CTech: Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, which streamlines crypto wallet setup, authentication, and onboarding for 50M+ accounts, for ~$90M — The Israeli digital asset firm, valued at $8 billion, broadens its platform amid industry-wide stablecoin momentum.
Meir Orbach / CTech: Prisma Photonics, which develops AI-based tech for monitoring infrastructure using existing optical fiber networks, raised $30M, taking total funding to $80M — The Tel Aviv deep-tech firm turns ordinary fiber networks into global security and power-grid sentinels.
Meir Orbach / CTech: Israel-based Second Nature, whose conversational AI helps train sales teams, raised a $22M Series B led by Sienna VC, taking its total raised to $80M — The Israeli startup uses conversational AI to transform how companies coach sales teams. — Second Nature, an Israeli startup using …
Meir Orbach / CTech: Israel-based Terra Security, which offers an AI-driven penetration testing platform, raised a $30M Series A led by Felicis, bringing its total funding to $38M — Israeli startup aims to scale offensive security testing beyond manual and costly methods. — Cybersecurity — Funding
Meir Orbach / CTech: Koi, which applies a centralized protection layer to enterprise endpoints, raised a $38M Series A led by Battery and Team8, taking its total funding to $48M — The startup, founded by Unit 8200 veterans, was born from a VSCode hack and aims to give enterprises control over every application installed on their endpoints.
Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli chip monitoring startup ProteanTecs raised a $51M Series D led by IAG, with participation from Arm, Samsung, and more, taking its total funding to $250M — The Israeli company has now raised more than $250M, expanding global footprint across automotive, cloud, and telecom. — ProteanTecs
Meir Orbach / CTech: AI infrastructure company Crusoe acquires Israeli startup Atero, whose tech optimizes GPUs for AI workloads, in a cash and stock deal estimated at ~$150M — The US AI infrastructure company is acquiring the GPU management firm in a cash-and-stock deal. 25 Atero employees will become the company's development center in Israel.
Meir Orbach / CTech: NYC-based Carbyne, which offers cloud-based tools for emergency services, raised $100M from AT&T Ventures, Axon Enterprises, Cox Enterprises, and others — With deployment in 23 U.S. states, the company is reshaping the way dispatchers respond to crisis situations. — Emergency Calls
Meir Orbach / CTech: Aidoc, which uses AI to help doctors make real-time clinical decisions, raised $150M led by General Catalyst and Square Peg, bringing its total funding to $370M — New funding fuels rapid expansion of medical AI tools for hospitals worldwide. — Healthcare — Aidoc — Funding
Elihay Vidal / CTech: Remagine Ventures: 342 Israeli startups are focused on generative AI in 2025, up by 198 since May 2024, and they have collectively raised $20B+ to date — New Remagine Ventures report charts explosive growth and the rise of agentic AI systems. — VC — Remagine Ventures — Generative AI
CTech: Plano, Texas-based Tapcheck, which works with companies to let workers access their earnings before payday, raised a $25M Series A extension and $200M in debt — Hilton, Taco Bell, and McDonald's among companies using the fintech's on-demand pay service. — Tapcheck — Funding — Fintech
Meir Orbach / CTech: Israel-based Anchor, a platform for automated invoice management and collection, raised a $20M Series A, and plans to expand in the US and double its workforce — The company, which saw 500% growth in 2024, plans to expand in the U.S. and double its workforce. — Anchor — Funding — Fintech
Meir Orbach / CTech: Intezer, which develops AI-powered tools for autonomous security operations, raised a $33M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, taking total raised to $60M — The startups's Autonomous SOC platform uses AI models to simulate human analysts' decision-making process, effectively functioning as an extension of the security team.
CTech: Israeli stock research service TipRanks says investment firm Prytek bought 40% of the startup for $80M, giving Prytek an 80% stake; TipRanks has raised $102M — The investment firm, which had already owned 40% of the Israeli fintech startup, is taking its stake to 80% with an $80 million investment.
