CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation & Tech News Aug. 5, 2026
Wix’s Base44 bet comes at a price as losses widen to $76.4 million. Heavy spending on the vibe coding platform, higher computing costs and aggressive marketing overshadow rising revenue, as the company targets AI-driven growth. Read more
Maor Shlomo’s Base44 payday climbs to $150 million after latest Wix payout. Wix’s earnings reveal another upcoming $41 million milestone payment as the company doubles down on the AI platform driving its growth, even as it weighs on profitability. Read more
Monday seeks to double CEO pay weeks after announcing 620 layoffs. Shareholders will vote on raising compensation for founders Roy Mann and Eran Zinman to about $14 million each despite the company’s workforce cuts and falling share price. Read more
Oligo Security raises $60 million as AI-driven attacks accelerate shift toward runtime security. The Israeli startup says attackers are now discovering vulnerabilities faster than companies can patch them, creating demand for real-time protection inside production environments. Read more
QuantHealth raises $45 million Series B to bring AI simulations to the costly world of clinical trials. The Israeli startup says its technology has simulated more than 600 trials and can help drugmakers test decisions before enrolling patients or spending billions on development. Read more
Tower’s AI chip surge powers record quarter as revenue heads for $500 million milestone. The Israeli chipmaker beat expectations, posted record profits and says booming silicon photonics demand is already supporting its sharply higher 2028 targets. Read more
Visa acquires Israeli fraud prevention company BioCatch for $2.4 billion. The company, which is being purchased from private equity firm Permira, develops technology that helps financial institutions detect fraud before transactions take place. Read more
Zenity raises $125 million Series C as AI agent security startup accelerates global expansion. Israeli cybersecurity company reaches $185 million in total funding as enterprises race to secure autonomous AI agents. Read more
Deel acquires Israeli deepfake security startup Clarity in $40-50 million deal. The acquisition comes as AI-generated identities make remote hiring a growing security risk, with companies increasingly seeking ways to verify that employees are who they claim to be. Read more
Salesforce veterans raise $20 million pre-Seed from Marc Benioff and Michael Dell to tackle AI’s enterprise bottleneck. June AI, founded by the team behind Bonobo AI after five years at Salesforce, is building AI agents to automate the costly software implementation work holding back enterprise AI adoption. Read more
Former Mossad chief David Barnea joins Ondas as defense tech company builds AI-powered warfare platform. Barnea joins Ondas as Global President and Chairman after the Nasdaq-listed company spent hundreds of millions acquiring drone, intelligence and autonomous systems companies in an effort to create an integrated defense technology group. Read more
Israel has a world-class economy and a third-world fiscal problem. S&P data reveals a country split between a high-growth private sector competing with the world’s best economies and government finances weighing down its credit rating. Read more
Two Israeli startups raised half a billion dollars. Their exits reveal the cost of the funding boom. Hailo and StreamElements were built in different worlds, from AI chips to creator software, but both ended in discounted acquisitions. Their fate highlights the growing gap between startup valuations and real market value. Read more
Index Ventures raises $3.5 billion to expand AI and Israeli startup investments. The global venture firm behind Wiz launches new seed, venture and growth funds as it increases its focus on cybersecurity, infrastructure and artificial intelligence. Read more
While some tech giants cut jobs, Palo Alto Networks and Nvidia are hiring hundreds in Israel. AI isn’t eliminating engineering jobs at two of the industry’s biggest winners, but it is fundamentally changing the skills they expect from candidates. Read more
Israeli startups raised $1.5 billion in July as investors doubled down on enterprise AI. Large funding rounds increasingly favored companies helping businesses deploy artificial intelligence securely rather than building consumer-facing models. Read more
The people saying goodbye to high-tech. “Bye Tech” brings together Israeli engineers and executives who left lucrative careers behind to build classrooms, farms and communities. Read more
Former Palantir and Torq veterans raise $8 million Seed to secure the rise of AI agents. Arrakis Security is betting that enterprises need a new cybersecurity layer focused not just on who has access to systems, but on what autonomous AI systems actually do once they are inside. Read more
