{"id":51544,"topic":"ai","source":"calcalistech.com","title":"Israeli startups raised $1.5 billion in July as investors doubled down on enterprise AI - calcalistech.com","url":"https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/skutovhrme","url_hash":"2ae3d19307012e2304cb5b95fbefeb4cf8087a6d","author":"","summary":"<a href=\"https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiaEFVX3lxTFBFOF9zeElXSDdaQlY2X25UQ1F5bGdaajlHNXA0UWkzR2Q2eEtXV19pbHcxb1V6VUQ5V2swYUVRV1lybmxhNE9WMkFaZ2dRZGQ0YjQ5el9IUUs5OGxTeFprVHpmVTZnR1Ex?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Israeli startups raised $1.5 billion in July as investors doubled down on enterprise AI</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">calcalistech.com</font>","content":"Israeli startups raised $1.5 billion in July as investors doubled down on enterprise AI\nLarge funding rounds increasingly favored companies helping businesses deploy artificial intelligence securely rather than building consumer-facing models.\nArtificial intelligence has become the common denominator across almost every corner of Israel's startup ecosystem.\nWhether the companies were building cybersecurity platforms, semiconductors, robotics, defense systems, fintech infrastructure or even alternative dairy proteins, July's funding announcements pointed to the same conclusion: AI is no longer a standalone sector. It has become the technology underpinning virtually every area of innovation attracting venture capital.\nIsraeli startups announced 29 funding rounds totaling approximately $1.518 billion during July, making it one of the strongest months of the year and reinforcing investors' appetite for companies building the infrastructure needed to support the next generation of artificial intelligence.\nWhile the funding landscape remained broad, several themes clearly emerged.\nRather than backing developers of large language models, investors overwhelmingly favored companies building the technologies surrounding AI: security platforms protecting autonomous agents, enterprise software designed to manage AI workflows, networking chips connecting massive AI clusters, observability platforms capable of monitoring AI-generated data, and identity systems built specifically for machine identities.\nCybersecurity once again dominated the funding charts.\nAmong the month's largest financings was Glow, which emerged from stealth with a $180 million round at a $1.2 billion valuation, betting that AI can fundamentally transform endpoint security from reactive detection to prevention.\nOnyx raised $113 million only four months after emerging from stealth, arguing that securing AI agents will become one of cybersecurity's largest future markets.\nNeo secured $100 million, positioning itself around the growing need to protect autonomous AI agents operating inside enterprise environments.\nThe trend extended across virtually every stage of company formation. New startups including Mate Security, Bloom Security, Beacon Security, Way Security, Act Security, Oak, Hush Security, Tangos AI, and Modus all centered their businesses around protecting AI-powered enterprise infrastructure or enabling AI agents to operate securely.\nArtificial intelligence also continued to reshape enterprise software.\nCompanies such as Aligned, Encore AI, Harmony, Alta, and Modus all sought to automate knowledge work previously performed by human employees.\nRather than replacing workers outright, these startups are building systems that observe, learn and replicate how top-performing employees execute tasks ranging from enterprise operations and customer support to sales and internal workflows.\nInfrastructure remained another major investment theme.\nSemiconductor startup Xsight Labs secured the month's largest round, raising $300 million at a $2.8 billion valuation as global demand continues to surge for networking chips capable of connecting the massive computing clusters required for artificial intelligence.\nObservability startup groundcover also joined the list of major fundraisers, raising $100 million to challenge incumbents such as Datadog by arguing that traditional monitoring platforms were never designed for the explosion of telemetry generated by cloud-native AI applications.\nThe AI investment wave extended well beyond software.\nRobotics startup Enigma emerged from stealth with a $71 million Seed round to develop foundation models for intelligent robots.\nSensor developer Elio, founded by former Meta executives, raised $21 million to create new sensing technologies designed specifically for AI systems.\nMeanwhile, Hemispheric unveiled one of the month's more unusual projects, emerging after six years in stealth with $52 million to build what it describes as a foundation model for the human brain using more than 250,000 hours of neurological data.\nDefense technology also maintained its momentum.\nSkapion raised $36 million to counter drone swarms, reflecting growing concern over the proliferation of inexpensive unmanned aircraft in modern warfare.\nUnderground robotics company Traysar launched with $25 million to develop autonomous systems for subterranean military operations, while battlefield technology developer ASIO combined its first external fundraising with a strategic partnership with Anduril Industries.\nThe breadth of the month's funding also highlighted how venture investors continue to support sectors beyond enterprise AI.\nFood technology startup Plantopia raised $9 million to commercialize plant-based dairy proteins.\nFintech companies Cordant and Horizon Trade focused respectively on global payments infrastructure and AI-powered investment tools.\nAdvertising infrastructure startup Velocity sought to solve one of AI's growing commercial challenges: how applications with millions of free users can generate sufficient revenue to offset rapidly rising computing costs.