LinkedIn Top Startups 2022: The 15 Israeli companies on the rise

The 2022 LinkedIn Top Startups list reveals 15 emerging Israeli companies gaining attention. Backed by unique LinkedIn data measuring different elements of growth and demand, the list reveals companies like Walnut, Remilk and Trigo that you should be paying attention to.?

Starting and growing a company has always been tough, but it’s especially tough right now. As the working world navigates widespread inflation and economic uncertainty, it’s getting more challenging for young companies to get investment and grow quickly.

But while it’s a challenging moment, some argue that innovative ideas are born in times of uncertainty. Operating under constrained resources and limited capital can push young companies to prioritize assets and values and adapt quickly.

Our second annual LinkedIn Top Startups list is the resource to find the startups to pay attention to right now, featuring 15 Israeli companies that are rising to the challenges of the moment and continuing to innovate and gain attention in 2022.

To compile the list, we looked at LinkedIn data across four pillars: employee growth; jobseeker interest; member engagement within the company and its employees; and how well these startups pulled talent from our flagship LinkedIn Top Companies list (You can learn more about our methodology and eligibility requirements at the bottom of this article.)

This list is ultimately meant to be a resource for jobseekers excited by the opportunity to innovate, solve big problems and grow their skills. If joining a startup is the right fit for you, check out which roles, functions and skills are in demand at each company —?and click on them to find the associated LinkedIn Learning courses to study up. If you see a company that sparks your interest, take a look at who you may know and turn on job alerts to stay on top of future opportunities.?

Here are this year’s 15 Top Startups in Israel. Join the conversation using #linkedintopstartups

Full-time headcount: 105 | Headquarters: Tel Aviv | Year founded: 2020 | Most common skills: Web Development, Business Management, Leadership | Largest job functions: Engineering, Product Management, Arts and Design | What they do: Walnut aims to simplify B2B product demo processes with no-code demo software. It enables sales and marketing teams to create tailored and interactive demonstrations and generate usage insights to optimize the demo experience.?

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Full-time headcount: 500 | Headquarters: Tel Aviv | Year founded: 2020 | Most common skills: Development Tools, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Data Storage Technologies| Largest job functions: Engineering, Information Technology, Product Management, Business Development, Human Resources | What they do: Wiz offers a cloud-security platform, helping development teams quickly detect and eliminate risks by scanning every layer of technology in the cloud. It also helps prioritize the risks and tells developers how to address them.??

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Full-time headcount: 375 | Headquarters: Tel Aviv | Year founded: 2016 | Most common skills: Business Management, Data Science, Web Development | Largest job functions: Engineering, Media and Communication, Marketing, Arts and Design, Human Resources | What they do: Artlist delivers subscription-based services for content creators. The company's flagship solution is its royalty-free music and SFX licensing platform. Artlist also provides stock images and footage, motion graphics, and video editing tools.

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Full-time headcount: 40 | Headquarters: Ramat Gan | Year founded: 2020 | Most common skills: Development Tools, Data Science, Business Management | Largest job functions: Engineering, Business Development, Human Resources | What they do: Compete provides a benchmarking platform to tech companies, allowing HR teams to optimize the compensation and benefits they offer employees. The platform uses up-to-date data from actual companies to provide detailed information on every role.

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Full-time headcount: 560 | Headquarters: Tel Aviv/NYC | Year founded: 2018 | Most common skills: Development Tools, Computer Networking, Data Science | Largest job functions: Engineering, Information Technology, Customer Success and Support, Human Resources, Product Management | What they do: Fireblocks, founded by three cybersecurity veterans, is a platform allowing users to securely deliver products on the blockchain and manage day-to-day crypto operations. It enables financial institutions to provide direct custody of digital assets such as cryptocurrencies and aims to protect them from being hacked or stolen.

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Full-time headcount: 340 | Headquarters: Ramat Gan | Year founded: 2016 | Most common skills: Web Development, Data Science, Business Management | Largest job functions: Engineering, Information Technology, Media and Communication, Arts and Design, Marketing | What they do: Elementor’s no-code web platform offers a simple way to build WordPress websites and landing pages. Creators can choose from a variety of easy-to-use templates and widgets.

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Full-time headcount: 270 | Headquarters: Tel Aviv | Year founded: 2016 | Most common skills: Business Management, Data Science, Development Tools | Largest job functions: Engineering, Information Technology, Sales, Customer Success and Support, Business Development | What they do: CHEQ is a cybersecurity platform designed specifically for marketers. The platform prevents bots and invalid users from disrupting businesses’ paid marketing efforts, keeping them focused on real users.

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Full-time headcount: 95 | Headquarters: Rehovot | Year founded: 2019 | Most common skills: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Research, Organic Chemistry | Largest job functions: Research, Operations, Business Development | What they do: Remilk pledges to use microbial fermentation to produce cruelty-free milk. Its products have the same taste and proteins as traditional dairy but don’t contain any hormones, cholesterol, lactose or antibiotics.

