Why 90% of Security Alerts Are Noise, and What Tonic Security Is Doing About It
Sharon Isaaci spent decades in military intelligence before crossing into the private sector, first as an executive at Signia, Israel’s leading incident response company, and now as co-founder and CEO of Tonic Security. The through-line connecting all of it is a problem he kept watching play out the same way: organizations getting breached not because attackers were unusually sophisticated, but because a known vulnerability had been sitting in a queue, detected but never fixed.
Why Tesla Is More Than Just a Car in Israel: A Conversation With Captain Eli
Captain Eli got his name from the sea. He spent years as a skipper before discovering Elon Musk’s work, deciding it was the mission he wanted to be part of, and spending two years trying to land a job at Tesla Israel. He got it, stayed for about a year, and now does Hebrew localisation for X and Grok. He also sold Yoel Israel his first Tesla, which is how this conversation started.
Solving Agent Chaos: How Port.io’s Zohar Einy Is Building the Operating System for Autonomous Engineering
A week after Port raised $100 million at an $800 million valuation, Zohar Einy sat down with IsraelTech at Google for Startups Tel Aviv to talk through what the company is actually building, why AI agents are making engineering organizations more chaotic before they make them better, and what it will take for Israel to build category-defining companies outside of cybersecurity.
From Israel’s National Cyber Directorate to the Private Sector: Refael Franco on Crisis Management, Iran’s Evolving Tactics, and What Code Blue Is Building
Refael Franco has spent his career at the intersection of intelligence and cybersecurity, first as part of the Shin Bet, then as one of the founding members of the Israel National Cyber Directorate, where he eventually led national cybersecurity operations. In 2020, he ran the national response to an Iranian cyberattack on Israel’s water infrastructure. After October 7th, he opened a civilian war room and helped locate more than 66 missing and kidnapped people using his team’s cyber and intelligence capabilities.
How Zero Networks Is Making Microsegmentation Accessible to Every Organization
Microsegmentation has been a known best practice in cybersecurity for years. The problem is that it was almost exclusively available to large enterprises with the budget, the personnel, and the years required to implement it manually. Zero Networks is changing that by making the same protection automated, agentless, and fast enough that a CSO can deploy it in under 40 hours across an entire year of operation.
Why the Wealth Management Industry Is Ripe for Disruption: Eldad Tamir of Finq on AI, Financial Literacy, and the Future of Investing
Eldad Tamir has spent decades on both sides of a divide most people in finance never cross. He was an early participant in one of Israel’s first venture funds, and later ran Tamir Fishman, one of Israel’s largest investment houses. He understands how the asset management world actually works, including who it serves well and who it quietly ignores. That background is what shaped Finq, his current company, which uses AI to bring institutional-grade wealth management services to everyday investors.
The New York-Israel Startup Corridor: What Eyal Bino of 97212 Ventures Is Building and Why It’s Working
When Eyal Bino named his fund 97212 Ventures, the logic was straightforward. 972 is Israel’s country code. 212 is New York City’s area code. He has spent 20 years living between the two, and the fund is essentially a bet that the overlap between those two worlds is where some of the most interesting early-stage technology is being built right now.
What It Actually Takes to Build a VC from Scratch: Lessons from Eran Savir of Savyon Ventures
Eran Savir has been on both sides of the table. As a three-time founder with two acquisitions under his belt, he spent years pitching investors, dealing with ghosting, vague rejections, and the slow grind of building something from nothing. Now, as the Founder and Managing Partner of Savyon Ventures, a seed-stage fund investing in AI, digital, and commerce companies, he applies that experience directly to how he invests, and how he treats the founders who come to him.
The Biggest Bottleneck in AI Isn’t Talent. It’s Compute.
Boaz Touitou from Impala explains why compute has become the biggest bottleneck in AI, and how scaling infrastructure could shape the next era of artificial intelligence.
Why Remote Work Is Becoming the Default for Fast-Growing Tech Companies
Yaron Lavi from Deel breaks down how remote-first companies scale globally, why small teams move faster, and what Israeli tech can teach the future of work.