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Hila Rom RUNI Ventures

“High-tech’s resilience is not a sectoral interest – it’s a national mission”

28.02.24|James Spiro, Elihay Vidal
Hila Rom, Managing Partner at RUNI Ventures, joined CTech for its VC series to assess how Startup Nation may recover from wartime and economic turmoil.
Jon OurCrowd 2024

OurCrowd: "Great companies come from tough markets"

27.02.24|James Spiro, Elihay Vidal
When times get tough, that’s when innovation sparks new technologies and businesses for a brighter future.
Lior Grove

“Resilience and adaptability have historically characterized Israeli high-tech”

26.02.24|James Spiro, Elihay Vidal
Grove Ventures’ Lior Handelsman has joined CTech as part of its 2024 VC Survey to shed insight on Israel’s reputation after a turbulent 2023.
Ronnen Lovinger and Yoel Chetrit DustPhotonics

DustPhotonics raises $24 million in Series B follow-on

21.02.24|James Spiro
The Israeli startup, which develops silicon photonics for hyperscale data center and AI applications, has built a platform for the optical network market, offering improvements in bandwidth and speeds while lowering costs and power consumption
Yair Guy Fusion

“Israel’s tech sector can recover within months”

21.02.24|James Spiro, Elihay Vidal
Pre-Seed VC firm Fusion joined CTech for its 2024 VC Series to share insights on how the next year may look amid a string of national and global challenges.
Ofer YL Ventures

“Israeli tech has the rare ability to bounce back stronger than ever in the face of adversity”

20.02.24|James Spiro, Elihay Vidal
Ofer Schreiber, Senior Partner at YL Ventures, joined CTech to discuss some of the cybersecurity trends to look out for in 2024
Keren Kopilov Firstime VC

2024 is the time for “cautious optimism”, says Firstime Ventures

19.02.24|James Spiro, Elihay Vidal
The VC fund has joined CTech to discuss some of the ecosystem trends that investors can expect in 2024 and beyond.
KTrust Team

KTrust emerges from stealth with $5.3 million to detect Kubernetes exposures

14.02.24|James Spiro
Its Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) platform discovers creative attack paths and maneuvers around existing security measures to identify and validate actual exposures
מגזין נשים 2.7.18 גיגי לוי משקיע פרטי ב סטארט אפים

Gigi Levy-Weiss: “I have no doubt the Israeli ‘Startup Nation’ brand will thrive for years to come”

14.02.24|James Spiro, Elihay Vidal
NFX’s Levy-Weiss joined CTech to share how despite its challenges, Israel’s brand remains intact for seasoned investors.
Entree Capital Team 2024

“The impact of the war in Israel will last at least five years”

13.02.24|James Spiro, Elihay Vidal
Entrée Capital joined CTech for its 2024 VC Series to share how actions taken today can set Israel up for success in the future.
מטה וויקס Wix תל אביב

Wix launches Wix Capital Accelerator to support early-stage Israeli startups

12.02.24|James Spiro
The program is designed for pre-Seed and Seed-stage startups operating in core strategic fields relevant to Wix to help provide better experiences for site visitors on a variety of services
נמרוד כהן TAU Ventures

“There has always been an element of risk around the Israeli tech industry”

12.02.24|James Spiro, Elihay Vidal
Managing Partner of TAU Ventures Nimrod Cohen joined CTech to discuss VC trends in 2024 amid a variety of uncertainties.
TAU

TAU produces more unicorn founders than any other non-U.S. university

08.02.24|James Spiro
“I strongly believe we will prevail and eventually, we'll become much better than we actually were,” said Moshe Zviran, Professor and Chief Entrepreneurship and Innovation Officer at Tel Aviv University
At-Bay Team

At-Bay partners with CrowdStrike on cyber solution for SMBs

31.01.24|James Spiro
In the U.S., small businesses are more than twice as likely to suffer a cyber attack than a fire, often spending four times more on recovery.
jaron Bird

10 new Israel-U.S. projects receive $9.6 million from BIRD

28.01.24|James Spiro
The latest investment marks a total of $390 million in 1,000 joint projects across its 46-year history.
Web Summit

Web Summit still reeling from Cosgrave crisis with replacement stepping down after just 3 months

25.01.24|James Spiro
Katherine Maher is leaving the role of CEO and Chairperson to run NPR, the American non-profit media group
Sequence Team

Sequence secures $5.5 million to ‘reshape the personal finance industry’

24.01.24|James Spiro
The company helps users visualize their money, automate payments to boost savings and optimize finances, take more direct action, and make financial management more accessible.
Prompt Security

Prompt Security receives $5 million in Seed to secure generative AI

24.01.24|James Spiro
The recent lawsuit against OpenAI filed by The New York Times alleging that ChatGPT can output almost-verbatim article excerpts in its responses highlights the potential for generative AI tools to leak training data.
Google Campus

Google announces $4 million support fund for Israeli AI startups amid war

24.01.24|James Spiro
The company has provided Israel with a total of $8 million in relief since the October 7 attacks. The fund aims to help maximize the success of roughly 20 Israeli startups in need of immediate funding.
Alon Microsoft

Microsoft looks at Israeli high-tech as its ‘Gas and Oil’ in the Middle East

24.01.24|James Spiro
As the company searches for potential growth engines in the region, it partnered with Sapiens as a way to better penetrate the insurtech industry.