
Mapping Israel’s marketing technology industry
Marketing technology is in the midst of a worldwide boom. Given the expansion of the internet, social...
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CA to Acquire BlazeMeter to Drive Speed and Quality of Application Testing Practices
The acquisition of privately-held BlazeMeter will enable CA Technologies to extend its DevOps portfolio. BlazeMeter will...
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Preqin 2016 Report: Israeli VC fund, Glilot Capital Partners, is Ranked as One of the Best Performing Funds in the World
Glilot Capital Partners is one of the most successful funds in the world of the vintage...
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IDF Vets Of Intel Unit 8200 Behind One Of The Top 10 VCs In The World
Herzliya-based Glilot Capital Partners, one of the best performing venture funds in the world, is an...
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IntSights Raises $15M Series B Round
IntSights Cyber Intelligence, a Herzliya, Israel-based company with sales and marketing headquartered in the US, and...
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Palo Alto Networks acquires LightCyber
Palo Alto Networks® (NYSE: PANW), the next-generation security company, today announced its acquisition of LightCyber®, a privately...
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8 lessons learned in 8 exits
In the last couple of years, we have been fortunate to successfully exit a number of...
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Why Did We Lead A $6M Investment Round With Genoox?
Prior to our Genoox investment, we had never invested in the medical field. Our ability to...
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10 Things I Wish I Had Known Before I Became an Entrepreneur
As far back as I can remember, I had always dreamt of becoming an entrepreneur. It...
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Why is Apple’s Facebook Page Completely Blank?
A visit to Apple’s Facebook page will reveal an interesting phenomenon — it is completely blank. Though the...
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How Can You Steal a Car and Protect Your Passengers’ Lives Through the Cloud?
About a week ago, we were informed of the sale of Argus, an Israeli start-up in...
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IntSights Cyber Intelligence Continues Rapid Growth With Launch of International Office, Appointment of Three VPs
Intelligence-Driven Security Provider Opens Amsterdam Office; Welcomes Jonathan Daly, Paul Couturier and Tom Findling
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Upstream Security reels in $9M Series A to protect connected cars
Upstream Security, a new startup founded by two cybersecurity industry veterans, announced a $9 million Series...
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More Cyber IPOs Expected for 2018
Big solutions, more IPOs and products that offer comprehensive protection are among the trends for the...
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BrandTotal to Bring Agile Marketing to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customers
Microsoft Business Applications Summit – BrandTotal today announced it is working with Microsoft to provide customers with...
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Why Value Creation?
Most people think that Venture capital is all about investments; and to be a great VC...
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Glilot Capital Partners Raises $110 Million for Its Third Fund
Glilot Capital Partners a Venture capital fund which invests in early-stage startups, has announced the closing of...
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YouAppi Ranks 15 On 2018 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ Bay Area List
YouAppi today announced it ranked 15 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ Bay Area list, a ranking of the...
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Does Diversity Truly Help My Startup?
Over the past months, there’s been a lot of discussions involving the importance of diversity in...
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Glilot Capital Partners Shares Its Profits With the Entrepreneurs it Back
Glilot Capital Partners, which invests in early-stage startups, and has a quarter of a billion dollars...
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Revenue Sharing with Entrepreneurs: Why and How We Do It?
We recently announced that our new fund, Glilot Capital III, will share revenues with the entrepreneurs it invests...
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IntSights Charges Into 2019 With 250% Revenue Growth, More Than Doubles Customer Count
IntSights, the leading provider of surface, deep and dark web cyber threat intelligence and digital risk...
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CyberX Wins Cybersecurity Excellence Awards in Three Categories
CyberX, the IIoT and industrial control system (ICS) security company, today announced it is a winner...
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zvelo Partners With YouAppi To Prevent Fraudulent Bot Traffic
YouAppi, a leading growth marketing platform for premium mobile brands, today announced a partnership with zvelo...
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Protego Labs Wins Gold for Best Startup in 2019 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards
Protego Labs announced today that it won Gold for Best Startup in the 2019 Cybersecurity Excellence...
