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Avigdor Willenz

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אביגדור וילנץ מייסד ויו"ר הבאנה לאבס

Lyte raises $165 million at $1.6 billion valuation as investors pile into physical AI

The robotics startup, founded by veterans of Apple and Israeli 3D-sensing company PrimeSense, has now raised $272 million since its 2021 founding, as investors increasingly target the sensors and perception systems needed to bring AI into the physical world.

אביגדור וילנץ מייסד ויו"ר הבאנה לאבס

A different kind of billionaire: Willenz adds another $50 million exit

15.04.26|Sophie Shulman, Meir Orbach

The Israeli chip veteran continues to defy convention with precise, and early, dealmaking.

אביגדור וילנץ מייסד ויו"ר הבאנה לאבס

How a low-profile billionaire keeps winning the chip game

Avigdor Willenz strikes again as DustPhotonics sells for up to $1.3 billion.

אביגדור וילנץ מייסד ויו"ר הבאנה לאבס

Legendary Israeli investor strikes gold again with Astera Labs

27.03.24|Sophie Shulman

Chip company Astera Labs, in which Israeli entrepreneur Avigdor Willenz is a founding investor, has surged since its IPO last week. This exit joins Willenz's string of successes in the world of chips, which began with the sale of Galileo to American company Marvell for $2.7 billion in 2000 and continued with the sale of Annapurna to Amazon for $360 million in 2015 and the sale of Habana Labs to Intel for $2 billion in 2019.