Israeli Startups Raised $456 Million in One Week, Despite Being at War.

Can we talk about what happened in Israeli tech this week? Because honestly, it’s so Israel.

While missiles were being fired at Israeli cities, while families were sitting in sealed rooms and schools were closed and air raid sirens were going off across the country, something else was happening at the same time. Investors from the United States, Europe, and Israel were writing checks into Israeli startups. Founders were signing term sheets. Companies that had been building quietly for months were choosing this week, of all weeks, to come out of stealth.

Let’s look at what actually happened in Israeli tech this week, because most of the world wasn’t paying attention.

Before We Get to the Raises, One More Thing

You’ve probably already heard that Google completed its $32 billion acquisition of Wiz this week. This wasn’t a fundraising round. It was an exit, the culmination of five years of building. And it’s the largest acquisition of an Israeli company in the history of Israeli tech. Largest. Ever.

Assaf Rappaport, Yinon Costica, Ami Luttwak, and Roy Reznik left Microsoft in 2020 during the peak of COVID to build a cloud security company. They’d already built and sold Adallom to Microsoft, so they knew what they were doing. But nobody, and I mean nobody, saw $32 billion coming. Each of the four founders is expected to walk away with over $2 billion. Hundreds of their Israeli employees are now millionaires. The Israeli government collects an estimated nine billion shekels in tax revenue from a single transaction.

And two days before the deal closed, while the war with Iran was already underway, Wiz threw a $3 million Purim party for 500 employees at the Tel Aviv exhibition grounds. They danced. They celebrated life. Because that’s what we do, especially when someone is trying to stop us.

The Wiz exit had been expected. The market knew it was coming. But the timing of the close, this week, during a war, matters. Now let me tell you about the raises, because that’s where the real story is.

The Investors Who Didn’t Flinch

When an investor writes a check into a startup, they’re making a bet. They’re saying: I believe in this team, I believe in this product, and I believe in the country this company is building from. This week, while missiles were being intercepted over Israeli cities, investors around the world made that bet. Repeatedly.

Wonderful closed a $150 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation. Here’s what makes that number insane. The company was founded in early 2025. It’s thirteen months old. Thirteen months ago, Wonderful didn’t exist. Today it operates in over 30 countries, deploying enterprise AI agents across telecom, financial services, manufacturing, and healthcare. Insight Partners led the round. Index Ventures, IVP, and Bessemer Venture Partners all participated. These aren’t small, nervous investors. These are the best funds in the world, and they looked at a thirteen-month-old Israeli company during an active war and said: we’re in.

Jazz came out of stealth with $61 million in funding led by Glilot Capital and Team8. Jazz has built a new model for AI data loss prevention, replacing the old world of rigid rules and thousands of false alerts with an agentic investigator that actually understands context and intent. In one deployment across 5,000 employees, Jazz reduced daily security noise from tens of thousands of alerts down to an average of ten pre-investigated incidents per day. Ten. The enterprise security world has been waiting for something like this for years, and an Israeli team built it.

Onyx Security raised $40 million in seed and Series A funding led by Conviction and Cyberstarts. Onyx is building a secure control plane for AI agents in the enterprise. Founded in 2024 by Unit 8200 veteran Maxim Bar Kogan and AI entrepreneur Gil Elbaz. Already working with Fortune 500 companies. Bar Kogan told Globes that organizations are now seeing AI agent deployments grow between 10 and 25% every single month. “We estimate that in the future there’ll be more agents in organizations than people,” he said. Someone has to secure that world. Israelis are building the infrastructure to do it.

Bold Security also came out of stealth this week, announcing $40 million from Bessemer Venture Partners, Picture Capital, and Red Dot Capital Partners. Bold has built an edge AI platform that transforms endpoint devices from passive subjects of security monitoring into active agents that understand how users work and detect risk in real time. Early enterprise customers have reduced security alert volume by up to 90%. The endpoint has been the biggest blind spot in enterprise security for a decade. An Israeli team just solved it.

And StageOne Ventures closed its fifth fund at $165 million, pushing their total assets under management past $650 million. The fund was backed by repeat institutional investors from the US, Europe, and Israel. StageOne has been backing Israeli enterprise tech founders since 2001. The fact that international investors are still committing to a new Israeli VC fund during a war with Iran tells you everything you need to know about where the smart money sees this ecosystem going.

$456 million. Seven days. During a war.

Ten Minutes

Now let me tell you what was happening in Israel while all of this was unfolding.

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange deferred some filing deadlines because of the security situation. IPO meetings moved to Zoom because schools were closed and parents were home with their kids. Underwriters were doing due diligence from sealed rooms. Investment managers were reviewing prospectuses between sirens. And this is not a metaphor. This is what people actually told Globes reporters this week, matter-of-factly, the way you’d describe a minor inconvenience.

That normalization is itself the story.

Because here’s what strikes me about it. In most countries in the world, an active ballistic missile war would shut the economy down. Businesses would close. Deals would be postponed indefinitely. Investors would go quiet and wait. Nobody would be talking about IPO timetables or term sheets or fund closes. They’d be talking about survival.

In Israel, one underwriter told Globes that when the air raid sirens went off in the office, they stopped for ten minutes. Then they went back to work.

Ten minutes. Siren. Shelter. Back to work.

Think about what that sentence contains. The siren goes off. Everyone knows what to do. They go to the shelter, they wait for the all-clear, and then they sit back down at their desks and pick up exactly where they left off. No panic. No “let’s reschedule.” No loss of momentum. Ten minutes, and then the meeting continues.

This is a country that has so thoroughly integrated the reality of existential threat into its daily life that a missile attack is, at most, a ten-minute interruption. That’s not stoicism. That’s not bravado. That’s just Tuesday in Israel in 2026. And somehow, in the middle of all of it, $456 million in fresh capital found its way into Israeli startups.

That detail isn’t a footnote. That detail is the story.

Iran Worships Death. Israel Builds.

There’s an argument about this conflict that most people in the West find uncomfortable. It goes like this. On one side, a country that celebrates life, builds things, innovates, and argues with itself about its future. On the other, a regime that has been chanting “Death to Israel” since 1979, that built an entire foreign policy around the destruction of one small country, that spent decades constructing the missiles, funding the proxies, and chasing the bomb.

This week, both sides showed you exactly who they are.

Iran fired ballistic missiles at Israeli cities. And Israeli founders signed term sheets, closed funds, and came out of stealth.

You’ve heard the voices. I’ve been hearing them for years. Everyone’s leaving Israel. Israeli tech is finished. Who would invest in a war zone? The economy can’t survive this. In most countries, any one of those pressures would be enough to collapse the economy. But the people making those predictions made one mistake. They forgot which country they were talking about.

The Torah tells us that the more the Egyptians persecuted the Israelites, the more the Israelites flourished. Counterintuitive then. Counterintuitive now. But it keeps being true. There is something in this people that doesn’t just survive pressure. It converts pressure into output. Into products. Into companies. Into billions of dollars of value that the world’s best investors keep lining up to fund.

Iran has been funding Israel’s enemies, building the missiles, and chasing the bomb for nearly 50 years. This week, while those missiles were being intercepted over Israeli cities, investors around the world were writing checks into Israeli startups. Founders were signing term sheets. Companies were coming out of stealth.

Betting against Israel has never once worked out for anyone.

The world spent this week attacking Israel. Israel spent this week building.

They worship death. We choose life. We show up. We build. No matter what.

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