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Data-Driven Venture Capital
In the startup world, where closing enterprise deals is king, data is the undoubted Queen of...
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IntSights Releases Industry’s First All-in-One Enterprise Threat Intelligence & Mitigation Platform
IntSights Cyber Intelligence, the leading provider of surface, deep and dark web cyber threat intelligence and...
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5 Tips to guide you through the Product-Market Fit process
Product-Market fit (PMF) can be loosely defined as a stage where your product has evolved to...
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CyberX Selected as “Hot IoT Security Startup to Watch”
CyberX, the IoT and industrial control system (ICS) security company, today announced that it was selected...
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Top 5 Out Of 300 Connected Car Startups In Automotive
For our 5 picks of connected car startups, we use a data-driven startup scouting approach to identify...
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Exceed.a.i is in the top 10 AI Solutions for Sales 2019
One of the biggest challenges sales managers face is keeping up with the avalanche of information...
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CyberX Launches First Open Development Environment (ODE) for Securing IoT/ICS Devices Running Proprietary Protocols
Enables Customers and Technology Partners to Independently Add Support for Proprietary IoT/ICS Protocols Without Divulging Sensitive...
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The Fundraising Sweet Spot
One of the questions that we often hear from entrepreneurs is about the optimal time to...
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Exceed.ai Announces New ML Capabilities to Answer Prospects’ Questions, Reply to Objections & Inquiries
Exceed.ai, an AI-powered sales assistant technology that automatically communicates with leads and enables sales reps to...
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YouAppi Launches OM SDK and Secures IAB Tech Lab Certification
YouAppi announced today the release of its recent Open Measurement Software Development Kit (OM SDK). YouAppi...
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CyberX Enhances Industrial Threat Intelligence with Automated Threat Extraction Platform
CyberX, the IoT and industrial control system (ICS) security company, today announced it has enhanced its...
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Polyrize raises $4M for its next-gen authorization platform
Tel Aviv-based Polyrize, which is coming out of stealth today, is tackling this problem by providing...
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Why We Invested in Polyrize?
Our portfolio company Polyrize raised $4M in a seed financing round led by us, Glilot Capital Partners. As investors, we are...
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CyberX ranked in CRN’s “10 Top #IoT Start up’s of 2019”
CyberX, a Glilot Capital Partners portfolio company, just announced that they are ranked in CRN Magazine‘s “10 Top #IoT Start up’s...
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Protego Serverless Security Announces Integration with Splunk and Slack
Protego Labs announces integration with alerting tools Splunk and Slack to provide clients with full visibility...
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The Best Advice I Ever Got
Success is rarely a solitary achievement. Even the most individualistic people still rely on the knowledge...
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Upstream is one of Top 100 European Startups for 2019 (and the Top 10 in Tel Aviv)
Upstream Security, a Glilot portfolio company, was chosen by WIRED UK as one of the Top 100...
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Big Men in Suits Crying
For me, the most significant moment of the 2019 NBA final series, was not a great...
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BrandTotal ranked in Forbes 10 Under $30M list of most promising Israeli startups in NY
Woohoo! We are so proud of BrandTotal, one of our amazing portfolio companies, for making it to...
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VC 3.0: The Next Generation of Venture Capital
Venture Capital always seemed to be the most stable/never changing business — yes, GPs change and...
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Intsights named as one of the Hot 150 Cybersecurity Companies to Watch in 2020 , by Cybercrime Magazine
For the full list : https://bit.ly/2JbeQkI Selection Criteria
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Protego Labs Named Gold Winner for Business Products Startup of the Year & Bronze Winner for Technology Software Startup of the Year by CEO World Awards
Protego Labs Named Gold Winner for Business Products Startup of the Year and Bronze Winner for...
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Upstream Security Closes $30 Million Series B Investment from Renault, Volvo Group, Hyundai, Nationwide
Global Syndicate – including Renault Venture Capital, Volvo Group, Hyundai, Nationwide Insurance and others – invests...
