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🏆We are very excited to see that Pyramid Analytics ranked highest for all use cases in the 2024 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Analytics and Business Intelligence (ABI) Platforms report. Gartner assessed vendors in four use cases: Augmented Consumer, Business Analyst, Data Scientist and Analytics Developer. Pyramid achieved the top ranking across all categories. 🔥Some more awesome and well-deserved recognition for Omri Kohl and the Pyramid team! Read more about this recognition here: https://lnkd.in/diM9yijg 📊We also cannot ignore the continued buzz surrounding Pyramid's Gen BI! Be sure to check out the video below, which includes a live demo - very cool stuff!

🔍The exposure risk management landscape is rapidly expanding, overwhelming enterprise security teams with data from multiple vulnerability scanners. This leads to inaccurate prioritization and costly remediation efforts. Exposure is high, the impact substantial and costs are skyrocketing. As a clear market leader, Vulcan Cyber constantly adapts to changing market needs, recognizing the crucial necessity for a comprehensive solution that addresses both current and future risks. 🛡️Introducing Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS, the foundation for current and future exposure management. This platform enables teams to manage, communicate and mitigate risks efficiently. Grounded in contextualized data, clear ownership and streamlined, automatable processes, this solution empowers enterprise security practitioners to excel. ✨In parallel, Vulcan has undergone a strategic brand refresh to engage a broader market with a mature and cohesive design, which reflects their future-focused vision. We are very excited about this development and proud to be partnered with Yaniv Bar-Dayan, Tal Morgenstern, Roy Horev and the entire Vulcan team. Read more about Vulcan's ExposureOS here: https://lnkd.in/eFbBNYkU

Pyramid Analytics has received some big-time recognition by being positioned again as a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms. This marks the 11th consecutive year that Pyramid has been included in the Magic Quadrant, consistently advancing in its ranking. In 2024, Pyramid stands as the second most Visionary company and ranks second in the Visionaries group in terms of execution. Pyramid has generated a ton of buzz with its' new Gen AI capabilities - branded as Gen BI. Gartner highlighted their advancements in the report noting the company's ability to: 1. Enable a multi-Large Language Model (LLM) strategy with support for both its proprietary portable language model and third-party LLMs. 2. Leverage Natural Language Query (NLQ) interface for text and speech input and output. 3. Generate text-to-Python and text-to-image elements. A huge congratulations to the team at Pyramid Analytics for this outstanding accomplishment! Omri Kohl Read more and download Gartner's full report here: https://lnkd.in/djMMSaen #Gartner #MagicQuadrant #BI #PyramidAnalytics

💡Exciting news! Coralogix has teamed up with IBM by offering a white-label version of its observability solution tailored for enterprises. IBM Cloud is harnessing this innovation to deliver an advanced log monitoring and analysis platform—IBM Cloud Logs. This allows IBM Cloud Logs users to gain extensive visibility into large datasets, bypassing the cost limitations associated with traditional logging solutions that typically mandate indexing and hot storage even for basic observability needs. 💪This partnership underscores the power of Coralogix's core observability features and integrated cost-efficiency capabilities, marking a significant milestone in their journey and further showcasing the product's enterprise readiness. Congrats to Ariel Assaraf and the entire Coralogix team - well done! Read the more about this partnership here: https://lnkd.in/dYEnyheM #Coralogix #IBM #IBMCloudLogs

🎉 Yesterday, as part of Tel Aviv University’s AI and Cyber Week, Quantum Machines celebrated the opening ceremony of the Israeli Quantum Computing Center (IQCC), a world-class research facility poised to advance the quantum computing industry and academic community globally. Located at Tel Aviv University and funded by the Israel Innovation Authority, the IQCC was built and will be managed by Quantum Machines. 💻 The IQCC is a cutting-edge quantum and high-performance computing (HPC) center that integrates quantum and classical computing resources. It is the first to house multiple quantum computers with different qubit types, all utilizing the NVIDIA DGX Quantum system. This configuration offers supercomputing capabilities and cloud accessibility, tightly integrated with Quantum Machines' OPX control system. Additionally, the center features the world's most advanced testbed for new quantum technology development. 🌍 Welcoming researchers and developers worldwide, the IQCC provides a state-of-the-art platform to accelerate practical quantum computing and foster industry collaboration. This initiative is set to establish Israel as a global hub for quantum innovation, securing its leadership in the quantum revolution. 🚀Big congratulations goes out to CEO, Itamar Sivan, (pictured below) and the entire Quantum Machines team for this remarkable achievement! Read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/dd2DRW2J #Quantum #QuantumMachines #TelAvivUniversity #IQCC