\nSee the full list of July’s deals below. (This includes funding rounds of over $5 million that were officially announced during July):\n30.7.26\nJust four months after emerging from stealth, the Israeli startup is betting that securing AI agents will become one of cybersecurity's biggest markets\nThe Israeli startup argues that traditional cybersecurity tools were built for malware, not for a world where employees and AI systems install software that can access sensitive company data\nThe semiconductor startup is gaining traction with global network operators and hyperscalers as demand surges for chips that can connect the massive computing systems powering artificial intelligence\n29.7.26\nThe startup aims to solve the \"Context Gap\" that prevents enterprise AI agents from delivering accurate, cost-effective results\nFormerly known as Insait, the Israeli startup analyzes millions of customer interactions to turn the best sales and service practices into autonomous AI agents\nThe Israeli startup says traditional monitoring platforms were not built for the explosion of data generated by cloud and AI systems. The Series C brings groundcover’s total funding to $160 million as it targets a market dominated by legacy giants\n28.7.26\nHush Security, led by the team behind the Zero Trust startup acquired by Proofpoint, is building identity infrastructure for AI agents and other non-human identities\nThe Israeli company raised $34 million in Seed funding from Lightspeed and others to automate the thousands of internal requests that still burden corporate team\nMate Security says traditional security operations were not designed for AI-scale attacks. The startup is betting that trusted autonomous agents, powered by an “organizational brain,” will reshape how companies detect and respond to threats\nSeven months after Calcalist first revealed its funding, Act Security officially launches with a cloud security platform designed to eliminate the access pathways that AI-powered attacks increasingly exploit\n27.7.26\nThe Israeli startup aims to automate the costly implementation work behind identity and access management systems, a market where integration often costs several times more than the software itself\nFounded by former Unit 8200 researchers, Enigma is developing foundation AI models designed to make robots more intelligent and easier to deploy\n23.7.26\nElio's founders, Nadav Grossinger and Nitay Romano, spent seven years developing physical sensing systems at Meta. Now they are betting that artificial intelligence needs a fundamentally different way to see the world\n22.7.26\nBacked by global dairy giant Schreiber Foods, the company is moving from research to commercial production with a plant-based technology designed to recreate milk proteins.\nFounded by former Meta, Snowflake and Claroty executives, the company is betting AI can transform endpoint security from reactive defense to prevention\nThe strategic investment follows backing from American Express Ventures and expands the Israeli startup's blue-chip investor base\n21.7.26\nCordant is developing a real-time coordination platform for banks and fintech companies as fragmented financial infrastructure and AI adoption make it harder to understand where money moves\n20.7.26\nNeo says traditional cybersecurity tools were never designed for autonomous software that can reason, make decisions and act inside enterprise systems\nAfter more than 20 years of self-funding, ASIO secured its first outside investment as demand for battlefield tactical technology surges\n16.7.26\nIsraeli startup founded by HiredScore, Mitiga and Skyline AI veterans says enterprises need trusted context before AI agents can safely defend against threats\nHorizon Trade is building an AI platform that lets investors turn ideas into tested strategies and automated trades without needing quantitative researchers or coding skills\n15.7.26\nNeo Security has now raised more than $75 million as investors continue backing next-generation cybersecurity companies\nOak says its AI-native platform replaces the patchwork of legacy identity tools with a single operating system that governs employees, machines and AI agents\nFounded by a computational neuroscientist and the co-founder of RealFace, the Israeli startup unveiled Descartes, a six-billion-parameter NeuroAI model trained on more than 250,000 hours of brain data from over 100,000 participants\n9.7.26\nSkapion says existing air-defense systems were not designed for the scale and economics of mass UAV attacks\n8.7.26\nThe AI agent platform founded by monday alumni has reached a $15 million ARR run rate after 800% revenue growth. CEO Stav Levi-Neumark tells Calcalist the company is moving beyond SaaS toward a services model that manages the entire sales lifecycle and enables one account manager to oversee 80 customers instead of 20\nVelocity believes AI apps need a new monetization model as millions of users remain free users while computing costs continue to rise\n7.7.26\nTangos AI is building AI agents to replace the labor-intensive process of investigating suspicious transactions\n2.7.26\nTraysar launches with $25 million in funding to develop autonomous systems designed for military operations beneath the Earth's surface\n1.7.26\nThe startup builds AI agents to automate complex deal workflows from first call to close","image_url":"https://pic1.calcalist.co.il/picserver3/crop_images/2026/07/22/H111mVufAEGe/H111mVufAEGe_0_220_2121_1195_0_large.jpg","lang":"en","published_at":"2026-08-02T07:13:00+00:00","fetched_at":"2026-08-02T09:15:04+00:00","status":"read","starred":0,"extract_state":"ok","summary_auto":"Israeli startups raised $1.5 billion in July as investors doubled down on enterprise AI\nLarge funding rounds increasingly favored companies helping businesses deploy artificial intelligence securely rather than building consumer-facing models. 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It has become the technology underpinning virtually every area of innovation attracting venture capital.\nIsraeli startups announced 29 funding rounds totaling approximately $1.518 billion during July, making it one of the strongest months of the year and reinforcing investors' appetite for companies building the infrastructure needed to support the next generation of artificial intelligence.\nWhile the funding landscape remained broad, several themes clearly emerged.