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Most people think finance is complicated. Eldad Tamir (Founder of Finq) thinks it’s intentionally broken.

On this episode of IsraelTech, we sit down for a raw conversation about why the middle class is set up to lose and how AI is changing the future of wealth management.

Eldad explains how modern wealth management was built to serve the ultra-rich, why the middle class is pushed into bad financial products, and how human emotions quietly destroy long-term returns. We dive into psychology, Israeli risk-taking, the "B2C gap" in Israeli VC, and why Eldad believes we must remove humans from financial decision-making altogether.

Key Topics We Discuss:

- The Wealth Gap: Why premium financial services are reserved for the 1%.

- Human Error: Why fear and emotion matter more than intelligence in investing.

- The AI Revolution: How Finq uses data to remove human bias.

- The Israeli Edge: What Israel understands about risk that the rest of the world misses.

- Future Tech: Eldad’s take on Neuralink and the evolution of human decision-making.

If you’ve ever felt the system wasn’t built for you, this episode explains why.

Hosted by Yoel Israel

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For years, Israeli tech has often been described as a single, unified ecosystem. Today, that narrative is evolving.

In this episode, Eyal Bino, founding partner of 97212 Ventures, explores how New York has emerged as a critical tech hub for Israeli founders outside of Israel - and how this global expansion is opening new pathways for growth, collaboration, and impact across the Israeli tech ecosystem.

If you think success comes down to talent alone, this episode will challenge you.

What we cover:

- Why New York, not Silicon Valley, is becoming the default second home for Israeli startups

- How Israeli founders change when they live in New York and what they lose and gain

- The uncomfortable role luck plays in venture capital and why few people admit it

- Why many VCs say they help founders but don't deliver when it matters

- What a real day-one partner actually does beyond writing a check

- Why branding as a “New York company” matters more than people want to admit

- How introductions, trust, and timing beat pitch decks and cold emails

- Why the venture model may be misaligned with founders and where it is cracking

This episode is for founders who are tired of recycled advice and investors who know the real game is rarely discussed in public.

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What if the hardest startup to build is actually a VC fund?

Most founders think raising money is brutal. According to Eran Savir, Founder and Managing Partner of Savyon Ventures, building the fund itself is a tougher climb than any startup he built. And after three exits and one painful failure, he has the scars to explain why.

In this episode, Eran breaks down the real mechanics behind seed investing, why early traction matters far more than pitch decks, and the parts of founding that still surprise him even after years on both sides of the table. This is the rare interview where a VC speaks like a founder who still remembers every late payroll, every rejection, and every moment a company comes apart or breaks through.

We cover:

- Why Savyon Ventures focuses on AI, digital and commerce, and what “internet companies” really means in 2025

- The difficulty of getting your first real customer who is not in your personal network

- Why Israelis excel at bold outreach and using the diaspora as a hidden distribution channel

- How Eran evaluates initial traction and why three to five real transactions matter more than any warm intro

- The surprising gap between being a founder and being a VC and why switching mindsets is so tough

- What transparency looks like in practice and why most founders never get real feedback from investors

and more.

Watch now and let us know your takes.

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What if the future of AI isn’t just about faster chips - but about how people, teams, and entire countries will work once AI operates at massive scale?

In this episode of IsraelTech, Yoel Israel sits down with Boaz Touitou, CTO of Impala AI, for a wide-ranging conversation that moves far beyond GPUs and hardware limits.

We dive into:

- Impala AI’s focus and why compute is the limiting factor

- Training vs. test-time scaling and what changes at massive run counts

- The GPU race and why new hardware overtakes the old instantly

- What AI-first companies look like in practice

- Employees guiding AI systems as part of their daily workflow

- AI at national scale - from codebases to continuous video feeds

- Why humans and AI aren’t as different as we assume

- Self-play and reinforcement learning as drivers of rapid improvement

- A landscape where knowledge is open and compute is the main hurdle

Boaz offers a grounded, expansive view on where AI is headed - not just as a technology, but as a force reshaping work, responsibility, and the structure of modern organizations.

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Remote work isn’t a perk anymore - it’s a real test of how a company operates.

Some teams handle it with focus and speed. Others fall apart.

In our latest conversation, Yaron Lavi, CTO of Deel, broke down what it actually looks like to run a fully remote company of 7,000 people across 61 countries - and why so many teams still get it wrong.

