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Unicorn  credit: Shutterstock Israeli tech M&A deals reach new peak - report

According to Vintage Investment Partners, M&A deals reached a new record of this year of $10.5 billion, 22% higher than the previous peak in 2021.

Amnon Shashua  credit: Eyal Izhar Amnon Shashua's AA-I unveils new approach to AI

In a paper published today, the company describes its aim of "integrating domain-specific expertise with critical, precise reasoning capabilities akin to those of top human experts."

Gil Shwed credit: Cadya Levy Check Point CEO warns on escalating cyberattacks

Gil Shwed told the Globes Israel Business Conference that the level of attacks worldwide has increased and that they are much more complex and cause much more damage.

Pat Gelsinger  credit: Intel Staunch Israel supporter Pat Gelsinger steps down as Intel CEO

Intel's share price rose more than 4% on the announcement of Gelsinger's departure, but it may not be good news for Intel Israel and its nearly 10,000 employees.

Amiram Shachar credit: Upwind Upwind Security raises $100m at $900m valuation

The Israeli company has developed a comprehensive cloud security platform

Patrick Collison  credit: Shutterstock Stripe founder Patrick Collison's Israel visit stirs strong feelings

Many responses to Collison's post about his visit on X were virulently anti-Israel. The question, though, is what is Stripe looking for here?

Knostic founders Gadi Evron and Sounil Yu credit: Knostic Israeli co Knostic uncovers unexpected ChatGPT vulnerability

Knostic has published research this week, which uncovers a new cyberattack method on AI search engines, which takes advantage of an unexpected attribute - impulsiveness.

Nvidia offices in Yokneam credit: Nvidia Nvidia, Weizmann Inst., Pheno.ai develop glucose monitoring model

They have developed GluFormer, an AI model that can predict an individual’s future glucose levels and other health metrics based on past glucose monitoring data.

Zvika Netter credit: Orel Cohen Advertising platform Innovid sold at 94% premium

Innovid is merging with a Mediaocean unit at a valuation of $525  million, and will be delisted.

Assaf Rappaport and Merav Bahat credit: Ben Hakim and Netanel Tobias Wiz buys Israeli cybersecurity co Dazz for $450m

Wiz is acquiring the unified security remediation company, which was cofounded by CEO Merav Bahat, one of Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport's closest friends from when they worked together at Microsoft.

Wix CEO Avishai abrahami credit: Alan Tzatzkin Wix soars on strong Q3 results, raises guidance

Wix's share price, up 50% since the start of 2024, is over 13% higher today after the company reported strong revenue and profit growth.

Cyera founders Tamar Bar-Ilan ands Yotam Segev Photo: Menash Cohen Israeli data security co Cyera raises $300m at $3b valuation

Cyera has more than doubled its valuation since its most recent financing round in April 2024, when it also raised $300 million.

SaverOne   credit: Itzik Biran SaverOne loses over 99% of flotation value

The driving safety system developer claims a huge potential market, but has so far posted meager revenue and large losses.

Cyberattack credit: Shutterstock US co Bitsight buys Israeli co Cybersixgill

US cyber risk management company Bitsight will pay $115 million for the Israeli cyber threat intelligence data company.

Iddo Gino credit: Eyal Izhar Nokia acquires Israeli API co Rapid

Valued at $1 billion two years ago, the company is mainly being bought for its $150 million in cash and less for its API platform.

Matanyahu Englman Photo: Yossi Zamir State Comptroller slams gov't for Israel's AI lag

Israel's decline in international AI rankings is blamed on low priority, under-funding, amateurish management, lack of control, and a surplus of political bodies.

Cyberattack credit: Shutterstock Financial cos briefed on thwarting imminent Iranian cyberattack

The Bank of Israel held a meeting yesterday to explain to financial service companies how to ward off the planned cyberattack by Iran's Anonymous for Justice group.

Nadav Shoval credit: Open Web Court rejects Nadav Shoval's petition against OpenWeb ouster

Tel Aviv District Court Judge Ariel Zimmerman: The petition complains of an infringement of rights that do not exist.

Plarium credit: Shutterstock Sweden's MTG buys Israeli gaming co Plarium for up to $820m

Australian company Aristocrat is selling Plarium after buying the company in 2017 for $700 million.

ScaleOps founders CEO Yodar Shafrir and CTO Guy Baron credit: ScaleOps Israeli cloud management co ScaleOps raises $58m

ScaleOps optimizes resources with its fully automated, real-time cloud resource management platform powered by AI.

Intel plant in Petah Tikva credit: Intel Over 1,000 Intel Israel employees leave the company

For the first time in a decade, Israel's biggest private employer has less than 10,000 employees. "Globes" talks to Intel Israel employees and former employees.

Eran Zinman and Roy Mann  credit: Netanel Tobias Monday.com plunges despite beating analysts, raising guidance

The assessment on the market is that the reason for the sell-off is profit taking, after a 73% rise in the share price in the year to date.

Supercomputer credit: Shutterstock Amazon, Google to compete for Israel's supercomputer tender

The budget for building the supercomputer is NIS 300 million, of which NIS 150 million will be allocated to the budget of the Innovation Authority administration and NIS 150 million in financing for the tech giant that wins the tender.

Dovi Frances with Donald Trump credit: Group 11 Dovi Frances to help set up Israel AI National Directorate

Although an AI directorate already exists in the Innovation Authority, Frances will act as advisor to a new directorate in the Prime Minister's Office, possibly with involvement of Elon Musk, "Globes" has learned.

Amiram Shachar credit: Upwind Israeli cybersecurity co Upwind raises $100m - report

Upwind, cofounded in 2022 by CEO Amiram Shachar, who previously founded cloud security management company Spot.io, which was sold to NetApp for $450 million in 2020, is raising the money at s $850-900 million valuation, "TechCrunch" reports.

Adaptive Shield team credit: Assaf Shushan CrowdStrike buys Israeli cloud security co Adaptive Shield

The acquisition price has not been disclosed, but it is estimated at $300 million, which represents a handsome return for investors in the Tel Aviv-based startup.

NextSilicon CEO Elad Raz credit: Allblocks NextSilicon welcomes rival Nvidia's Blackwell platform

Elad Raz, CEO of Israeli chip unicorn NextSilicon insists that the company's new Maverick chip beats Nvidia's chips in terms of performance-to-power-consumption ratio.

Amnon Shashua  credit: Yonatan Hefner Mobileye recognizes $2.7b goodwill loss

The company's share price is rising sharply on Wall Street despite the write down recorded in its third quarter results.

Verax AI founders Leonid Fainberg and Oren Gev credit: Maxim Golovnov Israeli AI software co Verax AI raises $7.6m

Verax AI develops enterprise-grade software solutions that provide visibility and control of AI in production.

MIND founders Hod Ben Nun, Eran Barak and Itay Schwartz credit: Ohad Kab Israeli data loss prevention co MIND raises $11m

MIND was cofounded in 2023 by CEO Eran Barak, who previously founded Hexadite which was acquired in 2017 by Microsoft for $100 million.

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