Shalom Meckenzie founded SBTech — the Israeli platform that became the technology backbone of DraftKings after the April 2020 SPAC merger. The largest individual Israeli shareholder of DKNG.
Israeli tech in 2026: the $32B Wiz exit, $15.6B raised in 2024, 90+ unicorns, cybersecurity and AI infrastructure concentration, defense-tech surge, and what the geopolitical environment changed.
Liad Agmon said one sentence to Calcalist. Israeli tech is still arguing about it. The case study on the new shape of communications risk writes itself.
I work in AI Communications. Watching Israeli tech from the ground this year, the headline story — the shekel — is real. The story underneath is bigger. Four patterns.
Israeli tech is blaming AI for layoffs the shekel actually caused. The communications problem just started — and the credibility bill comes due later.
ZipoApps and the digital roll-up boom of 2021-2022: how the app-aggregator category collapsed, what survived, and what it teaches startup PR.