Deel, a proud partner of IsraelTech, has built one of the most global tech workforces on the planet. Yaron explained why their model works:

• Small teams, clear ownership, almost no bureaucracy

• Hiring talent in places most companies never look

• Engineers deploying 50 times a day

• Parents often being the most reliable operators

• And why juniors struggle without daily, hands-on mentoring

He also didn’t shy away from the Israeli angle:

We’re world-class at solving problems fast, but we still cling to habits that make remote work harder than it should be.

Deel isn’t theorizing about the future of work - they’re living it at scale.

And we’re proud to collaborate with them as part of IsraelTech’s mission to highlight the people shaping global tech.

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If you want to know where global investors get Israel wrong, ask someone who has built billion-dollar businesses and now backs founders for a living.

Yevgeny Gelfand is a serial innovator and business builder who spent 15 years in financial services and SaaS, launching and operating new businesses that either exited through IPO or grew privately into multi-billion-dollar operations. After that run, he shifted into venture investing, backing and scaling startups across sectors and geographies.

Yev, now a Partner at Alumni Ventures, joins IsraelTech to explain why so many investors still misread both the real risk and the real opportunity inside Israel’s tech economy.

From New York’s political shifts to the quiet support he sees for Israeli founders, he shares what he’s observing firsthand:

• Why global investors still misprice Israeli companies

• How the economy strengthened after two difficult years

• Why experienced investors treated October 7th as a moment to pay attention, not a moment to pull back

• The reactions he gets wearing a kippah across the US

• What happens when founders pitch during a rocket alert

• And why he believes Israel is positioned to become a major center of tech

If you want a grounded look at Israeli innovation, how VCs actually make decisions, and what may be coming next for the ecosystem, this conversation offers clarity most people don’t have.

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When it comes to startup success, Israelis don’t just build - they connect.

In this episode, Lirone Glikman, CEO of the Human Factor and author of The Super Connectors Playbook, joins Yoel Israel to unpack what really makes the Israeli tech ecosystem thrive and why connection is the biggest competitive edge.

From cultural clashes in Tokyo to the empathy that drives founders to help competitors, Lirone shares her insights on building authentic relationships, developing a founder-led personal brand, and creating meaningful opportunities through human connection.

You’ll learn:

- Why Israeli founders stand out in global networking

- How to build credibility and visibility through personal branding

- The biggest mistakes Israelis make when pitching abroad

- Why introverts might actually be better networkers

- How The Super Connectors Playbook turns human skills into business success

Because behind every great Israeli startup is a network that believes in giving back.

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In this episode of IsraelTech, Yoel Israel sits down with Dror Globerman, journalist, media personality, and founder of Jumpstart AI School, for one of the deepest and most provocative conversations yet.

They dive into:

- How algorithms reward hate and tribalism

- Why human nature, not technology, is the real problem

- The death of legacy media and rise of individual trust

- The danger of unregulated AI capitalism

- Why Israel is falling behind in AI education

- And how Dror believes technology can still make us more human

From politics to philosophy, from social media addiction to autonomous cars, Dror and Yoel don't leave any stone unturned.

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NVIDIA is the world’s most innovative company.

Israel is the world’s most creative nation.

What happens when the two come together?

At Reichman University’s first-ever ScaleUp Nation Conference, Yoel had the privilege of being invited to interview Nati Amsterdam, Senior Country Director of NVIDIA Israel, on stage in Hebrew. They discussed how Israel became one of NVIDIA’s most strategic global hubs and how a culture built on learning, speed, and accessibility drives growth at every level.

Nati shared lessons on scaling globally, collaborating locally, and why more than 1,200 Israeli startups are already working with NVIDIA.

Watch the full interview to learn how innovation, talent, and vision are shaping Israel’s next chapter as a true Scale-Up Nation.

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What if the future of autonomous cars isn’t powered by cameras or LiDAR, but by radar?

In this episode, Kobi Marenko, CEO and Co-founder of Arbe, joins Yoel Israel to unpack how radar-on-chip technology could reshape the future of autonomous driving and why the giants of silicon may be standing in the way of true innovation.

We explore:

- How radar sees what cameras can’t, and why that matters for safety

- The challenges of building semiconductors in a world dominated by mega-corporations

- Kobi’s journey from TV reporter to deep-tech founder

- Why philosophy and yoga play a role in how he leads and invests

- Israel’s place in the global semiconductor race

It’s tech, science, and a little bit of soul - all from the front lines of Israel’s deep tech ecosystem.

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