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…
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Aqua Security: Container-Security Independent
Israeli-founded cloud-native application protection platform. Dror Davidoff and Amir Jerbi, 2015. Ramat Gan HQ. Insight-led $135M Series E March 2021 unicorn round. $325M+ raised. Trivy open-source moat. Longest-tenured…
Read →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.
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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).
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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
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Founders & Companies · Jun 29, 2026
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Founders & Companies · Jun 29, 2026
Dudi Weissman: The Alon Group Founder Behind Blue Square, AM:PM, and 7-Eleven IsraelDudi Weissman built the Alon Group into one of the central Israeli fuel-retail and convenience-retail platforms of the 2000s — Blue Square, AM:PM, 7-E…