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Venture Guidance for Emerging Israeli Defense Companies
Venture Guidance for Emerging Israeli Defense Companies
The Rapidly Growing Defense Startup Industry in Israel Israelis’ unparalleled entrepreneurial spirit and unmatched…
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How should Israel approach the data center boom?
How should Israel approach the data center boom?
The Israeli data center industry is at a crossroads. The demand for data centers in Israel is surging, yet Israel’s…
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Advice for Aspiring Young VC's
Advice for Aspiring Young VC's
Ambitious, young people often ask me how to break into venture capital, generally college students. I thought it would…
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Eric Reiner shared thisRobots that work. By Maven Robotics. Congratulations to Hamza Derbas, Khalid Derbas and team + thank you to my Partner Demren Sinik for the foresight and conviction to lead the seed round. Onward!Eric Reiner shared thisMaven Robotics is out of stealth! A huge and well-deserved congrats to Hamza Derbas, Khalid Derbas, and the entire team on their massive Series A. I have had the privilege of having a front row seat to this company since day one, and what they have accomplished over the last two years in terms of capabilities and deployments is astounding. General purpose robotics is the most important, but also the hardest, technical challenge of the next decade. Very few companies appreciate what it will take to deploy highly capable robots in real world settings. The Maven team is making the impossible possible. THEY ARE HIRING. If you are exceptional and are interested in working at one of the most important companies in the world - please reach out. Eric Reiner Adam Valkin Daniel Povitsky Alex Moskowitz Barak Kaufman Naftaly Gluskin LocalGlobe RoboStrategy Advisors https://lnkd.in/d758b9ubMaven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal | TechCrunchMaven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal | TechCrunch
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Eric Reiner shared thisIt’s time for Powertown!Eric Reiner shared thisToday, Powertown begins the search for our next 12 full-time hires who will join us in defining the future of American power infrastructure. In addition, we're launching a fellowship program for students on the East Coast who want to engage with us while still enrolled in college. You don't need to be obsessed with energy; you don't need to be American; you don’t need to be searching for a job; you don’t need to be ready to join. But if you think you’re special and have the slightest itch to shake up your career for something new and important, we would like to meet you. We are an early-stage company. We don’t know what work in general will look like over the next decade. What we do know, and what we have seen, is that work in energy is just beginning. It’s a sector that requires a huge spectrum of human talent. It’s absolutely riddled with challenging problems and space for new visions. So here we go. We're very excited about each one of these: Head of Deployments Head of Member Success Head of Utility Success Head of Manufacturing Financial Product Engineer Head of Community Experience Software Engineer Machine Learning Engineer, Intern AI Engineer, Prospecting Machine Learning Engineer Member of Technical Staff Director of Communications and Storytelling I made this video instead of writing a Substack post. Enjoy. And go to powertownusa.com/careers for the real stuff. Vine Ventures, Floodgate, SV Angel, Nova Global, Jack Altman, Arushi S., Evan Caron, Mike Maples, Jr, Demren Sinik, Adam Valkin, Sam Beskind, Armando Shashoua, Carlo Agostinelli, Pete Schork, Michael Beckerman, Andrea Wang, Shmuel Wolfson, Erik Maroney, Jonathan Flaherty.
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Eric Reiner shared thisIt is hard to find words to describe what we are witnessing from Bar Winkler, Roey Lalazar and the entire, global Wonderful team. $1m -> $70m in one year, 30+ countries, All stemming from one brain in the middle of Israel. It is just the beginning. Welcome also to our new friends - Salesforce. Vine Ventures is proud to support you in every single round and to make our single biggest investment ever into this round. Onward. https://lnkd.in/depguUkfExclusive | AI Startup Wonderful Hits $5 Billion Valuation, Plans 1,000-Strong TeamExclusive | AI Startup Wonderful Hits $5 Billion Valuation, Plans 1,000-Strong Team
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Eric Reiner shared this👀Eric Reiner shared thisRenting GPUs from a neocloud means trusting far more than the compute itself. Lava’s research has highlighted risks in that infrastructure. Separately, SemiAnalysis’s ClusterMAX 3.0 testing shows why customers should look beyond GPU availability when evaluating neocloud security. Read the full analysis: https://lnkd.in/eYqfaJ46Neocloud Security: You're Trusting Your Provider More Than You ShouldNeocloud Security: You're Trusting Your Provider More Than You Should
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Eric Reiner shared thisWe love what’s going on in SF, NYC and Boston, But some of the most important AI infrastructure in the world is being built by a guy who lives in Tel Aviv and stops for a chat outside your office. That’s the Tel Aviv advantage: proximity and density SF can’t replicate at its scale (in addition to some of the best low level inference engineers in the world). Arkady Volozh Nebius
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Eric Reiner shared thisWonderful thesis day 1: local delivery and operations is going to matter even when voice becomes a commodity. Wonderful today: one of the largest and fastest growing applied AI companies in 35+ sites.Eric Reiner shared thisBeing local by design means meeting customers and partners in every market, every week. Across our 35 sites, that adds up to about one Wonderful event every day. Last week alone, we had a 100-person reception for our Greater China launch, an AI Leaders dinner in South Africa, hosted a networking event with partners in Poland, an enterprise leaders dinner in Brazil, an exec breakfast in Australia, and took the main stage in South Korea. Proud of our teams on the ground.
