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      <title>Due diligence and move to US derailed Decart acquisition</title>
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      <description>Anthropic&amp;rsquo;s insistence that Decart&amp;rsquo;s founders and top talents move from Tel Aviv to the US and problems in the due diligence were among the obstacles that saw the $6 billion deal collapse.</description>
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      <title>Anthropic decides against $6b Decart acquisition - report</title>
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      <description>The US AI giant has backed out of the negotiations for the Israeli AI startup, &amp;ldquo;Bloomberg&amp;rdquo; reports.</description>
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      <title>Andreessen Horowitz ramps up Israel activity</title>
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      <description>Since leading Wiz's last round before it was sold, the US firm has taken steps to ensure it will catch future Israeli unicorns at earlier stages.</description>
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      <title>Omri Casspi’s Swish Ventures closes $250m fund</title>
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      <description>With the completion of the fundraise, the firm&amp;rsquo;s assets under management have grown to about $800 million.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:01:01</pubDate>
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      <title>Upwind set to raise $300m at $3.8b valuation</title>
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      <description>The Israeli company has benefited in recent months from the vacuum created in the cloud security market after Google acquired Wiz.</description>
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      <title>Robotic sovereignty-as-a-service co AITAN raises $41m</title>
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      <description>The Israeli defense-tech company provides countries with the ability to operate, maintain and update its robotic combat systems itself.</description>
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      <title>Physical AI perception co Lyte raises $165m at $1.6b valuation</title>
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      <description>The company aims to develop a chip capable of receiving all the data needed for a robot's operation in one place, allowing it to navigate more easily and see the production line better.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:34:02</pubDate>
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      <title>Israeli security management co Huskeys raises $27m</title>
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      <description>After developing a smart platform that integrates with existing WAF systems in organizations, Huskeys is now expanding the solution to a broader layer of edge security management.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:16:38</pubDate>
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      <title>Israeli AI agents co Wonderful raises $550m at $5.5b valuation</title>
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      <description>Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Wonderful helps enterprises in countries that do not speak English to instal AI agents.</description>
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      <title>Israeli HR platform co HiBob raises $166m</title>
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      <description>The investment led by Salesforce will adapt HiBob&amp;rsquo;s platform to the AI era.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:24:42</pubDate>
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      <title>XTEND starts trading on NYSE this week at $1.5b valuation</title>
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      <description>The Israeli drone robotics technology company has completed its merger with US company JFB, formerly engaged in the construction industry.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:10:17</pubDate>
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      <title>Israeli startups raised nearly $600m in August</title>
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      <description>In the first eight months of 2026, Israeli startups have raised $9.6 billion.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:03:15</pubDate>
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      <title>SSI could be set to unveil revolutionary language model</title>
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      <description>Ilya Sutskever&amp;rsquo;s startup, which has raised $7 billion and has offices in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, could be about to unveil its mysterious AI product.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:51:04</pubDate>
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      <title>Israeli AI security co Alice raises $140m</title>
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      <description>The company&amp;rsquo;s Rabbit Hole is a proprietary dataset of real-world adversarial and harmful content.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:45:50</pubDate>
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      <title>Cyber startup Minimus shuts down, returns cash to investors</title>
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      <description>Four years after raising $51 million in one of the largest ever seed rounds in Israel, Minimus's founders have informed the employees of its closure.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:09:28</pubDate>
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      <title>Lightricks spinoff uses video to train robots</title>
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      <description>LTX CEO Dr. Zeev Farbman says video will not only be used for creating films and marketing content, but also for training robots, operating avatars, and building simulations.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:40:05</pubDate>
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      <title>Munich Re buys Israeli insurtech co At-Bay for $575m</title>
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      <description>At-Bay operates an insurtech cybersecurity development center in Israel and markets cybersecurity and data security insurance products in the US.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:02:52</pubDate>
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      <title>SoftBank rewards Yossi Cohen with enhanced role</title>
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      <description>The former Mossad chief has become a strategic advisor in the Japanese investment giant, bringing him closer to founder and CEO Masayoshi Son.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:10:53</pubDate>
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      <title>Anthropic acquisition to make Decart founders billionaires</title>
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      <description>Decart founders Dean and Orian Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev still own 64% of the AI startup, which Anthropic is expected to buy for $6 billion.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:05:24</pubDate>
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      <title>What Anthropic seeks in Israel's Decart</title>
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      <description>There is considerable synergy between Decart and Anthropic, which according to Bloomberg is about to make its first acquisition in Israel.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:05:35</pubDate>
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