcare VC funds

Pitango already holds the largest number of portfolio companies in Israel.

Armis Founders Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael credit: Armis Armis raises $435m at $6.1b valuation

The huge injection of funds into the Israeli cybersecurity company will allow it breathing space to prepare for its planned Wall Street IPO.

Zohran Mamdani credit: Ryan Murphy/Reuters Technion responds to New York mayor's threats

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani says he will reassess the joint Cornell University-Technion campus. Technion: The campus is an economic engine for New York City.

Carbyne founders credit: Nir Arieli US co Axon buys Carbyne for $625m cash

Carbyne manages the call centers and rescue operations of security services in the US, Mexico, and Israel.

Ronnie Zahavi, Haleli Barath, Ofer Katz  credit: Rami Zarnegar The fund that became a tech town square

Cerca Partners has attracted a long list of serial entrepreneurs as investors, making their experience available to a new generation.

Dollars credit: Shutterstock Israeli startups raised $650m in October

Israeli privately-held tech companies have raised $7.68 billion in the first ten months of 2025.

Weavy CEO and cofounder Lior Albeck credit: Figma Figma acquires Israeli startup Weavy for $200m

The US design software company will use the acquisition of the Israeli AI design workflows company as a base to develop its operations in Tel Aviv.

Viola Credit partners credit: Arik Sultan Viola Credit closes $2b asset-backed credit fund

The fund was oversubscribed and exceeded the initial target of $1.5 billion.

CyberRidge CEO Prof. Dan Sadot credit: CyberRidge CyberRidge raises $26m to thwart post quantum threat

The Israeli cybersecurity company has developed a photonic-based encryption layer for optical fiber networks that introduces a transformative approach to securing data in transit by making it disappear.

altshare founder and CEO Ronen Solomon Secondary rounds in tech sector make a comeback

More and more employees in Israel are becoming millionaires, even before the company is sold or goes public, Altshare reports.

Lightricks founders Itai Tsiddon, Yaron Inger, Zeev Farbman, Amit Goldstein, Nir Pochter credit: Eyal Merillus Lightricks laying off 85 in restructuring

The company will simultaneously recruit 30 AI specialists as it refocuses its business.

Joshua Kushner on cover of Forbes magazine credit: Forbes Brother of the more famous Jared

A major investor in Israeli startups, Joshua Kushner has quietly become one of the world’s most influential venture capitalists, leading the shift from Silicon Valley to New York through Thrive Capital.

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