Shlomi Ben Haim

Onyx Security, an Israeli cybersecurity company that builds a security and control platform for AI agents used by businesses, has raised $35 million in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Conviction, an AI-focused venture capital firm founded in 2022 by Sarah Guo, a former General Partner at Greylock. With this new investment, Onyx Security’s total funding has reached $40 million. This includes a $5 million seed round in 2024 led by Cyberstarts, along with investments from several angel investors in the cybersecurity and AI sectors. Maxim Bar Kogan | Gil Elbaz 🔗 Read full article link in comment #onyxsecurity #cybersecurity #startupnews #businessnews #funding #businessupdate

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For the past 15+ years we at Joule Ventures have been up and down and across the U.S. trying to educate institutional allocators, RIAs and Jewish philanthropic foundations that having exposure to Israel's tech ecosystem should be part of building a prudent investment program. For most investors, the idea of doing the hard work of identifying managers and opportunities in Israel is outweighed by the notion that they can just 'buy IBM', take home a nice salary, and coast along doing as they've always done. I'm not here to judge -- to each their own. But when it comes to portfolio construction, if you're optimizing for talent coming out of the most elite institutions and organizations around the world, and you're ignoring what #IDF grads are contributing to global innovation, you're blowing it and your constituents should ask why.

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What happens when the software your entire business runs on suddenly becomes inaccessible? That’s where Evan Lever comes in. He’s the founder of The Escrow Company (Formerly Escrow London), a global leader in digital escrow for software, cloud infrastructure, and IP. After a successful exit during the Israeli tech boom, Evan moved to London and started again, bootstrapping his new venture from scratch and landing clients like Pfizer, Deloitte, and Unilever. With operations in London, Sydney, and Atlanta, The Escrow Company protects the mission-critical digital assets that power some of the world’s most important technology, even holding entire cloud environments, root credentials, and source code in trust. In this episode, Evan reveals: > What software escrow actually is, and why you should care > How he landed billion-dollar clients from scratch > The risks most SaaS founders completely overlook > Why trust, not code, is his real product > How he built and exited the company after 13 years This is what it looks like to build quietly, globally, and with zero margin for error. A truly fascinating episode, out now: https://lnkd.in/eWF4jrvM

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Israeli M&A is running at an unprecedented pace in 2026 and the underlaying reason is really interesting. Wiz and CyberArk both cleared regulatory approval on deals announced last year. That's two megadeals closing on the same day. Beyond the massive headlines, the baseline activity in 2026 caught my attention. The numbers so far (as of Feb 11): → 13 disclosed acquisitions in 42 days → $4.2B of M&A capital → 2.2 deals per week This amounts to $100M of #liquidity returning to investors every day! What other ecosystem provides $100M of liquidity per day on average since the beginning of 2026? If this pace holds, we're looking at ~113 M&As by year-end and close to $37B in disclosed value. This is excluding the just approved megadeals and excluding the unannounced rounds (which probably add $3-20m each). What's driving this? AI is the obvious answer. 10 of 13 deals are AI-centric companies. But I think there's something deeper happening: - Acquirers are paying premium multiples to compress time-to-AI-capability rather than build internally. - Israeli startups are shipping production-level AI, not demos. That's the arbitrage. - Speed > cost in this market cycle. Meanwhile, startup creation is on the rise (we predicted this in our stealth report ~12-months ago). It seems the industry will continue producing sellable companies at an increasing rate. This year is poised to be very interesting 😇

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Sayari acquires Israeli AI risk management startup Mirato in deal estimated at tens of millions. The deal underscores the rising demand for unified third-party risk platforms as AI reshapes the field. https://lnkd.in/e87VmATB

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🚀 Huge milestone for Israeli tech! 🇮🇱 ServiceNow is acquiring cybersecurity leader Armis in a $7.75B all-cash deal, marking one of the biggest exits in Israel’s tech ecosystem and a major leap forward in enterprise security. 🔐💼 This strategic move significantly expands ServiceNow’s footprint in cyber exposure and risk management across IT, OT and connected devices, while empowering Armis’ talented team to scale even further. 👏🌍 #Cybersecurity #TechNews #Israel #Innovation #MergersAndAcquisitions https://lnkd.in/gRb6cEMb

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Clover Security, founded by Alon Kollmann and Or Chen 🍀, today announced that it has raised $36M in funding led by Notable Capital and Team8 with participation from SVCI - Silicon Valley CISO Investments, Wiz co-founders Assaf Rappaport and Yinon C., Shlomo Kramer of Cato Networks, René Bonvanie, and other investors. Clover is already deployed at companies across banking, enterprise technology, and fintech, including Fortune 500 companies. Its customer base includes Udemy, ServiceTitan, Lemonade, PROS, and Virgin Money, as well as private innovators such as Plaid, Notion, Neo4j, and Lead Bank. The company intends to use the funds to expand its product and its go-to-market efforts. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ez3yPiP3 -- Growth Shouldn’t Be Hard. Discover the Partners Who Make It Easy with colaeb.com

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