Source: Israeli cybersecurity startup Cybereason laid off 200 employees, or 17%, after letting ~100 staff go in June and filing for a US IPO earlier in 2022 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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Source: Israeli cybersecurity company Cybereason, which is valued at $2.5B, is looking for a buyer after abandoning plans to go public earlier in 2022  —  Cybereason, a prominent Israeli security software firm valued at $2.5 billion by investors including Google, SoftBank …

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Cybersecurity startup Snyk lays off 198 employees, or 14% of its staff, after laying off 30 people in July 2022; Snyk was valued at $8.5B in September 2021  —  The Israeli-founded company raised $530 million at an $8.5 billion valuation last year  —  Israeli cybersecurity unicorn Snyk …

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Israeli startup Mesh Payments, which helps companies track and manage employee expenses, raised a $60M Series C led by Alpha Wave, bringing its funding to $127M  —  The Israeli startup’s solution gives finance teams more visibility into each payment, from SaaS subscriptions to employee expenses …

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Israel-based Weka, which makes data management tools for AI, ML, HPC, and research, raised a $135M Series D at a $750M valuation, after raising $73M in January  —  The Israeli startup doubled its valuation since its previous round in January despite the dramatic economic downturn

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Sources: Palo Alto Networks to buy Cider Security, which helps enterprises identify security risks in DevOps pipelines, for $200M in cash and $100M in shares  —  The startup, which develops an AppSec operating system, will receive $200 million in cash and $100 million in Palo Alto stock

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Alphawave IP acquires Banias Labs, an Israel-based optical digital signal processing chip developer for data centers, for $240M  —  The Israeli startup, co-founded by veteran entrepreneur Avigdor Willenz, develops coherent optical DSP semiconductor technology for data centers