{"id":183651,"date":"2026-02-02T00:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/israeli-startups-secure-1b-in-funding-cybersecurity-leads\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T01:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:05:10","slug":"israeli-startups-secure-1b-in-funding-cybersecurity-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/israeli-startups-secure-1b-in-funding-cybersecurity-leads\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Startups Secure $1B in Funding, Cybersecurity Leads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiabusinessoutlook.com\/news\/israeli-startups-secure-1b-in-funding-cybersecurity-leads-nwid-11216.html\">Israeli Startups Secure $1B in Funding, Cybersecurity Leads<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiabusinessoutlook.com\/news\/israeli-startups-secure-1b-in-funding-cybersecurity-leads-nwid-11216.html\">https:\/\/www.asiabusinessoutlook.com\/news\/israeli-startups-secure-1b-in-funding-cybersecurity-leads-nwid-11216.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-02 00:52:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.asiabusinessoutlook.com\">www.asiabusinessoutlook.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. <\/p>\n<p>                         \t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                        \t\t\t\t                        \t\t\t \t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t \t\t\t\t\t\tAccording to CTech&#8217;s reports of January 2026, Israeli tech venture firms reached an unprecedented start for 2026 with US$1 billion raised in the month of January 2026.The Cybersecurity domain led the way with Upwind raising US$250 million in a Series B financing and achieving a valuation of US$1.5 billion while experiencing immense growth in both revenue and user base including customers like Siemens and Roku as clients.Claroty followed up with US$150 million with an additional $US3 billion valuation, in response to increasing cyber threats targeting critical infrastructure, and Torq raised US$140 million achieving US$1.2 billion dollar valuation, all continuing the trend seen in CyberSecurity.Additionally, upcoming start-ups include companies such as Novee raising US$51.5 million and achieving Novee&#8217;s US$400 million dollar valuation after completing a US$50 million financing.Key Highlights\tCybersecurity leads funding rounds.\tNovee and Spirit attract major investments.\tIsraeli startups raise over US$1B in January.Spirit raised an estimated US$25 million dollars, had a total equity-value of approximately US$400 million dollars following a US$50 million round of financing; in addition to Fintechs, Proptechs, and real estate companies such as Datarails and Atlas Invest raising US$70 million and US$25 million.Also Read:\u00a0Samsung OLED TVs &#038; Odyssey Monitors Get Nvidia G-SYNC CertificationOverall, the above funding activity demonstrates the strength of the Israeli start-up market at the beginning of 2026 with regard to the extent of industry-drivers (Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence) behind the significant funding and growth experienced by the Israeli start-up sector throughout calendar year 2025.Furthermore, despite a global pullback in fund-based capital commitments, the Israeli tech ecosystem continues to attract venture capital with CyberSecurtiy and AI start-ups gaining great amounts of investment.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Startups Secure $1B in Funding, Cybersecurity Leads https:\/\/www.asiabusinessoutlook.com\/news\/israeli-startups-secure-1b-in-funding-cybersecurity-leads-nwid-11216.html Publish Date: 2026-02-02 00:52:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.asiabusinessoutlook.com\/uploaded_images\/newstransfer\/48dih1.JPG","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,20,24],"class_list":["post-183651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183653,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183651\/revisions\/183653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}