Israel Active

The 150+ Israeli tech companies at Microsoft’s Annual San Francisco Ignite Conference included Check Point, Zenity, Upwind, Eon, Cyera, JFrog, Vast Data, BigID, AudioCodes, Atera, BlinkOps, Qodo.ai, Semplicity, Genpact Israel, Volumez, ControlUp, and, especially, Varonis.

Excel, one of the most powerful and influential tools ever created by the software industry, has turned 40. Its phenomenal success, which has earned Microsoft billions over the years, is largely due to the hundreds of Israeli engineers in Excel’s development center in Herzliya.

Czech-based Prusa Research has enlisted the aid of Israeli startup Filament2 to install a new heat-resistant silicone-printing option for its large-format XL machine.

Israel’s Mentee Robotics (see previously) shows its V3 humanoid robots working in tandem to complete a logistics task. They operated autonomously, relying on locomotion, manipulation, and decision-making systems designed for real-world deployment.

Israel’s first public robotic parking lot has opened in Tel Aviv’s Bograshov Street. Parkomat quadruples spaces from 64 to 224. Robotic mechanisms handle the parking and retrieval process, and owners can expect to retrieve their vehicles within 2 minutes.

Intel-backed Ignite DeepTech’s new cohort comprises Shifters, , Anchor, Thermagix, Cellint Bio, SpecificAI, MoRF, Ascendra, Pluto Security, and Infros. The cohort also includes a record number of women founders (4 out 10) for the program.

My apologies for last week’s video that seemed to show Israel building a canal system to bring desalinated water to the Negev desert.  It was an AI fake – too good to be true. The following videos show the actual (still amazing) history.

Scientists from Israel’s MIGAL Galilee Research Institute, Tel-Hai College and the Technion found that plant-derived ferulic acid disrupts fungal sterol production, boosts antifungal medicines and reduces crop damage. Annually, some 2.5 million people die from fungal infections.

Israel’s Cyberwrite beat international tech companies to win the Samsung 2025 Financial C-Lab Outside global innovation competition in the Insurtech category. It also won the People’s Choice award. Cyberwrite’s AI platform manages cyber risk, and forecasts losses.

Israel’s Technion Institute enrolled 2,314 new undergraduate students in Oct – 12% more than in 2024; 45% of them women. The most popular programs are Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Civil and Environmental Engineering.