\nRather than backing developers of large language models, investors overwhelmingly favored companies building the technologies surrounding AI: security platforms protecting autonomous agents, enterprise software designed to manage AI workflows, networking chips connecting massive AI clusters, observability platforms capable of monitoring AI-generated data, and identity systems built specifically for machine identities.\nCybersecurity once again dominated the funding charts.\nAmong the month's largest financings was Glow, which emerged from stealth with a $180 million round at a $1.2 billion valuation, betting that AI can fundamentally transform endpoint security from reactive detection to prevention.\nOnyx raised $113 million only four months after emerging from stealth, arguing that securing AI agents will become one of cybersecurity's largest future markets.\nNeo secured $100 million, positioning itself around the growing need to protect autonomous AI agents operating inside enterprise environments.\nThe trend extended across virtually every stage of company formation. New startups including Mate Security, Bloom Security, Beacon Security, Way Security, Act Security, Oak, Hush Security, Tangos AI, and Modus all centered their businesses around protecting AI-powered enterprise infrastructure or enabling AI agents to operate securely.\nArtificial intelligence also continued to reshape enterprise software.\nCompanies such as Aligned, Encore AI, Harmony, Alta, and Modus all sought to automate knowledge work previously performed by human employees.\nRather than replacing workers outright, these startups are building systems that observe, learn and replicate how top-performing employees execute tasks ranging from enterprise operations and customer support to sales and internal workflows.\nInfrastructure remained another major investment theme.\nSemiconductor startup Xsight Labs secured the month's largest round, raising $300 million at a $2.8 billion valuation as global demand continues to surge for networking chips capable of connecting the massive computing clusters required for artificial intelligence.\nObservability startup groundcover also joined the list of major fundraisers, raising $100 million to challenge incumbents such as Datadog by arguing that traditional monitoring platforms were never designed for the explosion of telemetry generated by cloud-native AI applications.\nThe AI investment wave extended well beyond software.\nRobotics startup Enigma emerged from stealth with a $71 million Seed round to develop foundation models for intelligent robots.\nSensor developer Elio, founded by former Meta executives, raised $21 million to create new sensing technologies designed specifically for AI systems.\nMeanwhile, Hemispheric unveiled one of the month's more unusual projects, emerging after six years in stealth with $52 million to build what it describes as a foundation model for the human brain using more than 250,000 hours of neurological data.\nDefense technology also maintained its momentum.\nSkapion raised $36 million to counter drone swarms, reflecting growing concern over the proliferation of inexpensive unmanned aircraft in modern warfare.\nUnderground robotics company Traysar launched with $25 million to develop autonomous systems for subterranean military operations, while battlefield technology developer ASIO combined its first external fundraising with a strategic partnership with Anduril Industries.\nThe breadth of the month's funding also highlighted how venture investors continue to support sectors beyond enterprise AI.\nFood technology startup Plantopia raised $9 million to commercialize plant-based dairy proteins.\nFintech companies Cordant and Horizon Trade focused respectively on global payments infrastructure and AI-powered investment tools.\nAdvertising infrastructure startup Velocity sought to solve one of AI's growing commercial challenges: how applications with millions of free users can generate sufficient revenue to offset rapidly rising computing costs.\nSee the full list of July’s deals below. (This includes funding rounds of over $5 million that were officially announced during July):\n30.7.26\nJust four months after emerging from stealth, the Israeli startup is betting that securing AI agents will become one of cybersecurity's biggest markets\nThe Israeli startup argues that traditional cybersecurity tools were built for malware, not for a world where employees and AI systems install software that can access sensitive company data\nThe semiconductor startup is gaining traction with global network operators and hyperscalers as demand surges for chips that can connect the massive computing systems powering artificial intelligence\n29.7.26\nThe startup aims to solve the \"Context Gap\" that prevents enterprise AI agents from delivering accurate, cost-effective results\nFormerly known as Insait, the Israeli startup analyzes millions of customer interactions to turn the best sales and service practices into autonomous AI agents\nThe Israeli startup says traditional monitoring platforms were not built for the explosion of data generated by cloud and AI systems. The Series C brings groundcover’s total funding to $160 million as it targets a market dominated by legacy giants\n28.7.26\nHush Security, led by the team behind the Zero Trust startup acquired by Proofpoint, is building identity infrastructure for AI agents and other non-human identities\nThe Israeli company raised $34 million in Seed funding from Lightspeed and others to automate the thousands of internal requests that still burden corporate team\nMate Security says traditional security operations were not designed for AI-scale attacks. The startup is betting that trusted autonomous agents, powered by an “organizational brain,” will reshape how companies detect and respond to threats\nSeven months after Calcalist first revealed its funding, Act Security officially launches with a cloud security platform designed to eliminate the access pathways that AI-powered attacks increasingly exploit\n27.7.26\nThe Israeli startup aims to automate the costly implementation work behind identity and access management systems, a market where integration often costs several times more than the software itself\nFounded by former Unit 8200 researchers, Enigma is developing foundation AI models designed to make robots more intelligent and easier to deploy\n23.7.26\nElio's founders, Nadav Grossinger and Nitay Romano, spent seven years developing physical sensing systems at Meta. Now they are betting that artificial intelligence needs a fundamentally different way to see the world\n22.7.26\nBacked by global dairy giant Schreiber Foods, the company is moving from research to commercial production with a plant-based technology designed to recreate milk proteins.