Israeli Startup Database

Decart is a vertically integrated frontier-AI lab building the Decart Optimization Stack (DOS) and real-time world models for live video, interactive media, robotics, and physical-AI simulation. Its thesis is that hardware-aware model and inference optimization can make continuously responsive generative systems practical at production scale.

Cloud and AI security platform that connects code, cloud, identity, data, models, agents, and runtime context to identify exploitable risk and guide remediation across major cloud environments. Wiz maintains its brand as part of Google Cloud after Google's acquisition closed in March 2026.

Shield AI is a privately held defense-technology company developing Hivemind mission-autonomy software, AI pilots, and autonomous aircraft for U.S. and allied customers. Its current platform strategy combines aircraft, edge autonomy, developer tooling, and high-fidelity simulation for deploying and validating autonomous systems in contested environments.

Irregular is a Tel Aviv-based frontier AI security lab that evaluates advanced models for offensive cyber capability, emergent misuse, and resilience to attack. It combines proprietary evaluation infrastructure, realistic cyber environments, and research benchmarks to give model developers evidence for safer deployment.

Prisma Photonics turns existing optical fiber into a distributed, long-range sensing network for monitoring power grids, pipelines, rail, subsea assets, communications infrastructure, and protected perimeters. Its Hyper-Scan platform combines optical interrogation, signal processing, and machine-learning event classification to produce location-aware operational alerts.

VAST Data is an Israeli-founded private deep-tech company building AI-scale data infrastructure for mission-critical enterprise and defense-adjacent workloads.

Israel's government-owned defense prime develops and manufactures integrated systems for air and missile defense, precision strike, protected mobility, naval combat, cyber defense, and high-energy lasers. Rafael has credible dual-use technology adjacency, but it is a mature sovereign industrial company rather than a venture-style startup.

Kela Technologies is an Israeli defense-technology startup building a secure, open platform for integrating commercial and military systems into battlefield command-and-control workflows. Its stated focus is helping Western defense users connect sensors, drones, communications, and other operational systems quickly in field conditions.

Sweet Security provides a runtime-first CNAPP and AI-security platform that correlates cloud, workload, identity, application, and AI activity to detect, investigate, and contain threats in production.

Zafran Security is an AI-native threat exposure management platform that unifies vulnerability findings, evaluates which exposures are exploitable in context, maps compensating controls, and coordinates mitigation and remediation across hybrid environments.

Cyera is a privately held AI and data security company whose platform discovers and classifies sensitive data, maps human and machine access, and applies controls across data at rest, in motion, and in use. Its product direction has expanded from DSPM into DLP, identity-aware access, AI-usage governance, and agentic-AI security.

Agentic AI SOC and security hyperautomation platform that helps enterprise and managed security teams triage, investigate, and remediate security events across their existing tool stacks.

DriveNets is a privately held networking company that supplies cloud-native, disaggregated routing and Ethernet-based AI-fabric infrastructure for service providers, cloud operators, and large AI deployments. Its Network Cloud software separates network functions from proprietary chassis hardware, while its AI Fabric combines networking hardware, software, orchestration, and deployment services.

CyberArk is an identity-security platform built around privileged access, secrets, machine identities, and controls for human, machine, and AI-agent access. Palo Alto Networks completed its acquisition of CyberArk on February 11, 2026, making the business an acquired strategic asset while continuing to offer its identity-security capabilities.

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 a strategically important industrial anchor in Israel's defense and dual-use ecosystem with approximately 15,000 employees and a reported 2025 order backlog of about $29 billion.

Attestable is an Israeli AI-security startup building a zero-knowledge integrity layer that lets organizations verify which model, weights, inputs, outputs, and policies produced an AI result without revealing the model or sensitive data. Founded in 2025 by mathematicians from RAND, StarkWare, and Safe Superintelligence, it emerged publicly in August 2026 with a $20 million Seed round.

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.

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.

Linx Security is a New York-based identity security and governance startup building an AI-native platform for mapping, monitoring, governing, and remediating access risk across human, non-human, and agentic identities.

Nagomi Security is a private cybersecurity startup developing an Agentic Exposure Operations platform that correlates security-tool data, investigates exploitable exposure paths, coordinates remediation, and continuously verifies that fixes remain effective.

Tip and Cue, now operating publicly as Tenna Systems, develops software-driven RF spectrum intelligence for detecting, classifying, and geolocating interference and improving resilience of connected systems in contested electromagnetic environments. Its primary market is defense and aerospace, with credible extensions into aviation, maritime, telecommunications, autonomous mobility, and critical infrastructure.

Chainguard produces hardened, production-ready open source artifacts for modern software delivery, including minimal container images, language libraries, VM images, OS packages, CI/CD actions, and agent skills. Its source-built factory combines vulnerability reduction with signed provenance, SBOMs, and compliance-oriented controls.

Exodigo provides AI-powered subsurface intelligence by combining multi-sensor field data, geophysics, and 3D visualization to reveal buried utilities, foundations, and geotechnical conditions before construction. Its primary customers are infrastructure owners, engineering firms, contractors, utilities, and public agencies managing high-consequence projects.

Island develops an enterprise browser and enterprise work platform that embed identity, access, data protection, network, AI, and productivity controls into the place where employees and software agents interact with web applications. Its Chromium-based browser is the initial control point, with the newer platform extending policy and visibility across browsers, desktops, and networks.

