Israel’s AI Infrastructure stack
AI infrastructure, AI sovereignty, Israeli startups, venture capital, compute, networking, storage, databases, inference, agentic AI, open-weight models, Remagine Ventures
Sequoia’s London exit: what Europe can learn from Israel
Sequoia’s London closure is an unwelcome signal for European tech, but its history in Israel suggests a more nuanced story. From a16z’s withdrawal to Benchmark Europe’s evolution into Balderton, the lasting impact depends on the investments, relationships and independent firms that follow.
Requests for Startups: Winter 2027 edition
YC’s Winter 2027 requests point towards the practical work of deploying AI. Alongside original publications from Pear, a16z, Menlo and QED, they offer a useful guide to investor interest and a starting point for founders’ customer research.
Big ideas, basic questions
Israeli deep-tech companies are attracting ambitious funding and delivering significant exits. From quantum computing to autonomous driving, their stories highlight five questions founders still need to address about their team, customers, economics, traction and funding milestones.
Weekly Firgun Newsletter – October 30 2026
A political deadlock, a reported $2.3 billion quantum deal and another wave of AI mega-rounds. This week’s #FIRGUN celebrates Israeli founders building through uncertainty, with fresh funding for Upwind and Bites and new chapters for NeuReality and Robusta.
From Startup Nation to Scale-up Nation: Israel’s Next Growth Challenge
What does it mean to become a scale-up when AI allows smaller teams to build bigger businesses? Reflections from the Scaleup event at Reichman University on defensibility, talent and what Israel needs to build its next generation of global companies.
Weekly Firgun Newsletter – October 23 2026
Israelis are flying home to vote while the tech community keeps building. This week’s #FIRGUN celebrates fresh funding, acquisitions and new funds, alongside AI mega-rounds, Anthropic’s IPO preparations and reminders that trust and security must keep pace with innovation.
Venture Capital in the age of Consensus
Venture capital is concentrating around a handful of firms and companies, while established norms around partnership come under pressure. Yet smaller teams can accomplish more with less, creating opportunities for pre-seed investors willing to look beyond consensus.
Who pays for the AI boom?
AI can transform the economy while disappointing investors. Anthropic’s anticipated IPO, neocloud debt and circular financing expose the tension between technological progress and financial returns, with consequences for founders, VCs and the capital funding the boom.
The rise of the inference economy
A growing group of AI companies is building substantial businesses by running models efficiently. From Fireworks and Modal to model developers expanding into inference, the opportunity is to turn increasingly accessible intelligence into reliable services. What makes these businesses defensible, and where will the value accumulate?
Weekly Firgun Newsletter – October 16 2026
This week’s #FIRGUN celebrates Varonis’s $6.3 billion acquisition agreement, reported Amazon–Decart talks and fresh Israeli startup funding, alongside flying cars, new AI models and the latest Q3 venture reports.
The AI opportunity hiding between capability and adoption
AI capabilities are advancing faster than businesses can adopt them. For startups, the opportunity lies in turning that potential into dependable products, repeatable workflows and measurable results.