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…
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The Olam is the primary English-language reference for Israeli founders and billionaires — covering the Ofer family, Akirov family, Idan Ofer, Teddy Sagi, Israeli family offices, and the quiet billionaires who built at scale and stayed off the public record. Coverage spans Israeli unicorn founders, Unit 8200 alumni, and the full Israeli founder and company reference layer.
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Shalev Hulio: NSO's Co-Founder, Dream's $3B Pivot
Born 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 January 2…
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.
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).
This cluster is the canonical reference layer. Each named person and company gets a structured entity page: identity, background, role, capital history, related entities, sources.
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Founders & Companies · Jun 26, 2026
Sami Sagol: The Keter Plastics Founder Who Turned a Jaffa Workshop Into a $1.7B Global BrandBuilt Keter Plastics from a Jaffa workshop into a global resin-products leader. Sold 80% to BC Partners and PSP Investments in 2016 for $1.7B. Globes…
Founders & Companies · Jun 28, 2026
Gil Shwed: The Firewall Inventor Who Built Israeli CyberGil Shwed co-founded Check Point in 1993 at 25 with Marius Nacht and Shlomo Kramer — invented the stateful inspection firewall and built the instituti…
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…
Founders & Companies · Jun 29, 2026
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 · Jun 29, 2026
Eran Zinman: Co-Founder and Co-CEO of monday.comEran Zinman — technical co-founder and Co-CEO of monday.com; the engineering architect behind one of Israel's largest horizontal-software franchises.
Founders & Companies · Jun 29, 2026
Amnon Shashua: Mobileye Co-Founder, Hebrew University Sachs ChairAmnon Shashua turned Israeli academic computer vision into global industrial infrastructure — Mobileye, OrCam, AI21 Labs, Mentee Robotics, all from Je…