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Boaz Morris Qumra Capital

“Foreign LPs who have waited on the sidelines are returning with increased appetite for Israeli tech”

22.01.26|Amy Shapiro, Elihay Vidal
Qumra Capital Partner Boaz Morris joins CTech as part of the VC Survey 2026: The Next Leap, offering his outlook on the rebranding of the Israeli asset class, the high-bar liquidity environment, and the high-CAPEX ventures driving the next decade for Startup Nation.
BiblioTech Uzi Baruch

CTech’s Book Review: Avoid being swayed by market hysteria

21.01.26|Uzi Baruch
Uzi Baruch, managing partner at RealNumbers, shares insights after reading "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham.
Amit Alfasi, Investor Relations Manager at Peregrine Ventures.

“The same sensor fusion and computer vision tech used for military target acquisition are now disrupting surgery”

21.01.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Amit Alfasi, investor relations manager at Peregrine Ventures, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey.  
Lia Cromwell UpWest

“The recovery of the Israeli IPO market in 2026 is fundamentally tied to the stabilization of US capital markets”

21.01.26|Amy Shapiro, Elihay Vidal
UpWest Partner Lia Cromwell joins CTech as part of the VC Survey 2026: The Next Leap to offer her predictions for the investment landscape, from the anticipated thaw of the IPO window for Israeli startups to the latent potential of Vertical AI.
David Feldman Flint

“Sovereignty has become a commercial requirement, not just a political statement”

20.01.26|Elihay Vidal, Amy Shapiro
Flint Capital Principal David Feldman joins CTech to offer his outlook on the state of Startup Nation, from its rebranding as a stress-tested allocation to the roadmap for its next export engine, as part of the VC Survey 2026: The Next Leap.
Nadav Shimoni, Managing Director at A² Ventures.

“The winners won’t be the loudest or the most ambitious but the most focused, efficient, and boringly profitable”

20.01.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Nadav Shimoni, Managing Director at A² Ventures, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey.  
דורין בניאל מנהלת אזורית בקרן נייטדרגון

NightDragon appoints Dorin Baniel as Partner, Israel

20.01.26|CTech
Baniel established the firm’s first international office in Tel Aviv in 2023 and drives investments across cybersecurity, defense, and emerging technologies.
Lee Ben-Gal and Haim Bachar, Investors at lool ventures.

“AI is making output per person the real scaling metric; headcount growth is now often a lagging indicator.”

19.01.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Lee Ben-Gal and Haim Bachar, Investors at lool ventures, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey.  
Tzahi Weisfeld, co-founder & chairman at Ignite DeepTech.

“Israel’s best companies will still be global, but not hostage to any single platform or jurisdiction.”

18.01.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Tzahi Weisfeld, co-founder & chairman at Ignite DeepTech, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey.  
איץ אפלבאום יו"ר קרן ההשקעות קינטיקה

Even bigger than the cyber revolution: How Israel is becoming a global defense-tech powerhouse

15.01.26|Yitz Applbaum
"Israel is going to see hundreds of billions of dollars in defense tech exits in the next few years that are going to displace existing primes and reshape the global defense landscape," writes Yitz Applbaum, chairman of Kinetica VC fund.
Aya Neeman

UpWest promotes Aya Neeman to Principal

15.01.26|CTech
The promotion supports the expansion of the fund’s investment activity in Israel; UpWest leads pre-Seed and Seed rounds and has invested in more than 100 Israeli startups.
Aya Peterburg S Capital

“Real value is moving away from the 'interface' and toward the 'engine' AI”

15.01.26|Elihay Vidal, Amy Shapiro
S Capital founding partner Aya Peterburg joins CTech as part of the VC Survey 2026: The Next Leap, to discuss why the hiring playbook is officially dead, the inevitability of Physical AI, and why integration remains Israel's greatest strength.
Ran Levitzky, general partner at Magenta Venture Partners.

“Most investors still treat AI and crypto as separate worlds. The real opportunity lies in the infrastructure layer that connects them.”

15.01.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Ran Levitzky, general partner at Magenta Venture Partners, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 
מנכ"ל רשות החדשנות דרור בין

Israel channels $450 million into venture capital to support tech industry

14.01.26|Sophie Shulman
State-backed program focuses on institutions and deeptech investment.
שרון זימן מצטרפת כשותפה לקרן הון סיכון Lama Partners

Sharon Seemann joins Lama Partners as a partner

14.01.26|Sophie Shulman
Former YL Ventures executive brings a decade of value-creation and marketing experience.
מימין אסף גרניט ואחד השותפים בIL ונצ'רס אלעד פרנקל

Celebrity chef Assaf Granit joins Israel’s deep-tech investment scene

14.01.26|Sophie Shulman
Chef partners with IL Ventures to rethink hospitality and catering.
Elle Taitou Spruch, senior investment associate at Planven.

“Innovation and resilience are not separate attributes of the Israeli tech ecosystem, they are structurally linked”

14.01.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Elle Taitou Spruch, senior investment associate at Planven, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey.