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Stav Levi Neumark joined Monday com when it was about 15 people. She told them in the interview they were already too big for her. She stayed anyway, built an internal tool called BigBrain that connected company data to go-to-market decisions, watched Monday scale to an IPO, and then left to build Alta. In this episode, Stav compares the current GTM infrastructure problem to on-premise computing before AWS. Every company is building their own room full of servers, manually stitching together data sources, channels, and signals that should be connected. It's expensive, it's slow, and it pulls focus away from the parts that actually require a human. @alta_revenue connects to 50+ data sources and runs three agents across outbound, inbound, upsell, and full-funnel visibility. The product ships with a services layer, because when they ran their tests, people didn't want to self-serve. They wanted someone to tell them what to do with it. She came in expecting customers to know what they needed. They didn't. They knew something was off, they were leaving performance on the table, but they couldn't name what was missing. So she built a company that does the diagnosing too. They closed their first $1M over the course of a year. Then closed another $1M in a single month. Hosted by @YoelTIsrael
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🌐🇮🇱 This Week in IsraelTech 1. @Gong_io Surpasses $500M ARR as Enterprise Demand for Revenue AI Continues to Surge Gong, co-founded by Amit Bendov and Eilon Reshef, continues its rapid expansion in the AI sales technology space, reporting more than 55% year-over-year growth and surpassing $500 million in annual recurring revenue as global enterprises increasingly adopt its Revenue AI platform to streamline sales operations and boost productivity. 2. @NVisionQuantum Raises $55M to Expand Quantum Technology Platform Into Drug Discovery and Healthcare NVision, co-founded by Sella Brosh and @Tzahore, is advancing the intersection of quantum computing and healthcare after securing $55 million in Series B funding to expand from quantum sensing into quantum computing, aiming to accelerate the development and validation of new therapies through its breakthrough molecular quantum technology platform. Funding anchored by Abbott, with participation from Playground Global, Matterwave Ventures, Entrée Capital, and the European Investment Bank. 3. @tower_semicond Locks In $1.3B in Silicon Photonics Deals as AI Infrastructure Demand Accelerates Tower Semiconductor, led by CEO Russell Ellwanger, has secured $1.3 billion in silicon photonics customer agreements for 2027, alongside $290 million in prepaid capacity commitments, as global demand for AI-driven optical connectivity and next-generation data center infrastructure continues to surge. 4. Skinos Ventures Launches $26M Cyber Fund to Back the Next Wave of AI Security Startups Skinos Ventures, founded by Yishay Yovel with backing from cybersecurity pioneer Shlomo Kramer, is launching a $26 million venture fund focused on early-stage cybersecurity and AI startups, aiming to support Israeli founders building the next generation of enterprise security companies. The weekly roundup is brought to you by @deel , the global all-in-one HR and payroll platform for teams in 150+ countries. Follow IsraelTech for all the latest updates.
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Stav Levi Neumark joined Monday com when it was about 15 people. She told them in the interview they were already too big for her. She stayed anyway, built an internal tool called BigBrain that connected company data to go-to-market decisions, watched Monday scale to an IPO, and then left to build Alta. In this episode, Stav compares the current GTM infrastructure problem to on-premise computing before AWS. Every company is building their own room full of servers, manually stitching together data sources, channels, and signals that should be connected. It's expensive, it's slow, and it pulls focus away from the parts that actually require a human. @alta_revenue connects to 50+ data sources and runs three agents across outbound, inbound, upsell, and full-funnel visibility. The product ships with a services layer, because when they ran their tests, people didn't want to self-serve. They wanted someone to tell them what to do with it. She came in expecting customers to know what they needed. They didn't. They knew something was off, they were leaving performance on the table, but they couldn't name what was missing. So she built a company that does the diagnosing too. They closed their first $1M over the course of a year. Then closed another $1M in a single month. Hosted by @YoelTIsrael
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Israel has always been strong in cybersecurity. But that’s only part of the story. @ZoharEiny of Port io points to a shift that’s starting to take shape. More companies are pushing into areas like developer tools, going up against global players like GitHub and Datadog. It’s still early, but the direction is clear. For the ecosystem to keep growing, it has to expand beyond the categories it’s already known for. Hosted by @YoelTIsrael Watch the full interview - link in the comments 👇
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🌐🇮🇱 Today in IsraelTech: Frame Security Emerges From Stealth With $50M to Reinvent Human-Centric Cyber Defense Frame Security, founded by Tal Shlomo and Sharon Shmueli, is building an AI-powered human security platform designed to help enterprises combat sophisticated phishing, deepfake, and social engineering attacks across email, voice, video, and messaging channels, as the company launches publicly with $50 million in funding from @team8group, @IndexVentures, and Picture Capital, alongside participation from Elad Gil, Cerca Partners, and Tesonet.