Quantum Machines develops quantum-control hardware and software that coordinates quantum processors with real-time classical computing. Its Quantum Orchestration Platform, QUA language, OPX controller family, calibration software, and newer accelerator integrations target research laboratories, quantum-computing companies, HPC centers, and system builders across qubit modalities.

XTEND is an Israeli-founded, U.S.-headquartered defense-technology company building AI-assisted robotic and drone systems around XOS, a human-supervised operating system for multi-platform mission execution in high-risk environments.

Convexum is the former name of Sentrycs, an Israeli counter-UAS company now owned by Ondas Holdings. Its software-defined Cyber-over-RF and protocol-manipulation platform detects, identifies, tracks, geolocates, and can non-jammingly take control of selected commercial drones for defense, public-safety, and critical-infrastructure customers.

proteanTecs provides embedded on-chip monitoring hardware and deep-data analytics that let semiconductor and system companies observe power, performance, quality, and reliability from production test through field operation. Its platform is aimed at turning device-level telemetry into earlier fault detection, better yield, lower power, and more predictable electronics lifecycles.

Xsight Labs is an Israeli fabless semiconductor company building programmable Ethernet switches and software-defined data processing units for AI, hyperscale, edge, storage, and other high-bandwidth networks. Its thesis is to expose more of the network architecture to software so operators can adapt protocols and services without waiting for a new fixed-function ASIC generation.

Tomorrow.io is a privately held weather-intelligence company that combines a commercial satellite constellation, numerical weather models, generative AI, and operational software to turn atmospheric observations into decisions. Its platform serves enterprise, public-sector, and government customers whose aviation, logistics, energy, infrastructure, and emergency-management operations are exposed to weather.

Claroty is a cyber-physical systems (CPS) protection company securing industrial, healthcare, commercial, and public-sector environments. Its platform combines asset visibility, exposure management, network protection, secure remote access, and threat detection across cloud and on-premise deployments.

Ramon.Space is an Israeli deep-tech startup building radiation-resilient onboard computing for satellites and space systems used in commercial and defense missions.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP) is a mature Israeli public cybersecurity company providing prevention-first network, cloud, workspace, exposure-management, threat-intelligence, and security-operations products through the Check Point Platform.

Elta Systems is Israel's leading defense electronics company, a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), specializing in advanced radar, electronic warfare, signals intelligence, and secure military communications systems deployed globally.

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.

Israeli cybersecurity startup building sovereign AI and national-scale cyber-defense systems for governments, critical infrastructure operators, and other organizations with sensitive or fragmented environments. Its platform combines asset discovery, threat hunting, cyber-language-model analysis, and on-premises or private-cloud deployment to help defenders understand and act on high-consequence cyber risk.

Minimus is a container and software-supply-chain security startup that builds minimal, hardened images from upstream source and continuously rebuilds them as vulnerabilities and dependencies change. Its commercial platform combines a public image gallery with enterprise controls for custom builds, provenance, compliance, and registry delivery.

Developer-first software supply-chain security platform that analyzes open-source dependencies for malicious behavior, vulnerabilities, and policy violations, then helps organizations block or remediate risky code before it reaches development and production environments.

IVIX provides AI-powered open-source intelligence and data-fusion software for government authorities and law-enforcement teams seeking hidden business activity, tax non-compliance, and financial-crime signals. Its platform links public digital evidence with government data to generate prioritized, explainable investigative leads.

Axonius provides an asset intelligence platform that unifies cyber assets, identities, software, SaaS applications, infrastructure, and exposures from existing enterprise systems. It turns normalized asset context into coverage analysis, risk prioritization, compliance evidence, and automated remediation workflows.

BigID is an Israeli-founded data intelligence and security company that discovers, classifies, and governs sensitive data across hybrid and multi-cloud enterprise environments, addressing a critical gap between data exposure risk and compliance complexity.

Semperis builds comprehensive identity protection and disaster recovery solutions for Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta environments, serving Fortune 500 companies, hospitals, utilities, and government agencies.

Nova Ltd. is an Israeli public semiconductor-equipment company providing dimensional, materials, chemical, and software metrology for advanced process control. Its tools help logic, foundry, memory, and packaging manufacturers measure process variation, improve yield, and qualify difficult technology transitions.

Artemis Security is an AI-native cybersecurity startup building a protection platform for detection, investigation, threat intelligence, and response across identity, cloud, endpoint, network, and SaaS telemetry. Its public materials position the product as an augmentation or alternative to ingestion-heavy SIEM workflows, with environment-specific detections and agentic investigation.

Chariot Defense is a U.S. defense-technology startup building software-defined, low-signature power storage and distribution systems for mobile and expeditionary operations. Its Amphora platform is intended to keep drones, sensors, communications, electronic warfare, command-and-control, and other high-demand loads powered beyond the grid.

Legion is a browser-native agentic security operations platform that observes how analysts investigate alerts, converts that operational knowledge into workflows, and progressively automates triage, investigation, and response across browser-accessible security tools.

Limitless Labs, formerly LimitlessCNC, builds an AI CAM agent and physics-informed manufacturing software that helps CNC teams plan machining operations, select tools and cutting conditions, and generate editable native toolpaths from CAD and production context.

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.