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Sweet Security’s Eyal Fisher has a warning for founders building with AI, and a survival strategy for young people entering the workforce.

Sweet Security’s Eyal Fisher has a warning for founders building with AI, and a survival strategy for young people entering the workforce.

A new generation of Israeli founders is building defense companies straight out of combat. Protego Ventures is honing that experience toward an alliance strategy with the US.

As giants like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI race to dominate AI, startups like Bria are trying to build a fairer system for creators. Last year, Bria was selected as one of Forbes Israel’s most promising startups on the Next Billion Dollar Startups list.

Behind every concert or sporting event is a workforce of thousands: disconnected, temporary, and difficult to manage. Ubeya is turning that chaos into a real-time operating system for hourly workers.

Oligo Security’s Gal Elbaz says hacking and manipulation are the same skill. That insight is now a business worth $80 million.

As companies rush to deploy generative AI, a new category of tools is emerging to answer a simple question: Is it actually improving anything?

Eylam Milner, a Forbes 30 Under 30 alumnus, shares why letting go can be as important as building, and how it shaped his second startup, Echo Security.

While cybersecurity is often framed as a technical challenge, many of the industry’s biggest problems are increasingly human.

“The stock market in Israel is actually doing the right thing, because the signaling is that Israel is going to boom when this is over”, says Ezra Gardner, Partner at Varana Capital.

Today’s companies are being built around principles aligned with IDF operations: constant simulation, adversarial thinking, and learning under uncertainty.