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Glilot Capital Partners Builds a Bridge Connecting CISOs of Fortune 1,000 Companies to Israeli Cybersecurity Startups
Tel Aviv, Israel, October 22 2019 – Glilot Capital Partners, a cyber-focused venture capital fund ranked...
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Glilot Capital Partners Builds a Bridge Connecting CISOs of Fortune 1,000 Companies to Israeli Cybersecurity Startups
Glilot Capital Partners, a cyber-focused venture capital fund ranked as one of the best-performing VCs in...
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Glilot Capital Partners Builds a Bridge Connecting CISOs of Fortune 1,000 Companies to Israeli Cybersecurity Startups
Glilot Capital Partners, a cyber-focused venture capital fund ranked as one of the best-performing VCs in...
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Nofar Amikam Named Partner at Leading VC Glilot Capital
Tel Aviv, Israel, November 14th, 2019 | Nofar Amikam joined Glilot Capital Partners 18 months ago...
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Glilot Capital Promotes Nofar Amikam to Partner
Herzliya, Israel-based Glilot Capital Partners, a venture capital fund focused on investments in artificial intelligence and...
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IntSights raises $30 million to detect and remediate cyberthreats
IntSights, the premier threat intelligence company focused on enabling enterprises to Defend Forward™, today announced that...
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Protego Labs is acquired by Check Point Software Technologies
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a leading provider of cyber security solutions globally, today announces...
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VC is Eating the World
It has been more than 8 years since Mark Andreessen coined the phrase “Software is eating...
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The Age of The Cyber Unicorn is Here
Tel Aviv, Israel, February 19, 2020 Do good things come to those who wait? In recent years,...
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Sailing Your Startup Through Stormy Waters
Tel Aviv, Israel, March 11th, 2020 During the big bubble burst of 2000/2001, many people feared...
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Glilot Capital Named Top Performing Fund, Preqin 2020
Preqin’s 2020 Global Private Equity Report, the industry’s most complete and in-depth annual review of the market,...
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Lessons From a Workforce Sent Home
Tel Aviv, Israel, April 27th, 2020 Could “Partially-Distributed” be the Model of the Future? A few...
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7 Tips to Make the Best Out of Challenging Times
Tel Aviv, Israel, April 30th, 2020 “You should never let a good crisis go to waste,”...
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Ermetic Launches Analytics-based Solution that Protects AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure from Data Breaches
Tags: analytics, cyber security investments, ermetic, venture capital, cyber security
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Lightrun Raises $4M for its Continuous Debugging and Observability Platform
“Lightrun, a Tel Aviv-based startup that makes it easier for developers to debug their production code,...
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7 Things To Do When You Get an Acquisition Proposal
Tags: proposal, start up venture capital, acquisition, venture capital Israel
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Mitiga Gets $7M in Seed Funding and Exit Stealth Mode
Mitiga gets $7 million in seed funding for incident response tech stack and service. “Israeli cloud...
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Upstream Collaborates with Microsoft to Deliver Secured Connected Vehicle Solution
Tags: cyber venture, upstream, microsoft, enterprise software, venture capital Israel
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Ermetic Raises $17M in Series A Funding led by Accel for Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management Platform
Tags: cloud infrastructure, accel, ermetic, series a, start up funding, venture capital
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Polyrize Announces General Availability of Innovative Cloud Identity and Access Security Platform
Tags: polyrize, cloud investment, devops investment, enterprise software, enterprise software vc, venture capital
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BrandTotal Raises $12 Million in Series B Round to Expand Brand Marketing Analytics Technology
“BrandTotal, the brand marketing analytics company providing social media competitive intelligence to brands and organizations, announced...
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7 Successful Entrepreneurs Share Their Advice
7 Successful Entrepreneurs Share Their Advice What To Do When Approached with an Acquisition Proposal? 7...
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A Practical Guide to Product-Market-Fit
2.5 years ago when we established the Value Creation team at Glilot Capital, we needed to make a...
