Start-up

Inside SentX, the UAE AI start-up pursuing Superintelligence

SentX’s Victoria model combines evolving memory, self-learning and persistent personality as the Dubai start-up pursues superintelligence and prioritizes AI alignment.

Victoria’s cognitive activity during sleep.
First place: Oak.

Cyber and AI at the top: These are Israel's leading startups

 LEADERS PROGRAM class of 2026, at their graduation ceremony

The start-up is just the excuse 

Israel’s tech recovery is real, but the money is becoming more selective, favoring companies with deep technology, strong infrastructure, and global scale.

Israel's start-up ecosystem: What is driving growth in 2026


Israeli AI startup Buildots completes $130m. funding round

Israeli company Buildots combines AI and computer vision at construction sites, targeting an international market on track to reach a value of about $1.4 trillion.

Buildots founders: Roy Danon, Aviv Leibovici, and Ziv Kop.

The new and surprising investment by Assi Cohen and Lior Suchard

Israeli company Huskeys celebrates a major funding round that attracted not only the world’s largest private equity firm, but also local entertainment stars.

Roy Weisfeld and Itai Gafni

Haifa startup HydroSight raises $5 million in seed round

Israeli startup HydroSight raises $5 million to develop AI-powered seabed mapping technology for ports, energy companies and other maritime infrastructure operators.

Tomer Adler, Chen Megera, and Haitham Ezzy

Anthropic cancels $6B acquisition of Israeli AI start-up Decart following due diligence

Bloomberg report: After weeks of due diligence and advanced negotiations, AI giant Anthropic has decided not to go ahead with its acquisition of Israeli start-up Decart.

Decart founders Dean Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev.

Israeli artificial intelligence-based start-up acquired for millions by British holding company

The start-up, Dondy, creates AI agents which manage customer interactions for businesses, including sales, marketing, and customer service.

E-Commerce; AI online shopping (illustrative)

IDF Unit 8200 Alumni Association uses network to drive Israeli innovation, start-ups

The event comes as artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies are reshaping the technology sector and forcing companies and professionals to adapt to new realities.

Alumni from Unit 8200 attend annual conference in 2025.

The next evolution of technology transfer - opinion

Today’s scientific breakthroughs rarely emerge in isolation. They are increasingly shaped by collaboration across disciplines, institutions, and sectors. 

S&P 500 illustration.

Anthropic in talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for $6 billion

Foreign report: AI giant Anthropic is examining its largest acquisition to date, Decart, which raised funds in May at a valuation of around $4 billion.

The founders of Decart, Dean Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev

The desert's ripple effect: The Western Negev is quietly reshaping Israel-Africa ties - opinion

A high-level strategic delegation from the Democratic Republic of the Congo arrived at SouthUp, the non-profit technology incubator rooted in the Shaar Hanegev region.

Israel's President Isaac Herzog is seen meeting with DRC President Félix Tshisekedi at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on October 27, 2021.

From start-up nation to scale-up nation: A blueprint for Israel’s $1 trillion economy - opinion

Israel does not primarily have an innovation problem. It has an institutional problem. The country is exceptionally good at producing start-ups, but far less effective at financing and retaining them

Digital Health Startup Competition