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Jonathan Cohen associate at Catalyst Investments

Study: Israeli unicorns reach $1 billion valuation in an average 6 years

06.06.21|Allon Sinai
According to a report by Catalyst Investments, the average time it takes for Israeli tech startups to become unicorns has decreased by half in the past decade
Amnon Shashua Mobileye אמנון שעשוע מובילאיי

Shashua's Digital Bank eyeing $100 million funding round

19.05.21|Irit Avisar
The investment is set to provide the bank with the additional funds it requires ahead of its launch next year and be conducted according to a valuation of several hundreds of millions of dollars
יוסי דורי מנהל השקעות ראשי ב כלל

The biggest VC fund in Israel you didn’t even know existed

30.04.21|Sophie Shulman
Clal Insurance has become the largest high tech investor in Israel with a $2 billion portfolio, holding stakes in the likes of Pagaya, Hippo and REE to name a few
כנס Fintech 2017 ג'ון מדבד

"The Israeli tech ecosystem has become a well-oiled machine"

29.04.21|CTech
Jon Medved, founder and CEO of Jerusalem-based investment platform OurCrowd, noted that partnering with the Gulf countries "is allowing Israel to penetrate markets we've never dreamed of in Southeast Asia and around the broader Islamic world"
יפעת אורון על רקע בלקסטון

Blackstone in Israel: Pouring fuel on the raging fire of local tech

26.04.21|Sophie Shulman
Israeli tech entrepreneurs are used to working with VC funds, but Blackstone is very different
אביבית בנדר בנק הפועלים

Bank Hapoalim to launch new investment track for startups

25.04.21|Meir Orbach
The bank’s Innovation and Strategy department has already invested in three local startups: Perception Point, Kyron, and Lightico
בועה בורסה מניות עליות שערים וול סטריט

The capital markets are sobering up from the great SPAC binge

22.04.21|Sophie Shulman
The SPAC index has fallen 11% since the start of the year; many SPAC shares have crashed and short positions on them have multiplied; Is Israel’s SPAC gold rush coming to an end?
אורן בר און 28.4.20

Covid-19 led to the Israeli tech sector’s rapid maturation

19.04.21|Oren Bar-On
A good mix of tech specialization and more patient board rooms is seeing Israel transition out of its startup nation phase
מוסף עצמאות איור כתבת יוניקורנים

7 reasons why Israel has become an assembly line for tech unicorns

17.04.21|Sophie Shulman
The stars aligned perfectly for the local tech sector over the past year, sparking a baby boom of billion-dollar companies
Ctech most promising 2021

The 50 Most Promising Israeli Startups - 2021

14.04.21|Hagar Ravet and Meir Orbach
We look beyond the blinding valuations to choose the companies that not only survived the Covid-19 crisis but thrived and are now best positioned for future success
הדפסת דולרים כסף מזומן דולר

Israeli tech startups raise a record $5.37 billion in first quarter of 2021

12.04.21|Meir Orbach
The total sum raised in the quarter increased by 89% compared to the fourth quarter of last year and was double that raised in Q1 of 2020
Gilad Gat Uri Gruenbaum Tipranks

TipRanks announces $77 million investment round to support retail investor boom

08.04.21|CTech
Israeli-based fintech company provides a simplified stock research platform that makes alternative datasets accessible and visual for retail investors
מנכ"ל סלברייט יוסי כרמיל

Cellebrite to go public through a SPAC merger at a $2.4 billion valuation

08.04.21|Sophie Shulman
The Israeli digital intelligence company is set to merge with Nasdaq listed TWC Tech Holdings Corp II
צמיחה עלייה שטרות כסף

The government must not let the recent tech bonanza go to waste

08.04.21|Sophie Shulman
With the market at a boiling point, the next government has to act quickly so that all Israelis can share the wealth
מימין יואל בר אל דרור פלדהיים חברת  Trax טראקס טרקס

Israeli-founded Trax completes $640 million series E

07.04.21|Meir Orbach
Softbank and Blackrock lead the investment round that the company hopes will help make it a market leader
רמי שש מייסד whitesource

Israel’s WhiteSource announces $75 million series D

07.04.21|Meir Orbach
“Application security needs have gone beyond just detection to include continuous prioritization and prevention,” says CEO Rami Sass
נאסד"ק וול סטריט

Is Israeli tech companies’ Wall Street heyday coming to an end?

04.04.21|Sophie Shulman
Investors are no longer flocking to everything that smells of tech; some companies may have to alter their IPO plans
קובי סמבורסקי גלילות Kobi Samboursky Glilot Capital

Covid-19, technological shifts, and piles of cash have resulted in a "perfect storm for cyber"

03.04.21|Ron Friedman
Glilot Capital’s Kobi Samboursky discusses the sector’s historic quarter and why there’s no turning back from the shift to the cloud
מימין אלון חורי ו ניסים טפירו מייסדי נקסט אינשורנס

“People called it a bubble when Next Insurance raised at a $1 billion valuation too”

01.04.21|Sophie Shulman
The company's founders talk about their fresh $4 billion valuation, their aversion to SPACs, and the decision not to chase profitability
מייסדי קליימסל Climacell מימין איתי זלוטניק רעי גופר ו שמעון אלקבץ'

ClimaCell announces $77 million in new funding alongside name change

30.03.21|Meir Orbach
The weather prediction company aiming to revolutionize the forecasting game is now called Tomorrow.io