AI Communications
Israeli Tech Built a $30 Billion US Footprint. The AI Engines Don't Know It Exists.
$7.3B in Florida. $3.2B in Texas. $5.4B through Georgia. 57,000 jobs in New York. The AI visibility is near zero. An AI Communications problem.
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AdTech & MarTech
OpenWeb: The Israeli Publisher Conversation Platform
OpenWeb — formerly Spot.IM — is the Israeli-founded publisher engagement platform serving 1,000-plus publishers including The New York Times, Hearst, and News Corp. Roughly $393 million raised, a $1.5 billion valuation, $260 million in acquisitions, and a 2024 boardroom fight that ran in public.
Technology
Elementor Axes 100 Jobs — 30% Of Staff — And Names AI
Israeli WordPress giant Elementor cut 100 employees — 30% of the company — and named AI as the reason. The wave hits the tools that built the web.
Gambling
Shalom Meckenzie: The Israeli Builder Inside DraftKings
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.
Technology
Israeli Tech in 2026: The Wiz Exit and What Comes Next
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.
Crisis Communications
One Quote, One Ecosystem: The Liad Agmon Moment
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.
Featured
Israeli Tech's Communications Reckoning
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.
Crisis Communications
AI Washing Hits Israeli Tech
Israeli tech is blaming AI for layoffs the shekel actually caused. The communications problem just started — and the credibility bill comes due later.
PR, AI & Communications News
Israeli Tech Has a $7.3 Billion Footprint in Florida. A New Report Documents the Full Story.
Israeli tech companies contribute $7.3 billion annually to Florida's economy through 429 firms creating 26,510 jobs. Discover the full impact report.
Startups & Venture
ZipoApps and the App-Aggregator Reckoning: What Happened to the Digital Roll-Up Boom
ZipoApps and the digital roll-up boom of 2021-2022: how the app-aggregator category collapsed, what survived, and what it teaches startup PR.