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Cisco pulled out of SentinelOne acquisition after due diligence revealed ARR inaccuracies

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Palo Alto Networks in negotiations to acquire Talon Cyber Security in $600 million deal

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Number of Israeli Gen AI startups more than doubles in six months

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Palo Alto Networks Founder: "Only a few dominant players will survive the cyber consolidation"

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20 stories about Blockchain

בלוקצ'יין קריפטו מטבעות דיגיטליים 2

Mapping the rising Israeli blockchain and crypto startups

In a little over three months, five different Israeli startups in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors have raised significant funding

Chain Reaction co-founders

Chain Reaction raises another $70 million for blockchain and privacy chip

23.02.23|Meir Orbach

The Israeli startup, which took its total funding to date to $115 million, aims to drive high-performance hardware for blockchain and privacy in data centers and clouds

עומר גולדברג מנכ"ל Chaos Labs

Crypto security startup Chaos Labs raises $20 million in Seed funding led by Galaxy and PayPal

21.02.23|Meir Orbach

The Israeli startup provides protocols with custom and automated economic security tooling that verifies a protocol's durability and stability in any market condition

Or Assaf Ironblocks

Blockchain security platform Ironblocks raises $7 million in Seed

15.02.23|James Spiro

The Israeli startup is developing a smart contract-based security solution that operates on-chain to automate threat detection and enable DeFi protocols, Web3 platforms, market makers, and cross-chain bridges to take action to stop hackers

“Blockchain is still an incredibly hot technology. We excised some cancers from the body and feel a lot better”

14.02.23|Allon Sinai

Joe Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and founder of ConsenSys, isn’t letting last year’s collapse or any of the naysayers dampen his enthusiasm for the future of blockchain and cryptocurrencies

Addressable Team

Addressable raises $7.5 million in Seed to help scale user acquisition for Web3 companies

31.01.23|James Spiro

The company is building a SaaS platform for Web3 marketers to help teams reach audiences in the era of anonymous blockchain accounts

CyVers founders

CyVers raises $8 million to secure blockchain transactions

The Israeli startup’s solution captures transactions during the few moments between the time a transaction is broadcasted and when it is registered irreversibly to a blockchain ledger

INX battling Binance for assets of bankrupt Voyager Digital

The Israeli-founded crypto platform is vying for the assets of the lending platform after bidding reopened following the collapse of FTX

Ira Winkler CYE

“We will lose lots of money in the lunacy of web3”

15.11.22|James Spiro

CYE’s new Field CISO Ira Winkler joined CTech to discuss the future of cyber attacks in a new internet

בלוקצ'יין קריפטו מטבעות דיגיטליים 2

Israel to issue government bonds on a blockchain

The Israel Ministry of Finance and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange have established a joint team with VMware and Fireblocks to perform a Proof of Concept for the issuance of government bonds on a blockchain platform

מוסף שבועי 15.9.22 פרופ' דליה מלחי

The scientist who almost made Mark Zuckerberg president of the World Bank

23.09.22|Viki Auslender

Project Diem, the megalomaniac experiment led by Facebook, aimed to create a unified digital currency that will allow easy transfer of funds and payments between billions of people. The person who led the development of the currency was Prof. Dahlia Malkhi, one of the world's leading computer scientists. Now, in a rare interview from the bowels of the powerful technology giant, she reveals how the system was going to work, and why the fear of Facebook's power led to the collapse of the venture

Ownera raises $20 million Series A, including from J.P. Morgan, for blockchain interoperability network

The Israeli startup’s offering connects any type of securities tokenization engine on any public or private blockchain, or even on traditional ledgers

מייסדי פיירבלוקס Fireblocks מימין עידן עפרת מיכאל שאולוב פבל ברנגולץ

Fireblocks hits $100 million in annual revenue despite crypto downturn

This achievement places Fireblocks among a rare subset of SaaS unicorns — including Slack and Twilio — that have reached this coveted valuation milestone in less than five years

“Blockchain will replace all of the financial industry as we know it”

25.07.22|James Spiro

Shy Datika, Co-Founder and CEO at INX Digital Company, which operates a cryptocurrency and digital securities trading platform licensed by U.S and EU regulators, believes more regulation by governments will improve some of the pitfalls currently seen on the blockchain

UnCaged MonkeyLeague

Web3 gaming studio UnCaged, builder of MonkeyLeague, raises $24 million Series A

The Israeli startup developed its esports franchise on its own platform, which is also designed to support both Web3-native studios and Web2 development houses looking to jump into the crypto gaming ecosystem

טייניטאפ tinytap אפליקציות ילדים

Edtech startup TinyTap acquired by blockchain gaming unicorn Animoca Brands at $50 million valuation

Animoca Brands said it will leverage the acquisition of the Israeli company to establish a new business segment for blockchain-based UGC educational content

Sasan Goodarzi - Intuit

Bitcoin is crashing - but don’t rule out crypto just yet, says Intuit

16.06.22|James Spiro

Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi joined CTech during a visit to Israel to discuss blockchain technology in the fintech space

אורי קולודני ואלי בן ששון סטארקוור

StarkWare valuation hits $8 billion with $100 million Series D

25.05.22|Meir Orbach

The Israeli company, which develops scalability and privacy solutions for blockchain technology, has quadrupled its valuation in six months

אדם נוימן מייסד WeWork היום משקיע נדל"ן

Adam Neumann-backed climate tech startup Flowcarbon raises $70 million from a16z, token sale

24.05.22|Reuters

The blockchain-enabled carbon credit trading platform aims to tap into the growing market for carbon credits companies buy to offset their greenhouse gas emissions

NFT Conference participants

“NFT market participants need a clear signal that the technology is not a new shady area”

Dr. Shlomit Wagman-Ratner, former Director-General of the Israel Money Laundering and Terror Financing Prohibition Authority (IMPA), was speaking at a conference focused on NFT regulation co-organized by Reichman University and M. Firon law firm