Meir Orbach / CTech: Mave, which is developing an AI-driven tool to automate security investigations, raised a $28M Series A led by Red Dot, bringing its total funding to $34M — The funding, led by Red Dot Capital Partners, brings Mave's total funding to $34 million. The company is developing AI …
CTech: Two workers have been killed and another seriously injured at Intel's Kiryat Gat fab in Israel in an explosion resulting from a gas cylinder malfunctioning — A 49-year-old man died Thursday from injuries sustained in Wednesday's blast, which also killed a gas technician and left a third worker in serious condition.
Sophie Shulman / CTech: Cognex agrees to acquire robotics and 3D computer vision company RealSense in a ~$600M deal, including $500M in cash; Intel spun off RealSense in July 2025 — The Haifa-based robotics company grew rapidly after its spinout 14 months ago, and its CEO says independence allowed it to pursue opportunities …
Meir Orbach / CTech: Minimus, a cybersecurity startup started by Twistlock founders, shuts down after failing to gain enough commercial momentum; Minimus raised a $51M seed in 2023 — The cybersecurity startup failed to gain enough commercial momentum to continue operating. Customers will have 60 days to migrate …
Meir Orbach / CTech: Zenity, which develops a platform for securing AI agents, raised a $125M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, taking its total funding to ~$185M — Israeli cybersecurity company reaches $185 million in total funding as enterprises race to secure autonomous AI agents.
Meir Orbach / CTech: Elio, which is developing a new type of image sensor designed for AI rather than human vision, raised a $21M Series A led by Innovation Endeavors and Xora — Elio's founders, Nadav Grossinger and Nitay Romano, spent seven years developing physical sensing systems at Meta.
Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli networking company DriveNets raised a $410M Series D led by Bessemer and Atreides at an $8.5B valuation, taking its total funding to ~$1B — The Israeli networking company says it is cash-flow positive with over $1B in backlog as AI demand accelerates.
Sophie Shulman / CTech: Sources: Wix is expected to cut ~1,000 jobs in the coming months, or ~20% of its workforce, after weak Q1 earnings and a ~50% collapse of its stock in 2026 — The company will reduce roughly 20% of its workforce after a steep stock decline and rising AI-related costs.
Meir Orbach / CTech: Akamai acquires Israeli cybersecurity startup LayerX Security, which develops a browser-based platform to secure employee use of AI tools, for ~$205M in cash — Deal expands Zero Trust strategy as enterprises struggle to control AI use. — Akamai Technologies is acquiring Israeli …
Sophie Shulman / CTech: Unity plans to shut down its ironSource advertising network on April 30 and has begun the process of divesting Supersonic, its casual game publishing arm — The moves leave little of the Israeli ad-tech firm within Unity, marking a quiet unwind of one of the sector's most high-profile mergers.
Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli startup Onyx Security, which helps secure and manage AI agents' operational risks, raised a $35M Series A led by Conviction, after a $5M seed in 2024 — The Israeli startup develops a platform to secure and manage AI systems as they become integral to business operations.
Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli startup Claroty, which makes security tech for hospitals, manufacturing, and industrial systems, raised a $150M Series F, sources say at a $3B valuation — Israeli cybersecurity firm cites rising attacks on hospitals and industrial systems. — Israeli cybersecurity unicorn Claroty …
Meir Orbach / CTech: Israel-based Chargeflow, whose AI tech automates chargeback disputes for online merchants, raised a $25M Series A led by Viola Growth, and a $10M debt round — Fintech startup secures equity and debt funding as e-commerce fraud grows to $100B a year. — Fintech company Chargeflow …
Meir Orbach / CTech: Israel-based RAAAM, whose “GCRAM” on-chip memory tech aims to deliver up to 10x power savings relative to high-density SRAM, raised a $17M Series A led by NXP — RAAAM Memory Technologies' “GCRAM” promises denser, lower-power on-chip memory as the semiconductor industry races to support next-generation AI processors.
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.