Israeli cybersecurity firms, the operator-to-startup pipeline, post-acquisition integration, AI-era threat economics.
Lead storyWorld's largest pure-play cybersecurity company by market cap — $130B+ on $10B+ revenue. Founded 2005 by Israeli engineer Nir Zuk (ex-Check Point, ex-Juniper). Nir Zuk has served as CTO continuously for 20+ years across…
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World's largest pure-play cybersecurity company by market cap — $130B+ on $10B+ revenue. Founded 2005 by Israeli engineer Nir Zuk (ex-Check Point, ex-…
Founded 2015 by Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael (Unit 8200). $1.17B raised, $340M ARR. Acquired by ServiceNow for $7.75B — third-largest Israeli cyber…
Founded 2015 by Israeli-born Guy Podjarny. $1.32B raised, $8.5B peak valuation. ~$326M ARR. Developer-first security across code, containers, and AI.…
Unit 8200: the IDF signals-intelligence corps and Israel's largest single military unit — the founding pool behind Check Point, Palo Alto Networks, Wi…
Aim Security was a Tel Aviv-founded GenAI security platform built to govern enterprise use of LLMs. Founded 2022 by Matan Getz and Adir Gruss, both Un…
Q1 2026 was the largest single-quarter Israeli tech M&A cycle in history at approximately $57 billion in disclosed deal value. Wiz/Google at $32B, Cyb…
Prompt Security: Tel Aviv GenAI cyber startup founded August 2023 by Itamar Golan and Lior Drihem, both Unit 8200 + Check Point/Orca AI veterans. Rais…
Palo Alto Networks closed its $25 billion acquisition of CyberArk on February 11, 2026. Inside the integration, the new identity-security pillar, the…
Palo Alto Networks' $25 billion acquisition of CyberArk Software — closed February 11, 2026 — consolidates Israeli identity-security capability inside…
