Zachy Hennessey

20 stories about Zachy Hennessey
Factify Chief Revenue Officer Gal Har-Zvi.

Factify builds an audit trail for enterprise AI agents making high-stakes decisions

19.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
The Tel Aviv company already runs live design partners in banking, insurance and the public sector, and is one of 23 startups selected for ScaleUp House's inaugural cohort.
Maolac founder Maya Ashkenazi.

Maolac turns cow colostrum into patented health ingredients

19.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
The Series A biofunctional-ingredient company is one of 23 startups selected for ScaleUp House's inaugural cohort.
Kokomodo Founder Tal Govrin.

Kokomodo grows real cacao in a lab, no trees required

19.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
The Seed-stage food-biotech company is one of 23 startups selected for ScaleUp House's inaugural cohort.
Brandlight founder Imri Marcus.

Brandlight helps enterprise marketers manage how AI recommends their brand

18.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
The Series A company already serves 100+ enterprise customers and is one of 23 startups selected for ScaleUp House's inaugural cohort.
BlueGreen Water Technologies co-founder Eyal Harel.

BlueGreen Water Technologies turns algae blooms into large-scale carbon removal

18.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
The Series C WaterTech and ClimaTech company is one of 23 startups selected for ScaleUp House's inaugural cohort, the year-round program for growth-stage Israeli scale-ups with global ambitions.
BloomX founder Thai Sade.

BloomX replaces bees with robots to pollinate blueberries and avocados

18.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
The Series A AgriTech company, already commercial in Israel, Peru, Mexico and South Africa, is one of 23 startups selected for ScaleUp House's inaugural cohort.
Be Incremental co-founder Dor Shasho.

Be Incremental grows its ad optimization platform without taking outside funding

18.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
The bootstrapped B2B SaaS startup is one of 23 companies selected for ScaleUp House's inaugural cohort, the year-round program for growth-stage Israeli scale-ups with global ambitions.
BarAlgae Founder Doron Eisenstadt.

BarAlgae scales its AI-driven microalgae platform into aquaculture markets worldwide

18.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
The Israeli Ag-Tech company is one of 23 startups selected for ScaleUp House's inaugural cohort, and is now raising $6 million to expand production abroad.
הילה אוביל־ברנר, מנכ"לית ומייסדת ScaleUp House באירוע, אתמול

ScaleUp House has selected the first cohort of Israeli technology companies

17.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
The new year-round program for growth-stage companies with global ambitions has chosen 23 scale-ups for its inaugural cohort. 
Chris Jones, chief trust & security officer at Axonius.

“AI has not changed what good engineering looks like”

16.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
Chris Jones, chief trust & security officer at Axonius, joined CTech to share his thoughts on agentic AI security, and why he thinks agentic AI's biggest risk is exposing which engineering teams already had discipline, not creating some new kind of threat.
Einat Shimoni, Chief Information Security Officer at Lusha.

“The risk isn't malice, it's specification failure at scale”

15.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
Einat Shimoni, Chief Information Security Officer at Lusha, joined CTech to share her thoughts on agentic AI security, and why she thinks the real danger in agentic AI is agents doing exactly what they were told and not what anyone meant.
A magnifying glass.

Startup Nation Central shuts down Finder, its flagship database of Israeli tech, and starts looking for a buyer

14.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
Interim CEO Aviva Steinberger says the platform was becoming overshadowed by AI search tools. A source close to SNC points to a cost problem too, and says the org quietly tested a paid version before pulling the plug. 
Yoav Chen, VP Threat and Vulnerability Management at Akamai.

"The sheer velocity of AI innovation makes control the single biggest challenge for modern enterprises"

14.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
Yoav Chen, VP Threat and Vulnerability Management at Akamai, joined CTech to share his thoughts on agentic AI security, and why he thinks the real risk isn't a malicious AI, it's losing visibility into what agents are doing. 
Doron Sivan, CEO & Co-Founder, MADSEC Security, SQLink Group.

“I have not seen an AI agent that has directly improved an organization's security posture”

10.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
Doron Sivan, CEO & Co-Founder at MADSEC Security, joined CTech to share his thoughts on agentic AI security, and why he's still skeptical that agents themselves have made anyone more secure, even as he pushes clients to adopt them carefully. 
Yossi Bronshtein, Head of Security & IT at Unframe.

“It's less that nothing has ever gone wrong and more that the system is built to surface problems early”

09.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
Yossi Bronshtein, Head of Security & IT at Unframe, joined CTech to share his thoughts on agentic AI security, and why he's skeptical of anyone, including his own team, who claims a clean incident record. 
Guy Stern, Global CISO at Alice.

“Staying current is most of the job, along with understanding how the AI models actually reason”

08.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
Guy Stern, Global CISO at Alice, joined CTech to share his thoughts on agentic AI security, and why he sees AI's real value as amplifying human judgment, not replacing it.
Noam Brosh, CISO at UVeye.

“Security cannot simply act as a roadblock, because that stops the momentum that leadership demands”

07.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
Noam Brosh, CISO at UVeye, joined CTech to share his thoughts on agentic AI security, and why the risk he's most focused on isn't technical anymore, it's how fast non-technical teams are deploying agents of their own. 
לוגו אפל apple

Israeli tech's exit boom is quietly funding local charities

06.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
A new survey from Temura ties this year's wave of acquisitions, including Apple's purchase of Q.ai, to roughly $4 million in donations to Israeli nonprofits. 
Nir Mishal, CISO at Orca Security.

"Agentic AI is about to recreate the identity sprawl problem a hundredfold"

06.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
Nir Mishal, CISO at Orca Security, joined CTech to share his thoughts on agentic AI security, and why identity sprawl, not a rogue model, is the failure mode he’s most worried about.
Eli Hakimov, CISO at Immunai.

“This is a shadow workforce, autonomous, fast, and invisible, and it scales in a way shadow IT never did”

03.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
Eli Hakimov, CISO at Immunai, joined CTech to share his thoughts on agentic AI security, and why the agents that worry him most aren't the ones his team adopted, but the ones nobody vetted.