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20 stories about AI
Angular Ventures founding partner Gil Dibner.

“Israel has yet to prove that it can build defense-tech startups into a sustainable industry”

09.02.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Angular Ventures founding partner Gil Dibner joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 
אריק קליינשטיין

CISOs to pour 2026 budgets into AI as cybersecurity priorities shift

08.02.26|Meir Orbach
Survey of global security chiefs shows nearly 80% plan new investments in AI defenses and automation.
Dell Tech Capital’s Managing Director Yair Snir (Left) and Partner Barrel Kfir (Right).

“Basic AI capabilities have become a commodity, so the most significant opportunity has shifted toward Vertical AI”

08.02.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Dell Tech Capital’s Managing Director Yair Snir and Partner Barrel Kfir, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 
Yoni Osherov

“The sheer velocity of AI-driven threats makes human-in-the-loop a bottleneck rather than a safeguard”

08.02.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Yoni Osherov, General Partner at Entrée Capital, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 
Moshe Zilberstein ,Partner at N47.

“Hype free, real growth is the most critical metric that will drive premium valuations in 2026”

08.02.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Moshe Zilberstein, Partner at N47, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 
Ophir Reshef, Managing Partner at Israel Secondary Fund.

“With AI companies can hit growth benchmarks that previously required significantly larger teams”

07.02.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Ophir Reshef, Managing Partner at Israel Secondary Fund, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 
חוות שרתים של אנבידיה בלונדון. "ה־ AI כבר משנה כל תחום בחיים שלנו וימשיך לגדול בצורה מטורפת. האם כל החברות יישארו בגודל הזה? מן הסתם לא"

Fundamental exits stealth as $1.2 billion unicorn, armed with $255 million for tabular AI

06.02.26|CTech
Co-founded by Israeli entrepreneur Gabriel Suissa, the startup counts Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport and Tel Aviv VC Hetz among backers, with part of its R&D rooted in Israel. 
Dan Cahana, Principal on the Investment Team at Notable Capital.

“Israeli startups are extremely tethered to the US market, and we don’t see a way to build a big company from Israel without relying on the US market”

06.02.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Dan Cahana, Principal on the Investment Team at Notable Capital, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey.
Guy Yamen, Managing Partner at TPY Capital.

“A reckoning is coming. We are currently sitting in a public market bubble that inevitably spills into the private markets”

06.02.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Guy Yamen, Managing Partner at TPY Capital, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 
משרדי אנבידיה NVIDIA ביוקנעם

Nvidia secures 29,000 sqm in Yokneam as Israeli build-out accelerates

05.02.26|Golan Hazani
The chipmaker signs a $73 million, 10-year lease with Melisron, expanding its local footprint in addition to the planned 10,000-employee campus in Kiryat Tivon.
Chaim Schiff, CEO of Elephant Secondary Market Platform.

“The UAV sector holds the highest potential for civilian adaptation and ultimately, the future of autonomous transportation”

05.02.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Chaim Schiff, CEO of Elephant Secondary Market Platform, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 

Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence engineer walks away to fix what AI breaks

05.02.26|CTech
Shahar Papini left the $32 billion research lab to co-found Attestable, which has raised $18.5 million to verify AI models, prompts and outputs. 
A stick-figure worker at a desk, split between a muted corporate environment with a subtle surveillance eye on the left and a colorful, glowing AI interface on the right, representing the tension between workplace monitoring and the appeal of public AI tools.

Inside the struggle to control employees' AI use

04.02.26|Zachy Hennessey
The rise of Shadow AI pits corporate security against workplace reality.
Eyal Bino 97212

“Israeli tech post-October 7th could not be in a better position”

04.02.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Eyal Bino, Founding Partner at 97212 Ventures, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 
(From left): Frederic Landau, Aaron Applbaum and  Yoav Knoll.

“It may feel uneasy, but letting software act independently isn’t optional, it’s necessary for survival today”

04.02.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Frederic Landau, general partner at Kinetica, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 
Lior Segal (left) and Yaniv Jacobi, Managing partners at Horizon Capital.

“Almost anything proven under battlefield conditions can become a commercial product once it’s translated into civilian workflows”

03.02.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Yaniv Jacobi and Lior Segal, Managing Partners at Horizon Capital, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 
Daniel Roditi, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Meron Capital.

“Global LPs now assume Israeli founders can operate through geopolitical shocks, volatility, operational chaos, and even war”

02.02.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Daniel Roditi, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Meron Capital, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 
עובדי הייטק Founder Mode עבודה מהבית

Innovation or exhaustion? The human cost of tech’s AI reset

02.02.26|Maayan Manela
As companies demand founder-level ownership and round-the-clock availability, AI is raising productivity, and the risk of burnout.
מולטבוק Moltbook רשת חברתית לסוכני AI

When the user is no longer human: The bot social network is the internet’s watershed moment

02.02.26|Yaniv Golan
The Moltbook phenomenon marks the transition from Generative AI to Agentic AI, and Israel’s opportunity is to become the responsible adult, in both infrastructure and governance.