XTEND is an Israeli defense-technology startup developing human-guided autonomous robotics and AI-assisted mission orchestration platforms for high-threat operational environments.
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Astelia is an Israeli-founded, AI-native exposure-management company focused on proving which vulnerabilities are actually reachable and exploitable in real enterprise environments, rather than treating all findings as equal risk.
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Kela Technologies is an active Israeli defense-technology startup building a secure, open platform that integrates commercial and military systems into battlefield command-and-control workflows for Western defense customers.
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Airis Labs builds a video-first intelligence platform that turns fragmented visual data into machine-readable, mission-ready intelligence for government, public safety, border management, and emergency response.
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D-Fend Solutions develops EnforceAir, an RF cyber counter-UAS platform that detects, identifies, locates, and, where legally authorized and technically supported, takes control of rogue drones for controlled outcomes such as safe landing rather than kinetic defeat or broad-area jamming.
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CyberArk is an identity security and privileged access platform that protects high-risk credentials, sessions, and machine secrets across enterprise, cloud, and DevOps environments. The company has been acquired by Palo Alto Networks, and its technology is now being folded into a broader identity-security platform.
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Israeli desalination infrastructure company that develops, builds, and operates large-scale thermal and membrane treatment systems for municipal, industrial, and critical-water resilience use cases.
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Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is Israel's government-owned aerospace and defense prime, spanning air, land, naval, space, cyber, radar, missile defense, unmanned systems, and commercial aviation services. It is not a venture-backed startup, but it is one of the most strategically important industrial anchors in Israel's defense and dual-use ecosystem.
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Rhino Federated Computing develops enterprise federated computing infrastructure that lets organizations run analytics and AI across distributed sensitive datasets without transferring raw data. Its platform targets regulated, multi-party environments where privacy, sovereignty, and auditability are hard constraints.
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Xsight Labs is a fabless Israeli startup building programmable networking silicon for AI, cloud, edge, and datacenter infrastructure. It focuses on high-performance, open-architecture switches and data processing units aimed at reducing bandwidth cost and power bottlenecks in mission-critical compute environments.
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Artemis Security is an Israeli AI-native cybersecurity startup that emerged from stealth in 2026 with a platform built to detect, investigate, and respond to machine-speed attacks across modern enterprise environments.
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Native Security is an Israeli cloud security startup that turns built-in provider controls into enforceable, secure-by-design architecture across multi-cloud environments. The company focuses on preventing configuration drift and making policy enforcement proactive rather than detective.
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Fig Security is an Israeli cybersecurity startup developing platformized security operations controls for infrastructure resilience, designed to automate policy enforcement, reduce misconfiguration risk, and improve recovery speed across complex environments.
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Ciconia is an Israeli aerospace startup building the Coordination & Collision Avoidance System (C&CAS), a deconfliction layer for dense low-altitude airspace where manned and unmanned aircraft operate together.
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Omnisys is an Israeli defense software company focused on command decision support for complex mission environments, with long-standing deployment experience in land, sea, and air defense workflows. The firm is best known for its BRO (Battle Resource Optimization) platform, which applies real-time analytics and optimization techniques to mission planning, coordination, and debriefing.
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Retym develops programmable coherent DSP chips for AI infrastructure and cloud connectivity, targeting the bandwidth, latency, and power bottlenecks that constrain large-scale data-center networks.
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Above Security is an Israeli AI-native cybersecurity startup focused on managed insider-risk management for enterprises and critical operations. The company uses fleets of specialized AI investigators to convert fragmented signals into behavioral risk narratives and actionable interventions in real time.
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CatAmmon is an Israeli deep-tech startup developing ceramic-based catalysts that aim to lower the cost and complexity of ammonia-to-hydrogen conversion. The company positions itself at the junction of clean energy infrastructure, mobility, and industrial process heat decarbonization.
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Converge Bio is an Israeli-founded generative AI life-sciences startup building production bio-LLM systems for target discovery, antibody engineering, and biomanufacturing optimization for pharma and biotech workflows.
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Safe Superintelligence is a 2024-founded US-Israeli AI research startup focused on building a single-track safe superintelligence model with core teams and office presence in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv.
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Voltify is an Israeli-founded rail-energy startup building battery-electric locomotive retrofits, in-motion charging, and corridor microgrids to cut diesel dependence for freight rail operators.
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NitroFix is an Israeli deep-tech startup developing a single-step green-ammonia electrochemical process to produce near-zero-emissions ammonia from water, air, and renewable electricity for global industrial and energy systems.
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Vetric is an Israeli cyber-intelligence infrastructure startup that builds managed public-data pipelines and APIs so organizations can monitor large volumes of open-source information with reliability and low engineering overhead, with clear relevance to cyber defense, digital risk, and public safety workflows.
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Jerusalem-based deep-tech startup developing monostatic 4D LiDAR-on-chip perception sensors for autonomy, industrial safety, and resilient machine vision applications.