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Eric Reiner shared thisGood stuff!Eric Reiner shared this���𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐫𝐚 𝐱 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐥 We're excited to partner with Vercel 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘸𝘦𝘣 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦. Powered by Ora's engine, Vercel's is-agentic measures how well agents can read your site. A huge step in making the entire web agent ready. For details: https://lnkd.in/deeCt2GT
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Eric Reiner shared thisIt’s not every day that the Israel Karate champion, MIT Math Student, President of MIT Chabad, Staples grad, and friend of Uri Rolls and Kush Bavaria pulls up demanding an internship… But when she does, you must obey her. Logan Goodman, all jokes aside, we are so lucky to have you and look forward to seeing the continuation of the amazing work you do as a part of the Vine Ventures team. Onward!Eric Reiner shared thisEric Reiner challenged me to a push-up contest and joked that my future at Vine Ventures was on the line. Incredibly excited to share: my internship doesn’t end here. Couldn’t be happier to keep working with the Vine team during the school year at MIT. So grateful for everyone at Vine (Daniel Povitsky, Alex Moskowitz, Adam Valkin, Demren Sinik) who has trusted me, challenged me, and taught me more in a few months than I thought possible, while making it a ridiculous amount of fun along the way. There’s something especially exciting about being front and center in the Boston startup ecosystem, watching people like Uri Rolls, Kush Bavaria and Wayne Nelms, and so many other young founders at MIT and Harvard take ambitious ideas and build them with Vine in their corner. If you think you’re next, my DMs are open. Looking forward to continuing to raise the bar (and my max push-ups).
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Eric Reiner shared thisI spent 90 minutes with Kush Bavaria yesterday to hear his view on the future of finance x compute. Net net - the future is coming way faster than anyone expected, and Ornn has a good shot of becoming the center of an enormous flywheel that brings the world closer to AGI.Eric Reiner shared thisTwo days ago, Jensen Huang called Nvidia compute an investable asset class. At Ornn, we have always believed this to be true. Today, we are announcing that companies like Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR now have access to live Nvidia B300 Forward Curves. The curves are built from pricing we source directly from 20+ cloud and Nvidia GPU operators, part of the 100+ operator network behind our spot index. This is the first step toward letting banks, private credit and asset managers underwrite and price the residual value of this critical AI asset. Thanks to Ornn, more B300s will be able to be financed, deployed, and run at scale. Compute is a commodity. See more data: https://data.ornn.com/ https://lnkd.in/eJQDihCbNVIDIA AI Factory Compute Is Becoming an Investable Asset ClassNVIDIA AI Factory Compute Is Becoming an Investable Asset Class
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Eric Reiner liked thisEric Reiner liked thisI force every new Melius employee to post on X and LinkedIn once a week. If they don’t, I seize their Ramp card. We instituted the policy last week so currently compliance is 100%. Extremely strong culture so far. Haters will say “you hired them to engineer/design/sell, not post.” Correct. I don’t care if they become content creators but I do care if they can explain what they’re working on in public. If you do something for 50+ hours a week and can’t get a couple banger posts out of it, that’s a problem. You should have opinions and notice weird shit. You should be able to explain why the thing you’re building matters without a comms person translating it into corporate jargon. Some of my best relationships with customers, investors, coworkers, and randos started because they saw me say something stupid on the internet. Posting is a ridiculously cheap way to make more surface area for luck. Anyway the policy is one week old so I’ll report back when someone inevitably starts expensing lunch on their personal Amex.