\nFounded by former Meta, Snowflake and Claroty executives, the company is betting AI can transform endpoint security from reactive defense to prevention\nThe strategic investment follows backing from American Express Ventures and expands the Israeli startup's blue-chip investor base\n21.7.26\nCordant is developing a real-time coordination platform for banks and fintech companies as fragmented financial infrastructure and AI adoption make it harder to understand where money moves\n20.7.26\nNeo says traditional cybersecurity tools were never designed for autonomous software that can reason, make decisions and act inside enterprise systems\nAfter more than 20 years of self-funding, ASIO secured its first outside investment as demand for battlefield tactical technology surges\n16.7.26\nIsraeli startup founded by HiredScore, Mitiga and Skyline AI veterans says enterprises need trusted context before AI agents can safely defend against threats\nHorizon Trade is building an AI platform that lets investors turn ideas into tested strategies and automated trades without needing quantitative researchers or coding skills\n15.7.26\nNeo Security has now raised more than $75 million as investors continue backing next-generation cybersecurity companies\nOak says its AI-native platform replaces the patchwork of legacy identity tools with a single operating system that governs employees, machines and AI agents\nFounded by a computational neuroscientist and the co-founder of RealFace, the Israeli startup unveiled Descartes, a six-billion-parameter NeuroAI model trained on more than 250,000 hours of brain data from over 100,000 participants\n9.7.26\nSkapion says existing air-defense systems were not designed for the scale and economics of mass UAV attacks\n8.7.26\nThe AI agent platform founded by monday alumni has reached a $15 million ARR run rate after 800% revenue growth. CEO Stav Levi-Neumark tells Calcalist the company is moving beyond SaaS toward a services model that manages the entire sales lifecycle and enables one account manager to oversee 80 customers instead of 20\nVelocity believes AI apps need a new monetization model as millions of users remain free users while computing costs continue to rise\n7.7.26\nTangos AI is building AI agents to replace the labor-intensive process of investigating suspicious transactions\n2.7.26\nTraysar launches with $25 million in funding to develop autonomous systems designed for military operations beneath the Earth's surface\n1.7.26\nThe startup builds AI agents to automate complex deal workflows from first call to close","excerpt":"Israeli startups raised $1.5 billion in July as investors doubled down on enterprise AI\nLarge funding rounds increasingly favored companies helping businesses deploy artificial intelligence securely rather than building consumer-facing models. 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Artificial intelligence has become the common denominator across almost every corner of Israel's startup ecosystem.","source":"calcalistech.com","date":"2026-08-02T07:13:00+00:00","content":"Israeli startups raised $1.5 billion in July as investors doubled down on enterprise AI\nLarge funding rounds increasingly favored companies helping businesses deploy artificial intelligence securely rather than building consumer-facing models.\nArtificial intelligence has become the common denominator across almost every corner of Israel's startup ecosystem.\nWhether the companies were building cybersecurity platforms, semiconductors, robotics, defense systems, fintech infrastructure or even alternative dairy proteins, July's funding announcements pointed to the same conclusion: AI is no longer a standalone sector. It has become the technology underpinning virtually every area of innovation attracting venture capital.\nIsraeli startups announced 29 funding rounds totaling approximately $1.518 billion during July, making it one of the strongest months of the year and reinforcing investors' appetite for companies building the infrastructure needed to support the next generation of artificial intelligence.\nWhile the funding landscape remained broad, several themes clearly emerged.\nRather than backing developers of large language models, investors overwhelmingly favored companies building the technologies surrounding AI: security platforms protecting autonomous agents, enterprise software designed to manage AI workflows, networking chips connecting massive AI clusters, observability platforms capable of monitoring AI-generated data, and identity systems built specifically for machine identities.\nCybersecurity once again dominated the funding charts.\nAmong the month's largest financings was Glow, which emerged from stealth with a $180 million round at a $1.2 billion valuation, betting that AI can fundamentally transform endpoint security from reactive detection to prevention.\nOnyx raised $113 million only four months after emerging from stealth, arguing that securing AI agents will become one of cybersecurity's largest future markets.\nNeo secured $100 million, positioning itself around the growing need to protect autonomous AI agents operating inside enterprise environments.\nThe trend extended across virtually every stage of company formation. New startups including Mate Security, Bloom Security, Beacon Security, Way Security, Act Security, Oak, Hush Security, Tangos AI, and Modus all centered their businesses around protecting AI-powered enterprise infrastructure or enabling AI agents to operate securely.\nArtificial intelligence also continued to reshape enterprise software.\nCompanies such as Aligned, Encore AI, Harmony, Alta, and Modus all sought to automate knowledge work previously performed by human employees.\nRather than replacing workers outright, these startups are building systems that observe, learn and replicate how top-performing employees execute tasks ranging from enterprise operations and customer support to sales and internal workflows.