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עובדי אורקה סקיוריטי

Orca Security raising $150 million from Singapore's Temasek

04.07.21|Meir Orbach
Shareholders and investors in the Israeli cybersecurity company are headed for a hefty payday, with Orca in the midst of raising funds at a $1.75 billion valuation, just three months after its $210 million Series C
חמי פרס אדם סינגולדה נאסדק

Three lessons I learned from Taboola's IPO

01.07.21|Chemi Peres
Chemi Peres, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Pitango and an investor in Taboola, tells CTech about the company's 14-year journey from a dream to Wall Street
ריאן גורני YL Ventures

Ryan Gurney, ex-Googler, joins YL Ventures as CISO-in-Residence

15.06.21|CTech
Former Chief Security Officer at Looker, which was acquired by Google, brings customer-centric and early adopter-perspective to support YL Ventures portfolio companies’ expansion
Liron Azrielant Daniel Roditi Meron Capital

Meron Capital announces new $50 million fund to invest in early-stage Israeli tech

14.06.21|Meir Orbach
The VC's inaugural fund launched in 2017 has invested in 16 startups to date, registering four successful exits, with 10 of the startups raising further financing in the excess of $300 million
קרן שווק Karen Schwok Lucid Investments

The Israeli finance management sector is not ready for all the new rich techies

10.06.21|Elihay Vidal
As funding and SPACs create thousands of newly rich people across the country, Karen Schwok has concerns about how the sector will respond
Jonathan Cohen associate at Catalyst Investments

Study: Israeli unicorns reach $1 billion valuation in an average 6 years

06.06.21|Allon Sinai
According to a report by Catalyst Investments, the average time it takes for Israeli tech startups to become unicorns has decreased by half in the past decade
Amnon Shashua Mobileye אמנון שעשוע מובילאיי

Shashua's Digital Bank eyeing $100 million funding round

19.05.21|Irit Avisar
The investment is set to provide the bank with the additional funds it requires ahead of its launch next year and be conducted according to a valuation of several hundreds of millions of dollars
יוסי דורי מנהל השקעות ראשי ב כלל

The biggest VC fund in Israel you didn’t even know existed

30.04.21|Sophie Shulman
Clal Insurance has become the largest high tech investor in Israel with a $2 billion portfolio, holding stakes in the likes of Pagaya, Hippo and REE to name a few
כנס Fintech 2017 ג'ון מדבד

"The Israeli tech ecosystem has become a well-oiled machine"

29.04.21|CTech
Jon Medved, founder and CEO of Jerusalem-based investment platform OurCrowd, noted that partnering with the Gulf countries "is allowing Israel to penetrate markets we've never dreamed of in Southeast Asia and around the broader Islamic world"
יפעת אורון על רקע בלקסטון

Blackstone in Israel: Pouring fuel on the raging fire of local tech

26.04.21|Sophie Shulman
Israeli tech entrepreneurs are used to working with VC funds, but Blackstone is very different
אביבית בנדר בנק הפועלים

Bank Hapoalim to launch new investment track for startups

25.04.21|Meir Orbach
The bank’s Innovation and Strategy department has already invested in three local startups: Perception Point, Kyron, and Lightico
בועה בורסה מניות עליות שערים וול סטריט

The capital markets are sobering up from the great SPAC binge

22.04.21|Sophie Shulman
The SPAC index has fallen 11% since the start of the year; many SPAC shares have crashed and short positions on them have multiplied; Is Israel’s SPAC gold rush coming to an end?
אורן בר און 28.4.20

Covid-19 led to the Israeli tech sector’s rapid maturation

19.04.21|Oren Bar-On
A good mix of tech specialization and more patient board rooms is seeing Israel transition out of its startup nation phase
מוסף עצמאות איור כתבת יוניקורנים

7 reasons why Israel has become an assembly line for tech unicorns

17.04.21|Sophie Shulman
The stars aligned perfectly for the local tech sector over the past year, sparking a baby boom of billion-dollar companies
Ctech most promising 2021

The 50 Most Promising Israeli Startups - 2021

14.04.21|Hagar Ravet and Meir Orbach
We look beyond the blinding valuations to choose the companies that not only survived the Covid-19 crisis but thrived and are now best positioned for future success
הדפסת דולרים כסף מזומן דולר

Israeli tech startups raise a record $5.37 billion in first quarter of 2021

12.04.21|Meir Orbach
The total sum raised in the quarter increased by 89% compared to the fourth quarter of last year and was double that raised in Q1 of 2020
Gilad Gat Uri Gruenbaum Tipranks

TipRanks announces $77 million investment round to support retail investor boom

08.04.21|CTech
Israeli-based fintech company provides a simplified stock research platform that makes alternative datasets accessible and visual for retail investors
מנכ"ל סלברייט יוסי כרמיל

Cellebrite to go public through a SPAC merger at a $2.4 billion valuation

08.04.21|Sophie Shulman
The Israeli digital intelligence company is set to merge with Nasdaq listed TWC Tech Holdings Corp II
צמיחה עלייה שטרות כסף

The government must not let the recent tech bonanza go to waste

08.04.21|Sophie Shulman
With the market at a boiling point, the next government has to act quickly so that all Israelis can share the wealth
רמי שש מייסד whitesource

Israel’s WhiteSource announces $75 million series D

07.04.21|Meir Orbach
“Application security needs have gone beyond just detection to include continuous prioritization and prevention,” says CEO Rami Sass