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Eric Reiner liked thisEric Reiner liked thisNoa Argamani spent 246 days in Hamas captivity. Since then, she's spent much of her time being asked to revisit what happened to her. In an exclusive interview with Business Insider, she tells her story about what comes next. "This interview is so special cuz [we're] focused on back to life and rising from hell," she tells my colleague Melia. This month, she started a new job. Argamani has joined the venture capital firm Vine Ventures, which backs early-stage startups, especially in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and defense tech. She's working with Israeli founders and companies looking to grow their business in the United States. Her new role puts her contact list to work: Her ordeal thrust her onto a global stage, connecting her to world leaders and business titans alike. "In this moment, if I want to learn and make an impact, VC is the right place for me," she says. "I want to be surrounded by people who dream big." Read more about Noa's story here: https://lnkd.in/gzvPnnbe
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Eric Reiner liked thisEric Reiner liked thisI'll start from the end: I have joined Vine Ventures. I'm excited, a little emotional, and mostly grateful to continue living my life. This morning Business Insider published an interview with me. Thank you to Melia Robinson and Jamie Heller for listening and for telling my story with sensitivity and nuance. For many people, I'm Noa Argamani, who was rescued by the IDF after 246 days in Hamas’ captivity. That's part of me, and it always will be. But it's not all of me, and I'd like you to get to know me in my new role too. If you're building something, have an idea you can't stop thinking about or you’re in the Valley and looking to help the most ambitious founders in Israel succeed, I hope to be a bridge between the two ecosystems. My DMs are always open. https://lnkd.in/dgxRiBFm Eric Reiner Barak Kaufman Idan Tendler Naftaly Gluskin Racheli Adler Adam Valkin Gary ReinerGary Reiner Daniel Povitsky Alex MoskowitzDaniel Povitsky Alex Moskowitz Demren Sinik John McIlree Roni Tamary Kelly FrescasWhy Noa Argamani chose venture capital after 246 days in Hamas captivityWhy Noa Argamani chose venture capital after 246 days in Hamas captivity
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Eric Reiner liked thisEric Reiner liked this⭐ We’re excited to announce the #3rd annual #DefenseTech #Innovation #Summit. This year, we’re bringing together founders, investors, defense leaders, industry executives, and some of the people building and #shaping the next generation of #defense #technology. We’ll dive into some of the biggest questions shaping the #industry today — from the evolution of #defense primes and the technologies defining the future battlefield, to #dual-use #innovation and what really drives #M&A in #DefenseTech.🚀 We’re thrilled to welcome an exceptional group of speakers and partners and look forward to bringing the #DefenseTech community together again. 💥 Zohar H. D-Fend Solutions Alon Dror Kela Technologies Yehoshua, Shuki Yehuda Elbit Systems Israel Inbal (Biran) Kreiss IAI - Israel Aerospace Industries Aviv Shapira XTEND Avi Gil Irit Idan Lital Leshem Alon Kantor 10D Yahal Zilka Protego Ventures Meitar | Law Offices Yuval Sasson Tamar Harary Ido Priel Remondo Yarden Gross Orca AI David Chinn McKinsey & Company Ofer Ballin Irit Idan Asaf Picciotto Shimon Tsentsiper Avner Bendheim Spectralx Tenna Systems 📍 Tel Aviv 📅 October 25, 2026 #RSVP is required, and space is limited — make sure to register early to secure your spot. 😎 Registration link in the first comment. 👇
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Eric Reiner liked thisEric Reiner liked thisWhat I witnessed today at the UN reminded me why our work is so necessary. I sat in the General Assembly alongside dear friends and partners in Chabad's global work, Mr. Daniel Loeb, founder and CEO of Third Point, and Mr. Igor Tulchinsky, founder, chairman, and CEO of WorldQuant. As over half the delegates walked out when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rose to speak, and dozens of journalists, dignitaries, and friends burst into a proud "Am Yisrael Chai," I recalled what the Rebbe told him nearly 42 years ago: "You are going to a house of lies... Remember that in a hall of perfect darkness, if you light one small candle, its precious light will be seen from afar, by everyone." The past few years have been challenging for Jews worldwide. Where we once felt comfortable, we've become uneasy. Among those we trusted as friends, we've found ourselves strangers. But none of this is new. We are a people with over 3,000 years of history. We've outlasted every Pharaoh, and we know how this story ends. Standing among so many proud Jews, heads held high, I was reminded why spreading Jewish pride and education matters so much. When Jews know not only what to stand against, but what to be proud of, we raise children and grandchildren who stand tall anywhere in the world and become that one small candle, no matter how dark the hall. That mission is carried forward every day by the Rebbe's Shluchim in over 110 countries, who dedicate their lives to ensuring that wherever a Jew may be, they have the knowledge, community, and pride to shine bright and stand strong.
