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Venture & Exits · Aug 21, 2026, 2:13 AM EDT

Navan: Israeli-Founded Corporate Travel Platform

Navan (Nasdaq: NAVN), formerly TripActions, is the Israeli-founded corporate travel and expense platform that listed on Nasdaq in October 2025 at a $6.21 billion valuation.

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Israeli tech entered one of its most active capital cycles since 2021. Per Startup Nation Central, total fundraising hit $15.6 billion in 2025 — up 24% from 2024 and 68% from 2023. Total M&A reached $74.3 billion across 150 transactions, headlined by Google's $32 billion Wiz acquisition and Palo Alto Networks' $25 billion CyberArk acquisition; excluding those two deals, M&A still rose 12% year over year.

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The internal composition matters more than the headlines.

2025 saw the lowest deal volume in a decade — 717 funding rounds — with median deal size jumping to $10 million, a 67% year-over-year increase. Mega-rounds above $100 million captured roughly half of all capital raised; in 2024 they accounted for 41%, in 2023 just 22%. AI applications and cybersecurity together absorbed 70% of total capital — $4.5B and $4.1B respectively.

For the first time since 2021, Israel saw a return to large IPOs, with Navan, eToro, and Via going public; combined with convertible bond offerings from Wix and Check Point, an additional $10.3 billion flowed into Israeli companies.

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Cyberstarts: The Cyber-Only Israeli VC Behind Wiz
Venture & Exits · Jul 17, 2026, 11:24 AM EDT
Cyberstarts: The Cyber-Only Israeli VC Behind Wiz

Cyberstarts is the cyber-only Israeli VC founded 2018 by Gili Raanan. Led Wiz's 2020 seed round; Wiz sold to Google Cloud for $32B in March 2026 — the…

Grove Ventures: Dov Moran's Deep-Tech Israeli Fund
Venture & Exits · Jul 17, 2026, 11:46 AM EDT
Grove Ventures: Dov Moran's Deep-Tech Israeli Fund

Grove Ventures — Tel Aviv deep-tech VC founded 2016 by Dov Moran (M-Systems/SanDisk, $1.5B, 2006) with Levkowitz, Handelsman (SolarEdge), Ashkenazi. G…