\nInfrastructure remained another major investment theme.\nSemiconductor startup Xsight Labs secured the month's largest round, raising $300 million at a $2.8 billion valuation as global demand continues to surge for networking chips capable of connecting the massive computing clusters required for artificial intelligence.\nObservability startup groundcover also joined the list of major fundraisers, raising $100 million to challenge incumbents such as Datadog by arguing that traditional monitoring platforms were never designed for the explosion of telemetry generated by cloud-native AI applications.\nThe AI investment wave extended well beyond software.\nRobotics startup Enigma emerged from stealth with a $71 million Seed round to develop foundation models for intelligent robots.\nSensor developer Elio, founded by former Meta executives, raised $21 million to create new sensing technologies designed specifically for AI systems.\nMeanwhile, Hemispheric unveiled one of the month's more unusual projects, emerging after six years in stealth with $52 million to build what it describes as a foundation model for the human brain using more than 250,000 hours of neurological data.\nDefense technology also maintained its momentum.\nSkapion raised $36 million to counter drone swarms, reflecting growing concern over the proliferation of inexpensive unmanned aircraft in modern warfare.\nUnderground robotics company Traysar launched with $25 million to develop autonomous systems for subterranean military operations, while battlefield technology developer ASIO combined its first external fundraising with a strategic partnership with Anduril Industries.\nThe breadth of the month's funding also highlighted how venture investors continue to support sectors beyond enterprise AI.\nFood technology startup Plantopia raised $9 million to commercialize plant-based dairy proteins.\nFintech companies Cordant and Horizon Trade focused respectively on global payments infrastructure and AI-powered investment tools.\nAdvertising infrastructure startup Velocity sought to solve one of AI's growing commercial challenges: how applications with millions of free users can generate sufficient revenue to offset rapidly rising computing costs.\nSee the full list of July’s deals below. (This includes funding rounds of over $5 million that were officially announced during July):\n30.7.26\nJust four months after emerging from stealth, the Israeli startup is betting that securing AI agents will become one of cybersecurity's biggest markets\nThe Israeli startup argues that traditional cybersecurity tools were built for malware, not for a world where employees and AI systems install software that can access sensitive company data\nThe semiconductor startup is gaining traction with global network operators and hyperscalers as demand surges for chips that can connect the massive computing systems powering artificial intelligence\n29.7.26\nThe startup aims to solve the \"Context Gap\" that prevents enterprise AI agents from delivering accurate, cost-effective results\nFormerly known as Insait, the Israeli startup analyzes millions of customer interactions to turn the best sales and service practices into autonomous AI agents\nThe Israeli startup says traditional monitoring platforms were not built for the explosion of data generated by cloud and AI systems. The Series C brings groundcover’s total funding to $160 million as it targets a market dominated by legacy giants\n28.7.26\nHush Security, led by the team behind the Zero Trust startup acquired by Proofpoint, is building identity infrastructure for AI agents and other non-human identities\nThe Israeli company raised $34 million in Seed funding from Lightspeed and others to automate the thousands of internal requests that still burden corporate team\nMate Security says traditional security operations were not designed for AI-scale attacks. The startup is betting that trusted autonomous agents, powered by an “organizational brain,” will reshape how companies detect and respond to threats\nSeven months after Calcalist first revealed its funding, Act Security officially launches with a cloud security platform designed to eliminate the access pathways that AI-powered attacks increasingly exploit\n27.7.26\nThe Israeli startup aims to automate the costly implementation work behind identity and access management systems, a market where integration often costs several times more than the software itself\nFounded by former Unit 8200 researchers, Enigma is developing foundation AI models designed to make robots more intelligent and easier to deploy\n23.7.26\nElio's founders, Nadav Grossinger and Nitay Romano, spent seven years developing physical sensing systems at Meta. Now they are betting that artificial intelligence needs a fundamentally different way to see the world\n22.7.26\nBacked by global dairy giant Schreiber Foods, the company is moving from research to commercial production with a plant-based technology designed to recreate milk proteins.\nFounded by former Meta, Snowflake and Claroty executives, the company is betting AI can transform endpoint security from reactive defense to prevention\nThe strategic investment follows backing from American Express Ventures and expands the Israeli startup's blue-chip investor base\n21.7.26\nCordant is developing a real-time coordination platform for banks and fintech companies as fragmented financial infrastructure and AI adoption make it harder to understand where money moves\n20.7.26\nNeo says traditional cybersecurity tools were never designed for autonomous software that can reason, make decisions and act inside enterprise systems\nAfter more than 20 years of self-funding, ASIO secured its first outside investment as demand for battlefield tactical technology surges\n16.7.26\nIsraeli startup founded by HiredScore, Mitiga and Skyline AI veterans says enterprises need trusted context before AI agents can safely defend against threats\nHorizon Trade is building an AI platform that lets investors turn ideas into tested strategies and automated trades without needing quantitative researchers or coding skills\n15.7.26\nNeo Security has now raised more than $75 million as investors continue backing next-generation cybersecurity companies\nOak says its AI-native platform replaces the patchwork of legacy identity tools with a single operating system that governs employees, machines and AI agents\nFounded by a computational neuroscientist and the co-founder of RealFace, the Israeli startup unveiled Descartes, a six-billion-parameter NeuroAI model trained on more than 250,000 hours of brain data from over 100,000 participants\n9.7.26\nSkapion says existing air-defense systems were not designed for the scale and economics of mass UAV attacks\n8.7.26\nThe AI agent platform founded by monday alumni has reached a $15 million ARR run rate after 800% revenue growth. 