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Firm led by first Israeli NBA player Omri Casspi opens new $250 million fund for high-tech startups

The announcement made by Casspi's firm, Swish Ventures, says that the funding will focus on 12 high-tech startups with an average value of $20 million each.

Omri Casspi #18 of the Memphis Grizzlies dunks the ball during a game against the Boston Celtics at TD Garden on January 18, 2019 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Robotic arm lifting vegetable pot with digital display, Automated farming. 3D illustration

Australian investors eye Israel’s agritech innovation boom

Gil Ben-Artzi

What investors are looking for in Israel's next generation of startups

Cactus Capital Winners

Inside the student fund backing tomorrow's entrepreneurs


Stratos Ventures debuts as US-Israeli defense‑tech fund with $50m. raised

“Defense tech isn’t the flavor of the month for us; we’ve been doing it for years,” Daniel Fouzailov told Defense & Tech by The Jerusalem Post

Stratos Ventures

Israeli-founded cyber firm A Security emerges from stealth with $37m. to fight weaponized AI

The company, founded by Israeli cyber veterans, says its platform continuously finds and helps fix real attack paths before AI-powered hackers can exploit them.

A’s co-founders, Omer Gull and Yuval Itzchakov.

From crisis to capital: Iron Nation launches $60 million to help Israeli startups expand to US

This is the firm's second fund, established following the October 7 attacks to bolster Israeli entrepreneurship during the conflict.

Chen Linchevsky (Left), Jason Wolf (Middle), and Gil Friedlander (Right).

The real constraint in defense tech isn’t innovation, it’s execution at scale- opinion

the critical question is no longer who can invent the next breakthrough system. It's who can build, deploy, and sustain it at an industrial scale?

A detail of ammunition at a production line as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Defence Minister Boris Pistorius visit the future site of an arms factory where weapons maker Rheinmetall plans to produce artilleries from 2025, in Unterluess, Germany

So, you want to build a defense tech start-up? - opinion

A founder’s guide to entering one of the hardest, and most important, arenas in tech

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TAU Ventures portfolio company XTEND heads to NASDAQ at $1.5B valuation

With a projected 10x return from XTEND’s listing, TAU Ventures positions itself for a third fund and continued AI-driven growth.

The XTEND Team

Preparing for the inevitable: The venture fund built on crisis and chaos - interview

“The world is changing faster than our systems can adapt. So I started mapping the challenges and the meeting points between them,” said Shani Zanescu.

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Dr. Dan Marom: Shaping Israel’s Next Generation of Entrepreneurs

At the HUJI Business School, the Asper Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation equips students with practical tools, real-world experience, and strategic guidance to turn ideas into ventures.

DR. DAN MAROM, academic director of the Asper Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Business School of the Hebrew University.

From generalist to deep: Why venture is being forced to specialize

Over the past few years, it has become increasingly clear that the ground beneath venture capital is shifting

Lior Prosor, General Partner at Deep33 Ventures, an early-stage fund investing in deep-tech infrastructure across computer, energy, quantum, and robotics in Israel and the US

Deep33 Ventures launches $150 million fund for deep‑tech infrastructure

With offices in Tel Aviv, New York, and Los Angeles, the firm aims to create what it calls an “allied infrastructure corridor” connecting the two countries’ technological strengths

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