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ימין ליטל לשם לי מוזר דן פישר ניק פומפאו ו כריסיטיאן שנדלר - קרן דיפנס טק Protego

Protego backs Rilian in $17.5 million Seed round to bridge defense AI gap

23.04.26|Sophie Shulman
Israeli defense fund expands U.S. portfolio as startups target government adoption bottlenecks in security technology. 
Israel's defense tech ecosystem (2026)

The only country iterating DefenseTech under fire - Israel celebrates 78 years of independence

23.04.26|Alex Shmulovich
"Traditional militaries learn between wars. Israel is learning between iterations of the same war. Systems here do not just reach product-market fit. They reach battle-fit," writes Alex Shmulovich, a Partner at Viola Ventures.
Asaf Schreiber

The backlog-to-revenue gap: Why the next defense winners will be built on delivery speed

23.03.26|Asaf Schreiber
"The companies that can iterate at software speed, in the domains that matter most right now, are the ones that will define the next layer of the stack. Israel has already run this playbook once. Defense can be next," writes Asaf Schreiber, an Associate at Viola Ventures.
מערכת פגיון של סמארט שוטר

Israeli defense tech firm Smart Shooter raises $65 million in IPO

02.03.26|Amir Perger
Company valued at $293 million as global conflicts fuel a surge in military technology demand.
פאלמר לאקי

Anduril’s Palmer Luckey meets 10 Israeli defense startups in secret visit

20.02.26|Sophie Shulman
Smart Shooter, Kela and others pitch Anduril founder.
מימין יואב תורג'מן ו יובל שטייניץ

Rafael’s secrets are leaking - where are the watchdogs?

19.02.26|Yuval Azulay
As former executives join Ondas, oversight bodies appear paralyzed.
אבי לאומי אירונאוטיקס

Ondas seeks to acquire Rafael’s drone maker Aeronautics in expanding Israeli defense blitz

18.02.26|Yuval Azulay
The US-based defense firm aims to expand its Israeli footprint, raising questions about security approvals, executive departures, and Rafael’s broader privatization strategy.
Defense tech conference

“Israeli defense tech is tested in the operational arena, including in Iran”

17.02.26|CTech
Former Israeli Air Force commander highlights battlefield validation of technology.
רחפן מערכת הגנה חדשה של תע"א התעשייה האווירית הגנת גבולות כלים אוטונומיים

Defense-tech startup Tenna raises $13.5 million Seed to map the invisible battlefield

11.02.26|CTech
The Israeli firm turns existing sensors into a real-time shield against jamming and spoofing.
רובוט Ground Robot רובוט של חברת רובוטם נרכשה ע"י חברת אונדס

Defense Ministry freezes $100 million Ondas bid for Iron Dome software firm

18.01.26|Yuval Azulay
Former Rafael executives at US firm Ondas are leading an acquisition push in Israel, including a $100 million bid for Iron Dome software company mPrest, but the Defense Ministry is delaying approval over classified projects.
אושרי לוגסי מנכ"ל משותף של חברת אונדס החזקות

From Nasdaq backbencher to $5 billion valuation: Ondas’ sudden ascent raises questions

18.01.26|Sophie Shulman
The US-listed company’s Israeli defense acquisitions and executive hires contrast sharply with its recent financial history.
איץ אפלבאום יו"ר קרן ההשקעות קינטיקה

Even bigger than the cyber revolution: How Israel is becoming a global defense-tech powerhouse

15.01.26|Yitz Applbaum
"Israel is going to see hundreds of billions of dollars in defense tech exits in the next few years that are going to displace existing primes and reshape the global defense landscape," writes Yitz Applbaum, chairman of Kinetica VC fund.
כנס ניו יורק - שון מגווייר שותף Sequoia Capital

Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire says Israel risks losing “a war it can’t see”

02.12.25|CTech
“Missiles can be intercepted. Narratives can’t,” he argues, calling for major investment in AI-driven influence operations. 
אלכס מור שותף בקרן הון סיכון VC8

“We want to build the next Rafael”: Palantir veteran says Israel’s defense tech is moving faster than Washington realizes

20.11.25|Sophie Shulman
After years at Palantir, Alex Moore, a partner in the venture capital fund 8VC, which was founded by other Palantir alumni and manages $8 billion, argues that Israel’s unique convergence of urgency, talent and battlefield data is creating a pace of innovation unfamiliar in the U.S.
איתמר לב אלדר שותף ב-ERM

Defense investment funds are a welcome start - but the road ahead is long

04.11.25|Itamar Lev-Eldar
"Israel must move from a policy of intermittent encouragement to one of true partnerships with the DefenseTech ecosystem, offering startup companies access to tenders, regulatory certainty, and industrial backing," writes Itamar Lev-Eldar, a Partner at ERM Law firm.
UVision Hero 120 on armored vehicle

“Our drone is a one-way ticket”: Inside UVision’s deadly marriage of surveillance and strike

28.09.25|Amy Shapiro
As part of CTech’s series on Israel’s unmanned aerialscape, UVision EVP Itzik Huber explains how loitering munitions merge the intelligence of UAVs with the strike power of missiles, and the way that combination is reshaping modern warfare.
Lital Leshem Protego Ventures

Defensetech is here to stay – even after the wars in Ukraine and Israel end

12.08.25|Lital Leshem
“The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, combined with the absence of automatic U.S. backing, have triggered existential fears in many countries. These fears won’t simply fade when the fighting stops. For Israel’s high-tech sector, this presents a generational opportunity,” writes Lital Leshem, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Protego Ventures.
אמיר גבע סמנכ״ל צפון אמריקה של התעשייה האווירית IAI

New defense tech venture G2 emerges with high-profile founders, quiet controversy

03.08.25|Yuval Azulay
Amir Geva, Executive Vice President of North American Affairs at Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), founded a startup with the founder of Trax. Despite signing a conflict of interest agreement, according to which he is only allowed to invest in the company, in a deck to investors he was defined as the company's president. Geva: "It was a mistake by the editors of the presentation."
מימין יואב קנול אהרון אפלבאום פרד לנדאו מייסדי קרן דיפנס טק

Kinetica eyes $150 million to fuel Israel’s defense-tech surge

30.06.25|Sophie Shulman
The VC fund counts top Israeli generals, Palantir’s Joe Lonsdale, and U.S. security leaders among its backers and advisors.
SMASHSHOOTER

Israel’s SMARTSHOOTER lands $13M U.S. Army contract for advanced fire control systems

29.05.25|James Spiro
Its SMASH 3000 system uses artificial intelligence, computer vision, and advanced tracking to help soldiers detect and eliminate aerial and ground targets.
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