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Chain Reaction is an Israeli deep-tech startup developing ASIC hardware for encrypted computation and high-efficiency crypto infrastructure, with a design focus on privacy-preserving AI and secure data-center workloads.
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nT-Tao is an Israeli compact-fusion startup founded in 2019 building on-site distributed baseload power systems for critical infrastructure and hard-to-grid environments.
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Monogoto is an Israeli-developed software-defined cellular connectivity platform for IoT, private LTE/5G, and edge-devices, with a security-by-design model built around SIM-rooted identity and cloud-native control planes.
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AI21 Labs is an Israeli enterprise AI company building foundation models, orchestration systems, and privately deployable language AI for long-context, document-heavy workflows. Its Jamba model family and Maestro agent system target enterprises that need source-grounded answers, data control, and auditable AI behavior rather than consumer chatbot novelty.
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Sightec builds software-first visual autonomy for drones, turning onboard imagery into GPS-free navigation and situational awareness. Its NavSight platform is positioned for resilient operations in jammed, spoofed, or otherwise contested environments with minimal hardware changes.
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L7 Defense develops AI-native API security infrastructure for critical digital systems, including an autonomous API-focused platform called Ammune that combines API discovery, behavioral learning, and inline mitigation to protect against volumetric and logic-oriented attacks.
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NVision is an Israeli-founded quantum startup developing molecular-spin and photonic quantum platforms for metabolic MRI acceleration and quantum information processing, with a strategic 2026 Series B financing stage.
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G.A.L. Water Technologies builds mobile purification, desalination, and water-resilience systems designed for emergency response, remote communities, and defense-adjacent field operations where reliable clean water access can determine mission continuity.
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Elbit Systems is a publicly traded Israeli defense electronics and systems company that builds C4I, ISR, electro-optics, electronic warfare, unmanned systems, and training products for militaries and security agencies. It is strategically important as a prime contractor and technology benchmark, but it is not a venture-style startup.
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Protai is an Israeli AI and proteomics drug-discovery startup building structural protein-data models to identify novel therapeutic targets and improve patient-response prediction in oncology and other complex diseases.
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Copperhelm is an Israeli cloud security startup building an agentic platform that uses autonomous AI agents to discover, prioritize, and remediate exploitable cloud threats at runtime.
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Invisify is an Israeli deep-tech cybersecurity startup offering hardware-assisted inline network hardening for IT, OT, and critical infrastructure environments where uptime and determinism are as important as attack resistance.
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CQM WATER is an Israeli deep-tech water-disinfection startup delivering on-site electro-chlorination systems that remove hazardous chemical logistics and support resilient operation for municipal, industrial, and strategic infrastructure networks.
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Iron Drone is an autonomous counter-UAS asset now marketed through Airobotics' Iron Drone Raider system for protecting sensitive sites from hostile drones.
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N-Drip is an Israeli agritech company developing gravity-powered micro-irrigation systems that retrofit flood-irrigated fields without pumps or pressure filtration, aiming to reduce water, fertilizer, and energy use while improving farm productivity.
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Israeli defense and homeland-security startup that designs and manufactures modular surveillance systems for border security, perimeter defense, and protection of critical infrastructure using day/night EO/IR solutions.
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Cylake is an Israeli AI-native cybersecurity startup founded by industry veterans Nir Zuk, Ehud Shamir, and Wilson Xu, developing sovereign data-driven security platforms for government, defense, and critical infrastructure that operate entirely on-premises or in private cloud environments, eliminating public cloud dependencies.
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Conifers.ai builds an agentic AI security operations platform that unifies threat intelligence, hunting, detection engineering, investigation, and remediation for enterprise and MSSP SOCs. The company launched in January 2025 with $25 million in funding and is positioned around faster, more contextual security operations.
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Niv-AI is a Tel Aviv startup building an AI-powered control layer for data-center power management, targeting millisecond-level AI workload transients to unlock stranded compute capacity in existing infrastructure.
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Novee Security builds AI-driven penetration testing platforms that continuously simulate advanced attacker behavior to uncover complex vulnerabilities and business logic flaws in enterprise applications faster than traditional manual pentesting.
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THETIS AI is an Israeli startup founded in 2025 that provides AI-driven voyage optimization for commercial shipping by generating weather- and traffic-aware route, speed, and ETA recommendations that reduce fuel burn and emissions while supporting operational continuity.
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Chariot Defense is an Israeli-rooted defense-tech startup building battlefield power systems for the tactical edge. Its platform focuses on low-signature, transportable power distribution for drones, sensing, electronic warfare, directed energy, and other expeditionary loads.
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CYTRIX is an Israeli cybersecurity startup building an autonomous agentic AI red-team platform for continuous web, API, and cloud security validation.
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AI-native cyber provider building a secure control plane for enterprise AI agents with visibility, policy enforcement, and real-time intervention across SaaS, cloud, endpoints, and code environments.
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