THE ENDGAME: Israel’s Tech Exits Show

He's on the speed dial of every strategic and financial acquirer doing business in Israel - both foreign and domestic. After 20 years making some of Israel's best-known - and largest - deals, representing both the buy-side and the sell-side, celebrity M&A attorney Chaim Friedland (Gornitzky & Co) joins The Endgame to tell us about what founders need to do and - and gotta know about...

She leads billion-shekel exits, IPOs, and complex cross-border transactions for strategics, private equity, and VCs. One of Israel's top dealmakers, ⁠⁠ Shelley Oppenheimer-Levi ⁠⁠ , is a partner at EY’s Strategy & Transactions practice. Shelley is an 8200 alum, admitted lawyer, CPA, and one of EY’s youngest-ever partners. In this episode, she brings founders into the financial heart of the dea...

The top highlights from conversations regarding real PR, deceptive reporting, and the truth behind the numbers. For more: 002: Skeletons. The Razor’s Edge. Deal Breakers. Sim Koevary, Meitar (HE, with EN subs) 009: Yaron Weizenbluth (PwC): Why It’s Not All Transactional Follow The Endgame on LinkedIn to join the conversation

Join hosts Sophia Tupolev and Zeevi Michel on The Deal Room for your roundup of a hectic summer in Israeli tech M&A. Join the conversation re: The Endgame on LinkedIn This episode highlights: • 25 announced deals totaling almost $8 billion in deal volume, confirming Israel's role as a "scale-up nation". • The dominant commonality: AI and Generative AI influencing most acquisitions, especially...

Chen Manzur , partner at Goldfarb, Gross, Seligman , is one of Israel’s leading M&A attorneys going on 18 years, hundreds of deals, and billions closed. Chen takes us into the minds of major Tier-1 North American acquirers on deals to acquire Israeli companies, many of whom he has represented. We get into what founders today need to know to not get left behind in a maturing market. This episod...

10 minutes on 10 exits in June 2025 (~$500M in deal volume, plus one $3B mega-deal). A quick chat looking back at the most notable moments in the last month's popping tech M&A scene in Israel. We cover a bunch of fintech deals like Xero x Melio, Tipalti x Statement, two deals by Cyera, a second acquisition by Wix of Base44, and an immigrant-owned Israeli acquirer of popular B2C app Yango D...

Everyone knows his work — he literally writes the annual Exits Report at PwC — but few know what he actually does for founders and deals, behind the scenes. Meet Yaron Weizenbluth, Partner & Head of Assurance at PwC Israel, who has quietly advised, audited, and signed off on hundreds of tech transactions and IPOs over the past two decades. In this episode, hear about fatal founder mistakes, the po...

12 minutes on 12 exits in May 2025 (at least $365M disclosed in M&A). Mostly strategics making moves, one blockbuster IPO and one unexpected move in the capital markets. A quick chat on the month's tech M&A. With hosts ⁠⁠Sophia Tupolev-Luz⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Zeevi Michel⁠⁠ . ⁠⁠ Subscribe to executive summaries for founders ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Follow us on LinkedIn ⁠⁠ About: Israel’s tech M&A show delivers...

23 deals in 2025 so far. Startups snapping up others. PE... Still Bueller? A quick chat on this year's deal making so far, trash talking about the first half's deals in Israel tech M&A. Navigate the episode: (00:00) Show intro (00:29) Recap of Recent Deals (01:28) Types of Acquisitions and Buyers (06:21) Undisclosed Deal Sizes and Their Implications (10:47) Current Deal Volume and Mark...

He's the ultimate guy in finance. Hear from the VC that once launched Goldman Sachs in Israel, doing 17 years of M&A there as an investment banker: Amit Pilowsky then low-key started a tier-1 growth fund ( Key1 Capital ), backing the likes of SuperPlay (a $700M exit). Today, he's also got a hot new defense fund, Ace Capital Partners .  If you’re an Israeli startup founder, you want to...

He’s been in venture longer than some founders have been alive: The OG, ⁠Modi Rosen⁠ , of Magma, with 30 exits in his portfolio, including as the very first investor in Waze. Modi tells founders he won’t always be nice, but he’ll always be fair. (Hebrew w/English-only subtitles) English ⁠Transcript⁠⁠ About: Israel’s tech M&A show with ⁠Sophia Tupolev Luz⁠ and ⁠Zeevi Michel⁠ delivers unfiltered...

(Hebrew w/English-only subtitles) This is the role founders know the least about - but has the most influence on your deal. Learn how these elusive executives at acquirers find your company, evaluate you, and make or break your deal.  So: what makes a company rise to the top of an acquirer’s list? Michael Calev , a corp dev exec and former investment banker, takes us through strategic fit —how wel...

Change is a constant, but in M&A, the target company is always going to be the product. AI is already influencing the pace, valuation, and strategies in mergers and acquisitions, and we keep looking at the core of deal dynamics. So: why do cybersecurity companies command seemingly illogical valuations at such low revenues? The answer lies in implied value - what an acquirer believes they will...

The deal dynamics founders rarely talk about—how internal motivations, external messaging, and decision-making shape their startup’s endgame. 👇 This episode is in Hebrew, with English subtitles. In this episode, Sophia Tupolev-Luz and Zeevi Michel tackle taboo topics, from the unspoken truths founders face to the challenges of aligning employees and investors during a transaction. We explore what...

English episode: From mistakes to misconduct, we get the data on where M&A transactions go south after closing - and why it hurts so bad for both buyers and sellers. Insurance, of course, is there to help clean up the mess. But as a founder, how do you prevent those terrible mistakes in the first place? Taking us into the world of breaches and risk is THE guy who brought M&A insurance to I...

M&A attorney Sim Koevary (Meitar | Law Offices) takes us into the ring on deals that've gone spectacularly right—and disastrously wrong.  From the hidden skeletons that implode transactions to the razor-thin boundaries of the playing field, Sim breaks down the unwritten rules founders need to play by.  Hosts Sophie and Zeevi chart the fragile balance of power in M&A, and how founders can l...

Behind the headlines of the high-stakes mergers and acquisitions game in Israel's tech sector. Triangulating the competing interests of the buy-side, sell-side, and shareholders (including investors). In this pilot, meet co-hosts Sophie and Zeevi while they're plotting the show and its guests: the key players who make or break deals, often working in the shadows. Israel’s tech M&A show deliver...