Category Startup Nation

Israeli Tech Rebounds Stronger Than Ever in H1 2025

Israel H1 2025

Israeli tech is back—and the numbers prove it. According to a mid-year analysis by Startup Nation Central, private capital investment in Israeli startups reached $9.3 billion in H1 2025, the strongest half-year showing since the 2021 boom. That’s a 54%…

Israeli tech defies the odds in H1 2024

Israeli tech report h1 2024 by startup nation central

A month ago, the Israel Innovation Authority published a report on the state of the tech ecosystem (also shared here on VC Cafe) highlighting just how crucial tech is for the Israeli economy. While the Israeli tech ecosystem only employs…

Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

As big businesses begin to measure their impact, they begin to show it is fundamental to their future business models. Based on Pitchbook data, $2 billion have been invested in impact tech startups in 2019 alone -- a 10X increase in the past 5 years -- and the industry has been growing by 50% accordingly (as opposed to 20% growth of the traditional VC industry