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It has become the technology underpinning virtually every area of innovation attracting venture capital.\nIsraeli startups announced 29 funding rounds totaling approximately $1.518 billion during July, making it one of the strongest months of the year and reinforcing investors' appetite for companies building the infrastructure needed to support the next generation of artificial intelligence.\nWhile the funding landscape remained broad, several themes clearly emerged.\nRather than backing developers of large language models, investors overwhelmingly favored companies building the technologies surrounding AI: security platforms protecting autonomous agents, enterprise software designed to manage AI workflows, networking chips connecting massive AI clusters, observability platforms capable of monitoring AI-generated data, and identity systems built specifically for machine identities.\nCybersecurity once again dominated the funding charts.\nAmong the month's largest financings was Glow, which emerged from stealth with a $180 million round at a $1.2 billion valuation, betting that AI can fundamentally transform endpoint security from reactive detection to prevention.\nOnyx raised $113 million only four months after emerging from stealth, arguing that securing AI agents will become one of cybersecurity's largest future markets.\nNeo secured $100 million, positioning itself around the growing need to protect autonomous AI agents operating inside enterprise environments.\nThe trend extended across virtually every stage of company formation. New startups including Mate Security, Bloom Security, Beacon Security, Way Security, Act Security, Oak, Hush Security, Tangos AI, and Modus all centered their businesses around protecting AI-powered enterprise infrastructure or enabling AI agents to operate securely.\nArtificial intelligence also continued to reshape enterprise software.\nCompanies such as Aligned, Encore AI, Harmony, Alta, and Modus all sought to automate knowledge work previously performed by human employees.\nRather than replacing workers outright, these startups are building systems that observe, learn and replicate how top-performing employees execute tasks ranging from enterprise operations and customer support to sales and internal workflows.\nInfrastructure remained another major investment theme.\nSemiconductor startup Xsight Labs secured the month's largest round, raising $300 million at a $2.8 billion valuation as global demand continues to surge for networking chips capable of connecting the massive computing clusters required for artificial intelligence.\nObservability startup groundcover also joined the list of major fundraisers, raising $100 million to challenge incumbents such as Datadog by arguing that traditional monitoring platforms were never designed for the explosion of telemetry generated by cloud-native AI applications.\nThe AI investment wave extended well beyond software.\nRobotics startup Enigma emerged from stealth with a $71 million Seed round to develop foundation models for intelligent robots.\nSensor developer Elio, founded by former Meta executives, raised $21 million to create new sensing technologies designed specifically for AI systems.\nMeanwhile, Hemispheric unveiled one of the month's more unusual projects, emerging after six years in stealth with $52 million to build what it describes as a foundation model for the human brain using more than 250,000 hours of neurological data.\nDefense technology also maintained its momentum.\nSkapion raised $36 million to counter drone swarms, reflecting growing concern over the proliferation of inexpensive unmanned aircraft in modern warfare.\nUnderground robotics company Traysar launched with $25 million to develop autonomous systems for subterranean military operations, while battlefield technology developer ASIO combined its first external fundraising with a strategic partnership with Anduril Industries.\nThe breadth of the month's funding also highlighted how venture investors continue to support sectors beyond enterprise AI.\nFood technology startup Plantopia raised $9 million to commercialize plant-based dairy proteins.\nFintech companies Cordant and Horizon Trade focused respectively on global payments infrastructure and AI-powered investment tools.\nAdvertising infrastructure startup Velocity sought to solve one of AI's growing commercial challenges: how applications with millions of free users can generate sufficient revenue to offset rapidly rising computing costs.\nSee the full list of July’s deals below. (This includes funding rounds of over $5 million that were officially announced during July):\n30.7.26\nJust four months after emerging from stealth, the Israeli startup is betting that securing AI agents will become one of cybersecurity's biggest markets\nThe Israeli startup argues that traditional cybersecurity tools were built for malware, not for a world where employees and AI systems install software that can access sensitive company data\nThe semiconductor startup is gaining traction with global network operators and hyperscalers as demand surges for chips that can connect the massive computing systems powering artificial intelligence\n29.7.26\nThe startup aims to solve the \"Context Gap\" that prevents enterprise AI agents from delivering accurate, cost-effective results\nFormerly known as Insait, the Israeli startup analyzes millions of customer interactions to turn the best sales and