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A packed interview day for IsraelTech yesterday! @YoelTIsrael first sat down with Or Lenchner, CEO of Bright Data, the company behind one of the world’s largest public web data platforms. From Fortune 500 companies to universities and governments, their customers rely on real-time web data every day. We also got into the legal battles that put Bright Data in headlines worldwide. After lawsuits from Meta and X, the company came out on top, setting major precedents around access to public web data. Then Yoel sat down with @Davidmeirsiegel, former CEO of Meetup and Investopedia, founder of Israel Tech Mission, and longtime bridge between American and Israeli tech culture. From scaling global companies to helping executives experience Israel firsthand, David shared lessons every founder, operator, and Anglo professional will relate to. Two interviews that show different sides of the Israeli tech ecosystem: The infrastructure powering the internet, and the people building connections behind it. Coming soon on IsraelTech.
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What if the hardest startup to build is actually a VC fund? Most founders think raising money is brutal. According to Eran Savir, Founder and Managing Partner of @SavyonVentures, building the fund itself is a tougher climb than any startup he built. And after three exits and one painful failure, he has the scars to explain why. In this episode, Eran breaks down the real mechanics behind seed investing, why early traction matters far more than pitch decks, and the parts of founding that still surprise him even after years on both sides of the table. This is the rare interview where a VC speaks like a founder who still remembers every late payroll, every rejection, and every moment a company comes apart or breaks through. We cover: - Why Savyon Ventures focuses on AI, digital and commerce, and what “internet companies” really means in 2025 - The difficulty of getting your first real customer who is not in your personal network - Why Israelis excel at bold outreach and using the diaspora as a hidden distribution channel - How Eran evaluates initial traction and why three to five real transactions matter more than any warm intro - The surprising gap between being a founder and being a VC and why switching mindsets is so tough - What transparency looks like in practice and why most founders never get real feedback from investors and more. Watch now and let us know your takes. Listen to the full interview - link in the comments 👇 Hosted by @YoelTIsrael

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Most early traction is misleading. In this conversation, @esavir of @SavyonVentures explains what actually counts in the earliest stages of a startup and why selling to your network doesn’t prove much. The real signal is much harder to achieve and much more valuable. It comes when people who don’t know you decide to pay. We get into what investors are really looking for, why this stage is so challenging, and how founders should think about their first customers. Hosted by @YoelTIsrael - link to the full interview in the comments 👇
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Quantum computers the size of football fields? How about something that actually fits in your office? In this episode, Oded Melamed, CEO of Quantum Source (@QS_Labs) and former co-founder of Altair (acquired by Sony), joins Yoel Israel to explain how his team is building scalable photonic qubit technology that could shrink massive machines into something that fits inside a standard server room. We talk about: - Why today’s quantum computers aren’t big enough to matter - How photonic qubits can scale to millions (without burning a city’s worth of power) - Why Naftali Bennett joined Quantum Source’s board - Israel’s “modest” investment in quantum compared to the U.S. and China - Oded’s journey from semiconductors to deep tech - What quantum error correction really means This is one of the boldest bets in Israeli deep tech, and if Quantum Source succeeds, it could put Israel on the quantum map for good. 👇 Do you think Israel should double down on quantum like the U.S. and China - or stay “modest”? Tell us in the comments. Hosted by @YoelTIsrael

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Oded Melamed left a stable job, lined up three investors, and shut the whole thing down before it started. He heard about quantum computing on a flight from Tokyo to Frankfurt, came back to Israel, met a professor at the Weizmann Institute, and decided this was what he wanted to build. He got the term sheets. Then someone he was recruiting told him the technology could never scale. So he called the investors, said he was out, and went home to rest and regroup. Sometimes succeeding means breaking it all down and starting over. That's where the Quantum Source (@QS_Labs) story actually starts. Listen to the full story hosted by @YoelTIsrael on our channel - link in the comments 👇
