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Rakesh Loonkar: \u201cWe\u2019re going to see $100 billion exits out of Israel\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.calcalistech.com\/ctechnews\/article\/hyhndt11gl<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-11 17:28:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.calcalistech.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. Rakesh Loonkar (Tomeriko)The artificial intelligence boom is not just creating new cybersecurity companies, it is threatening the foundations of the existing industry, according to Rakesh Loonkar, President and co-founder of Transmit Security.Speaking at the Mind the Tech conference about the impact of AI on cybersecurity and technology investing, Loonkar described the current moment as a sweeping technological reset that could render many existing tools obsolete while opening the door to a new generation of massive companies.\u201cEvery single existing vendor and every single existing product category is going to be disrupted in some way by AI,\u201d Loonkar said. \u201cEither the segment may not exist or it has to be fundamentally rebuilt.\u201dLoonkar, who also serves as a partner at venture capital firm Picture Capital, argued that AI is creating opportunities not only for incremental improvements, but for entirely new market categories. In cybersecurity alone, he said, nearly every major segment, from identity and cloud security to customer protection systems, is vulnerable to transformation.\u201cWhen you think about cyber, you break it into categories like identity, network security, cloud security, device security,\u201d he said. \u201cEach one of those is an opportunity to build not just a $10 billion company but potentially even a $100 billion company.\u201dAt Transmit Security, which specializes in customer identity and fraud prevention, Loonkar said the company is increasingly focused on how AI agents interact with applications, and how some \u201cgood agents\u201d can evolve into malicious actors.\u201cWhat we look at is a new opportunity to protect applications against agents,\u201d he said.At the same time, as an investor, Loonkar sees a broader upheaval underway across the technology industry. \u201cThere\u2019s this enormous market disruption,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is the biggest opportunity we\u2019ve ever seen in technology.\u201d\u201cI would love to be 25 right now and be at the beginning of this revolution,\u201d he added.Loonkar drew a distinction between how his firm approaches early-stage investments and later-stage funding. In Seed investing, he said, the focus is overwhelmingly on founders themselves rather than mature business metrics.\u201cWe\u2019re investing in tremendous and high-potential human capital,\u201d he said. \u201cIt might be a 22-year-old, it might be a second- or third-time entrepreneur, but it\u2019s typically a team that has an idea, they have the ability to execute, and they resemble what founders look like.\u201dFor later-stage investments, however, the focus shifts toward product-market fit, revenue potential, and market scale.Despite the intense focus on AI, Loonkar suggested that personal characteristics remain decisive in determining which founders ultimately succeed.\u201cBeing an entrepreneur takes a tremendous amount of effort,\u201d he said. \u201cIt takes a lot of grit. It takes somebody who\u2019s willing to do 18-hour days and fly to Europe and then come back and fly to Cleveland the next day.\u201d\u201cGreat entrepreneurs are driven by deep ambition,\u201d he added.Loonkar also spoke extensively about Israel\u2019s technology ecosystem, where he has worked with entrepreneurs for decades.\u201cI grew up Indian, in New Jersey,\u201d he said, noting that people often mistakenly assume he has Israeli roots because of his longstanding partnerships in the country\u2019s cyber sector.Among the entrepreneurs he highlighted were Nir Zuk, founder of Palo Alto Networks, and Mickey Boodaei, co-founder of Imperva and Transmit Security.According to Loonkar, Israeli founders stand out because of their product instincts and focus on building difficult-to-replicate technologies.\u201cYou have to build a technology that no one else can build,\u201d he said. \u201cIt has to have a technological moat.\u201dHe also praised what he described as the trust and intensity of his relationships with Israeli business partners.\u201cI never had to watch my back with an Israeli business partner. Never,\u201d he said.Looking ahead, Loonkar predicted that the scale of Israeli technology companies will continue to grow dramatically in the AI era. Referring indirectly to the rise of companies such as Wiz, he argued that even larger outcomes are likely.\u201cWe\u2019re going to see $100 billion exits,\u201d he said. \u201cThe markets are becoming loose because of this foundational disruption of AI.\u201d\u201cMy challenge to the ecosystem is: don\u2019t just look for the base hits,\u201d he added. \u201cLook to build those companies.\u201d\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt,\u201d Loonkar said. \u201cWe will absolutely see them out of Israel.\u201d
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