service practices into autonomous AI agents\nThe Israeli startup says traditional monitoring platforms were not built for the explosion of data generated by cloud and AI systems. The Series C brings groundcover’s total funding to $160 million as it targets a market dominated by legacy giants\n28.7.26\nHush Security, led by the team behind the Zero Trust startup acquired by Proofpoint, is building identity infrastructure for AI agents and other non-human identities\nThe Israeli company raised $34 million in Seed funding from Lightspeed and others to automate the thousands of internal requests that still burden corporate team\nMate Security says traditional security operations were not designed for AI-scale attacks. The startup is betting that trusted autonomous agents, powered by an “organizational brain,” will reshape how companies detect and respond to threats\nSeven months after Calcalist first revealed its funding, Act Security officially launches with a cloud security platform designed to eliminate the access pathways that AI-powered attacks increasingly exploit\n27.7.26\nThe Israeli startup aims to automate the costly implementation work behind identity and access management systems, a market where integration often costs several times more than the software itself\nFounded by former Unit 8200 researchers, Enigma is developing foundation AI models designed to make robots more intelligent and easier to deploy\n23.7.26\nElio's founders, Nadav Grossinger and Nitay Romano, spent seven years developing physical sensing systems at Meta. Now they are betting that artificial intelligence needs a fundamentally different way to see the world\n22.7.26\nBacked by global dairy giant Schreiber Foods, the company is moving from research to commercial production with a plant-based technology designed to recreate milk proteins.\nFounded by former Meta, Snowflake and Claroty executives, the company is betting AI can transform endpoint security from reactive defense to prevention\nThe strategic investment follows backing from American Express Ventures and expands the Israeli startup's blue-chip investor base\n21.7.26\nCordant is developing a real-time coordination platform for banks and fintech companies as fragmented financial infrastructure and AI adoption make it harder to understand where money moves\n20.7.26\nNeo says traditional cybersecurity tools were never designed for autonomous software that can reason, make decisions and act inside enterprise systems\nAfter more than 20 years of self-funding, ASIO secured its first outside investment as demand for battlefield tactical technology surges\n16.7.26\nIsraeli startup founded by HiredScore, Mitiga and Skyline AI veterans says enterprises need trusted context before AI agents can safely defend against threats\nHorizon Trade is building an AI platform that lets investors turn ideas into tested strategies and automated trades without needing quantitative researchers or coding skills\n15.7.26\nNeo Security has now raised more than $75 million as investors continue backing next-generation cybersecurity companies\nOak says its AI-native platform replaces the patchwork of legacy identity tools with a single operating system that governs employees, machines and AI agents\nFounded by a computational neuroscientist and the co-founder of RealFace, the Israeli startup unveiled Descartes, a six-billion-parameter NeuroAI model trained on more than 250,000 hours of brain data from over 100,000 participants\n9.7.26\nSkapion says existing air-defense systems were not designed for the scale and economics of mass UAV attacks\n8.7.26\nThe AI agent platform founded by monday alumni has reached a $15 million ARR run rate after 800% revenue growth. 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It has become the technology underpinning virtually every area of innovation attracting venture capital.\nIsraeli startups announced 29 funding rounds totaling approximately $1.518 billion during July, making it one of the strongest months of the year and reinforcing investors' appetite for companies building the infrastructure needed to support the next generation of artificial intelligence.\nWhile the funding landscape remained broad, several themes clearly emerged.\nRather than backing developers of large language models, investors overwhelmingly favored companies building the technologies surrounding AI: security platforms protecting autonomous agents, enterprise software designed to manage AI workflows, networking chips connecting massive AI clusters, observability platforms capable of monitoring AI-generated data, and identity systems built specifically for machine identities.\nCybersecurity once again dominated the funding charts.\nAmong the month's largest financings was Glow, which emerged from stealth with a $180 million round at a $1.2 billion valuation, betting that AI can fundamentally transform endpoint security from reactive detection to prevention.\nOnyx raised $113 million only four months after emerging from stealth, arguing that securing AI agents will become one of cybersecurity's largest future markets.\nNeo secured $100 million, positioning itself around the growing need to protect autonomous AI agents operating inside enterprise environments.\nThe trend extended across virtually every stage of company formation. New startups including Mate Security, Bloom Security, Beacon Security, Way Security, Act Security, Oak, Hush Security, Tangos AI, and Modus all centered their businesses around protecting AI-powered enterprise infrastructure or enabling AI agents to operate securely.\nArtificial intelligence also continued to reshape enterprise software.\nCompanies such as Aligned, Encore AI, Harmony, Alta, and Modus all sought to automate knowledge work previously performed by human employees.\nRather than replacing workers outright, these startups are building systems that observe, learn and replicate how top-performing employees execute tasks ranging from enterprise operations and customer support to sales and internal workflows.\nInfrastructure remained another major investment theme.\nSemiconductor startup Xsight Labs secured the month's largest round, raising $300 million at a $2.8 billion valuation as global demand continues to surge for networking chips capable of connecting the massive computing clusters required for artificial intelligence.