CTech: Alphabet's Verily closes its R&D centers in Israel after launching them in August 2021, as part of Alphabet's decision to concentrate all R&D activity in the US — Verily was launched in Israel in August 2021, but its approximately 30 remaining employees, based in Tel Aviv and Haifa …
Sophie Shulman / CTech: CyberArk acquires machine identity management company Venafi from Thoma Bravo in a deal valued at around $1.54B; Thoma Bravo bought Venafi for $1.15B in 2020 — The Israeli company is purchasing the machine identity management company from Thoma Bravo as it looks to combine Venafi's machine …
Meir Orbach / CTech: Sources: cloud security startup Wiz will not acquire competitor Lacework; the deal, which was valued at $150M-$200M, fell through during due diligence process — The companies recently signed a Letter of Intent with the aim of completing a deal for around $150-200 million.
Meir Orbach / CTech: Nvidia acquires AI infrastructure orchestration and management platform Run:ai, a source says for ~$700M; Run:ai, founded in 2018, raised $118M in total — Run:ai enables enterprise customers to manage and optimize their compute infrastructure, whether on premises, in the cloud or in hybrid environments.
Meir Orbach / CTech: Cybersecurity startup Zafran, which develops risk mitigation services, emerges from stealth with a $25M Series A co-led by Sequoia Capital and Cyberstarts — Zafran, founded in 2022 by Yashar (CEO), Ben Seri (CTO) and Snir Havdala (CPO), develops a risk and mitigation platform to pinpoint …
Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli autonomous cloud security startup Cyera raised a $100M Series B led by Accel with Sequoia and others participating, a source says at a $500M valuation — The Israeli company's data security platform learns an enterprise's unique data and business purpose using large language models …
Meir Orbach / CTech: Cloud infrastructure company Volumez, which develops controller orchestration software, raised a $20M Series A led by Koch Disruptive Technologies — Volumez's controller-less architecture composes direct Linux data paths between media and applications, helping companies convert knowledge into intelligence quickly and at scale
CTech: Sources: Tel Aviv-based QuaDream is shutting down, after Microsoft and Citizen Lab said its mercenary spyware is being used to hack journalists and others — It was reported last week that the Israeli firm's hacking tools have been used against journalists, opposition figures and advocacy organizations across at least 10 countries
Meir Orbach / CTech: env0, which develops Infrastructure as Code workflow automation and management software, raised $18.1M led by Venture Guides, bringing Series A total to $35.1M — The env0 platform enables users and teams to collaborate and provide self-service cloud deployments
Meir Orbach / CTech: Cloud security and visibility startup Wiz raised a $300M Series D led by Lightspeed at a $10B valuation, up from $6B in October 2021 after raising $250M — The Israeli startup said that it will not hold any of the funds in Israel due to the impending judicial coup
CTech: OpenWeb, which helps outlets target readers with ads and manage comments, acquires Jeeng, an audience management service used by over 650 publishers, for $100M — The Israeli-founded unicorn, which raised $170 million at a $1.5 billion valuation three months ago, completed its third acquisition in a year …
CTech: Israel-based aiOla, which uses voice and image recognition to digitize, automate, and streamline manufacturing inspection processes, raised $25M led by New Era — The Israeli startup has developed state-of-the-art voice and image recognition combined with advanced AI models to digitize, automate and streamline inspection processes
Meir Orbach / CTech: Alphawave IP acquires Banias Labs, an Israel-based optical digital signal processing chip developer for data centers, for $240M — The Israeli startup, co-founded by veteran entrepreneur Avigdor Willenz, develops coherent optical DSP semiconductor technology for data centers
Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli startup DriveNets, which offers cloud-based tools to help build networks more cheaply, raised a $262M Series C, source says at a $2.5B valuation — The Israeli company offers communications service providers (CSPs) and cloud providers a new way to build networks …
Meir Orbach / CTech: Source: Google is acquiring Israeli startup Siemplify, which provides a cybersecurity orchestration service, for an estimated $500M; Siemplify has raised $58M — The Israeli company will form the basis for Google's cyber operations in the country and will be part of the tech giant's cloud activity
