On Freund

The deeper I dive into the most anticipated panel of the year — How AI Will Shape the Future of Code, and What Should We Do Now as Managers - the more I realize: this isn’t just another tech trend. This is a once-in-a-generation shift. AI is rewriting the rules of software development. But where are we in this revolution? Is now the time to go all in, or risk being left behind? Do we need to rethink everything — hiring, onboarding, team structure, how we measure impact, and plan work? Which tools are truly game-changing? How are other teams — in product, QA, DevOps - already using AI to move faster and smarter? What exactly is an AI engineer — a hype title, or a critical new role we should be hiring for right now? And THE question - will AI stop at being a co-pilot, or is it on track to become the pilot, replacing developers altogether? Curious to attend? Register here: https://lnkd.in/dMRDiG9u (and get an early ticket before they run out)

10

Port.io, the Israeli startup redefining how engineering teams manage internal developer tools and AI agents, has raised a $100 million Series C round led by General Atlantic, with participation from Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Team8. 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗦 👉 https://lnkd.in/dRmQBzpz Roni Amar Tomer Attal Tali Wahrhaft Gilad Foyer paul democko Tammy Peres Keinan Zohar Einy Aviv Teldan Shlomi Cohen Carlo B. Rona Segev Ariel Sakin Kevin Tarbell Michal Tamir Yair Geva Subby Makinde Tal Itzhaky Amit Karp Sharon Peretz Omri Negri Liran Grinberg Charity Lee Noa (Rapaport) Perry Roy Naar Ori Barzilay Peleg Hodara Yael Schiff Tamar Igra Adrian Wong Yonatan Boguslavsky Giora Yaron #Startups #Founders #FundingNews #VentureCapital #Developer #AI

54

‏1‏ ‏תגובה‏

🚀 Buildots Secures $45M to Accelerate AI-Powered Construction Monitoring Platform The Israeli construction tech startup has raised funding led by Qumra Capital, with participation from O.G. Venture Partners, TLV Partners, Poalim Equity, and Viola Growth, bringing total investment to $166 million and valuing the company at approximately $300 million as it transforms global construction project management. ✨ Opportunities unlocked: Buildots' AI and computer vision platform analyzes helmet-mounted camera footage to reduce project delays by 50% (3-4 months savings) while delivering triple-digit growth and tens of millions in annual revenue. Serving major clients including Turner Corp, Intel, VINCI, and Bouygues Construction, the company plans to quadruple North American operations in 2025, demonstrating how digital transformation is revolutionizing the construction industry's approach to project efficiency and cost management. Learn more from Roee Dannon, CEO and co-founder, and Boaz Dinte from Qumra Capital about how AI-powered construction monitoring is helping companies shift from reacting to delays to proactively preventing them, potentially saving billions in operational costs. 👇 🔗 Link: https://bit.ly/43qzkQ6 💡200,000+ real estate leaders receive the most relevant industry news and insights directly to their inbox every week. You can join via the sign-up form at the bottom of the page linked above.

9

You don’t win a city-wide project on the strength of just one feature. You win it by proving you've got everything they need, and that you can run an entire city as one system. Tel Aviv issued an RFP to all major vendors and after a lengthy review, they selected the TIBA X60 hardware line together with the SPARK Parking Platform as the backbone for modernizing their municipal parking network. The scope is significant. More than 60 garages, with new facilities added each year. The project includes: ✅ Upgrading hardware city-wide ✅ Modernizing the command center ✅ Migrating the entire operation to SPARK ✅ Customized developments, deep software integrations, and strict IT-security compliance A city of this scale can’t rely on disconnected tools. They need a unified, resilient ecosystem — one platform, consistent operations, predictable performance, and room to grow. SPARK was built precisely for environments where real-time visibility, reliability, and seamless expansion aren’t “nice to have” but mandatory for future-proofing, growing cities like TLV. And we’re just getting started. #tiba #parking #smartcities #mobility #parkingtechnology

212

‏21‏ ‏תגובות‏

Israeli Tech Reignites with $9.5B Raised in 2025 and Momentum Continues to Build. In just the first half of 2025, startups raised an impressive $9.5 billion, nearly matching the total for all of 2024 and on pace to rival the record-breaking $26 billion raised in 2021. This remarkable growth comes despite an ongoing security crisis and economic uncertainty, highlighting the unparalleled strength and resilience of Israel’s innovation ecosystem. At the heart of this momentum is a surge in early-stage mega-deals known as “super-seeds,” driven by experienced, repeat founders and backed by top-tier U.S. venture capital funds. These rounds, often reaching $20–30 million or more, reflect a growing sense of urgency among global investors who are eager to secure their stake in Israel’s next wave of groundbreaking companies. Israel’s unique concentration of world-class talent, deep-tech expertise, and proven entrepreneurial track record continues to attract leading international funds. Firms like Greylock Partners, Founders Fund, and General Catalyst are expanding their presence locally, recognizing that the next generation of category-defining startups is being built here and now. The global tech landscape may be shifting, but Israel remains at the forefront turning adversity into opportunity and vision into global impact. https://lnkd.in/eaykTFsF #IsraelInnovation #StartupNation #TechResilience #VCFunding #DeepTech #Cybersecurity #DefenseTech #AIInfrastructure #InnovationEconomy #GlobalTech