\nObservability startup groundcover also joined the list of major fundraisers, raising $100 million to challenge incumbents such as Datadog by arguing that traditional monitoring platforms were never designed for the explosion of telemetry generated by cloud-native AI applications.\nThe AI investment wave extended well beyond software.\nRobotics startup Enigma emerged from stealth with a $71 million Seed round to develop foundation models for intelligent robots.\nSensor developer Elio, founded by former Meta executives, raised $21 million to create new sensing technologies designed specifically for AI systems.\nMeanwhile, Hemispheric unveiled one of the month's more unusual projects, emerging after six years in stealth with $52 million to build what it describes as a foundation model for the human brain using more than 250,000 hours of neurological data.\nDefense technology also maintained its momentum.\nSkapion raised $36 million to counter drone swarms, reflecting growing concern over the proliferation of inexpensive unmanned aircraft in modern warfare.\nUnderground robotics company Traysar launched with $25 million to develop autonomous systems for subterranean military operations, while battlefield technology developer ASIO combined its first external fundraising with a strategic partnership with Anduril Industries.\nThe breadth of the month's funding also highlighted how venture investors continue to support sectors beyond enterprise AI.\nFood technology startup Plantopia raised $9 million to commercialize plant-based dairy proteins.\nFintech companies Cordant and Horizon Trade focused respectively on global payments infrastructure and AI-powered investment tools.\nAdvertising infrastructure startup Velocity sought to solve one of AI's growing commercial challenges: how applications with millions of free users can generate sufficient revenue to offset rapidly rising computing costs.\nSee the full list of July’s deals below. (This includes funding rounds of over $5 million that were officially announced during July):\n30.7.26\nJust four months after emerging from stealth, the Israeli startup is betting that securing AI agents will become one of cybersecurity's biggest markets\nThe Israeli startup argues that traditional cybersecurity tools were built for malware, not for a world where employees and AI systems install software that can access sensitive company data\nThe semiconductor startup is gaining traction with global network operators and hyperscalers as demand surges for chips that can connect the massive computing systems powering artificial intelligence\n29.7.26\nThe startup aims to solve the \"Context Gap\" that prevents enterprise AI agents from delivering accurate, cost-effective results\nFormerly known as Insait, the Israeli startup analyzes millions of customer interactions to turn the best sales and service practices into autonomous AI agents\nThe Israeli startup says traditional monitoring platforms were not built for the explosion of data generated by cloud and AI systems. 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The startup is betting that trusted autonomous agents, powered by an “organizational brain,” will reshape how companies detect and respond to threats\nSeven months after Calcalist first revealed its funding, Act Security officially launches with a cloud security platform designed to eliminate the access pathways that AI-powered attacks increasingly exploit\n27.7.26\nThe Israeli startup aims to automate the costly implementation work behind identity and access management systems, a market where integration often costs several times more than the software itself\nFounded by former Unit 8200 researchers, Enigma is developing foundation AI models designed to make robots more intelligent and easier to deploy\n23.7.26\nElio's founders, Nadav Grossinger and Nitay Romano, spent seven years developing physical sensing systems at Meta. Now they are betting that artificial intelligence needs a fundamentally different way to see the world\n22.7.26\nBacked by global dairy giant Schreiber Foods, the company is moving from research to commercial production with a plant-based technology designed to recreate milk proteins.\nFounded by former Meta, Snowflake and Claroty executives, the company is betting AI can transform endpoint security from reactive defense to prevention\nThe strategic investment follows backing from American Express Ventures and expands the Israeli startup's blue-chip investor base\n21.7.26\nCordant is developing a real-time coordination platform for banks and fintech companies as fragmented financial infrastructure and AI adoption make it harder to understand where money moves\n20.7.26\nNeo says traditional cybersecurity tools were never designed for autonomous software that can reason, make decisions and act inside enterprise systems\nAfter more than 20 years of self-funding, ASIO secured its first outside investment as demand for battlefield tactical technology surges\n16.7.26\nIsraeli startup founded by HiredScore, Mitiga and Skyline AI veterans says enterprises need trusted context before AI agents can safely defend against threats\nHorizon Trade is building an AI platform that lets investors turn ideas into tested strategies and automated trades without needing quantitative researchers or coding skills\n15.7.26\nNeo Security has now raised more than $75 million as investors continue backing next-generation cybersecurity companies\nOak says its AI-native platform replaces the patchwork of legacy identity tools with a single operating system that governs employees, machines and AI agents\nFounded by a computational neuroscientist and the co-founder of RealFace, the Israeli startup unveiled Descartes, a six-billion-parameter NeuroAI model trained on more than 250,000 hours of brain data from over 100,000 participants\n9.7.26\nSkapion says existing air-defense systems were not designed for the scale and economics of mass UAV attacks\n8.7.26\nThe AI agent platform founded by monday alumni has reached a $15 million ARR run rate after 800% revenue growth. 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