Israeli Founders Tracker

Israeli-founded venture-backed startups — frontier tech weighted (Security, AI, Biotech, Deep Tech). Parallel to the Muslim Founders Tracker.
109 companies Last refreshed: Next refresh: Friday 11:15 (weekly)
This week's highlights — week of 2026-06-12 (click to expand)
Security ★ — stealth-emergence sweep hit

A Security emerges from stealth with $37M (Jun 8) — an AI attacker on your side

Yossi Torati (CEO; ex-Sygnia) + Omer Gull + Yuval Itzchakov (both ex-Hunters). Lightspeed + Cyberstarts led; angels incl. Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport + Cyera CEO Yotam Segev. AI agents continuously break into customers' own systems, find real attack paths and fix them before AI-enabled attackers do. CTEM market: $2.7B (2025) → $7B (2033 proj.).

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AI ★ — accessibility AI at scale

Rylo (ex-Nagish) raises $85M at $500M valuation (Jun 9) — AI for Deaf communication

Tomer Aharoni (CEO) + Alon Ezer. General Catalyst CVF + Canaan led; Vertex, Contour. FCC certification unlocked regulated US relay revenue → early profitability; acquired Sign.mt for real-time sign-language translation; targets $1B revenue by 2028. $100M+ total.

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Capital — FinOps for the AI cost explosion

PointFive raises $60M Series B at $500M post (Jun 8) — ex-IntSights trio

Alon Arvatz (CEO) + Gal Ben-David (CPO) + Amir Hozez (CTO) — Unit 8200; previously sold IntSights to Rapid7 for $350M. Accel led; Salesforce Ventures + Index. "AI Efficiency OS" for cloud + AI infrastructure spend; 6x ARR growth 2024→2025; ~$96M total.

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Ecosystem — confidence promotions

Gambit Security + Novee founders confirmed — both rows promoted

Gambit: Alon Gromakov (CEO) + Sa'ar Elias (CPO) + May Kogan (CTO) — Unit 8200, ex-Sentra; $61M from Cyberstarts, Kleiner Perkins, Spark Capital; found only ~5% of enterprise systems truly ransomware-resilient. Novee: Ido Geffen (CEO) + Gon Chalamish (CPO) + Omer Ninburg (CTO) — elite IDF offensive-cyber; YL Ventures + Canaan + Zeev Ventures.

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Biotech ★ — quiet week (2nd consecutive)

No major new Israeli biotech round surfaced this week (Jun 5–12)

Second consecutive quiet biotech week after a busy April–May (Aidoc +$150M, NVision $55M, Phytolon $23.6M). Standing leaders (Aidoc, CytoReason, Insightec, Starget, Converge Bio) unchanged. Flagged for deeper sweep next Friday per §13.

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Deep Tech ★ — pause after a record run

No new deep-tech round Jun 5–12 — after $520M+ landed Jun 1–4

The Jun 1–4 wave (DriveNets $410M @ $8.5B, ZutaCore $100M, Shifters $10.2M) wasn't followed by fresh deep-tech raises in this window. Quantum (Q-Factor, Quantum Art, NVision) and defense (Kela, Airis Labs, Shifters) rows unchanged. Re-scan next Friday.

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