Start-up

The start-up is just the excuse 

From the university classroom to real-world crises: How BGU’s Yazamut 360 Leaders Program prepares the problem-solvers of tomorrow for extreme uncertainty.

 LEADERS PROGRAM class of 2026, at their graduation ceremony
Israel’s tech recovery is real, but the money is becoming more selective, favoring companies with deep technology, strong infrastructure, and global scale.

Israel's start-up ecosystem: What is driving growth in 2026

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

Israeli AI startup Buildots completes $130m. funding round

Roy Weisfeld and Itai Gafni

The new and surprising investment by Assi Cohen and Lior Suchard


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.

Ben-Gurion third in the world for graduates' odds of founding a unicorn

Stanford University study: Ben-Gurion University graduates have the highest chance in Israel of founding a unicorn company, and rank third among institutions worldwide.

Climate change conference in the Negev

Israel isn’t losing to Europe. It’s simply not showing up - opinion

The question is no longer whether Israel has something to offer. In a global economy, what never meets a market never becomes impactful.

A European Union flag flies outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, December 19, 2019.

The strategy blind spot costing Israeli start-ups the US market - opinion

The very characteristic that gets a start-up off the ground, the preference for immediate tactical execution over long-term strategic planning, is a likely pitfall when moving to scale in the US...

Startup Nation Central's headquarters in Tel Aviv

Jewish success in AI is fueling an old debate about antisemitism - opinion

The poem asks God to choose another people, saying that the Jews have no more blood to sacrifice. They have run out of prayers and “have paid for every letter of the Ten Commandments..."

OpenAI.

Israel pushes for deep tech start ups with Israel Innovation Authority’s new funding program

The Israel Innovation Authority will offer up to NIS 1 million more in funding through its startup fund to deep tech companies in the early stages of development.

 Semiconductor chips are seen on a circuit board of a computer in this illustration picture taken February 25, 2022.

Smotrich launches NIS 1.6 billion aid plan for high-tech and exporters

The Ministry of Finance will inject NIS 1 billion to save startups from closing, and will distribute hundreds of millions more to industrial plants.

The Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich

Cyber security company NewCore raises $66 million

Among the investors in the company's round, which was founded by serial entrepreneurs and 8200 alumni: Assaf Rappaport, Yevgeny Dibrov, and Ofer Ben-Noon.

The founders of NewCore

A new fund will invest in defense startups

Meet Stratos Ventures, the new Israeli fund connecting homeland security, government cyber, and supply chains with the strongest minds in the US.

The founders of Stratos Ventures, Daniel Fouzailov and Rotem Yehuda Kakon