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Ido Shtrauch Conifers AI

Conifers: “The attacker can walk away, and that’s what we’re least ready for”

02.09.26|Amy Shapiro
Ido Shtrauch, Security Research Team Lead at Conifers AI, details how threat actors are adapting to a world where companies use AI to analyze their security alerts, as part of CTech’s Security Researchers series.
Catch founders

Catch raises $5 million Seed to put AI agents to work on executive drudgery

02.09.26|CTech
The Israeli startup is targeting executives who want AI to handle administrative work without learning new software or constructing complicated workflows.
בר וינקלר ו רועי ללזר מייסדי וונדרפול Wonderful

Wonderful raises $550 million at $5 billion valuation just six months after $2 billion round

02.09.26|Sophie Shulman
The Israeli enterprise AI startup has now raised more than $800 million since its founding in early 2025, as it expands into more than 35 markets and grows to about 650 employees.
מוסף עצמאות מנהלים תלמידים בשיעור מחשבים

Israel wants to lead in AI education. Its teachers aren’t ready yet

01.09.26|Shahar Ilan
Education Minister Yoav Kisch is pushing AI-powered personalized learning across Israeli schools, but a new study finds that most teachers still use AI mainly to prepare lessons rather than teach with it.
DataAgent founders

DataAgent emerges from stealth with $10 million pre-Seed to build self-healing infrastructure

01.09.26|CTech
The Israeli startup is taking aim at the cost and complexity of observability by putting autonomous agents directly inside production environments. 
Eran Ayalon Vega

Vega: “An attacker only needs one vulnerability, defending is an endless chase”

01.09.26|Amy Shapiro
Eran Ayalon, Head of Research at Vega Security, describes how knowledge sharing and collaboration make Israel the spearhead of the global cyber world, as part of CTech’s Security Researchers series.
אפליקציית ChatGPT של OpenAI

OpenAI’s ChatGPT ads hit $1 billion as Israel remains outside the global rollout

01.09.26|Omer Kabir
The advertising business reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate in less than 200 days, with ads now available in more than 40 countries. The latest expansion covers India, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, but not Israel.
Ofir Ziv Tenzai

Tenzai: “The pace expected from researchers has changed dramatically”

31.08.26|Amy Shapiro
Ofri Ziv, Co-Founder and VP Research at Tenzai, explains why execution is the ultimate differentiator for research teams today, as part of CTech’s Security Researchers series.
Yigal Elefant, CISO at AU10TIX.

“I’m concerned by the human who stops looking.”

31.08.26|Zachy Hennessey
Yigal Elefant, CISO at AU10TIX, joined CTech to share his thoughts on agentic AI security, and why burnout, not the AI itself, is the risk that worries him most. 
קו רקיע מרכז תל אביב Tel Aviv Business Center

Facing talent shortage - Israel launches NIS 5 million program to bring AI experts home

31.08.26|CTech
The program seeks to accelerate the integration of experts and entrepreneurs from abroad into Israel’s tech ecosystem, focusing on two main tracks: identifying experts overseas and encouraging multinational companies to expand their R&D operations in Israel.
SentinelOne  הנפקת סנטינל וואן בנאסד"ק בסוף יוני 2021 ב בורסת ניו יורק

SentinelOne’s $24.4 million restructuring charge hits profits as AI security ARR triples

31.08.26|CTech
The cybersecurity company raised its full-year revenue outlook to more than $1.2 billion, but cut its earnings forecast after recording higher restructuring costs. Israeli acquisition Prompt Security is emerging as one of the fastest-growing parts of its AI security business.
PinkStar Team Photo

"Catch cancer earlier": PinkStar's AI for breast MRI hopes to relieve overwhelmed sector

30.08.26|CTech
Gearing up for a $3 million raise, PinkStar Technologies was founded in collaboration with Sheba Medical Center to help radiologists leverage AI to read breast MRI.
Avital Leshem Check Point

Check Point: “We are entering an entirely new phase of the digital arms race”

30.08.26|Amy Shapiro
Avital Leshem, Group Manager of Exposure Management at Check Point, discusses the importance of looking at an organization through the eyes of an attacker, as part of CTech’s Security Researchers series.
רובוט מצביע בבחירות

AI enters the Israeli election: one in four voters may turn to AI for guidance

30.08.26|CTech
Some 71% of Israelis say they have encountered election-related fake news, while 69% fear political discourse could fuel online violence around the election
Alon Noy, Co-Founder and CEO of Astelia

I ran Israel's national red team. Now every attacker has one

30.08.26|Alon Noy
AI makes cyberattacks faster and cheaper, leaving network reachability as the only thing between attackers and their targets. Most defenders still overlook it.
משמאל לימין: גדי אונגר, שי לבנת, יחד עם מנהלי הקרן ליאב בן רובי ודנה טייגמן קורן

Your AI agent should find customers, not replace employees

28.08.26|Liav Ben Rubi
Agentic AI should go beyond automating tasks and cutting costs: it can identify the right customers, partners, and opportunities, qualify business matches, and let humans focus on trust-building and closing deals.
Oryan Perlmutter Oak

Oak Security: “The change of the industry made us enter an ocean of uncharted waters”

27.08.26|Amy Shapiro
Oryan Perlmutter, Head of Security Research at Oak, describes the necessity of automating "boots work" in a highly competitive landscape, as part of CTech’s Security Researchers series.
Ron Rabinowitz, Cofounder and CEO, OpenLegacy

How OpenLegacy Is Bridging the Gap Between AI and Legacy

27.08.26|Corporate Service
AI can transform how enterprises operate, but only if it can access the systems where their most critical data and business processes live. OpenLegacy is building that bridge