Israeli chip company Xsight Labs raises $300 million at $2.8 billion valuation. The semiconductor startup is gaining traction with global network operators and hyperscalers as demand surges for chips that can connect the massive computing systems powering artificial intelligence. Read more
AI security startup Onyx raises $113 million Series B at $640 million valuation. Just four months after emerging from stealth, the Israeli startup is betting that securing AI agents will become one of cybersecurity’s biggest markets. Read more
Blue-and-white Black Hat: How Israel came to dominate cyber’s biggest conference. Israeli founders, investors and security executives descend on Las Vegas each year, using Black Hat to launch products, court customers and shape the industry’s AI-driven future. Read more
“We are prepared to be very aggressive”: Check Point signals appetite for a major cyber acquisition. CEO Nadav Tzafrir says the company is constantly evaluating targets as it attempts to close the gap with faster-growing rivals Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike. Read more
Palo Alto Networks veterans launch Bloom Security with $20 million bet on the AI endpoint. The Israeli startup argues that traditional cybersecurity tools were built for malware, not for a world where employees and AI systems install software that can access sensitive company data. Read more
From a Nazareth carpentry shop to Intel’s inner circle. Fadi Aboud became one of Intel’s top engineers after growing up without a single technology role model. Now he is fighting to open the industry’s doors to Israel’s Arab community. Read more
“We want to replace Datadog”: groundcover raises $100 million at $500 million valuation as AI reshapes observability. The Israeli startup says traditional monitoring platforms were not built for the explosion of data generated by cloud and AI systems. The Series C brings groundcover’s total funding to $160 million as it targets a market dominated by legacy giants. Read more
OpenAI ramps up Israel expansion with former AWS executive. Eliran Ben David joins the company as it introduces new AI tools to Israeli startups and recruits for a dedicated local startup partnerships role. Read more
ServiceNow continues layoffs as it restructures around AI. The enterprise software giant is cutting hundreds of jobs while increasing investment in artificial intelligence skills, saying it needs “the right talent in the right roles.” Read more
Encore AI raises $30 million Series A to teach AI agents how top employees work. Formerly known as Insait, the Israeli startup analyzes millions of customer interactions to turn the best sales and service practices into autonomous AI agents. Read more
Oasis founders set for $200 million-plus payday in $1 billion Cyera acquisition. The Cyera acquisition comes less than four years after Danny Brickman and Amit Zimerman launched a company focused on securing machine identities. Read more
Can the military detect a heartbeat from miles away? Israel is trying to find out. Researchers are exploring quantum physics, AI and advanced sensing technologies to transform search-and-rescue operations. Read more
Cyber unicorn Cyera acquires Oasis Security in $1 billion deal. The acquisition of the Israeli startup, founded to manage access for non-human identities, marks Cyera’s latest move to build a broader AI-powered cybersecurity platform. Read more
OpenAI picks Israel’s Sheba as first hospital outside the U.S. for healthcare AI. The strategic partnership gives Sheba Medical Center early access to OpenAI’s healthcare AI models, allowing physicians to test cutting-edge clinical tools before they are rolled out more broadly. Read more
After selling Epsagon to Cisco for $500 million, founders return with AI enterprise startup Harmony. The Israeli company raised $34 million in Seed funding from Lightspeed and others to automate the thousands of internal requests that still burden corporate teams. Read more
Former Wiz and Microsoft veterans raise $35 million Series A to build the “operating system” for AI cybersecurity agents. Mate Security says traditional security operations were not designed for AI-scale attacks. The startup is betting that trusted autonomous agents, powered by an “organizational brain,” will reshape how companies detect and respond to threats. Read more
After Medigate’s $400 million exit, founders launch $60 million cyber startup from stealth. Seven months after Calcalist first revealed its funding, Act Security officially launches with a cloud security platform designed to eliminate the access pathways that AI-powered attacks increasingly exploit. Read more
Former Meta Networks founders raise $30 million Series A to secure the AI workforce. Hush Security, led by the team behind the Zero Trust startup acquired by Proofpoint, is building identity infrastructure for AI agents and other non-human identities. Read more
