Defense & Security · 45 stories · Updated Sep 11, 2026
Inside Israeli cybersecurity businesses, from the founders building products to the buyers assessing what those companies are worth.
Lead storyCommercial spyware. Mobile forensics. Lawful intercept. The most regulated and most profitable corner of cybersecurity lives in a gray zone between commerce and statecraft — and Israel is its center of gravity.
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NSO Group: the Israeli offensive-cyber firm behind Pegasus, added to the US Entity List in November 2021 and hit with a $167.7M CFAA verdict by WhatsA…
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Apex Security, an Israeli AI governance startup, was acquired by Tenable for $105M+ in under two years. Sam Altman backed the Tel Aviv-based company.
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Five years after the Abraham Accords, the cyber and AI procurement channel between Israel and the UAE has matured into a three-tier structure that tou…
Unit 8200 is Israel's NSA and its most productive startup incubator. It is the engine behind Startup Nation, fostering companies like Check Point and…
Everyone knows Israel builds the chips and the cyber. Fewer notice it also builds foundation models. AI21 Labs — $636M raised, NVIDIA and Google backi…
Israel raised $15.6 billion in tech in 2025, with nearly $8 billion in AI. This includes startups, NVIDIA, defense, cybersecurity, capital, and infras…
The Israeli returnee cohort — second- and third-act builders executing post-exit follow-on operator-building. Documented operational experience, insti…
