Israel’s 2026 National AI Strategy
Winning Where Excellence Outweighs Scale
Eze Vidra
Eze Vidra is the founder of VC Cafe and the co-founder and managing partner of Remagine Ventures, a pre-seed fund investing in ambitious founders at the intersection of AI, technology, entertainment, gaming, and commerce with a spotlight on Israel.
He is a former General Partner at Google Ventures (GV) in Europe, former head of Google for Entrepreneurs in Europe, and founding head of Campus London, Google's first startup hub. Eze writes on Israeli tech, venture capital, artificial intelligence, and founder strategy.
He is also the founder of Techbikers, a nonprofit that brings together the startup ecosystem on cycling challenges in support of Room to Read.
The Chokepoint Thesis: Moats, Affordance and Diffusion
Building Defensibility at the Narrowest Points of the System
AI-Native Services: The New Startup Playbook
The next great SaaS company may not sell software. It may sell the work.
Weekly Firgun Newsletter – May 1, 2026
It’s #Firgun time! The original version of this post was published on Linkedin. Subscribe to get the next edition in your inbox. If you’re new here, welcome! So glad you’ve joined us. Firgun (Hebrew: ??????, pronounced ‘feer-goon’) is an Israeli…
Hello world: Why I built IsraelVC
When I started VC Cafe in 2005, the challenge was visibility. Back then, the world didn’t fully appreciate the scale of what was happening in the “Silicon Wadi,” and my goal was simple: put Israeli startups on the global map.…
How AI’s impact on software is pushing VCs from Bits to Atoms
For more than a decade, the venture capital world revolved almost entirely around software, chasing SaaS efficiency, product-led growth, and asset-light digital scale. But today, the energy in the market is shifting. We are quietly navigating the “SaaS-pocalypse” (see my…
Requests for Startups: Summer 2026 edition
What YC, a16z speedrun and ARK are signalling about the next wave of startups
Why the “SaaSpocalypse” Is More Hype Than Obituary
I’ll be honest: I’ve been deep in the weeds with the new coding tools lately. Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, the whole agentic development stack. As someone who evaluates startups for a living, I felt I owed it to founders to…
Weekly Firgun Newsletter – April 24 2026
It’s #Firgun time! The original version of #Firgun was posted on LinkedIn to 7,840+ subscribers. If you’re new here, welcome! So glad you’ve joined us. Firgun (Hebrew: ??????, pronounced ‘feer-goon’) is an Israeli term describing genuine, unselfish joy in someone…
Israel’s Most Promising Startups in 2026: 50 Israeli Companies to Watch
A closer look at 50 Israeli startups to watch in 2026, with AI infrastructure, agentic AI, and cybersecurity leading the cohort.