🎆This week, WSC Sports marks a major milestone in its spectacular growth journey.🎆 Operating for more than 10 years, and serving today over 450 #sports organizations worldwide, WSC Sports, the pioneer in #AI-powered sports content technology, reveals a new visual identity. 🏀🎾⚽🏎🥎🏏🏈 WSC Sports empowers sports rights holders to engage with #fans through personalized #content, ready-to-publish in multiple formats, and for any type of viewing channel. Following this road, WSC Sports also announces three new innovative products, to further enhance the value generated by the premium content of its customers, and to make them fully own the relationships with their fans- - Around The Game 🎥 - In-App Stories 📱 - Discovery Network 👁 Want to learn more? Follow this link 👉🏽 https://lnkd.in/e_kCi4hN #fuelthefandom

🎉 Last week, our latest investment in Finout was formally announced. 🤲🏽Today, we are happy to share some more color on our decision to partner. ☁ The global spend on #IaaS and #PaaS will cross $350bn (!) in 2024, and is expected to keep growing by over 16% a year, over the next 5 years. The rapidly increasing complexity of #cloud infrastructure has created an urgent need for a new generation of Cloud Cost Management (#CCM) platforms, to address modern #FinOps use cases. ✨Finout started its journey in 2021, with a very ambitious goal- to become this modern #CCM platform. Three years later, it seems like they nailed it. 👉🏽 Follow the link to learn more --> https://lnkd.in/dB7uurSx

🚀 We are excited to share that Finout, the #FinOps-for-enterprise company, announced today its $26m B Round, with the participation of Maor Investments. 💡 Finout helps companies to easily allocate, manage and reduce their #cloud spending across their entire infrastructure. Finout’s solution provides the entire organization with complete visibility & context for its cloud costs, helping them save money, work smarter, and innovate more profitably, all without adding code or an agent. Offering the most advanced Enterprise #FinOps solution on the market, Finout enjoys an exceptional growth momentum, fueled by Fortune 500 customers of all verticals and some of the most lucrative tech logos in the world. 🎉 Congratulations to Finout’s great team, led by Roi Ravhon, Asaf Liveanu, and Yizhar Gilboa, which build here something big, and doing so amazingly (!) well. Happy to collaborate again with our friends at Red Dot Capital Partners, Team8, Jibe Ventures and Pitango, and looking forward to our joint journey- we feel confident that it is going to be a blast! https://lnkd.in/dqzq9ncS

Proud of our portfolio company EverC, the leading AI-driven risk intelligence and management platform for ecommerce, for being listed as one of the Top 25 Payment Technology Companies of 2024, alongside payment industry titans like Stripe, BILL, Remitly, Shift4, Payoneer, Tipalti and more.   Congratulations to Ariel Tiger, Maya Kaplan Barkay and the entire EverC team!

Last week, our Founding Partner and CEO Eric Elalouf had a great time presenting #IsraeliTech & #VC ecosystem to the brilliant business students from top French business schools.   In the (amazing) WSC Sports offices, we discussed together the dynamics & resiliency of the Israeli ecosystem as well as key differences between European & Israeli markets.   We also showcased our perspective as a #European-Israeli fund, bridging European corporates to Israeli startups, through our investment in WSC.   Thanks Daniel Shichman & Smadar Danon for making this event so unique & fun 🏀, and shout out to the students that made this trip happen in these challenging times.