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25/12/2025

🌐🇮🇱 Today in IsraelTech:

Israeli Tech Scales Up Across Europe as Workforce Tops 30,000

Israeli technology companies are steadily expanding their footprint across Europe, building long-term operations, R&D hubs, and leadership teams throughout the continent.

With European employment growing at an average annual rate of 4.8%, Israeli firms are increasingly embedding themselves in key markets like Germany, France, Spain, and Central and Eastern Europe - particularly in AI, cybersecurity, health, and deep tech.

A strong showing for Israel’s mature tech ecosystem, as companies move beyond early-market entry to sustained growth, local leadership, and strategic partnerships across the EU.

Source: EIT Hub Israel, Planven & KPMG

25/12/2025

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24/12/2025

This week’s IsraelTech newsletter focuses on the moment investors stop listening to the story and start looking for the business.

Eran Savir of Savyon Ventures breaks down how he evaluates early traction, why first customers matter more than pitch decks, and what changes when a founder becomes a VC.

Also inside:
• Viola Ventures raises $250M
• Cyera hits a $9B valuation
• Dell acquires Dataloop
• New defense, AI, and cloud security moves out of Israel

Plus shorts with Yaron Lavi of Deel, Jason Wolf of Iron Nation, and Daniel Cohen of Sticker Ventures.

Read it now:

This Week in IsraelTech - AI's Ready to Do Every Human Task. The Only Thing Stopping It Is Compute ft. Boaz Touitou of Impala

24/12/2025

A red eye flight. A half heard story. And a decision that changed everything.

On a flight from Tokyo to Frankfurt, Oded Melamed first heard about quantum computing not as theory, but as a real technical challenge. That moment stuck. Back in Israel, he delved deeper. Reading. Meeting researchers at the Weizmann Institute. Asking whether this could actually be built.

But then did something most founders don’t talk about.

He stopped.

After digging into the physics and the limits of the technology, Oded walked away from the idea, despite funding on the table.
That pause, and that judgment, eventually led to a different path and to Quantum Source.

In Israeli tech, knowing when not to build is as important as knowing when to go all in.

Watch the full interview - link in the comments 👇

Hosted by Yoel Israel

24/12/2025

🌐🇮🇱 Today in IsraelTech:
ServiceNow Makes $7.75B Bet on Israeli-Born Armis to Redefine Cyber Exposure Management

, founded by Israeli entrepreneurs and now a global leader in cyber exposure and cyber-physical security, is set to join in a landmark $7.75B cash acquisition that brings IT, OT, IoT, and medical device security under one unified platform.

Founded by CEO Yevgeny Dibrov and CTO Nadir Izrael, Armis has become a cornerstone of modern cybersecurity, protecting critical infrastructure, governments, healthcare systems, and Fortune 100 enterprises worldwide. With over $340M ARR and more than 50% YoY growth, the company’s agentless visibility across unmanaged and hard-to-secure assets has reshaped how organizations understand and reduce risk.

As part of ServiceNow, Armis’ real-time asset intelligence and risk prioritization will be tightly integrated into ServiceNow’s AI-native workflows, enabling organizations to see, decide, and act across their entire technology footprint, and accelerating the shift toward proactive, autonomous cybersecurity.

This acquisition significantly expands the global impact of Israeli cybersecurity innovation - especially in OT, healthcare, and industrial environments where visibility has long been a blind spot.

Source: ServiceNow (Business Wire)

23/12/2025

Last week, IsraelTech sat down with Zohar Einy, Co-Founder & CEO of Port.

Raised on a moshav and now based in Tel Aviv, Zohar brings a grounded yet forward-looking perspective to the developer world. Before Port, he also co-founded Aporia, and today he’s building tools that sit at the heart of how modern engineering teams work.

In our conversation, we talked about:
- How AI is reshaping developer workflows
- The changing role of developers in modern organizations
- What the future of the development world is starting to look like

Backed by , Zohar is passionate about his team, his partners, and building technology that truly supports developers as their work evolves.

Stay tuned for the full interview hosted by featuring 👀

23/12/2025

Syremis Therapeutics Launches With $165M to Advance Next-Generation Mental Health Medicines

Syremis Therapeutics is a Tel Aviv and Boston-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel treatments for serious neuropsychiatric disorders.

Founded by Elisabeth Kogan (CEO), Elena Kagan (Chief Development Officer), and Menashe Levy (CTO), the company enters the market with a strong scientific foundation and an experienced leadership team spanning neuroscience, drug development, and clinical ex*****on. Its board includes Ilan Oren and Uri Oren, Co-CEOs of Dexcel Pharma, alongside Reid Huber, Partner at Third Rock Ventures.

The newly raised capital will be used to advance Syremis’ pipeline through clinical proof of concept. The lead program, ST-905, is a dual M1/M4 muscarinic agonist currently in Phase 1 development for schizophrenia and other psychiatric conditions, with potential for both oral and long-acting injectable formulations. A second program, ST-901, a next-generation NMDA antagonist, is progressing through IND-enabling studies targeting major depressive disorder and bipolar depression.

Funding co-led by Dexcel Pharma and Third Rock Ventures, with participation from Bain Capital Life Sciences, GV (Google Ventures), QVT, and Pictet.

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23/12/2025

Chasing change keeps you in the game

Kobi Marenko, founder of Arbe, shared something simple but telling about why he invests: staying close to the shifts that reshape entire fields.

Before most people paid attention, he built a small fund and placed early bets on media and AI. That curiosity kept him in the flow long before 2021–2022 turned into a whirlwind for Israeli tech.

For Kobi, investing is less about spreadsheets and more about staying present at the frontier - listening to founders, spotting the moves that hint at what’s next, and keeping a pulse on the ideas that might define the next decade.

This mindset is a big part of what drives Israel’s ecosystem forward. The people who build also keep learning, keep watching, and keep betting early.

Hosted by Yoel Israel

22/12/2025

Most teams claim to be “AI first.”
Boaz Touitou of Impala says that usually just means new tools on old habits.

In our conversation, Boaz explains why real AI first companies don’t replace people, they change their role. Employees stop doing tasks and start overseeing entire AI-driven systems, with full responsibility for the results.

It’s harder than it sounds, and not everyone is ready for it. But this mindset is already shaping how Israeli teams build and operate today.

Hosted by Yoel Israel

17/12/2025

17/12/2025

Hire Fast, Hire Right

Deel’s CTO Yaron Lavi says great hiring isn’t about perks or slogans. It’s about telling candidates exactly how the work really feels - the pace, the expectations, the way managers operate.

That clarity is why Deel can hire one to two engineers a day.

Add in something very Israeli: strong referrals. A big part of their engineering team is “friends bringing friends,” and it works because people stay where they have someone they trust.

A simple formula of real expectations and real relationships.

Hosted by Yoel Israel

17/12/2025

🌐🇮🇱 Today in IsraelTech:

Dux Security Launches with $9M Seed Round to Revolutionize Cyber Defense

Dux, an AI-powered exposure management platform, aims to prevent cyberattacks by identifying and neutralizing exploitable vulnerabilities before they are used.

Founded by Or Latovitz, Amit Nir, and Nadav Geva, Dux leverages agentic AI to accelerate vulnerability management, setting a new standard in cybersecurity. Their approach shifts from periodic scans to continuous, real-time threat exposure management.

The $9M seed round was led by Redpoint, TLV Partners, and Maple Capital Advisors, with participation from cybersecurity experts at CrowdStrike, Okta, and Armis.

Source: Business Wire