Israeli AI Companies
Israeli companies developing artificial intelligence technology, from those that started as small startups and were acquired by global corporations to public companies that continue to operate independently.
This English edition covers selected entries, chosen for translation from the full Hebrew site. More parts of the site are being translated gradually.
Questions this category answers
Which of the companies here am I already relying on without knowing it: in the car, in an app on my phone, or when I pay online?
Who in Israel makes the chips and hardware that run artificial intelligence, and who buys them?
Is there a company here building its own model, or do they all rely on other companies' models?
Who secures an organization that starts using AI tools, and who protects against attacks carried out with them?
Where is this technology already working in practice, in a hospital or a clinic, and not only in research?
Where to start
- Mobileye If you read only oneMobileye is an Israeli company founded in 1999 and a world pioneer in computer vision technology for preventing road accidents and for autonomous driving.
- Check PointCheck Point is an Israeli cybersecurity company founded in 1993. It developed the "stateful inspection" method and is recognized as a pioneer of commercia…
- WizWiz is an Israeli cloud security company founded in 2020. Google acquired it for $32 billion in a deal that closed in 2026, the largest Israeli exit ever.
More about this category
Israel is considered one of the densest centers in the world for AI companies relative to its population, mainly thanks to a combination of military technology units, a strong academic system in computer science, and available venture capital. The category includes companies from many fields, from computer vision and autonomous vehicles to cybersecurity and AI-based content, with verified facts about each company: when it was founded, what it does, and significant business milestones (acquisitions, IPOs).
The writing here is neutral and factual: not a marketing list for companies, but an encyclopedic record of who is actually shaping the Israeli industry in this field. Some of the companies here became well-known names around the world before the current era of generative AI. A long-standing Israeli specialty in computer vision and cybersecurity is one of the reasons that, when the current wave of AI arrived, there was already a technological and human base ready to make use of it.
What is not here
Here you will find companies founded in Israel or whose development center is here, and they stay here even after acquisition by a foreign corporation; a foreign company with a development center in Israel stays in Global AI Companies. A person (a founder, researcher or CEO) is covered in History and Key People, and the explanation of the technology a company sells is in AI Foundations.
Cybersecurity (26)
Health and medical diagnosis (25)
Developer tools and data infrastructure (22)
Transportation and computer vision (16)
Agriculture and industry (14)
AI agents, data and business (14)
Financial technology (13)
Generative AI: image, video and sound (12)
Hardware and chips (12)
Speech and language (6)
Marketing and e-commerce (4)
Automation and enterprise software (2)
Communication and consumer devices (2)
📋 Criteria for entries in this category
A company is included here if artificial intelligence is the heart of its product, not an add-on (not "a tech company that also uses AI"), and if there is a documented business fact about it: a significant funding round, an acquisition, an IPO, or a clear position in a niche it defined. The geographic rule: the company was founded in Israel or its development center is here, and it stays in the category even after being acquired by a foreign corporation, like Mobileye. A foreign company with a branch in Israel belongs in Global AI Companies. There is one defined exception to the "AI at the heart of the product" rule: a company that is a key player in the infrastructure the AI world relies on (cloud security, chips, data storage) is included even if AI is not the product itself, because the picture cannot be explained without it. In full disclosure: only a minority of the companies here have an independent encyclopedia entry elsewhere, so our threshold is documented activity rather than the existence of a Wikipedia entry. Within the page, companies are grouped by field of activity, not by size or ranking.