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Left: Founders of US-Israeli cyber unicorn Wiz (from left to right): VP Product Yinon Costica, CEO Assaf Rappaport, CTO Ami Luttwak, and VP R&D Roy Reznik. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv); Google Cloud offices in Sunnyvale, California, on June 8, 2023. (JHVEPhoto/iStock)
March 11, 2026, 7:03 pm
In biggest exit in Israeli history, Google completes $32 billion deal to buy Wiz
With the Wiz purchase, Google wants to bolster its AI cyber offerings to compete in the cloud race against global tech giants; deal to inject an estimated $3.2b into state coffers
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative: Hand holding AI agents' virtual interface with data analytics, automation, and machine learning icons. (iStock by Getty Images/Suchat longthara)
February 11, 2026, 6:56 pm
Dutch-based Nebius buys Israeli startup that connects AI agents to the web
Founded about a year ago, Tavily is the developer of a web search infrastructure layer for autonomous agents, as businesses adopt AI agents into workloads to perform complex tasks
By Sharon Wrobel
Team at Israeli-founded cybersecurity startup Upwind Security. (Courtesy)
January 26, 2026, 5:14 pm
Israeli-founded cyber startup raises $250m, attains unicorn status at $1.5b valuation
Upwind is the developer of a cloud security platform to protect software systems in real time from cyber attacks, as companies shift workloads to the cloud and adopt AI apps
By Sharon Wrobel
Founders of Israeli defense tech startup Kela Technologies (from left to right): Jason Manne, Hamutal Meridor, Alon Dror, and Omer Bar-Ilan. (Courtesy Kela)
September 28, 2025, 7:44 pm
Defense tech firm Kela buys AI startup to bolster platform for modern battlefield
In its first acquisition, Kela buys Pelanor to expand its OS, which helps militaries integrate commercial technology like artificial intelligence into defense systems
By Sharon Wrobel
Founders of US-Israeli cyber unicorn Wiz from left to right: VP Product Yinon Costica, CEO Assaf Rappaport, CTO Ami Luttwak, and VP R&D Roy Reznik. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv)
August 7, 2024, 11:58 pm
Backed by SoftBank investment, Wiz pushes plans for expansion in Asia
Japanese investment giant invests in Israeli-founded cloud security unicorn as cloud spending is projected to increase over the coming years in Asia
By Sharon Wrobel
Nice CEO Barak Eilam. (CRC Media)
May 16, 2024, 9:28 pm
Nice’s Barak Eilam to step down as CEO after decade-long tenure
Eilam, who joined cloud-based software-provider in 1999, will stay in office until year’s end, help find a successor
By Sharon Wrobel
An illustrative image of a cloud concept for data. (Arkadiusz Warguła via iStock by Getty Images)
May 15, 2024, 9:19 pm
Israel data storage startup raises $140m, attains ‘unicorn’ status at $1.6b valuation
Nvidia-backed Weka is a developer of a software-based platform to help businesses manage AI workloads that demand massive volumes of data and computing power
By Sharon Wrobel
An illustrative photo of a hacking concept. (Sergey Shulgin on iStock via Getty Images)
September 19, 2023, 7:29 pm
US cyber giant CrowdStrike snaps up Israeli-founded cloud security startup Bionic
Company has developed a ‘Google Maps’ security platform to help businesses protect their software applications from cyber threats
By Sharon Wrobel
The Amazon logo in Santa Monica, California, September 6, 2012. (Reed Saxon/AP)
August 3, 2023, 5:10 pm
Amazon to invest $7.2b in Israel as it rolls out local cloud data region
US online tech giant launches AWS Israel region with cloud data centers in the country; investment is estimated to add about $13.9 billion to Israel’s GDP through 2037
By Sharon Wrobel
Israeli startup Wing Cloud creates a single programming language model designed for cloud applications. (Courtesy)
July 18, 2023, 4:31 pm
Israeli startup Wing Cloud emerges from stealth with $20 million in funding
Led by former software engineers at Amazon and Microsoft, Wing Cloud launches a single programming language model to simplify the complexity of cloud applications
By Sharon Wrobel
Anat Halgoa Solomon, co-founder and CEO of Saturas showcases the Israeli startup's smart sensor-based precision irrigation system at Microsoft's booth at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco in March, 2023. (Courtesy)
May 4, 2023, 6:41 pm
Microsoft partners with Start-Up Nation Central to tap Israeli agrifood tech
US tech giant to help bring local agritech to the next level; Israeli startups work with Microsoft teams and showcase their technologies to the global marketplace
By Sharon Wrobel
The R&D center of Dropbox in the Azrieli Sarona Tower in Tel Aviv, May 15, 2018 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)
April 30, 2023, 4:38 pm
US cloud storage giant Dropbox to close R&D operations, leave Israel
Cloud storage provider will lay off about 50 people, mostly engineers, in Tel Aviv office, as part of global cutback
By Sharon Wrobel
NICE Ltd. CEO Barak Eilam. (CNBC/screenshot)
January 17, 2023, 7:34 pm
CEO warns judicial overhaul plan threatens Israel’s position as a business hub
Barak Eilam, head of the NIS 44 billion cloud computing software firm Nice, says businesses have a fiduciary duty to invest in countries with independent judiciary
By Sharon Wrobel
In this Oct. 3, 2018, file photo the Intel logo appears on a screen at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York's Times Square. (AP/Richard Drew)
March 31, 2022, 5:12 pm
Intel to buy Israeli computing tech startup Granulate for reported $650m
US chip giant says purchase will help cloud and data center customers maximize performance, reduce costs; deal is Intel’s 7th acquisition of an Israeli company since 2016
By Ricky Ben-David
Amazon Web Services advertisement on an underground platform at a New York City subway station (krblokhin; iStock by Getty Images)
June 12, 2021, 10:49 pm
Amazon Web Services to open data centers in Israel in 2023
Tech firm announces plan a few weeks after Jewish state signs billion-dollar cloud-based services deal with the company and Google
By ToI Staff
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