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BEAUTY'S NEW BAR: 1,000 CREATORS5W just released The 1,000-Creator Playbook for Beauty 2026. The new TikTok Shop math: 30,000 brands, 1,000-creator quarters, velocity-deck Sephora pi…
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The canonical reference layer for Israeli founders, executives, and companies covered across all clusters.
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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