AI safety has professional champions on every side, with funding, careers and commercial interests shaping the debate. From a venture investor’s perspective, how do we separate evidence from advocacy, assess the trade-offs and identify where Israeli startups can contribute?
AI now leads a quarter of Anthropic’s own R&D, and an independent review finds its progress running at nearly twice its earlier pace. What does that feedback loop mean for the speed of AI, for oversight, and for where startups can build?
What would happen if your business suddenly lost access to OpenAI and Anthropic? AI sovereignty exposes a deeper infrastructure question, spanning compute, networking, storage, databases and agent operations. Israel’s startups are building across this stack, creating an opportunity that extends well beyond frontier models.
YC’s Winter 2027 requests point towards the practical work of deploying AI. Alongside original publications from Pear, a16z, Menlo and QED, they offer a useful guide to investor interest and a starting point for founders’ customer research.
Israeli deep-tech companies are attracting ambitious funding and delivering significant exits. From quantum computing to autonomous driving, their stories highlight five questions founders still need to address about their team, customers, economics, traction and funding milestones.
What does it mean to become a scale-up when AI allows smaller teams to build bigger businesses? Reflections from the Scaleup event at Reichman University on defensibility, talent and what Israel needs to build its next generation of global companies.
Israelis are flying home to vote while the tech community keeps building. This week’s #FIRGUN celebrates fresh funding, acquisitions and new funds, alongside AI mega-rounds, Anthropic’s IPO preparations and reminders that trust and security must keep pace with innovation.
Venture capital is concentrating around a handful of firms and companies, while established norms around partnership come under pressure. Yet smaller teams can accomplish more with less, creating opportunities for pre-seed investors willing to look beyond consensus.
Three years after October 7, Israeli tech is raising more and exporting more, and defence tech is fast becoming a category of its own. The drive that sent Israelis home to serve is now shaping the companies they build. Here's what changed, why I'm bullish on Israeli founders, and why the recovery is still uneven at the earliest stages.
Courage at 30,000 feet, $13.2B raised by Israeli startups in nine months, and a week of agent security rounds, a 10-month exit to Nebius, and a new defence-tech fund.
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