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Is Security Shifting Left? Glilot Capital’s Advisors Explore
See what industry experts like Gerhard Eshelbeck (ex-CISO at Google), Les Correia (Global Head of AppSec...
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Varonis Announces the Acquisition of Polyrize
Polyrize was acquired by Varonis (NASDAQ:VRNS) to expand its data security platform and to cover additional cloud applications...
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Exceed.ai raised $4M Seed round pairing marketing teams with an AI companion
Exceed.ai raised $4M Seed round pairing marketing teams with an AI companion. Read the full article...
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Glilot Capital: Where we’ve been and where we’re heading
We asked Kobi to discuss the success of Glilot Capital Partners over the last ten years and why now was the time to launch their new fund, Glilot+.
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Glilot Capital Launches Glilot+, a $170 Million Growth Fund
Glilot Capital Partners, Israel’s leading early-stage venture capital firm, today announced that it has launched its first early growth fund, Glilot+ (Glilot Plus).
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Crunchbase reports on Glilot Capital’s new growth fund, Glilot+
Crunchbase recently reported on Glilot's new growth fund, Glilot+, and the $170 million it is raising.
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CardinalOps Introduces Industry’s First Threat Coverage Optimization Platform
CardinalOps today introduced the industry’s first Threat Coverage Optimization Platform, which enables security engineers to continuously optimize their security operations center (SOC) to ensure comprehensive threat coverage. CardinalOps also announced today the closing of a $6.5 million Series Seed fundraising led by Battery Ventures, Glilot Capital and several renowned security industry leaders.
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Security Engineering: The Next Application for AI-Powered Automation
We’re excited to announce our investment in cybersecurity startup CardinalOps, led by successful serial entrepreneurs Michael Mumcuoglu and Yair Manor. With this new company, they are applying AI-based analytics and automation to a relatively unaddressed security challenge.
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Calcalistech Reports on Portfolio Company, Cardinal Ops’ $6.5M Seed Round
Israel’s CardinalOps completes $6.5 million seed round. The cybersecurity company founded by the founder of LightCyber uses AI to overcome human error in the management of organizations’ cyber systems.
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A New Era: Growth Funds Take Hold in the Israeli Landscape
We sat down with Lior Litwak, Glilot's new Managing Partner, to hear his views on investing in early growth companies, as well as his decision to join Glilot.
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Does the Rise of DevOps Means the Fall of Engineering Productivity?
Glilot Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Kobi Samboursky, recently spoke with 70 advisory board members about the benefits and challenges of the rise of DevOps, such as maintaining engineering productivity, and they gave some great tips to optimize for success.
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Glilot Capital Partners Presents CYBERSCAPE 2021:
The Israeli Cybersecurity Technology Landscape
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Ynet reports on the Major Investment Growth of the Israeli Cyber Industry
The cybersecurity industry in Israel recorded a growth of more than 70% in the volume of investments during the past year and coronavirus pandemic, following the growing demand for the protection of information systems against the background of the increase in cyberattacks, a report on one of Israel’s most powerful high-tech industries shows.
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anecdotes Secures $5M Seed Funding For Enterprise-Grade Compliance Platform
anecdotes, the first enterprise-grade compliance solution, announced $5M in a seed round funding co-led by Aleph and Glilot Capital partners with participation from industry leaders including Gerhard Eschelbeck, former CISO of Google, and Ron Zoran, former CRO of Cyberark
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Calcalistech Reports on $5M Raised for New Portfolio Company, anecdotes
The SaaS platform from anecdotes offers enterprises in need of a comprehensive and scalable solution for multiple frameworks, who then can experience onboarding taking mere minutes via its out-of-the-box plugins.
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Rewire, Leading Neobank for Expats, Raises $20M to Extend Financial Services
Financial accessibility, inclusion, cost cuts, financial services for migrant workers who now total 270M worldwide Rewire...
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challenging times

7 Tips to Make the Best Out of Challenging Times
Tel Aviv, Israel, April 30th, 2020 “You should never let a good crisis go to waste,”...