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.@Apple is acquiring Q.ai in the second-to-largest acquisition they've ever made. Can't say what Q does yet, but we promise it's mind-blowing. Couldn't be prouder Yonatan Wexler, Aviad Maizels & @ABarliya Full story of investment-->acquisition from @eden👇

@DanielLubetzky @MichaelDell Watch the full episode of Invested with @daniellubetzky: bit.ly/3TKrr5o

@DanielLubetzky bummed a ride from @MichaelDell and the conversation didn't go how you might have though.

@ericmreiner How about eight? Asking for a friend.

Ten generations in your future, if you have two kids per couple and each of your descendants does the same, you have 2,046 descendants. Three gives you 88,572, Four gives you 1,398,100, Five gives you 12,207,030!

Watch the full episode of Invested with @DanielLubetzky, founder of @KINDSnacks: bit.ly/3TKrr5o

Before there was @KINDSnacks, there was Moshe Pupik and Ali Mishmunkin's World-Famous All-Natural Gourmet Foods. Never heard of it? Exactly. @DanielLubetzky failed for 10 years so eventually he could build a multi-billion dollar business.

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There's no need to be embarrassed. It happens to the best of us. You forgot to subscribe to the Aleph newsletter and not only did you miss out on hearing the Fund V news early, you also missed Yael Elad's unpopular opinion. Luckily, we're in a good mood this week. For a look behind the curtain of Fund V, read the full piece here: Everyone in venture is racing to raise the next billion-dollar fund. In an era where "bigger" has become the entire strategy, deciding not to grow feels radical. AI convinced investors that to catch this cycle, you need a mega fund — and mega funds convinced everyone that the cycle demands them. It’s a vicious cycle causing fund sizes to balloon. But size only matters if you believe you need to make giant bets – or a great many of them. When you write a $150 million check for a young startup, you stop playing a venture game and start playing a private-equity one. Private equity firms write checks that size into companies with real revenue and cash flow they can improve, and a startup that young doesn't have either. And backing every deal that fits your thesis to never miss a winner isn't venture either; it's indexing. An index fund is the exact opposite of what early-stage investing is meant to be: selected bets on the best teams and products at any point in time. We've been operating at this size for years now – and we’ve made some great AI bets. Fund size is not the issue. AI does make a handful of companies genuinely capital-intensive — the frontier labs training their own models need enormous amounts of money. But those are a sliver of what venture actually is. The vast majority of great companies still start small, and there are more than enough of them that don't need hundreds of millions of dollars to get off the ground and win. I've watched this movie before. Funds grow, then shrink, then grow, then shrink. Chasing size is a strategy that gets tried and re-tried, and it's not clear that it works. A lot of that ballooned capital may turn out to be money down the drain. So we're staying put. Same size, same plan, same ship. Because we know exactly what we're good at: backing Israeli founders building companies that change the world. In a world addicted to more, our boring is extraordinary. Welcome to Aleph Fund V: More of the same.

@IsraelTech This guy gets it.

Aleph Doubles Down on Israel With Fifth Fund and a Simple Message: "More of the Same" @aleph is one of Israel's leading early-stage venture capital firms, backing founders building globally significant technology companies. Rather than changing course, Aleph is leaning into what has defined the firm for more than a decade. With the launch of Aleph V, partners @eden, @mikeeisenberg, @TomerDiari, and @elad_yael say their strategy remains unchanged: continue backing ambitious Israeli founders tackling difficult problems with long-term conviction. The firm believes the next generation of Israeli startups has the potential to build not just billion-dollar companies, but businesses worth hundreds of billions, driven by what it calls Israel's unique culture of "agency" and resilience through years of global disruption and war. Congratulations to the entire Aleph team on the launch of Fund V. We're looking forward to seeing the next generation of Israeli companies that emerge from the fund.

@eranshir @YonatanAdiri He doesn't. And yet somehow, TV comes up in almost every Invested interview 😂

@YonatanAdiri I can't picture Michael watching TV :)

Two of the people who, if they simply retire and watch tv, our world would not be the same.

Aleph Fund V is here, and it’s not too exciting. Actually, it’s just more of the same. We’re doing what we’ve always done: backing Israeli founders building companies that change the world.

@elonmusk In the words of @mikeeisenberg: get married, have babies

A low birth rate due to extended periods of prosperity and low perceived external danger is the primary reason that Rome and most other powerful civilizations collapsed. Rome had a very high birth rate when under extreme pressure from Carthage and a low birth rate a few generations after Carthage, their last serious threat, was finally destroyed.

@MollySOShea @friedberg @JTLonsdale In the wise words of @DrEliDavid on Invested: "Every way the government spends money, I just see waste. Israel has become a startup nation because technology is maybe the only field the government in Israel hasn't tried to help."

David @friedberg reacts to @JTLonsdale saying he would pay 90% in taxes if it meant the US would become a functioning society: "Right.. if your money goes to something good." "But as soon as you let the government take it, it gets destroyed in the system." "It's like a fucking shredder of money." "You're taking all your money, you put it in the paper shredder, and then you get like a little bit out and it's damp and covered in coffee grounds and you're like, 'Okay, I got my value back.'" "That's what the government is."

@BeewiseT @saarsafra gets into the nitty gritty details of why bees need AI on Invested: bit.ly/4402fdj

From wooden boxes 170 years old to tin AI-robots, @BeewiseT has taken beehives into the 21st century, software updates and all.

@MOSSADil @DrEliDavid @DrEliDavid never misses

📈INVESTED WITH MIHAEL EISENBERG You need more than 6 months and some bright 18-year-olds to create a world-class AI expert, says @drelidavid. Which means Israel needs to rethink their talent training model for the new AI era. Full interview in comments. A worthwhile watch. @aleph @mikeeisenberg

@DrEliDavid Watch the full interview with @drelidavid on Invested: bit.ly/3Q8iTDu

You need more than 6 months and some bright 18-year-olds to create a world-class AI expert, says @drelidavid. Which means Israel needs to rethink their talent training model for the new AI era.

@elad_raz Watch the full episode of Invested with @elad_raz: bit.ly/3R4FAck

This episode of Invested @elad_raz should be on the radar of anyone investing in the stock market or engaging in AI. So basically, everyone.

@GigiLevy In the words of David Magerman on Invested: "The ability to create a mature workforce is going to be severely stunted by the use of AI."

The dangerous gap is not only that junior tasks are being automated — it’s that the path to developing judgment is being compressed. Companies will need to redesign entry-level work so young people still get the reps that create judgment, not just demand judgment on day one.