31.03.25|Meir OrbachCybersecurity and mega-rounds propel sector growth despite cautious new investments.
26.03.25|Hagai GilboaMaya Eisen Zafrir, CEO of LeumiTech, added at the Mind The Tech New York 2025 conference: "In a country of just 10 million people, we have produced more unicorns per capita than any other nation."
29.12.24|Meir OrbachDespite economic uncertainty and war, tech giants like Wiz and Cyera led record-breaking fundraisings, marking a 38% year-on-year growth.
30.09.24|Sophie ShulmanA 32% rise year-to-date showcases resilience amid challenges. However, a 20% decrease in capital and a 17% decrease in the number of transactions was registered between Q2 and Q3, even when including the $1 billion raised by Ilya Sutskever’s American-Israeli company Safe Superintelligence.
30.06.24|Meir OrbachEven without the $1 billion funding round by the cyber decacorn, local startups raised over $1.9 billion, the most since the fourth quarter of 2022
28.03.24|Sophie ShulmanThe volume of fundraising increased by 10% compared to the fourth quarter of 2023, with the number of rounds registering a 34% jump
07.03.24|Yuval SadeAccording to Guy Franklin, the founder of Israeli Mapped in NY, the number of Israeli startups in the city only increases every year, and many of them took part in Calcalist and Bank Leumi’s Mind the Tech conference in New York. Micah Rosenbloom, managing partner at Founder Collective: "We are focused on investing in companies that effectively manage their capital"; Hadley Harris, founding general partner at ENIAC Ventures: "Companies will experience difficult times in the next two years"
04.03.24|Yuval Sade“Israelis are known for their ability to adapt and initiate, and they bring new perspectives and face different problems under extreme conditions just as we see these days,” added Maya Eisen-Zafrir at Calcalist and Bank Leumi’s Mind the Tech conference in New York
15.01.24|Maya Nahum ShahalMaya Eisen Zafrir, CEO of LeumiTech spoke at Calcalist's Tech TLV conference held in collaboration with Bank Leumi and PAPAYA. "Now that a global recovery is already on the horizon, we must look beyond the local challenge and ensure that Israeli high-tech will also overcome this crisis"
09.01.24|Maya Eisen Zafrir“The unique DNA of the Israeli high-tech and its vast history of coping with challenges and crises in recent years, are key to its capability to prevail in such a complex period,” writes Maya Eisen Zafrir, CEO of LeumiTech
28.12.23|Meir OrbachThe fundraising activity in 2023 was similar to 2018-2019. The data reflects a 44% decrease in the number of deals and a 56% drop in the amount of raised capital compared to 2022
26.09.23|Meir OrbachStartups raised $1.676 billion in the not-yet-concluded third quarter of 2023, a 38% decrease compared to the corresponding quarter in 2022. However, in comparison to the second quarter, there was only a 14% decrease in fundraising volume, and after five consecutive quarters of decline, Seed investments are on the rise
12.07.23|Sophie ShulmanLooking at the first half of the year compared to the corresponding half in 2022, there was a 24% decrease in funding volume among Israeli startups and a 17% decrease in the number of rounds, bringing the industry back to the pace of the first half of 2019
10.07.23| Meir OrbachArbel-Sadras is leaving after less than two years at the head of LeumiTech, which specializes in banking for high-tech companies
03.04.23|Meir OrbachDespite the desire of industry executives to see light at the end of the tunnel, the next two quarters at least are expected to continue the downward trend
21.03.23|CTech"I prefer to look beyond the doom and gloom and talk about the rainbow after the storm. How can we come out of this crisis even stronger than before," said LeumiTech CEO Timor Arbel-Sadras during the Mind the Tech London conference
12.03.23|Meir OrbachBank Leumi’s high-tech subsidiary said it would increase the amount of credit available to high-tech companies that have lost access to their credit lines and are desperate for liquidity following the SVB debacle
10.01.23|Meir OrbachAccording to reports released by Start-Up Nation Central (SNC), SNPI, IVC, and LeumiTech, the total volume of investment in 2022 dropped from an unprecedented $27 billion in 2021 to $15.5 billion in the past year
27.10.22|James SpiroThe mission was announced by The Movement by Good Company together with AB InBev, Continental, Ashtrom, Bridges Israel, SAP, KPMG, BCLP, and LeumiTech
23.10.22|Meir OrbachIn the first nine months of the year, Israeli tech companies raised $12.3 billion, 30% less than in the first three quarters of last year, but still the second-largest amount ever in this period