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April wants to "democratize the service" of tax optimization
06.05.26
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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.
"One of the biggest challenges in quantum computers is the issue of noise"
05.05.26
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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.
"Developers are really stuck": Why Port.io is replacing manual DevOps with AI agents
04.05.26
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Amy Shapiro
Zohar Einy, CEO of Port.io, speaks to CTech at Calcalist's Top 50 Most Promising Startups event in Tel Aviv.
"A Robin Hood movement to help the smaller developers": How Appcharge is fighting app store monopolies
03.05.26
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Amy Shapiro
Gil Tov-Ly, CMO of Appcharge, speaks to CTech at Calcalist's Top 50 Most Promising Startups event in Tel Aviv.
Unframe CEO: "I foresaw that enterprises were going to struggle to adopt AI"
30.04.26
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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.
“AI software is becoming active and it drives work forward”
29.04.26
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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.
A quiet shift is underway in the startup nation
24.04.26
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Sophie Shulman
Israeli founders are moving earlier, hiring abroad and rethinking where development should sit.
Goodbye SaaS, hello silicon
24.04.26
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Omer Kabir
The AI boom is redirecting billions from software applications to the hardware that powers them.
Quantum computing nears its ‘ChatGPT moment’
23.04.26
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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
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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
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Gili Raanan
Cyberstarts founder Gili Raanan on independence, scale, and shaping markets.
Independence is the path. Innovation is the engine.
22.04.26
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Udi Mokady
CyberArk founder Udi Mokady’s perspective on growth, resilience, and the future of Israeli high-tech.
Beyond the exit: What the $7.75 billion Armis deal says about Israel
22.04.26
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Yevgeny Dibrov, Nadir Izrael
The personal story of Armis co-founders Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael mirrors the rise of an entire ecosystem.
What it takes to build a company like Wiz
21.04.26
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Ami Luttwak
Six insights from Wiz co-founder and CTO Ami Luttwak on hiring, speed, branding, and scaling globally.
How Israeli startups keep winning in a year of war and disruption
21.04.26
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Meir Orbach, Sophie Shulman
Calcalist’s list captures a sector scaling despite extraordinary constraints.
Even amid war, Israeli startups keep scaling at record pace
21.04.26
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Meir Orbach
Last year's "50 Most Promising Startups" have met great expectations, raising hundreds of millions, becoming unicorns, or being sold successfully.
Israel’s AIR looks to bring aviation into the consumer era
21.04.26
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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.
“Despite all the noise, organizations struggle to extract real value from AI”
21.04.26
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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.
“We’re aiming to build the next Palo Alto Networks or CrowdStrike”
21.04.26
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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.
The 50 most promising Israeli startups - 2026
21.04.26
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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.
