4 Israeli startups on Gartner 2021 Cool Vendors list
To be chosen, startups need to be less than 10 years old and considered to be innovative, impactful and intriguing.
May 24, 2021, 8:00 am
Run:AI cofounders Omri Geller and Ronen Dar. Their company was one of four Israeli startups chosen for Gartner’s 2021 Cool Vendors list. Photo courtesy of Run:AI
Analyst house Gartner recently published its 2021 Cool Vendors list, which features Israeli startups Apiiro, Lightrun, Run:AI and VOOM. Each company appeared in a different Cool Vendor category.
In the DevSecOps category, Gartner named Apiiro, which focuses on multi-dimensional application risk management that gives organizations visibility and control over their risk, from design to code to cloud. The startup was founded in 2019 and has offices in Tel Aviv and New York.
Blackstone targets Israeli tech sector through Middle East outpost
Israel is a home to a cluster of rapidly growing tech companies that rival Silicon Valley
25 April 2021 • 5:54pm
American investment giant Blackstone will attempt to seize a slice of Israel s fast-rising science and technology sector through a new Middle Eastern outpost.
The world s largest asset manager has opened a new office in Tel Aviv led by Yifat Oron - the former boss of banking platform LeumiTech - to capitalise on the nation s burgeoning tech scene.
It is the latest addition to the organisation s growth-investing business, which already has offices in London, San Francisco and New York.
Inside the spyware firm that came in from the cold
The boss of the world’s best-known cyber mercenary company wants to step out of the shadows and engage with its critics
Drones are a key tool of NSO’s work
It has been two years since executives at NSO Group, the Israeli cyber security business behind the world’s leading spyware, have been able to speak publicly.
Before NSO’s acquisition by its co-founders and London private equity firm Novalpina Capital in 2019, the Tel Aviv cyber mercenary business was blocked from having its own website or speaking to journalists.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Analysis by Israeli NGO Start-Up Nation Central (SNC), has revealed that January 2021 saw record investments in Israel during a single month. Six start-ups raised more than $100M each (mega rounds) during the month, totaling 73% of the total,
record-breaking $1.44B raised by Israeli firms in January. Furthermore, the mega-rounds in January 2021 alone, equal close to 30% of the total number of mega-rounds in the
entire year of 2020 (21 total). All of the aforementioned reflects a strong vote of investor confidence in Israel s innovation ecosystem during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Israeli Startup Fundraising per month, source: Start-Up Nation Central Research Department (Finder Platform)