😎👋👋🇮🇱🇮🇱Appetite for Israeli technology innovation has remained UNDIMINISHED #THISYEAR, with a surge in acquisitions and IPOs.. *reuters.com/world/middle-e…

Can great founders succeed with any product idea?..When to start delegating the Core Four SaaS skills.. #PODCAST:NEW episode.. * How do you step back from daily decisions without losing control of your SaaS? startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episo…

M&A:Germany:....acquired Munich-based( founded in 2019) driverless truck startup fernride.com sifted.eu/articles/quant……

#STARTUPACADEMY:Every founder eventually faces a strategic question that’s harder than it looks on a pitch deck: Should you build a.. *Here’s how to navigate it.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-busi…

..using AI to spot fraudsters.. *THIS Toronto-based startup is hoping to stop...using AI to verify applicants’ identity with the metadata behind their publicly available social media profiles forbes.com/sites/mariagra…

TORONTO startup..behind AI detector that checks forLLM-generated content.. has found that 50 peer-reviewed submissions to ICLR contain AT LEAST one obvious hallucinated citation..betakit.com/start-up-inves… gptzero.me/team

INDIA:The daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. *Here’s the roundup for Wednesday, December 17, 2025. yourstory.com/2025/12/startu…

ICYMI:JERUSALEM:Israeli venture capital firm...raised $250 million in capital for two new ‌funds to back the "next generation of Israeli startups".uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/viola-ven…

US unicorn...which has developed an autonomous software development engine that competes with giants ...has entered Israel for the first time *to hire Israeli engineers and sell its software to the defense sector en.globes.co.il/en/article-poo…

ISRAEL:Defense tech defies global pushback. *The rapid expansion of Israel’s defense-tech sector comes despite..timesofisrael.com/brought-togeth…

$150B to build “fortress balance sheets” to protect…in case…

NEW:The semiconductor giant Nvidia is reportedly in talks to acquire 🇮🇱 generative AI startup AI21 Labs ($3-2b) *FLASHBACK(MAY 20):Nvidia &Google back AI 21 in $300M series D to build proprietary LLMs *Founded in 2017(total funding $636m)

The Telegraph:Oxford-based driverless car co Oxa BAGGED nearly $20m(€14.8m) from BP Ventures

Jacob Riggs, from Bexley, London,self-described ethical hacker, has been granted australia’s rarest visa…after hacking into the government’s system *Metro:it only took him..a few hours🙃😉🫣😱

WOW.. LSEG has cancelled hundreds subscriptions to the Financial Times .. *have taken the decision in response to the FT’s retreat from coverage of the London markets

Israeli AI startup Q.ai(working on AI tech for audio)has been acquired by AAPL.O *FT:nearly $2B *Reuters:Q.ai…”facial skin micromovements” to detect words..identify a person..heart rate… *was secretive..not publicly shared a product

🍎’s 2-LARGEST acquisition to date (2014/ $3B Beats Electronics) *Techcrunch:this is second time Q.ai ‘s CEO A.Maizels has sold a co to 🍎 (2013/PrimeSence)

#THISWEEK:The largest venture funding deal of 2026 so far and the second-largest of all time,, following only rival OpenAI’s $40 billion funding in 2025.news.crunchbase.com/ai/anthropic-r…

#THISWEEK:"Wiz mispresented that it had acquired Raftt for tens of millions of dollars."..also alleges that Wiz continued to publicly boast about the "acquisition.. en.globes.co.il/en/article-raf… photo (c) *$32 billion acquisition of Wiz by Google en.globes.co.il/en/article-wiz…

Eric Trump is investing in Israeli drone maker Xtend