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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Nov. 19, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Nov. 19, 2024 “Women need role models and communities to succeed. Then we’ll see more female entrepreneurs.” Hilla Ovil-Brenner, CEO and founder of the Yazamiyot organization, a platform
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Nov. 12, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Nov. 12, 2024 “Laser technology is a true game-changer. There are applications we haven’t yet conceived of.” Brigadier General Ran Kochav, former commander of the Israeli Air Missile Defense
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Nov. 5, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Nov. 5, 2024 Wiz eyeing Dazz acquisition in deal worth hundreds of millions. The cybersecurity giant is considering acquiring Israeli startup Dazz, which provides AI-powered cloud security remediation.
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Oct. 15, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Oct. 15, 2024 Venture capitalists turn Miami into a hub for Israeli startups. As Calcalist’s Tech & Invest Conference approaches on November 13-15, CTech connects with investors Ed Sim, founder of B
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Oct. 8, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Oct. 8, 2024 Governments come and go – Israeli tech is here to stay. In the year since Hamas’ October 7th attacks on Israel, while the state’s political leadership has failed and 101 hostages re
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Sept. 25, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Sept. 25, 2024 Cyber startup Torq’s $70M funding pushes 2024 total to $112M amid triple-digit growth. The Israeli startup has seen revenue growth of over 3x for the second consecutive year and expects t
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Sept. 18, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Sept. 18, 2024 Palo Alto Networks’ Nir Zuk: “We have overpaid for companies, but unique companies will get what they deserve.” “We prefer acquisitions. The reason we prefer acquisitions is because
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Sept. 5, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Sept. 5, 2024 “The results speak for themselves. Israel will remain at the center of Intel’s global efforts.” Zohar Tsaba, Vice President of the Client Computing Group at Intel and the head of i
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Aug. 28, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Aug. 28, 2024 Intel’s layoff plan enters new phase after voluntary retirement program closes. With initial retirements complete, Intel focuses on additional layoffs and operational scaling. Read mor
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Aug. 21, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Aug. 21, 2024 Johnson & Johnson to acquire Israeli medical device maker V-Wave for up to $1.7 billion. V-Wave’s device is implanted in the heart through a minimally invasive procedure to help reduce
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Aug. 14, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Aug. 14, 2024 Healthcare fintech PayZen raises $32M Series B and $200M in debt. The Israeli startup has developed a fintech platform that allows hospitals to receive payment in advance for medical treatme
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Aug. 7, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Aug. 7, 2024 Placer.ai raises $75M at $1.5B valuation, reaches $100M in ARR. The foot traffic analytics platform increased its valuation by 50% after tripling its ARR and quadrupling its customer base. Re
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Aug. 1, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Aug. 1, 2024 Intel to layoff thousands of employees in latest round of cutbacks. According to a Bloomberg report, the chip company could present the plan as early as this week. Read more Fiverr publishes
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News July 24, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News July 24, 2024 From IPO dreams to CrowdStrike’s crisis: Inside the collapse of the Wiz-Google mega deal. The timing of CEO Assaf Rappaport’s announcement that Wiz was walking away from the Google d
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CTECH Israeli Latest Innovation & Technology News July 9, 2024
CTECH Israeli Latest Innovation & Technology News July 9, 2024 Cider Security founder nets $28M in Seed funding for stealth cyber startup. Less than two years after selling Cider to Palo Alto Networks in a $300 million deal, Guy Flechter has raised a sign
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CTECH Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News May 29, 2024
CTECH Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News May 29, 2024 Remember your ICQ number? The story behind how the messaging platform gave birth to startup nation. In a month, after 28 years of activity, the ICQ messaging platform will be shut down. Its sa
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CTECH Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News May 21, 2024
CTECH Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News May 21, 2024 CyberArk makes bold move with $1.54 billion acquisition of Venafi. The Israeli company is purchasing the machine identity management company from Thoma Bravo as it looks to combine Venafi’s
