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Options

20 stories about Options
רענן כהן ו דבורה כהן

“Sell everything you have vested”

16.08.26|Maya Nahum Shahal
Raanan Cohen learned the hard way what happens when employees keep waiting for their startup shares to become worth even more. Now he is trying to convince others to take some money off the table. 
OpenAI

OpenAI lets employees cash out $7 billion as IPO plans remain uncertain

11.08.26|Lital Samet
The tender offer values the AI company at $852 billion and gives current and former employees liquidity without requiring OpenAI to go public.
ריצ'רד פרנסיס מפגש העיתונאים

Teva CEO cashes in $30 million in shares in two weeks

08.03.26|Sophie Shulman
Richard Francis sells stock after Teva’s 110% rally over the past year.
עובדי KOI

Koi sold to Palo Alto for $400 million before most employees received options

26.02.26|Sophie Shulman
The founders of the Israeli startup have moved to compensate staff after rapid acquisition left the equity pool incomplete.
דייב לובצקי מנכ"ל IBI

The hidden winner in Wiz’s historic $32 billion deal

16.02.26|Almog Azar
IBI Capital, Israel’s largest equity plan administrator, poised for revenue boost. 
עובדי נקסט אינשורנס

The $15 billion windfall: How 2025 quietly made thousands of Israeli tech workers rich

06.01.26|Sophie Shulman
Behind the record exits and stock gains, a historic transfer of wealth reshaped Israel’s economy.
OpenAI

OpenAI is paying $1.5 million per employee in equity

31.12.25|Omer Kabir
Average employee stock awards dwarf pre-IPO payouts at Google and Facebook as costs surge.
פרופסור עומר מואב

"Trump’s behavior is destructive. Americans elected an infantile narcissist, and he is causing enormous harm"

08.04.25|Shaked Green
According to Prof. Omer Moav, the idea behind the tariffs is not only mistaken but also a reflection of deep and dangerous economic illiteracy.
דינה בן טל מנכלית אלעל תעופה

El Al CEO sells shares for $2.2 million as stock hits new heights after war-driven demand

17.03.25|Orna Yeffet
Dina Ben Tal Ganancia locks in a $1.45 million profit following the airline’s record-breaking year.
בניין של רשות המסים

Tax Authority cracks down on tech stock options with new reporting rules

15.12.24|Shaked Green
New digital system aims to prevent misuse of NIS 15 billion in tax benefits.
משפט פטיש כסף עורכי דין

High-tech stock options divided by Rabbinical court in divorce appeal

15.10.24|Lital Dobrovitzky
The Great Rabbinical Court in Jerusalem overturns a lower court’s ruling, granting a woman a share of stock options earned by her ex-husband during their marriage.
Tzvika Bernstein Racheli Guz Lavi

"There are major gaps between employees' knowledge of options and the rights and value of their options packages”

03.05.23|CTech
Adi Zentner, legal counsel to Equitybee, was speaking at an event that dealt with the consequences of the crisis in the high-tech sector with regard to options and employee compensation
פאגאיה הנפקה נאסד"ק

Pagaya executives were looking at $200 million windfall had stock price held up

24.04.23|Amir Perger
The founders, managers, and directors of the fintech company received generous option allocations, but they have been unable to convert them to cash with Pagaya’s share price falling by 92% since going public in June 2022
פיטורים בהייטק מפוטר מפוטרים

Know your options: Fired from a high-tech company? What can you do with the options?

26.12.22|Maayan Manela
The wave of layoffs in high-tech is intensifying and thousands of workers hold options in the companies they left. Can they be realized or sold and what questions should be asked in order to make the most financially sound decision
עושות כסף צרכנות פיננסית נשים אשת עסקים השקעות חיסכון

Solving the transparency barrier in secondary transactions

29.08.22|Avivit Ben-Avi
"Despite being an established market, the information available to buyers and sellers is limited and characterized by a lack of transparency when compared to the market for publicly-traded stock," writes Avivit Ben-Avi, Managing Director at AST Private Company Solutions
בניין הנהלת קומברס ברעננה

After 13 years, Comverse ordered to compensate former employees $16 million in backdating affair

12.07.22|Lital Dobrovitsky
The Comverse options backdating affair, which first made headlines in 2006, prevented its employees from exercising their options. The employees will finally be compensated after reaching a settlement as part of class actions lawsuits filed in 2009
איירון סורס הנפקה

Unicorn troubles: How to convince tech talent to stay

30.01.22|Maayan Manela
While IPOs or lofty valuations may seem like a reason to party, they’re also a turning point as some employees are realizing their options’ value may decrease, and prefer to work elsewhere
שחר צפריר TLV Partners

How to compare the value of your startup options offers?

16.12.21|Elihay Vidal
Whether you are deciding between job offers, or hold options as startup employees, understanding how to calculate the value of options is crucial. TLV Partners’ Shahar Tzafrir is calling for entrepreneurs to be more transparent with their workers and explains to employees what to lookout for
EquityBee אקוויטיבי

EquityBee secures $55 million in B round

29.09.21|Hagar Ravet
The Israeli start-up offers a marketplace where startup employees who lack the necessary funds to exercise their stock options can find investors, in return for a part of the potential future gains
טל דורי מנכ"ל IBI CAPITAL

Equity incentive management companies reaping millions from tech bonanza

18.07.21|Sophie Shulman
The accelerated growth of big Israeli tech companies and the expanding custom of awarding share options to almost all employees has significantly increased the retainer received by equity incentive management firms
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