If you’ve been in the computer industry for any length of time, you’ll remember hearing how, for decades, AI that could pass the Turing Test was “at least 10 years out”. For 60 years or so, AI capable of holding a realistic conversation was always just over the horizon. And then one day, it was […]
One year after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, geopolitical tensions continue to undoubtedly impact various aspects of life in Israel. Yet, as they have so many times before, the people of Israel continue to show their resilience. In a very similar way, the Israeli technology has proven that it too has a level of […]
Three years ago, in January of 2021, Merlin Ventures opened our office in Tel Aviv with a goal of finding the best early-stage cyber startups in Israel and bringing them to the US market. But nearly 25 years before that, our sister company, Merlin Cyber, opened its office in the US, and has continued to […]
Over the last month, I’ve been asked by many people how the Israeli companies we work with are doing. I tell them that everyone in Israel has been impacted in some way by the war, some more than others. But I also tell them the message that Israeli founders keep asking me to pass on: […]
Today Dig Security is coming out of stealth, and we are excited to be joining them in their journey as an investor and partner. Like most VCs, we talk to a lot of startups, and it’s often a difficult decision about whether this is “the one” that we want to commit to. For Dig, it […]