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CTECH Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News May 11, 2024
CTECH Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News May 11, 2024 Israel’s Generative AI expansion: A 2024 market overview. The local GenAI landscape now covers 27 categories, a significant expansion from 17 previously, featuring a total of 238 compani
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News May 1, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News May 1, 2024 Cyber startup Island doubles valuation to $3 billion in $175 million Series D. Island raised $100 million at a $1.5 billion valuation just six months ago. Read more The Wiz effect? Cybe
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News April 19, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News April 19, 2024 Cyber decacorn Wiz in advanced negotiation to acquire Lacework for $150-200 million. The companies recently signed a Letter of Intent and are now in the midst of a comprehensive due diligen
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News April 9, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News April 9, 2024 Foreign investors active in Israeli tech plummet by 23%: Troubling trend or temporary setback? In the six months since the outbreak of the war, the number of foreign investment entities acti
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CTECH Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News April 3, 2024
CTECH Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News April 3, 2024 AI chip unicorn Hailo raises another $120 million to bring GenAI to edge devices. The Israeli startup, which took its total funding to $340 million, also announced the Hailo-10, its newest AI
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CTECH: Israel’s Latest Innovation & Technology News Mar. 14, 2024
CTECH: Israel’s Latest Innovation & Technology News Mar. 14, 2024 Cyber decacorn Wiz acquiring Gem Security for $350 million. Israeli startup Gem, which has developed a Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) platform, has raised $34 million to date. Rea
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CTECH: Israel’s latest Innovation & Technology News Mar. 7, 2024
CTECH: Israel’s latest Innovation & Technology News Mar. 7, 2024 CrowdStrike acquiring cyber startup Flow Security in $200 million deal. Founded in 2021, the Israeli startup, which develops a cloud data runtime security solution, has raised just $13
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Feb. 28, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Feb. 28, 2024 Exodigo adds $105 million in new funding to modernize underground mapping. Combining multiple types of powerful sensors, 3D imaging, cloud computing simulations and a proprietary AI platform
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Feb. 21, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Feb. 21, 2024 Back to New York: Who’s who at Calcalist’s Mind the Tech 2024 conference. The best of Israel’s dynamic high-tech industry and American business leaders will come together on March 4th
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Feb. 14, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Feb. 14, 2024 HR unicorn HiBob acquiring British payroll platform Pento for $40 million. Pento focuses on real-time payroll systems and boasts a client base of over 400 businesses. HiBob raised $15
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Feb. 6, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Feb. 6, 2024 Wiz hits $350 million in ARR, plans to add 400 employees in 2024. The cloud security unicorn also announced the appointment of Dali Rajic, former President and COO of Zscaler, as its Presiden
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Jan. 26, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Jan. 26, 2024 Tech titans start 2024 with mass layoffs, but is the worst yet to come? Layoffs signal broader industry challenges, prompting fears of further job losses. Read more “Gaza would
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Jan. 19, 2024
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Jan. 19, 2024 Benny Landa’s lab diamond startup Lusix sees valuation crash, raises urgent funding. The Israeli company has been significantly hit by high interest rates and increased industry competitio
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CTECH: Latest Innovation & Technology News Israel at War 12/14/23
CTECH: Latest Innovation & Technology News Israel at War 12/14/23 Israel’s wartime tech brilliance and the cost of innovation. The mobilization of high-tech to aid in the challenges of war, from locating missing people to treating post-trauma, is a
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Israel at War: CTECH Israeli Innovation & Technology News 6/12/23
Israel at War: CTECH Israeli Innovation & Technology News 6/12/23 VAST Data raising hundreds of millions of dollars at more than $9 billion valuation. The Israeli-founded startup unveiled earlier this year the VAST Data Platform, a global data infrastruct
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Oct. 4, 2023
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Oct. 4, 2023 Stampli raises $61 million led by Blackstone: “We will make Stampli one of the largest FinTech companies in the world.” Stampli is a complete AP automation platform that brings together a
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Sept. 2023