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Full-time headcount: 185 | Headquarters: Tel Aviv | Year founded: 2018 | Most common skills: Development Tools, Data Science, Digital Literacy | Largest job functions: Engineering, Program and Project Management, Information Technology, Operations, Product Management | What they do: Buildots uses AI and wearable 360-degree cameras to improve construction teams' control and on-site visibility. The company's Connected Construction platform provides a complete, direct view of the building environment, with one system for everyone involved.

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Full-time headcount: 100 | Headquarters: Tel Aviv | Year founded: 2019 | Most common skills: Communication, Development Tools, Business Management | Largest job functions: Education, Engineering, Marketing, Business Development, Program and Project Management | What they do: Masterschool is a network of tech schools where students pay tuition only once they land a job with a company. Industry experts lead programs in Cyber, Data and Web Development.

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Full-time headcount: 40 | Headquarters: Ramat Gan | Year founded: 2018 | Most common skills: Development Tools, Electronics, Robotics | Largest job functions: Engineering, Business Development | What they do: Indoor Robotics offers an AI-based security solution relying on fully autonomous robot drones. The company’s robots conduct indoor security tasks such as monitoring, patrolling, and alerting operators when intruders or security breaches are detected.

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Full-time headcount: 180 | Headquarters: Tel Aviv | Year founded: 2018 | Most common skills: Development Tools, Data Science, Leadership | Largest job functions: Engineering, Information Technology, Product Management, Program and Project Management, Operations | What they do: Trigo accelerates the digitization of brick-and-mortar stores with an AI-powered retail solution. Shoppers are anonymously tagged and their product choices are automatically tracked. As a result, customers breeze through checkout, saving time while gaining a frictionless experience.?

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Full-time headcount: 120 | Headquarters: Rehovot | Year founded: 2017 | Most common skills: Genetic Engineering, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Organic Chemistry | Largest job functions: Research, Operations, Engineering, Business Development, Media and Communication | What they do: Founded by food experts and scientists, Aleph Farms cultivates steaks directly from cells. The cuts are grown from natural cells that are not genetically modified, offering carnivores quality meat, free of guilt and antibiotics.

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Full-time headcount: 60 | Headquarters: Tel Aviv | Year founded: 2019 | Most common skills: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Computer Networking, Business Management | Largest job functions: Engineering, Business Development, Human Resources | What they do: Lightrun is a data collection and debugging platform for developing teams to simplify workflows and solve issues faster. Developers can identify and fix bugs more efficiently and dedicate more time to coding.

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Full-time headcount: 60 | Headquarters: Tel Aviv | Year founded: 2018 | Most common skills: Business Management, Leadership, Digital Marketing | Largest job functions: Engineering, Sales, Customer Success and Support, Business Development | What they do: Juno Journey offers an employee development platform to help businesses tap into employees’ potential while meeting their aspirations. The platform provides access to over 1 million courses and various features helping to personalize workers’ career journeys.

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You can also check out the Top Startups in Australia, Austria, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the UAE, the UK and the U.S.

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Methodology

LinkedIn measures startups based on four pillars: employment growth, engagement, job interest and attraction of top talent. Employment growth is measured as percentage headcount increase over methodology time frame, which must be a minimum of 15%. Engagement looks at non-employee views and follows of the company’s LinkedIn page, as well as how many non-employees are viewing employees at that startup. Job interest counts rate at which people are viewing and applying to jobs at the company, including both paid and unpaid postings. Attraction of top talent measures how many employees the startup has recruited away from any global LinkedIn Top Company, as a percentage of the startup’s total workforce. Data is normalized across all eligible startups. The methodology time frame is July, 1 2021 through June 30, 2022.?

To be eligible, companies must be fully independent, privately held, have 30 or more full-time employees, be 7 years old or younger and be headquartered in the country on whose list they appear. We exclude all staffing firms, think tanks, venture capital firms, law firms, management and IT consulting firms, nonprofits and philanthropy, accelerators and government-owned entities. compete?

About company insights

*Company insights were sourced from LinkedIn Talent Insights. Data reflects aggregated public member data from active LinkedIn profiles in the relevant country and includes full-time employee profiles associated with the company on LinkedIn. All data points are measured among hires in the last year. We exclude members who identify as part-time or contractors. Headcounts are provided by the companies directly, unless otherwise noted with an asterisk. Those headcounts are based on LinkedIn data. The insights reflect data as of July 2022. Skills data was derived from measuring the most frequent skills among a company’s employees. Most common job titles represent the occupations that are most common within each company. Largest job function measures the function area most prevalent within each company.?

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Reported by: Ilan Goren

Methodology and insights by: LinkedIn Economic Graph team

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Honoree companies: 1. Walnut | 2. Wiz | 3. Artlist | 4. Compete | 5. Fireblocks | 6. Elementor | 7. CHEQ | 8. Remilk | 9. Buildots | 10. Masterschool | 11. Indoor Robotics | 12. Trigo | 13. Aleph Farms | 14. Lightrun | 15. Juno Journey