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Despite the local unrest and economic uncertainty, the Israeli tech industry has shown resilience, especially with M&A trends since the start of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023. Strategic adviser Itay Sagie dives into the numbers.
Cloud computing
It was a huge week for startups raising big. A company had to raise nine figures to make the list this week and five raised $200 million or more.
For the past few years the M&A market for startups has been slow — and the IPO pipeline nonexistent. However, just as AI is taking over venture...
In its latest annual State of the Cloud report, Bessemer Venture Partners makes the case that startups are moving out of what it describes as legacy...
May was a big month to raise, well, really big. Four rounds hit $1 billion or more and companies needed to raise at least $200 million to make this...
Rounds of $100 million or more — or megadeals — have exploded this year, as U.S.-based startups have collected 115 such rounds through mid-May, per...
CoreWeave’s big May continued, as the AI cloud infrastructure startup raised a $7.5 billion debt facility in the same month it raised a $1.1 billion...
Two rounds hit a quarter-of-a-billion dollars or more and there were eight rounds of $100 million or more.
The new round is an upround from Vercel’s 2021 raise, when it secured $150 million in a Series D funding at a $2.5 billion valuation.
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Data platform Weka joined the unicorn ranks after locking up a $140 million Series E — raised in both a primary and secondary transaction — that took...
The week was slower than the previous one as far as startups raising huge mega rounds. Then again it had to be after 13 companies raised more than...
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