14

Israeli startup Octup, which makes an AI-powered platform to help manage and analyze logistics centers, has raised $12 million in a Seed funding round. The round was led by JAL Ventures Fund and Shine Capital, with support from Tal Ventures, Stone Capital, and HCS Capital. The company was started in 2022 by Alon Partuk and now has around 30 employees, most of them in Israel. Octup’s main office is in Tel Aviv, and it also has offices in Toronto and Austin. Kathleen Sullivan Garman | Nimrod Posner 🔗 Read full article link in comment #octup #AI #Seed #funding #startupnews #businessupdate #businessnews

28

‏4‏ ‏תגובות‏

Our posts about ivrit.ai are usually (surprise surprise) written in Hebrew. Today, we're making an exception to accomodate our global viewers as we share our experience with the ElevenLabs' scribe-v1 Speech-to-Text model. As most of you know, we maintain a Hebrew Transcription leaderboard on Huggingface (link in first comment). This was needed as fleurs and common-voice are low-quality datasets with regards to Hebrew. When ElevenLabs launched scribe_v1, we were eager to try it out. The initial results were a mixed bag: some benchmarks where scribe_v1 provides best-in-class results, others where it fumbles significantly. Our analysis mostly hints at issues with long-form transcriptions, where it simply "drops" large parts of the text after 1-2 minutes. We had a quick discussion about this with ElevenLabs support, but the end result is still subpar performance on Hebrew transcription, and we suspect this may be true for other low-resource languages. We think scribe_v1's technology is best-in-class, and are hoping to work together with the ElevenLabs team to fix this. So, if anyone at EL wants to chime in and make this happen (Mati Staniszewski Piotr Dabkowski :)), please reach out to us. We believe this might make scribe_v1 much better at not just Hebrew, so it might be worth your time. Our benchmarks are open, we're a non-profit, and in the last few weeks we open-sourced >5000 hours of speech with high-quality transcriptions. If anyone here has friends at EL and wants to help, please tag them! Kinneret Misgav, PhD Yoad Snapir Yanir Marmor

95

‏1‏ ‏תגובה‏

“The system is broken.” We keep chasing $100B valuations like it’s the norm. Said it last week, but it’s worth repeating, because let’s be honest… most of its paper. It’s not ARR driving these numbers. It’s hyper-funding rounds, inflated expectations, and a complete lack of liquidity. You’ve got companies that once hit $20B, now worth $600M. Others get acquired for $700M and then shut down within a year. And when you get to those inflated valuations, you're trapped: You can't exit. You’re not growing. You’re not liquid. You’re just stuck. The irony? Some of the smartest teams today are not raising massive rounds: → They're lean. → They’re keeping equity. → And they’re building actual businesses. So how are we going to get to $100B valuations off tiny teams, no revenue, and broken exits? You can’t. VCs are under pressure. LPs want liquidity. But IPOs are rare, private equity isn’t always interested, and secondaries, well, let’s be real… not a real solution for everyone. The system is overdue for change. Until then, we need to stop worshipping empty valuations. What’s one thing you would change about how we fund and value startups today? (Shout out to Ophir Reshef, Partner at the ISF Israel Secondary Fund for this insightful op-ed in Calcalist כלכליסט CTech by Calcalist) https://lnkd.in/egNMd6nG

26

‏4‏ ‏תגובות‏

IVC Data and Insights has opened full access to its new Unicorns Dashboard for one week, with no paywall or signup required. 🦄 https://lnkd.in/dH8bfg5C An Israeli tech unicorn is a private tech company valued at $1 billion or more in a financing round within the last three years. That narrows the list from 80+ companies to 45 active unicorns, according to the new dashboard. What do we know about the unicorns? * $25b raised by Israeli unicorn, $171B in cumulative valuation * 80% focus on enterprise software * Only three have crossed the $10b valuation: Wiz, Deel, and Safe Superintelligence Inc. * Israeli unicorns raised $14B in 2024 (vs. $5B in 2023) * 95% are in the revenue growth stage * 88.8% of founders are male, 11.1% are mixed gender (female and male) 💡 There's more: * 29 Quiet Unicorns (no financial activity within the last 3 years) * Ex-Unicorns: Companies that dropped below a $1B valuation * 13 Unicorns-to-Be: Raised $500M+ and are closing in * Most unicorns are backed by VC investors Don’t miss the opportunity to explore the data and analytics about the Israeli unicorn dashboard.

24