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Eric Reiner liked thisEric Reiner liked thisI am excited to share that Rightway has raised $155M at a $1.75B valuation, led by Francisco Partners, with continued support from Thrive Capital and Khosla Ventures. We are privileged to work with so many great clients and members and I look forward to doing everything we can to take the best care of them and make their healthcare experience meaningfully better and more affordable. https://lnkd.in/g2JUA2YjPharmacy Benefits Firm Rightway Eyes IPO After New FundingPharmacy Benefits Firm Rightway Eyes IPO After New Funding
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Eric Reiner liked thisEric Reiner liked thisThere's a particular kind of founder I look for before the market has a name for what they're building: someone who has already proven, under real pressure, that they don't wait for permission to act. Roni Roman, CEO of Axioma, is that founder. Normally, her experience as the first female officer in Israel’s most elite special ops unit would have been enough to catch my attention, but there is much more here.
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Eric Reiner liked thisEric Reiner liked thisEclipse spent 8 years investing in manufacturing, space, semiconductors, defense & mining while the rest of Silicon Valley funded SaaS. Lior Susan says the math was never close. Lior Susan is the Founder & CEO of Eclipse, the Palo Alto firm he started in 2015 with a $125M debut fund alongside Pierre Lamond, who was 85 at the time & had already spent a career at Fairchild Semiconductor under Gordon Moore, co-founded National Semiconductor, & put in 27 years as a GP at Sequoia Capital. Lamond is 96 now and still mentors the team. "We never thought ourselves as venture capital. We call it operators with capital because we are operators with capital." Eclipse manages approximately $12.5B and closed $1.3B in April 2026 across Eclipse Fund VI and Early Growth III, its largest raise to date. The firm's 2016 Series A into Cerebras returned roughly $2.5B at the $185 IPO price in May 2026 on a total of about $147M invested. Eclipse portfolio companies have raised $15.9B in 2026 alone, including $1.2B for Wayve, $650M for True Anomaly, $270M for Bedrock Robotics, $220M for VulcanForms and $200M for Oxide. In September 2026, Eclipse incubation Noetive came out of stealth with a $41M seed led by the firm. Susan was named to the 2026 Forbes Midas List.
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Thrilled to announce that Together Fund is investing in Sentra, alongside a16z speedrun! You track results in Jira. Decisions in Notion. Conversations in Slack. But the reasoning, the debates, trade-offs, and context behind why you chose A over B, disappears into what we call "Dark Matter." A decision made in March looks insane by July because no one remembers the constraints that made it smart. I lived this firsthand at Twitter scaling from 800 to 8,000 employees, and at Google while launching AI Overviews to billions at planet scale. The problem isn't process. Process is compensation for something deeper: organizational amnesia. An organization’s "Systems of Record" doesn’t solve this, they encode it. They store what happened, never why. That's why we are investing in Sentra. Sentra is the always-on collective memory that eliminates organizational amnesia by maintaining accurate context for all members and agents, functioning as an operational nervous system. It connects to every channel where work happens, meetings, Slack, email, code commits, docs, calendars, and treats them not as artifacts to search, but as living signals to synthesize. The fleeting and the permanent, unified into a memory that understands. The founding team is built for this: - Jae Gwan Park (CEO): Product-first founder, memory systems research at UofT and MIT - Ashwin Gopinath (CSO): Former MIT professor, created "Reflexion" (NeurIPS 2023), agents that learn from mistakes, 2x founder - Andrey Starenky (CTO): Early Vapi engineer, ex-IBM, built to process enterprise-scale data firehose Together is an operator-led fund. We invest in problems we've lived. This is one of them. Many congrats Jae, Ashwin and Andrey, we are so excited to partner with you! Read the full thesis: https://lnkd.in/gixj9cE4 Book a demo: https://www.sentra.app/ #OrganizationalMemory #AI #Sentra #TogetherFund #a16z #ContextGraphs
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