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Orientation

Investor Orientation

For: Investors new to Israeli technology.
Deliverable: Orientation call or briefing.
Helps with: Market map, terms, sectors, database use, and exposure routes.
Does not include: Investment recommendation or deal placement.

Screen

Company Screen

For: Investor considering a company or founder call.
Deliverable: Short research readout.
Helps with: Company status, sector context, red flags, and diligence questions.
Does not include: Buy/sell recommendation.

Memo

Diligence Memo

For: Angel, family office, syndicate participant, or strategic investor.
Deliverable: Structured memo.
Helps with: Technical claims, customer evidence, dual-use relevance, regulatory issues to discuss with counsel, and competitive context.
Does not include: Legal, tax, or investment advice.

Landscape

Sector Landscape

For: Investors building a thesis.
Deliverable: Sector map and company shortlist.
Helps with: Category structure, Israeli strengths, investability questions, and public/private context.
Does not include: Guaranteed access or endorsement.

Manager

Fund / Manager Research Support

For: LPs or family offices evaluating Israeli VC exposure.
Deliverable: Manager diligence support framework.
Helps with: Strategy, sector focus, reserves, track record questions, and differentiated access questions.
Does not include: Recommendation to invest in a fund.

Prep

Founder Call Prep

For: Investors preparing for first or second calls.
Deliverable: Question set and evidence request list.
Helps with: Sharper diligence and follow-up.
Does not include: Negotiation or legal review.

License

Database Licensing / Research Reuse

For: Firms wanting internal research use.
Deliverable: Licensing conversation.
Helps with: Internal workflows and citation/reuse compliance.
Does not include: Bulk resale or competing database creation unless separately agreed.

Custom

Bespoke Advisory Mandate

For: Institutions, strategic investors, government/public-sector, and corporates.
Deliverable: Custom advisory scope.
Helps with: Cross-border execution, public-sector pathways, alliance strategy, and dual-use diligence.
Does not include: Broker-dealer activity or securities placement.

Who you'll hear from.

JJ Ben-Joseph

Founder & Principal

JJ Ben-Joseph is a veteran national security operator who spent many years in high-profile roles at the National Security Agency before moving into strategic technology and venture-backed innovation. At IQT, he spearheaded dual-use investment work for the national security community, evaluated frontier technologies, advised founders building mission-ready products, and championed IQT's first investment in Israel.

That background shapes how Claw & Talon works. JJ is comfortable with the questions that sit between technology, mission, capital, and trust: Is the product real? Does it solve a problem that matters? Can the team sell into the market it is targeting? Are the strategic claims serious, or just language wrapped around ordinary software?

For clients looking at Israeli startups, JJ can act as fractional eyes on the ground: helping source and interpret signals, facilitate founder and investor conversations, support technical diligence, and keep deal discussions grounded in both local context and U.S. national-security expectations.

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Research and advisory bench

Specialist network

Claw & Talon works with a focused bench of trusted operators, technologists, policy specialists, and investor-side diligence partners when a mandate requires deeper sector coverage or execution capacity. The model is deliberately lean: clients get senior judgment first, then targeted support around the specific questions that determine whether a company, program, or partnership is real.

Typical support includes technical reference checks, market-map expansion, founder and customer signal gathering, public-sector pathway analysis, export-control and procurement context, and preparation for sensitive cross-border conversations. The goal is not to add generic advisory volume. It is to bring the right specialist into the work at the moment their judgment changes the decision.

If you are building, funding, buying, or shaping policy around dual-use technology in the U.S.-Israel corridor, this is the place to start a serious conversation.

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