Founders & Companies · Aug 2, 2026
Dmitry Bukhman: The Bootstrapped Playrix BillionaireCo-founder of Playrix, the largest mobile-gaming company in Europe. $13.6B Forbes 2026. Built $2.6B in annual revenue without a single round of instit…
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The Ronn Torossian Archive: 23 Years From 5W to AI Communications
A note from Olam's publisher. The Torossian Communications Archive — sixteen years of indexed publishing consolidated at ronntorossian.com — and why founder-archive architecture matters for Israeli business operators in…
Read →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.
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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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Founders & Companies · May 26, 2026
Noam Lanir: Founder of Empire Online, CEO of LivermoreFounder of Empire Online, CEO and ~74% owner of London-listed Livermore Investments — and chairman and largest single shareholder (13.66%) of Buff Tec…
Founders & Companies · Jul 23, 2026
Bancor: The Israeli Protocol That Invented the Automated Market MakerIsraeli-rooted decentralized-exchange protocol that popularized the automated market maker model. Founded 2017 by Eyal Hertzog, Galia and Guy Benartzi…
Founders & Companies · Jul 22, 2026
Michael Federmann: The Elbit Systems and Dan Hotels ChairmanMichael Federmann — chairman of Elbit Systems and Dan Hotels; principal-controlled steward of Israel's largest defense prime across 25 years.
Founders & Companies · May 26, 2026
Rami Levy: Israel's Discount Supermarket KingHe started with a single shop in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market. Forty-five years later, his name is the synonym for price discounting in Israel.
Founders & Companies · May 26, 2026
Yitzchak Mirilashvili: Watergen, VK, Channel 14The Israeli investor behind Watergen, co-founder of VK, and a major backer of Channel 14. Outside Israel his name is little known. Inside Israeli busi…
Founders & Companies · Jun 28, 2026
John Gandel: The Chadstone Owner Who Built Australia's Largest MallBought Chadstone Shopping Centre from Myer for A$37M in 1983, developed it into Australia's largest mall (A$3.3B+). Net worth A$7.21B (AFR 2025). Gand…
Founders & Companies · Jun 29, 2026
Marius Nacht: Check Point Co-Founder, aMoon ArchitectMarius Nacht co-founded Check Point with Gil Shwed and Shlomo Kramer in 1993 — then built Israel's largest dedicated healthtech venture firm, aMoon Fu…
Founders & Companies · Jun 29, 2026
Shlomo Kramer: The Three-Unicorn Cyber FounderShlomo Kramer co-founded Check Point (1993), Imperva (2002), and Cato Networks (2015). Three Israeli cyber unicorns across three decades. The serial c…