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הילה אוביל־ברנר, מנכ"לית ומייסדת ScaleUp House עם נבחרת הסטארט-אפים, אתמול

“Every entrepreneur dreams of growing, but the hardest part is learning to do it globally”

09.09.26|Hagai Gilboa

Hilla Ovil-Brenner, founder and CEO of ScaleUp House, described the idea behind the new forum for startups seeking to make the leap into global markets. Noa Tamir, CEO of Calcalist: “The goal is to help companies reach the next level.”

משתתפי הפאנל בכנס יריית הפתיחה של ה-ScaleUp House

"With all due respect to AI, in the end, scale-up is done with people"

09.09.26|Hagai Gilboa

In a panel on how startups can make the leap to global growth, held at the opening conference of ScaleUp House by Calcalist and Showcase IL in collaboration with LeumiTech, Nir Inbar of LeumiTech urged founders to raise enough money “to create a layer that allows you to make mistakes,” while Seffi Tsarfati of Google Israel said: “You need to define scale, whether it is a large number of countries and users or enterprise companies.”

עינת גז מנכ"לית ומייסדת פאפאיה גלובל

"You'll probably hear a lot more ‘no’ than ‘yes’, but that's part of the magic"

09.09.26|Hagai Gilboa

Eynat Guez, founder and CEO of Papaya Global, spoke at the ScaleUp House launch conference hosted by Calcalist and Showcase IL in collaboration with LeumiTech about the company’s journey from Google’s startup program during the pandemic to a global business with about 1,000 employees in 10 countries: “In the end, you’ll build the company you want to build.”

Scale-Up session

ScaleUp House begins search for Israel’s next generation of global companies

Twenty-nine companies presented to a committee of investors, founders and industry leaders after nearly 100 applied to join the initiative’s first cohort, which will support companies as they move from local traction to global growth.

Eyal Froind, CEO of Phoenix ESOP, Maor Levran, Co-Founder and CEO of Slice

Phoenix ESOP and Slice Bring Israel’s Trustee, Cap Table and Global Compliance Onto One Platform

06.09.26|special report

Following the successful launch of its new platform for public companies, Phoenix ESOP is taking another major step forward

מוסף שבועי 30.11.22 אורן זאב משקיע

Venture capitalist Oren Zeev's sharp warning: why Israeli startups must incorporate in the US

30.08.26|Meir Orbach

"I've never met a founder who regretted a US incorporation, and I often meet founders who regret an Israeli incorporation", claims Zeev against the common practice of startup incorporation in Israel

משמאל לימין: גדי אונגר, שי לבנת, יחד עם מנהלי הקרן ליאב בן רובי ודנה טייגמן קורן

Your AI agent should find customers, not replace employees

28.08.26|Liav Ben Rubi

Agentic AI should go beyond automating tasks and cutting costs: it can identify the right customers, partners, and opportunities, qualify business matches, and let humans focus on trust-building and closing deals.

Maya Eisen Zafrir Yam Regev Yodfat Harel Buchris

ScaleUp House - A new home for Israel’s most promising scale-ups

Calcalist and Showcase IL have launched ScaleUp House, a new year-round initiative designed to support ambitious Israeli technology companies as they scale globally, raise their next rounds, and build international market presence.

Elyor Zitalni, Deputy CEO at Phoenix ESOP

"AI is everywhere. It's no longer enough to differentiate a company"

23.07.26|special report

Elyor Zitalni, Deputy CEO at Phoenix ESOP, explains why AI no longer guarantees higher valuations, which sectors are attracting the strongest investor interest, and how equity valuations are evolving alongside Israel's startup ecosystem

יוניסטרים 2026 - מינגלינג וידאו

Unistream’s 2026 winner: Teen self-confidence-boosting hairstyling app

02.07.26|Tomer Hadar

A third-year apprentice group from the Unistream Entrepreneurship Center in Kinneret is the winner of the annual competition of the Unistream Association. The app they developed to boost self-confidence by personalizing and styling teenagers’ hair was awarded the title of “Project of the Year 2026.” Second place went to a group of teenagers from Be’er Sheva with a development that turns polluting agricultural waste into fertilizer.

מייסדי cyera מימין יונתן איתי תמר בר אילן ו יותם שגב

Israel's tech sector raises $8.4 billion in the first half of 2026

129 funding rounds spanning AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, healthcare and defence signal sustained investor appetite despite an ongoing war and global economic uncertainty.

מימין מייסדי אפספלייר אורן קניאל ו רשף מן

Israeli startups raise more than $3 billion in June as AI investment frenzy accelerates

AppsFlyer, Cyera and DriveNets led one of the strongest fundraising months in recent years, while more than 25 startups attracted fresh capital as investors concentrated on companies building the infrastructure, security and applications powering the AI era.

אוניברסיטת ת"א אוניברסיטת תל אביב

Israel moves to reignite university innovation engine

17.06.26|Sophie Shulman

Finance Ministry unveils sweeping reform as startup creation from academia hits multi-year lows.

Israel’s tech boom faces an unexpected threat: Its own currency

24.05.26|Sophie Shulman

As the shekel surges, Israeli engineers are becoming among the world’s most expensive workers.

Israel Founders Mission, Discount Tech ו IDB Tech team

Discount Tech and IDBNY Are Leading Israeli Startups to New York

19.05.26|Sponsored Content

The tech divisions of Israel Discount Bank and IDBNY, are launching a series of founder missions to the American market. The next one heads to New York in June, as part of a16z's NY Tech Week. The goal: to shorten the distance between Israeli startups and American investors

Quantum Machines מחשב קוונטום של המרכז הישראלי למחשוב קוונטי 2

Quantum computing nears its ‘ChatGPT moment’

23.04.26|Sophie Shulman

From theory to infrastructure, the industry begins its shift toward real-world deployment, with Israeli startups playing a key role.

מייסדי וויז WIZ מימין רועי רזניק ינון קוסטיקה עמי לוטבק ו אסף רפפורט

How Israeli startups keep winning in a year of war and disruption

21.04.26|Meir Orbach, Sophie Shulman

Calcalist’s list captures a sector scaling despite extraordinary constraints.

2025's Top 50 startups have done well for themselves.

Even amid war, Israeli startups keep scaling at record pace

21.04.26|Meir Orbach

Last year's "50 Most Promising Startups" have met great expectations, raising hundreds of millions, becoming unicorns, or being sold successfully.

שמעון אלקבץ איתי זלוטניק רעי גופר חברת Tomorrow.i

Israeli tech raises $775 million in best February since 2022

Cybersecurity and AI infrastructure dominate funding across 23 startup rounds.

ויז החברות הישראליות נוהרות לארה"ב

Half of Israel’s new startups now incorporate in the US

27.01.26|Sophie Shulman

Only 52% of new companies registered locally in 2025, as judicial upheaval, war and sentiment reshape founders’ decisions.