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The Israeli ClimaTech Paris Summit brought sixteen Israeli companies with technologies designed to combat climate change to Paris.

Peter McKay told “TechCrunch’: We’ve got $435 million in the bank and are very close to break-even. In 2025, we won’t burn any cash, so I can pick the time when I go public. I don’t need to rush.”

Remepy co-founder Michal Tsur told the Israel Business Conference about the therapy revolution whose time has come.

In the first year of the war, the Ministry of Defense placed orders worth NIS 601 million with 86 startups and small companies - five times more than in the previous year.

Accumulator enables company founders to turn their shares into a diversified portfolio, but not everyone can join.

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.

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."

The $46 million acquisition will allow Capitolis, a market leader in the optimization and compression space, to offer more optimization and compression solutions to the industry.

Former NBA basketball star Omri Casspi tells "Globes" about the transition from sport to investment and why he is leaving Sheva to set up a new venture capital fund.

The Israeli company has developed a comprehensive cloud security platform

Aviv Kokhavi's appointment comes at a crucial time as demand for advanced defense technologies is growing due to the wars in Israel and Ukraine.

Israeli privately-held tech companies have raised about $9 billion in the first eleven months of 2024.

As ImaginDairy becomes the third alternative protein producer to receive regulatory approval in Israel, why are promising food technologies finding it hard to get onto market shelves?

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

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.

The investment by Citi, UBS, Morgan Stanley and State Street will be used to further grow Capitolis’ capital marketplace and portfolio optimization businesses.

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.

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

The Ministry of Defense is expanding deployment of a new generation of drones, already used extensively in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire tells "Globes" why the venture capital fund has resumed operations in Israel since the start of the war, after closing its office here in 2016.

The reason for the closure is probably to do with problems at the US health insurance giant itself, which has seen its share price fall 15% in the past month.

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

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.

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

Representatives of the Ministry of Defense DDR&D, venture capital investors and entrepreneurs participated in a conference for startups operating in security, which was held at the initiative of the Fusion Fund and the Pearl Cohen law firm.

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.

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.

The Dangoor Health-Tech Academy will foster collaboration between Israeli startups and Britain's National Health System, initially focusing on AI or automation-driven healthcare solutions.

Israeli privately-held tech companies raised over $8 billion in the first ten months of 2024, up from $6.9 billion in all of 2023.