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Avigdor Willenz

5 stories about Avigdor Willenz

סנג׳יי גאג׳נדרה נשיא חברת אסטרה לאבס

Astera president: “I want to look back and see that we built an iconic company of the AI era”

05.10.26|Meir Orbach

Sanjay Gajendra says Astera Labs aims to become one of the technology giants created by the AI boom, as demand for data center connectivity surges and the company expands its Israeli development center.

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.