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Growth Plus 2026
16 stories about Growth Plus 2026
“What worked for one person is often impossible to replicate or irrelevant to your own journey”
16.04.26
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Maayan Manela
As part of the Growth+ project by Calcalist and Poalim Tech, Amos Peled, co-founder and CEO of Guardio, met with Guy Manzur, founder of Lunair: “I suddenly had to take on a lot of other responsibilities outside my field, such as marketing, sales, economics, and business.”
"The challenge at the beginning was understanding that we were a high-tech company"
16.04.26
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Maayan Manela
As part of the Growth+ project by Calcalist and Poalim Tech, Ira Belsky, CEO of Artlist, met with Nadav Benoudiz, CEO of GenieLabs, who said: "It’s easy to hear ‘listen to the customer’ on podcasts, but it’s not that simple in reality."
“In the early stages it is very important to do things yourself”
16.04.26
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Maayan Manela
As part of the Growth+ project of Calcalist and Poalim Tech, Michal Mor, co-founder and CEO of Smart Shooter, sat down with Tamar Harary, CEO of LiteVision-EO, who said: “Deciding that I was starting the company and jumping into these waters was a very difficult decision.”
“Once you distill the real goal, you can reverse-engineer the path that will lead there”
16.04.26
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Maayan Manela
As part of the Growth+ project by Calcalist and Poalim Tech, Yali Saar of Tailor Brands met with Keren Yakolev Zur, founder of Dappas, who said: “I think the biggest challenge, in a positive sense, was building the team, finding the right people and building an organizational culture.”
"Sudden success can also be the end of the business"
10.04.26
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Maayan Manela
As part of the Growth+ project by Calcalist and Poalim Tech, Micha Kaufman, founder and CEO of Fiverr met with Li-ran Navon, CEO of Sauce: "The level of resilience required to compete globally, while dealing with everything happening here, is immense."
“We quickly realized that to reach our potential we needed to build a broad platform that could compete with the largest players”
10.04.26
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Maayan Manela
As part of the Growth+ project by Calcalist and Poalim Tech, Lavi Ferdman, SVP of Growth at Upwind, met with David Allouche, CEO and co-founder at Senai: “We had to leave Israel to meet clients while airports here were closed for weeks. Managing a small team spread across the world, while also taking care of families in Israel during wartime, has been the biggest challenge this year.”
"You have to know how to work fast and fix things on the go"
09.04.26
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Maayan Manela
As part of the Growth+ project by Calcalist and Poalim Tech, Ofer Smadari, CEO and Co-Founder of Torq, met with Lior Ziv, Founder and CEO of Zing: “We raised initial funding and deliberately moved fast to meet the market, and if we had to fail, we wanted to fail fast and fail forward. And that's exactly what happened.”
“A startup can’t do the same thing throughout its entire life”
09.04.26
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Maayan Manela
As part of the Growth+ project by Calcalist and Poalim Tech, Vered Raviv Schwarz, President and COO at Guesty, met with Sapir Tubul, Co-Founder and CTO at LeanCon. “We knew that if we said two months, we would lose the client. So when they asked how long it would take, I answered: 'A week.' From that moment on, we went into sleepless nights, working 24/7 to deliver the product. In the end, it took us nine days instead of a week.”
"The real goal of a startup is to build something once and sell it many times"
31.03.26
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Maayan Manela
As part of the Growth+ project of Calcalist and Poalim Tech, Ofir Ehrlich, co-founder and CEO of Eon, met with Chen Markman, CEO of Avon AI: "You need to build a deep, wide, and defensible moat, one that makes it very difficult for competitors to cross."
"When you position yourself correctly in the value chain and quantify the impact in billions, investors understand immediately"
31.03.26
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Maayan Manela
As part of the Growth+ initiative by Calcalist and Poalim Tech, Elad Raz, co-founder of NextSilicon, met with Moshe Noy, CEO of Caesarea Labs, to offer advice, support, and insights on entrepreneurship, startup management, and scaling companies for growth.
"You must constantly test yourself against the market and determine whether there is real alignment"
30.03.26
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Maayan Manela
As part of the Growth+ initiative by Calcalist and Poalim Tech, Noam Solomon, co-founder and CEO of Immunai, met with with Michal Cohen-Shelly, founder of SwayV, to offer advice, support, and insights on entrepreneurship, startup management, and scaling companies for growth.
"Apart from development, it is critical not to lose sight of the business, sales, and customer acquisition"
30.03.26
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Maayan Manela
As part of the Growth+ project by Calcalist and Poalim Tech, Michal Kissos Hertzog, CEO of Poalim Tech, met with Dekel Yaacov, co-founder of enSights: "It is essential to stay close to customers."
"You have to be where the market is. It's hard to understand from the outside"
26.03.26
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Maayan Manela
As part of the Growth+ initiative by Calcalist and Poalim Tech, Maayan Cohen, CEO of Hello Heart, met with Karny Ilan, CEO of Feminai, to offer advice, support, and insights on entrepreneurship, startup management, and scaling companies for growth.
"There are no books that will teach you entrepreneurship, just enjoy the journey"
26.03.26
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Maayan Manela
As part of the Growth+ initiative by Calcalist and Poalim Tech, Guy Flechter, CEO of Sola Security met with Ziv Yankowitz, CTO of Surf Security, to offer advice, support, and insights on entrepreneurship, startup management, and scaling companies for growth.
"A philosophy that’s ahead of its time gets a lot of ‘no’s’"
25.03.26
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Maayan Manela
As part of the Growth+ initiative by Calcalist and Poalim Tech, Ronen Lavi, CEO of Navina met with Dr. Gilad Lando, CEO of CatAmmon, to offer advice, support, and insights on entrepreneurship, startup management, and scaling companies for growth.
“If the value for the customer is real, they’ll be willing to pay”
25.03.26
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Maayan Manela
As part of the Growth+ initiative by Calcalist and Poalim Tech, Arad Levertov from Sunbit sat down with Adi Assayag Elmakis from DevRob to offer advice, support, and insights on entrepreneurship, startup management, and scaling companies for growth.
