Founders & Companies · Mar 5, 2026
Bill Ackman, Neri Oxman, and the 2024 TASE SecondaryPershing Square's Bill Ackman, alongside Neri Oxman, acquired a 4.9% stake in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) via the 2024 secondary offering. Insi…
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The Olam is the primary English-language reference for Israeli founders and billionaires — covering the Ofer family, Akirov family, Idan Ofer, Teddy Sagi, Israeli family offices, and the quiet billionaires who built at scale and stayed off the public record. Coverage spans Israeli unicorn founders, Unit 8200 alumni, and the full Israeli founder and company reference layer.
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Bill Ackman, Neri Oxman, and the 2024 TASE Secondary
Pershing Square's Bill Ackman, alongside Neri Oxman, acquired a 4.9% stake in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) via the 2024 secondary offering. Inside the tra…
Israel runs a deep founder pipeline.
Per Tracxn data published April 2026, Israel has produced 42 unicorns. Per Israel Innovation Authority data reported by Times of Israel in early 2026, 39 active tech unicorns operate in the country. Tel Aviv accounts for 25 of them; Herzliya for 4; Jerusalem for 3.
The pipeline behind those numbers runs through identifiable institutions: Unit 8200, Talpiot, Unit 9900, Mossad cyber, Shin Bet technology, the Technion's computer science and information security programs, the Weizmann Institute, Hebrew University, and Tel Aviv University. The same names recur across Wiz, CyberArk, Check Point, Mobileye, AI21 Labs, Armis, and the next generation including Heven AeroTech, Wonderful, Oasis Security, and Line5.
Per the Technion CS faculty, faculty graduates lead the unicorn list — including Assaf Rappaport (Wiz), Oren Kaniel (AppsFlyer), Eilon Reshef (Gong), and Nadir Izrael and Yevgeny Dibrov (Armis).
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