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אירוע טק עצמאות 2026 - דניאל מרכוס וידאו

April wants to "democratize the service" of tax optimization

06.05.26|Amy Shapiro

Daniel Marcous, Co-Founder and CPTO of April speaks to CTech at Calcalist's Top 50 Most Promising Startups event in Tel Aviv.

אירוע טק עצמאות 2026 - פרופסור נתנאל לינדר וידאו

"One of the biggest challenges in quantum computers is the issue of noise"

05.05.26|Amy Shapiro

Netanel Lindner, Co-Founder and CTO of Qedma and a Technion professor, speaks to CTech at Calcalist's Top 50 Most Promising Startups event in Tel Aviv.

אירוע טק עצמאות 2026 - זוהר עיני וידאו

"Developers are really stuck": Why Port.io is replacing manual DevOps with AI agents

04.05.26|Amy Shapiro

Zohar Einy, CEO of Port.io, speaks to CTech at Calcalist's Top 50 Most Promising Startups event in Tel Aviv.

אירוע טק עצמאות 2026 - גיל טובלי וידאו

"A Robin Hood movement to help the smaller developers": How Appcharge is fighting app store monopolies

03.05.26|Amy Shapiro

Gil Tov-Ly, CMO of Appcharge, speaks to CTech at Calcalist's Top 50 Most Promising Startups event in Tel Aviv.

אירוע טק עצמאות 2026 - שי לוי וידאו

Unframe CEO: "I foresaw that enterprises were going to struggle to adopt AI"

30.04.26|Amy Shapiro

Shay Levi, Co-Founder and CEO of Unframe, speaks to CTech at Calcalist's Top 50 Most Promising Startups event in Tel Aviv.

אירוע טק עצמאות 2026 - מיכל לופו וידאו

“AI software is becoming active and it drives work forward”

29.04.26|Amy Shapiro

Michal Lupu, Co-Founder and CEO of Blocks, speaks to CTech at Calcalist's Top 50 Most Promising Startups event in Tel Aviv.

מוסף עצמאות מנהלים איור חדי קרן

A quiet shift is underway in the startup nation

24.04.26|Sophie Shulman

Israeli founders are moving earlier, hiring abroad and rethinking where development should sit.

חוות שרתים דאטה סנטר

Goodbye SaaS, hello silicon

24.04.26|Omer Kabir

The AI boom is redirecting billions from software applications to the hardware that powers them.

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.

AI is turning uncertainty into the new normal

22.04.26|Noam Canetti

Why founders are re-entering execution mode and abandoning long-term certainty.

Wiz and the long game of building global companies

22.04.26| Gili Raanan

Cyberstarts founder Gili Raanan on independence, scale, and shaping markets.

מגזין 100 משפיעים ומשפיעות 2025 אודי מוקדי סייברארק

Independence is the path. Innovation is the engine.

22.04.26|Udi Mokady

CyberArk founder Udi Mokady’s perspective on growth, resilience, and the future of Israeli high-tech.

יבגני דיברוב ו נדיר יזרעאל מייסדי ארמיס

Beyond the exit: What the $7.75 billion Armis deal says about Israel

22.04.26|Yevgeny Dibrov, Nadir Izrael

The personal story of Armis co-founders Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael mirrors the rise of an entire ecosystem.

עמי לוטבק ממייסדי וויז WIZ

What it takes to build a company like Wiz

21.04.26|Ami Luttwak

Six insights from Wiz co-founder and CTO Ami Luttwak on hiring, speed, branding, and scaling globally.

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.

מוסף עצמאות מנהלים מייסדי AIR נתנאל גולדברג , רני פלאוט ו חן רוזן

Israel’s AIR looks to bring aviation into the consumer era

21.04.26|Meir Orbach

With software updates and home-based infrastructure, the company, ranked third in Calcalist and CTech’s top 50 most promising startups of 2026, mirrors Tesla’s playbook in the skies.

מוסף עצמאות מנהלים מייסדי Irregular מייסדי Unframe מימין עדי עזריה , שי לוי לריסה שניידר

“Despite all the noise, organizations struggle to extract real value from AI”

21.04.26|Meir Orbach, Sophie Shulman

Unframe positions itself as a bridge between experimental AI agents and practical enterprise deployment, after being named the No. 2 most promising Israeli startup for 2026 by Calcalist and CTech.

מוסף עצמאות מנהלים מייסדי Irregular דן להב ו עומר נבו

“We’re aiming to build the next Palo Alto Networks or CrowdStrike”

21.04.26|Meir Orbach, Sophie Shulman

Working with companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, Israeli startup Irregular, named Israel’s most promising startup in Calcalist and CTech’s annual Top 50 list, is betting that the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence will upend existing security models and reward those who can control it.

Calcalist and CTech's 50 most promising startups list 2026

The 50 most promising Israeli startups - 2026

21.04.26|Meir Orbach, Sophie Shulman

Now in its 17th year, Calcalist and CTech’s Top 50 list showcases Israel’s most promising private tech companies, selected with input from leading investors, entrepreneurs, and industry advisors, and curated by the publication’s editorial team, reflecting the sector’s shift toward AI-native platforms, deep tech, and scalable, revenue-driven innovation.