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Most people who end up in tech can't point to a single moment or institution. @nissimblack can point to a kitchen table in Seattle, a stack of notebooks, and a stepfather who learned everything from a friend who actually went to school for it. That informal chain, knowledge passing person to person, is how a lot of technical fluency actually starts. His dad and his friend went on to build computers from scratch and eventually landed contracts with the Port of Seattle. Hear his story and more in the full interview with @YoelTIsrael - link to the full episode in the comments 👇
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.@OmriHurwitz was one of my first employees a decade ago. He helped me establish my tech marketing agency @WadiDigital as a leader tech advertising. He has since built a Tech PR empire. We talked about everything, including prenups! Enjoy 😁
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AI is not replacing humans. It’s replacing those who don’t know how to use AI. Yoel Israel sat down with @OmriHurwitz, founder of Omri Hurwitz Media. Omri grew his firm to 60 active clients by owning the media outlets his competitors were still pitching. He joins the show to talk execution, VC incentives, PR, AI, media ownership, founder branding, and why most marketers move too slowly. Omri breaks down why founders fail by trying to please investors, why great operators are rare, and why the future of PR belongs to companies that own both the asset and the distribution. Hosted by @yoeltisrael

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🌐 🇮🇱 This Week in IsraelTech: 1. @kela_tech Reaching Unicorn Territory With a $200M Raise Backed by @BillAckman, @ericschmidt, and @stripe Kela, founded by @hamutalm and CEO Alon Dror, is closing a $200M round at a $1B valuation, less than two years after founding. The company builds an operating system for modern militaries, aggregating and processing battlefield data through a unified command interface with an open, modular architecture. 2. ZyG Raises $60M as Serial Founders Reinvent How Consumer Brands Scale Online ZyG, founded by ironSource veterans Tomer Bar-Zeev and @omerkapl, closed a $60M round led by @Accel, bringing total funding to $118M. The company builds end-to-end AI infrastructure for consumer brands selling online, managing dedicated storefronts and handling the operational complexity of scaling. 3. @CopilotKit Raises $27M as Two Israelis Set the Standard for How AI Agents Talk to Your Products CopilotKit, founded by @ataiiam and Uli Barkai, raised a $27M Series A led by @GlilotP , @NFX, and @SignalFire. The company’s AG-UI protocol is emerging as a widely adopted framework for connecting AI agents with user-facing applications, with integrations across ecosystems including Microsoft, Google, AWS, and Oracle. CopilotKit says its tools are already used in production by a growing number of Fortune 500 companies. 4. AlphaDrive Ventures Launches Cyber x AI Fund With Five Investments Already Deployed Yaron Elad and Elik Etzion, alongside Gurinder Sidhu, launched AlphaDrive Ventures, a new fund focused on the intersection of cybersecurity and AI. The fund has already deployed capital across five companies and operates across Israel and the U.S. The weekly roundup is brought to you by @deel , the global all-in-one HR and payroll platform for teams in 150+ countries. Follow IsraelTech for all the latest updates.
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AI is not replacing humans. It’s replacing those who don’t know how to use AI. Yoel Israel sat down with @OmriHurwitz, founder of Omri Hurwitz Media. Omri grew his firm to 60 active clients by owning the media outlets his competitors were still pitching. He joins the show to talk execution, VC incentives, PR, AI, media ownership, founder branding, and why most marketers move too slowly. Omri breaks down why founders fail by trying to please investors, why great operators are rare, and why the future of PR belongs to companies that own both the asset and the distribution. Hosted by @yoeltisrael
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Most people still say “e-commerce.” But according to @esavir of @SavyonVentures, that definition is too narrow. What used to be called e-commerce is really just one piece of a much bigger picture. Platforms, infrastructure, SaaS, it all blends into what used to be called internet companies. The labels haven’t caught up, but the market already has. Full interview hosted by @YoelTIsrael - Link in the comments 👇
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