Meir Orbach / CTech: Israel reduces the countries approved for export of cyber tools from 102 to 37, most of which are in the West, after the US sanctioned NSO Group and Candiru — The Ministry of Defense has reduced the number of countries approved for export of cyber tools by Israeli companies from 102 to 37
CTech: 8fig, which provides equity-free flexible funding for e-commerce sellers by analyzing their growth, raises a $50M Series A — Five months after announcing its Seed round, Israeli startup 8fig, which provides equity-free flexible funding and supply chain management tools for e-commerce sellers …
Meir Orbach / CTech: Tel Aviv-based NeuroBlade, which offers data analytics tools that claim to use processing-in-memory, raises $83M Series B, bringing total funding to $110M — The Israeli startup has developed a new data analytics architecture that eliminates major data movement bottlenecks by integrating the data processing function inside memory
CTech: Zencity, which uses AI to analyze resident-generated data from social media and other sources to provide insights to cities and municipalities, raises $30M — The Israeli startup offers government organizations insights from resident feedback through the analysis of millions of pieces …
Golan Hazani / CTech: Source: Israel-based JoyTunes, which helps users learn guitar and piano using AI, raises $50M at a $1B valuation led by GV — The Israeli startup's revenue in 2020 surged to around $100 million, although the company is still believed to not be profitable. Once that happens …
Meir Orbach / CTech: Sunbit, which helps physical and e-commerce stores offer customers the option to pay in installments, raises $130M Series D at $1.1B after money valuation — Sunbit focuses on the American credit market and develops a payment method that allows stores to offer their customers the option to pay in installments
Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli startup Locusview raises $64M Series A for its digital construction management suite that helps companies manage infrastructure capital projects — The Israeli startup has managed within two years of the launch of its first product to integrate it in over 20 of the biggest energy infrastructure companies in the U.S.
Sophie Shulman / CTech: Israel's cybersecurity sector, comprised of ~500 companies and 13% of all cybersecurity firms worldwide, saw its exports rise 20% YoY to $10B in 2020 — With giant Russian cyberattacks against the U.S., the transition to online services during the pandemic and stricter regulations to protect data …
Meir Orbach / CTech: Source: Palo Alto Networks acquires Israeli startup BridgeCrew, which develops and delivers security as code, for $200M — This is the seventh Israeli company purchased by the Silicon Valley cyber powerhouse — Israeli-founded cyber company Bridgecrew Technologies has been acquired by Palo Alto Networks …
Golan Hazani / CTech: Sources: SimilarWeb is planning a Nasdaq IPO in Q2 2021, aiming for a $2B+ valuation; the company has raised $240M in total, including $120M in October — The market intelligence company joins list of Israeli firms set to embark on a U.S. IPO in the coming months which already includes eToro …
Meir Orbach / CTech: Sources: Apple quietly acquired Israeli AR and computer vision startup Camerai over a year ago for several tens of millions of dollars — The AR and computer vision company was purchased a year and a half ago, an example of the tech giant's strategy of silently buying up small tech companies
CTech: Cloud data services company NetApp says it's acquiring Israeli cloud storage company Spot.io, sources say for $450M — The Israeli cloud services company has previously raised a total of $52 million, and employs 150 people in Tel Aviv, London, and San Francisco
Maayan Manela / CTech: Israeli tech companies note the rising quality and number of applicants for senior tech roles, as exec and junior tech roles seem less impacted by the pandemic — Hundreds of applicants for each position and senior managers who are taking pay cuts; recruiters and HR managers reveal the new norms …
Hagar Ravet / CTech: Ermetic, an Israeli enterprise cloud data protection startup, raises $10M seed round led by Glilot Capital, Norwest Ventures, and Target Global — Ermetic develops an analytics-based service that prevents cloud data breaches by automating the detection and remediation of identity and access risks …