Israel's Tech Sector Defies Expectations

Ben's Market Chat - Insights and Interviews · Oct 29, 2026 · 33m

Few places in the world produce technology at the rate Israel does. A country of fewer than ten million people has become one of the most important sources of innovation in cybersecurity, software, fintech and beyond. The harder question for investors is how to find the real winners in that ecosystem, and how to pay a sensible price for them.

My guest this week has spent his career on that problem. Gilad Shany has worked across early-stage and scale-up technology investing, and across both public and private markets, a combination that is rarer than it should be.

Gilad began his career in New…