Founders & Companies · Aug 24, 2026, 4:00 AM EDT
Hogla-Kimberly: Israel's Paper Products CompanyHogla-Kimberly, now Kimberly-Clark Israel: founded 1963, became a Kimberly-Clark joint venture in 1996, and moved to full Kimberly-Clark ownership in…
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Shufersal: Israel's Largest Supermarket
Shufersal (TASE: SAE): founded 1958. Israel's largest supermarket chain. 316+ branches. 30-35% market share. Revenue NIS 15.6B. 15,500 employees. The Amir brothers took control in 2024.
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 · Jun 8, 2026, 6:08 PM EDT
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Founders & Companies · Jun 8, 2026, 7:11 PM EDT
The Haredi Supermarket That Started Selling Kia Cars Next to the ChallahOsher Ad started selling Kia Sportage vehicles inside its supermarkets. The model worked. Now Rami Levy, SPAR and other Israeli retail chains are raci…
Founders & Companies · Jun 10, 2026, 4:27 AM EDT
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Founders & Companies · Jul 24, 2026, 2:13 AM EDT
Shalev Hulio: NSO's Co-Founder, Dream's $3B PivotBorn 1981, Haifa. Co-founded NSO Group in 2010, ran Pegasus through the Entity List era, stepped down as CEO August 2022. Co-founded Dream Security in…
Founders & Companies · Jun 28, 2026, 8:06 PM EDT
Roy Mann: Co-Founder and Co-CEO of monday.comRoy Mann co-founded monday.com and built it into the largest Israeli horizontal-software franchise on Nasdaq — a category Israeli companies historical…
Founders & Companies · Aug 23, 2026, 2:13 AM EDT
Via Transportation: The $3.65B NYSE Debut That Repriced 69%Via priced its NYSE debut at $46 in September 2025, above range, $492.9M raised, $3.65B valuation. Ten months later the stock traded near $14. Founded…
Founders & Companies · Jun 13, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT
Mikhael Mirilashvili: Owner of WatergenOwner and president of Watergen, the Israeli climate-tech company producing drinking water from air across 100+ countries. Vice President of the World…
Founders & Companies · Aug 23, 2026, 2:00 AM EDT
Optibus: Transit AI Deployed in 5,000+ CitiesIsraeli-founded AI-native software for public-transit planning. Amos Haggiag and Eitan Yanovsky, 2014. Bessemer/Insight/Tencent $107M Series C 2021 un…