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Sept. 2023 Israeli cyber has seen $2.8 billion worth of exits in seven months. Cyber company Talon is expected to be acquired by Palo Alto for at least $600 million, the latest in a series of Israeli cybe
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News August 1, 2023
CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News August 1, 2023 “Many techies could have been very wealthy, but they didn’t understand the situation in the market.” Adi Weitzhandler and Meir Steigman, a husband and wife, co-foun
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News July 25, 2023
CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News July 25, 2023 Keep on fighting for Israeli democracy. Calcalist Editorial: The struggle must continue, and it will succeed. Without it, Israel will not become Poland or Hungary; it is on its way to
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovaton & Technology News July 11, 2023
CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News July 11, 2023 Cybersecurity unicorn Snyk sees valuation plummet by over 50% in secondary deals. Former Snyk employees and early investors are in the process of selling shares at a company valuation
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CTECH Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News June 28, 2023
CTECH Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News June 28, 2023 Cybersecurity startup Cyera secures $100 million Series B at $500 million valuation. The Israeli company’s data security platform learns an enterprise’s unique data and business purpose,
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News June 20, 2023
CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News June 20, 2023 Intel’s new $15 billion investment puts Israel at forefront of global chips war. Intel’s significant investment in Israel, which comes in addition to the $10 billion commitmen
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News 5/19/23
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News 5/19/23 Secretive Israeli startup reveals AR laptop three years in the making. Sightful’s new laptop, Spacetop, has no physical screen and comes instead with augmented reality (AR) glasses. Read more An
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News 5/5/2023
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News 5/5/2023 Israeli high-tech crisis deepens with hundreds of layoffs in one day. “There is a deep crisis in Israeli high-tech, part of which is due to the global crisis, but part of it is due to what
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CTECH: Israel’s Latest Innovation & Technology News April 29, 2023
CTECH: Israel’s Latest Innovation & Technology News April 29, 2023 Pinecone hits $750 million valuation in $100 million round to build long-term memory for AI. The Israeli startup has seen its valuation increase more than four-fold in one year. Read
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Mar. 15, 2023
CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Mar. 15, 2023 “Don’t ask questions. Just withdraw the money now.” In the dramatic leadup to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Avi Eyal, managing partner of Entrée Capital, which invests
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Mar. 7, 2023
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Mar. 7, 2023 Verizon Ventures shuts down Israel operations. Eyal Mamistvalov, Principal at Verizon Ventures, revealed that “the company’s new strategy is to primarily focus on the U.S. market.” Veri
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CTECH Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Feb. 19, 2023
CTECH Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Feb. 19, 2023 Over $1.5 billion transferred abroad from Israeli banks due to concerns of judicial coup. In the money management industry, it is estimated that private clients have transferred billions of s
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Feb. 9, 2023
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Feb. 9, 2023 She-VC | “Our philosophy is that a woman shouldn’t have to give up on anything to pursue her career.” Shelly Hod Moyal and Mor Assia, Co-CEOs and founding partners at iAngels, tell
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CTECH:Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Dec. 27, 2022
CTECH:Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Dec. 27, 2022 After the hangover of 2022, the real pain for high-tech will come in 2023. The big test of the upcoming year, which will decide which companies survive the crisis and perhaps get stron
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Nov. 22, 2022
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Nov. 22, 2022 Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales on online toxicity, Musk, and the battle for internet accuracy. “I sent Musk an email offering help, I am happy to give him some thoughts,” Wales told CTech. Re
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Nov. 2, 2022
CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Nov. 2, 2022 Equitybee lays off 20% of workforce, stinging employees. The startup connects employees in high-tech companies who want to exercise their options and qualified investors who want to pu
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CTECH – Israel’s Latest Innovation & Technology News Sept. 7, 2022
CTECH – Israel’s Latest Innovation & Technology News Sept. 7, 2022 Spot.io founders raise $28M for secret cyber startup two years after $450M exit. Former Spot CEO Amiram Shachar recently founded a new cybersecurity company named Upwind alongs
