Sophie Shulman

20 stories about Sophie Shulman
Carbyne team

Public safety giant Axon acquires Carbyne for $625 million in cash

05.11.25|Sophie Shulman
The deal combines Axon’s field technology with Carbyne’s cloud-based 911 platform to create a fully integrated emergency response system.
אריאל כהן ואילן טוויג מייסדי TripActions טריפאקשנס כנס פינטק  וידאו

Navan founders pocket $25M each in IPO amid shaky market debut

02.11.25|Sophie Shulman
Co-founders Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig join early backers in cashing out, while shares struggle to hold value after listing.
אריאל כהן ו אילן טוויג

Why did Navan lose $1 billion in market value on its first day on Wall Street?

02.11.25|Sophie Shulman
The Israeli-founded travel and expense platform saw its shares tumble after a highly anticipated IPO. 
מוסף שבועי 30.11.22 אורן זאב משקיע

Oren Zeev turns early Navan bet into $1 billion payday

30.10.25|Sophie Shulman, CTech
The early Israeli investor retains a major holding alongside Lightspeed and Andreessen Horowitz. 
מייסדי וויבי Weavy founders

Figma acquires one-year-old Israeli AI startup Weavy for over $200 million

30.10.25|Sophie Shulman
The deal marks the design software giant’s largest acquisition and paves the way for a new R&D center in Tel Aviv.
Wiz founders

How serial entrepreneurs are powering Israel’s startup economy

30.10.25|Sophie Shulman
Nearly 10% of global startups founded by repeat entrepreneurs come from Israel, second only to the US.
בניין חברת ורוניס בהרצליה פיתוח

Varonis shares plunge 45% after surprise earnings miss

29.10.25|Sophie Shulman
Investors punish Israeli-founded cyber firm for lack of warning as cloud shift raises doubts about long-term strategy.
Wild Moose founders

Y Combinator-backed Wild Moose raises $7 million Seed to stop the next AWS-style outage

28.10.25|Sophie Shulman
Israeli startup backed by Dropbox and Netflix veterans uses AI to uncover the root cause of system failures in minutes.
נדב צפריר מנכ"ל צ'ק פוינט

“Expect acquisitions to increase”: Check Point CEO signals expansion after strong quarter

28.10.25|Sophie Shulman
Zafrir points to renewed growth momentum as billings surge 20% and company accelerates AI hiring worldwide.
כנס טק אילת 2025 - שון מגווייר שותף קרן סקויה

Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire: “Israel is ideally positioned for AI” as firm unveils $200M Seed fund

27.10.25|Sophie Shulman
The outspoken partner says Sequoia is accelerating investments in Israel despite the war, with much of the new fund headed for Tel Aviv’s tech scene.
זאב פרבמן מייסד לייטריקס Lightricks

Lightricks cuts 15% of workforce while expanding AI team

27.10.25|Sophie Shulman
Jerusalem unicorn lays off 85 employees as it reorganizes around its new AI video model. 
המרכז החדש שיוקם ב באר שבע הדמיה של בניין 5 בפארק ההייטק של גב ים אנבידיה

Nvidia’s Israeli expansion accelerates with hundreds of new hires in new southern hub

26.10.25|Sophie Shulman
The company will move to a new 3,000-square-meter site in Be’er Sheva in 2026, creating hundreds of jobs in Israel’s southern tech hub. The chipmaker now employs over 5,000 in Israel and is also scouting land for a northern campus spanning up to 120 dunams. 
Hyro Headshots

Hyro secures $45 million to scale AI automation in US healthcare

21.10.25|Sophie Shulman
The startup aims to ease staffing pressures and improve patient access by deploying AI agents across hospitals and health systems nationwide.
אידו ג'ינו יזם ומייסד Datawizz

Ex-RapidAPI prodigy Iddo Gino launches AI startup Datawizz with $12.5M Seed round

30.09.25|Sophie Shulman
The 26-year-old entrepreneur, ousted from his first unicorn in 2023, returns with a startup aiming to slash the costs of running AI models.
Iddo Gino

"I hope the AI bubble bursts soon. I need it to happen for my startup to succeed"

30.09.25|Sophie Shulman
After being ousted from RapidAPI, former teen unicorn founder Iddo Gino returns with Datawizz, aiming to cut AI costs, challenge industry giants, and navigate the fevered Silicon Valley landscape.
פרופ' אמנון שעשוע מובילאיי ינואר 2024

Shashua’s stealth AI startup raises hundreds of millions at over $1 billion valuation

25.09.25|Sophie Shulman
AAI, which the Mobileye and AI21 Labs founder co-founded in 2023, has quietly secured major backing as it pursues superintelligence research.
ויה הישראלית שהונפקה פותחת את המסחר בניו יורק

Via teams up with Waymo to power autonomous taxi service

21.09.25|Sophie Shulman
Fresh off a $4B Wall Street debut, the Israeli company will integrate its transit platform into Waymo’s driverless fleets.
מטה אנבידיה ומשרדי אינטל

Intel’s employees win breathing room; its strategy remains in crisis

21.09.25|Sophie Shulman
The Nvidia partnership boosts stock value and morale, but Intel’s design-and-manufacture model remains under pressure.
אריאל כהן ואילן טוויג מייסדי TripActions טריפאקשנס כנס פינטק  וידאו

From collapse to Nasdaq: Navan files for IPO after pandemic reinvention

20.09.25|Sophie Shulman
The Israeli-founded travel and fintech company nearly collapsed in 2020, but eyes $5–7B valuation in Wall Street debut.