enso, which builds and operates AI agent systems for marketing and sales, has completed a Series A round, bringing its total funding since inception to $23 million. The company’s clients include MyHeritage, Papaya Global and Israel-Canada
CrowdStrike’s Uzi Krieger has jumped from planes, explored underwater caves, and built companies. Behind it all is the philosophy to take the chance, but know what you’re doing.
Kaplan is co-founder and CEO of ZyG, which has raised $118 million to solve the challenge of scaling consumer brands online, now that Amazon and Shopify have made selling online easy. His argument is that durable moats now come from owning an outcome, not from solving one problem well.
Traditional DLP was designed around human error and external attackers. But AI is introducing new leakage paths that require teams to understand what data is moving and why.
Cyber and AI, gaming and fintech, digital health and quantum computing – Forbes Israel presents: these are the innovative, promising startup companies selected for the Next Billion Dollar Startups list of 2026
Less than a decade ago, Gili Raanan left a partnership at a global venture capital giant to launch a small fund. Today, Cyberstarts manages $1.5 billion in assets and holds the seed investment that became Google’s largest-ever acquisition and one of the biggest deals in tech history • In a special interview with Forbes Israel, Raanan discusses the unconventional method behind his success, his family tragedy, the AI revolution on the horizon – and why, of all things, he invested in a basketball club
Phinergy is betting that eliminating diesel, noise, and water waste can ease opposition to AI infrastructure. Early fights across the US suggest the problem may run deeper.
Itai Gafni and Roy Weisfeld, named this year to Forbes Israel’s 30Under30 list, complete an additional $27 million raise and report a doubling of headcount. Investment giant Blackstone led the round in its first Early-Stage cybersecurity bet in Israel – joining existing backers that include soccer star Mario Götze and NFL legend Larry Fitzgerald.
The former prime minister, who ran a pandemic war room that reported directly to him, argues that this is the only time the State of Israel ever operated at the pace of a startup. The working method he proposes for AI comes down to two words: constant friction.
Elovic co-founded Tavily and now scores sites on whether an agent can get anything done on them. His research says the ceiling on AI autonomy is infrastructure, not intelligence.
