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EasySend
EasySend is an Israeli enterprise software company whose no-code, AI-assisted platform turns paper-based forms and PDFs into digital customer journeys. Insurers, banks and other regulated enterprises use it to build onboarding, claims, lending and renewal workflows - complete with data intake, document generation and legally binding eSignatures - without writing code. Founded in 2016 in Tel Aviv, the company serves more than 40 enterprise customers, has raised roughly $77M in total funding, and is used across most of Israel's financial and insurance market as well as clients in the US, Europe and Japan.
Joonko
Joonko was an Israeli-founded, AI-powered diversity recruiting platform that promised talent-acquisition teams automated access to pre-vetted candidates from underrepresented groups - women, people of color, and veterans. Founded in 2016 by Ilit Raz and named after Everest pioneer Junko Tabei, the company graduated from Techstars Atlanta and the Salesforce Incubator, and raised roughly $30 million from investors including Insight Partners, Target Global, Kapor Capital, and Vertex Ventures Israel. In 2023 the story collapsed: an investor confronted Raz over inconsistencies, she admitted to fabricating customer contracts, bank statements, revenue, and candidate counts, and she resigned. The SEC charged her in 2024 with a $21 million 'AI washing' securities fraud, and Joonko filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after shutting down and laying off all staff.
Laguna Health
Laguna Health is a healthtech company building conversational AI for care teams. Its platform, anchored by the Laguna Companion co-pilot, the Laguna Insight analytics layer, and the LISA family of AI agents, listens to member calls, automates clinical documentation, and surfaces context so care managers - typically nurses - can spend less time on paperwork and more time supporting patients recovering after hospital stays. Founded in 2020 by Yoni Shtein and Yael Adam, the company serves health plans, payers, and virtual care organizations from offices in Tel Aviv and New York.
Upriver
Upriver is an AI-native data engineering platform that connects to a company's full data stack - Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Airflow, dbt - then explores it, builds and validates pipelines, fixes them when they break, and encodes the tribal knowledge that usually lives in engineers' heads. Founded in 2024 by Talpiot graduates Ido Bronstein and Omri Lifshitz, the Tel Aviv company aims to make data infrastructure invisible so AI systems can run on a reliable data foundation without constant manual upkeep.