Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter

It's?#Firgun?time!

As every Friday, it's my pleasure to share a weekly summary of the movers and shakers in Israeli tech and venture. Please note: this NEW Linkedin Firgun newsletter replaced my previous mailchimp/ social post. Hit "subscribe" to get it straight into your inbox next week!

"Firgun" (Hebrew: ??????) is an informal modern Hebrew term and concept in Israeli culture (originally Yiddish), which describes genuine, unselfish delight or pride in the accomplishment of the other person. It's the opposite of schadenfreude. More about Firgun and why it matters on?VC Cafe:?https://lnkd.in/dg2a86p

Greetings from San Francisco! In one week the UK lost its prime minister (again!), Israel is gearing up for elections and tech is dealing with the 'big VC pullback'. If that dry-powder doesn't get deployed, you can expect to get your takeaway food in 45 minutes instead of 10 :-)

NEW INVESTMENT ROUNDS

- Congratulations Rob N. Gurzeev and team CyCognito on your impressive $100M series C to uncover and eliminate the cyber attack surface!

- Mabruk Orahn Preiss-Bloom and team OSSIO on your $38.5M series C to to replace metal implants with fibre as the?standard of care in the orthopedic fixation market!

- Kudos Osher Perry and team ShipIn Systems on raising $24 million Series A to improve maritime shipping safety and efficiency with AI!

- Big congrats Almog Apirion and team Cyolo on securing an undisclosed series B from IBM for your zero trust secured access platform!

- Mazel tov Deborah Garner and team FEMSelect on your $9M series B round to standard of care?in pelvic organ prolapse!

- Big thumbs up Amit Eyal Govrin and team Kubiya.ai on raising a $6M seed round to power your devops conversational AI tool!

- Awesome news David BenDavid and team Tensorleap on getting an $5.2M seed round for your debugging and explainability platform!

- Well done Jeremy Suard and team Exodigo on raising an undisclosed round from National Grid to deploy surface mapping solutions!

EXITS

- Huge respect Avraham Kedar and team BrainPOP on the $875M acquisition by the KIRKBI A/S group for your e-learning solutions!

- Mabruk Amnon Shashua and team Mobileye on the upcoming IPO to improve driving safety with your computer vision tech!

- Congratulations Gal Almog and team Talenya (A Paycor Company) on the acquisition by Paycor

NEW FUNDS

- Fantastic news Ron Daniel and team LIQUiDITY on an additional $250M from MUFG to provide debt financing to Israeli startups!

- Great news Kinneret Livnat Savitsky and Team8 on the launch of Team8 Health, an $80 million fund and company builder addressing the world's biggest health challenges!

- Congrats Yoel Zilberman and team HaShomer HaChadash- ????? ????? ???? on the new $20M fund to invest in early stage Israeli agritech startups!

APPOINTMENTS

- Mazel tov Yonit Wiseman on joining Lightspeed in Israel as the first female partner! blazing a trail! I hope we can collaborate with Remagine Ventures !

- Kudos David Feldman??? on your new role as the head of Israel for Flint Capital !

THREE LINKS FOR YOUR BROWSER

1. VC Ghostwriters and Authenticity, Raising venture capital in a down market (with a surprise at the end!), and Where is cloud gaming headed after Google Stadia
2. I enjoyed recording this podcast episode with Consumer VC about Israeli startups in gaming and the building the infrastructure for the metaverse
3. On November 2nd Taylor Wessing and Remagine Ventures are hosting an exclusive event on opportunities in gaming and Metaverse in London. I'm very much looking forward to it!

CHARTS OF THE WEEK

Israel's construction tech landscape by Viola Ventures was added to my collection of Israeli startup landscape maps on VC Cafe

Before becoming a partner at Sequoia Capital in Israel, and one of the world's best cyber investors at Cyberstarts , Gili Raanan started a company called Sanctum. Today Gili shared where some of the alumni accomplished since then in the image below, creating billions in value!

There's so much to celebrate in our "small" community! keep on creating!

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