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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 647

Israeli startups

Israel’s Cyberstarts launches $300 million fund to help startups retain top talent
By Sharon Wrobel
Founded by tech veteran Gili Raanan, the VC firm says it will allow employees to cash out some of their vested shares without leaving the company; the fund was an early investor in Wiz
For illustration: Workers in a startup.(Vadim_Key; iStock by Getty Images)
Israeli fintech startup Melio is the developer of a payments platform geared toward small and medium-sized US businesses. (Courtesy)
New Zealand’s Xero to snap up Israeli fintech startup Melio for up to $3 billion
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative: Employees work inside the offices of the Bezeq telecoms firm in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona near the border with Lebanon on February 22, 2024. - The deadly exchanges of fire between Israel and Lebanon have prompted most people in communities on both sides of the heavily fortified border to leave but some employees of the firm have decided to stay. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
Despite ongoing war, investments in Israeli startups hit three-year high
By Sharon Wrobel
Farmer Dudu Argaman (right) and his wife Bat-sheva stand in front of their house and orchard of mango trees in Moshav Almagor in northern Israel. (Courtesy)
Inside StorySmall businesses struggle to stay afloat as damages from two wars deepen
By Sharon Wrobel
For illustration: Workers in a startup.(Vadim_Key; iStock by Getty Images)
July 10, 2025, 10:41 pm
Israel’s Cyberstarts launches $300 million fund to help startups retain top talent
Founded by tech veteran Gili Raanan, the VC firm says it will allow employees to cash out some of their vested shares without leaving the company; the fund was an early investor in Wiz
By Sharon Wrobel
Farmer Dudu Argaman (right) and his wife Bat-sheva stand in front of their house and orchard of mango trees in Moshav Almagor in northern Israel. (Courtesy)
July 4, 2025, 11:17 am
Small businesses struggle to stay afloat as damages from two wars deepen
Social lender is helping businesses on the brink of financial collapse receive loans and stay above water after 20 months of war, while government compensation is slow and insufficient
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative: Employees work inside the offices of the Bezeq telecoms firm in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona near the border with Lebanon on February 22, 2024. - The deadly exchanges of fire between Israel and Lebanon have prompted most people in communities on both sides of the heavily fortified border to leave but some employees of the firm have decided to stay. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
July 1, 2025, 4:30 pm
Despite ongoing war, investments in Israeli startups hit three-year high
Local tech firms raised $9.3 billion in capital in the first six months of 2025 as foreign investor participation in funding rounds rose
By Sharon Wrobel
Israeli fintech startup Melio is the developer of a payments platform geared toward small and medium-sized US businesses. (Courtesy)
June 25, 2025, 5:32 pm
New Zealand’s Xero to snap up Israeli fintech startup Melio for up to $3 billion
Based in Tel Aviv, Melio is the developer of a platform that seeks to make paying and getting paid electronically less of a burden to small and medium-sized businesses
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative image of a Wix-made app. (Courtesy/Wix)
June 19, 2025, 4:24 pm
Six-month old Israeli startup is bought up by website builder Wix for $80 million
Bootstrapped startup Base44 is the developer of an AI-based platform that lets users build apps with no coding experience, by writing a text prompt, similar to ChatGPT interface
By Sharon Wrobel
CaPow has designed thin charging pad 'stickers' to wirelessly power automated robots on the move. (Screenshot)
June 6, 2025, 5:20 am
How an injured IDF veteran-turned-professor is creating perpetual power for robots
CaPow startup founder Mor Peretz has created a way to provide machines with a ‘sip of energy’ as they move across warehouses and factories, eliminating the need to stop and charge
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative. Cybersecurity technology. (Stock Depot via iStock by Getty Images)
June 4, 2025, 8:57 pm
11 Israeli startups dominate list of most promising global cybersecurity firms
The startups make up more than one-third of Notable Capital’s ‘Rising in Cyber 2025’ list of 30 companies solving the most urgent challenges facing security teams
By Sharon Wrobel
An illustration of the Wix.com ecommerce platform in action (Courtesy)
May 23, 2025, 4:17 pm
Website builder Wix buys Israeli startup to ramp up GenAI video creation tools
Tel Aviv-based Hour One, set up in 2019, is a developer of software that turns text-based content into videos with computer-generated characters based on real people
By Sharon Wrobel
Founders (right to left) of Israeli quantum software startup Classiq: Nir Minerbi, Amir Naveh, and Dr. Yehuda Naveh. (Courtesy of Eyal Toueg)
May 12, 2025, 5:23 pm
Tel Aviv startup pulls in $110 million to become the ‘Microsoft of quantum computing’
Classiq has built a software platform to facilitate programming for quantum computers, which have the massive computational horsepower needed to address complex real-world problems
By Sharon Wrobel
Jeff Horing, co-founder and managing director of New York-based venture capital firm Insight Partners, (left), during a visit at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science, on May 6, 2025. (Courtesy of Insight Partners)
May 6, 2025, 11:20 pm
On Israel visit, Wiz investor commits to back local entrepreneurs and startups
New York-based venture firm Insight Partners, which opened its Tel Aviv office in 2019, has invested close to $6 billion in the Israeli tech ecosystem over the past two decades
By Sharon Wrobel
Ignite DeepTech accelerator for young startups launches first cohort, April 2025. (Courtesy)
April 27, 2025, 11:59 pm
Intel-backed accelerator kicks off first cohort for Ignite startup program in Israel
Ignite DeepTech, a project to foster and grow young companies, selects 10 startups in areas of cybersecurity, biotech, and road safety to participate in new initiative
By Sharon Wrobel
Dr. Alan Bekker, co-founder and CEO of Israeli AI startup eSelf. (Courtesy)
April 24, 2025, 3:51 am
Israel rolls out pilot for students to learn with conversational avatar companions
eSelf partners with the Center for Educational Technology for every student to have access to a private AI tutor that can respond to questions by using images and videos in lessons
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative: A Boeing 787 aircraft seen during final assembly production in Charleston, South Carolina, August 4, 2022. (BOEING / AFP)
April 22, 2025, 9:01 pm
Israeli startup sues ex-CEO for fraud, and allegedly forging contracts using ChatGPT
Promai accuses Erez Ben-Eshay of fabricating fake contracts with giants like Boeing and Tesla, posing as a pilot and romancing the founder to defraud the company
By Sharon Wrobel
By chance, reserve combat paramedic David Citron (middle) runs into decade-long friend Alan Buch, a New York-based venture capitalist, at the Zikim crossing bordering the Gaza Strip, in December 2023. (Courtesy)
April 21, 2025, 4:47 pm
$35 million VC fund launches thanks to reservist’s chance encounter on the Gaza border
Israeli investor David Citron bumped into NY-based venture capitalist Alan Buch while serving in the Israel-Hamas war. Their resulting fund for startups born in combat launches Monday
By Sharon Wrobel
A television screen displays market news at the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square, New York City on April 9, 2025. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
April 17, 2025, 11:16 pm
Israeli tech firms in US spared the worst of Trump tariffs, insiders say
Most Israel-founded companies sell software, which is exempt from administration’s levies, but the broader impact affects firms’ investments and markets
By Luke Tress
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