Elad Efraim

VC friends - Having done these types of sailings with Ori Lahav for a bunch of years, and having been part of the portfolio of quite a few VC's - I can't recommend this idea enough. Doing a sail for portfolio CEO's will get VC's two huge values: 1) Your startup CEO's don't have much pure thinking time with peers. This is the perfect setting for deeply advancing strategy and tactics thinking in your portfolio. 2) I guarantee that taking your portfolio CEO's sailing like this will be a huge differentiation vs competing VC's. While others just talk about value-add, you'll be delivering.

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Tips for Israeli founders looking to raise a pre-seed in 2026 🇮🇱🚀 1. Speed and execution matters more than polish Show early signals of customer "obsession," not just "interest." Traction and data are now weighted more heavily than market size. 2. Narrative > numbers (at pre-seed) Show a sharp wedge, clear why-now, and why-you. Early traction helps, but clarity wins. 3. AI is everywhere but differentiation isn’t “AI-powered” is table stakes. Your edge should be data, distribution, workflow, or cost curve. 4. Sell the insight, not the market size Huge markets are easy to claim. A non-obvious insight is harder to copy. What did you figure out early that most have overlooked? 5. Bridge the Tel Aviv-to-US Gap Early US funds are moving upstream into the Israeli pre-seed stage. The "entry fee" is a clear North American Go-To-Market strategy baked. If you aren't thinking global on Day 1, you're invisible. The capital is there… but the "flight to quality" is at an all-time high. The bar for Pre-Seed today looks a lot like the bar for Seed three years ago. Israeli founders in stealth thinking about raising pre-seed in 2026? happy to give you a quick answer and provide you with friendly VC feedback on the pitch. We did 9 deals at Remagine Ventures in 2025 and excited to make our first investment in 2026! Pictured: catching up with a friend in NYC this week, cartoonified. Guess the place and person?

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We trained Ailice on 10 years of Sales settings, and today we are proud to announced that we automatized 99% of the setting Summer Sales 2025 for Shoppingfeed clients, brands, and agencies partners. We invested $80K in A.I. training (AWS costs for our XGBoost), meaning $0.007 to 0.011$ per attributs, so our clients and agencies can do some shopping, while their competitors do their settings. #MoreShoppingLessSetting #ThankYouAilice

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We just shipped something I’m really excited about. Our AI agents now work across Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp — not just on websites. That means businesses can respond instantly where their customers actually start conversations. Same agent. Same product knowledge. Same instant responses — wherever the conversation begins. For Georgian merchants, this is a big shift. Most sales conversations here happen in DMs, not on product pages. Now your AI agent is there too — answering questions, guiding customers, and helping close sales. Excited to see how businesses start using this. 🚀

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Industrial buying behavior has changed. Most suppliers haven’t. At the last #Coffee&CompressedAir, Daniela K. and I discussed why younger buyers want less sales talk and more digital proof. At DIREKTIN Technologies LLC, we’re building exactly that: tools that help suppliers show savings, system impact, and value instantly. The market will reward the ones who adapt first. The rest will be too late. #CompressedAir #B2BSales #IndustrialAI #EnergyEfficiency #Direktin

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At the beginning of any new year you tend to hear the same question: What's coming next? But talking with my recent guest, and futurist Tamar Kasriel, really made me think, as she reframed that question entirely. Tamar doesn't predict the future. She helps people and companies get ready for it. It was her distinction between passive readiness and active readiness nailed it for me. Passive readiness is waiting. Active readiness is training, adapting, staying open to being wrong. Harder than it sounds. She calls it "thoughtful, willed, intentional optimism." Not toxic positivity. Not ignoring the house burning down. But choosing to believe that agency still matters. That what you do next still counts. As she puts it: "Pessimism has no predictive advantage." For sure 2026 is going to be uncertain. That's not a prediction, that's just... the water we're swimming in. The question is whether we meet it with rigidity or readiness. Tamar's new book Could: The Smart Thinking Handbook for When Nothing Is Certain is out now. This clip is from our conversation on The Impossible Network.

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