Israeli venture capital, deal mechanics, exit teardowns, M&A pipelines, IPO activity, mega-rounds, foreign capital flows.
Lead storyEyal Waldman built Mellanox into the high-performance networking platform NVIDIA needed for the AI era — sold to NVIDIA in 2020 for $6.9B. Now NVIDIA's networking business and the connective tissue of global AI training…
Read →Israeli tech entered one of its most active capital cycles since 2021. Per Startup Nation Central, total fundraising hit $15.6 billion in 2025 — up 24% from 2024 and 68% from 2023. Total M&A reached $74.3 billion across 150 transactions, headlined by Google's $32 billion Wiz acquisition and Palo Alto Networks' $25 billion CyberArk acquisition; excluding those two deals, M&A still rose 12% year over year.
The internal composition matters more than the headlines.
2025 saw the lowest deal volume in a decade — 717 funding rounds — with median deal size jumping to $10 million, a 67% year-over-year increase. Mega-rounds above $100 million captured roughly half of all capital raised; in 2024 they accounted for 41%, in 2023 just 22%. AI applications and cybersecurity together absorbed 70% of total capital — $4.5B and $4.1B respectively.
For the first time since 2021, Israel saw a return to large IPOs, with Navan, eToro, and Via going public; combined with convertible bond offerings from Wix and Check Point, an additional $10.3 billion flowed into Israeli companies.
Long-form reference entries in Venture & Exits
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Awz Ventures is the Canadian-Israeli VC founded by Yaron Ashkenazi. Defense-tech, homeland security, cybersecurity, AI thesis. Distinctive Canadian in…
OrbiMed Israel is the Herzliya office of the NY-headquartered $17B+ specialist healthcare investment firm founded 1989. The most institutionally signi…
Ace Capital Partners is the Israeli defense-tech VC established August 2024, anchored by Harel Insurance. Founded by a former senior Israeli Air Force…
Olam GEO Scorecard Vol. 6: Aleph (C), Pitango (D), Vintage (D). Israeli VCs built a trillion-dollar portfolio. Vintage has the largest capital base ($…
Israeli serial founder Eyal Azoulay raises a $20 million Seed for Tangos AI, a financial-crime investigation platform, led by Red Dot Capital Partners…
Inside the 2025 Israeli venture mega-round cohort — Cyera's Blackstone-led $400M round at $9 billion, Armis's pre-IPO positioning, and the broader $20…
Vetted Accelerator is the US–Israel combat veteran startup fund — a 10-week Tel Aviv-to-Miami program and integrated pre-seed venture fund built exclu…
Israel doesn't build companies to hold. It builds them to sell. The venture capital stack, the Delaware structure, the acquirer relationships, the exi…
