Start-up

Israeli AI startup Buildots completes $130m. funding round

Israeli company Buildots combines AI and computer vision at construction sites, targeting an international market on track to reach a value of about $1.4 trillion.

Buildots founders: Roy Danon, Aviv Leibovici, and Ziv Kop.
Roy Weisfeld and Itai Gafni

The new and surprising investment by Assi Cohen and Lior Suchard

Tomer Adler, Chen Megera, and Haitham Ezzy

Haifa startup HydroSight raises $5 million in seed round

Decart founders Dean Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev.

Anthropic cancels $6B acquisition of Israeli AI start-up Decart following due diligence


Israeli artificial intelligence-based start-up acquired for millions by British holding company

The start-up, Dondy, creates AI agents which manage customer interactions for businesses, including sales, marketing, and customer service.

E-Commerce; AI online shopping (illustrative)

IDF Unit 8200 Alumni Association uses network to drive Israeli innovation, start-ups

The event comes as artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies are reshaping the technology sector and forcing companies and professionals to adapt to new realities.

Alumni from Unit 8200 attend annual conference in 2025.

The next evolution of technology transfer - opinion

Today’s scientific breakthroughs rarely emerge in isolation. They are increasingly shaped by collaboration across disciplines, institutions, and sectors. 

S&P 500 illustration.

Anthropic in talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for $6 billion

Foreign report: AI giant Anthropic is examining its largest acquisition to date, Decart, which raised funds in May at a valuation of around $4 billion.

The founders of Decart, Dean Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev

The desert's ripple effect: The Western Negev is quietly reshaping Israel-Africa ties - opinion

A high-level strategic delegation from the Democratic Republic of the Congo arrived at SouthUp, the non-profit technology incubator rooted in the Shaar Hanegev region.

Israel's President Isaac Herzog is seen meeting with DRC President Félix Tshisekedi at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on October 27, 2021.

From start-up nation to scale-up nation: A blueprint for Israel’s $1 trillion economy - opinion

Israel does not primarily have an innovation problem. It has an institutional problem. The country is exceptionally good at producing start-ups, but far less effective at financing and retaining them

Digital Health Startup Competition

Oxygen of NIS 1B for hi-tech: Who will receive state aid and who will be left out?

The government is expanding its coffers and injecting NIS 1 billion into start-ups whose operating horizon shrank due to the strengthening of the shekel against the dollar.

Illustration: High tech office

From soldiering to start-ups: Israel's Druze community is building its own start-up ecosystem

“Our young people are our future,” says Koftan Halabi, Druze hi-tech entrepreneur and founder of the Druze tech center in Isfiya.

Koftan Halabi (L), founder of Isfiya's D-TEC, and Nechemia Peres, co-founder of Pitango Venture Capital, at the D-TEC Druze Tech-Fest.

Why start-ups are turning to localized social strategies to reach global customers in 2026

"Start-ups are using localized digital strategies to build stronger connections with audiences around the world."

'Deals happen outside meetings': Hakibbutz unveils first Israeli startup home in New York City

"We didn't want to build just another office space. We wanted to create a place that people and companies genuinely want to be part of," said Amir Wolner, Founder and CEO of Hakibbutz.

The New York City skyline and the Empire State Building, as wildfire smoke impacts air quality in New York City, US, July 17, 2026.