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Erez Agmon

Israel's blind spot: The CFO is ready to buy, but is Israeli tech ready to sell?

12.04.26|Erez Agmon
"The AI-driven transformation of the CFO tech stack is creating a rare market opportunity," writes Erez Agmon, CEO of Vayu.
Safi Keisari

Coding is only 20% of the effort: The revolution transforming Israeli tech

08.04.26|Saffi Keisari
Saffi Keisari, VP of R&D (Chief of Engineering) at Priority Software, argues that in the age of AI, planning has become the most critical factor in the world of development. 
Ezra Gardner Varana

In a fragmenting world, one investment destination stands out: Israel

08.04.26|Ezra Gardner
"Investors face a simple question: Where will growth, resilience, and strategic alignment converge? Right now, there is a compelling case that the answer is Israel," writes Ezra Gardner, Co-Founder of Varana Capital.
Gil Shai

Hormuz is the wake-up call: Climate tech is now an economic necessity

07.04.26|Gil Shai
The Hormuz disruption did not create a new market, but it did make the existing one impossible to ignore. 
Vera Shulman

Learning to manage the cloud without losing control

03.04.26|Vera Shulman
"The key question for decision-makers is no longer which model writes better code, but whether their cloud infrastructure is ready for the day AI becomes central to business operations rather than a marginal tool," writes Vera Shulman, CEO of ProfiSea.
מיה בלנק סמנכ"לית משאבי אנוש Evinced

The battle for managerial autonomy: Are your employees managing AI, or is AI managing them?

01.04.26|Maya Blanc
"The question is no longer technical but fundamentally managerial: if the machine knows how to execute, who defines what is worth executing?" writes Maya Blanc, VP of HR at Evinced.
נועה אשר NTT

Laser energy: From the military domain to the core of civilian innovation

30.03.26|Noa Asher
Recent developments in laser technology are enabling civilian applications that were previously out of reach, such as electrical infrastructure, drones, and the Internet of Things. Innovative Israeli technologies could play a decisive role in the laser revolution.
Dor Lee-Lo

The European VC gap in Israeli tech and why it matters now

29.03.26|Dor Lee-Lo
Structural gaps, not strategy, explain why European investors are missing from Israel's tech ecosystem.
יניב סולקס מנהל חטיבת  Physical AI ב- Hailo

The next AI revolution will not be decided in the cloud, but at the edge

24.03.26|Yaniv Sulkes
"In the coming decade, competitive advantage will not be determined solely by the quality of the model, but by the ability to operate it in the real world, in real time, and at scale," writes Yaniv Sulkes, Head of the Physical AI Division at Hailo.
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.
בראל כפיר שותף בקרן  Dell Technologies Capital

Rising cyber threats bring the human factor back center stage

15.03.26|Barrel Kfir
"As threats become more autonomous and complex, the need for solutions that bring order to the chaos and restore control to the organization will grow too," said Barrel Kfir, a Partner at Dell Technologies Capital.
אורן פורת מנכ"ל חטיבת התשתיות קבוצת peax

Between AI, cloud and physical collapse: Building resilience in an unstable world

11.03.26|Oren Porat
"In an era of soaring hardware prices and AI agents becoming the beating heart of the organization, infrastructure is no longer only 'a topic for the technologists', but is becoming a full-blown business compass," writes Oren Porat, CEO of the Infrastructure Division at peax.
Yonni Shelmerdine

From exit nation to enduring platforms - a product perspective on Israel’s next cyber chapter

10.03.26|Yonni Shelmerdine
How does Israel evolve from a market optimized for acquisitions into one capable of repeatedly building large, market-shaping companies that can not just get to $100M but consistently scale beyond that?
Gilad Barash

AI readiness isn’t about models - it’s about maturity

25.02.26|Gilad Barash
Organizations overestimate their AI readiness because they underestimate governance complexity.
Joshua Begner

AI is rewriting the exit playbook for founders

25.02.26|Joshua Begner
For decades, Israeli founders chased Nasdaq. In the AI era, that strategy may no longer be optimal.
Tal Abuloff Alon Cinnamon

Claude Code Security didn’t kill cybersecurity. It exposed what’s coming next.

22.02.26|Alon Cinamon
"Anthropic didn’t kill cybersecurity. They validated that Frontier AI is now a real participant in the security market, at the exact moment when software velocity, data-source sprawl, and attacker automation are all accelerating," writes Alon Cinamon, a Principal at Viola Ventures.
טליה כהן סולל ו דפנה לייפנפלד

Big Tech on the witness stand: Are algorithms responsible for the mental health crisis?

19.02.26|Dr. Talia Cohen-Solel and Dr. Daphna Laifenfeld
The most significant contribution of the ongoing trial may ultimately not be the verdict itself, but the shift in public discourse it has generated.