{"id":142821,"date":"2025-11-16T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T12:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142821\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T12:18:08","slug":"salesforce-figma-and-hubspot-turn-to-israel-in-the-hunt-for-next-gen-ai-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142821\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce, Figma and HubSpot turn to Israel in the hunt for next-gen AI talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over a matter of weeks, three of the most prominent names in global software, Salesforce, HubSpot, and Figma, have quietly converged on the same target: Israel\u2019s youngest generation of AI startups. All three companies have announced acquisitions of early-stage ventures, some barely a year old and each with only a couple dozen of employees at most or a modest Seed round behind them. The deals, while varied in size and purpose, point to the urgency with which U.S. tech giants are trying to secure AI innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Although each deal reflects different strategic goals, enterprise knowledge retrieval, AI-native marketing, and video-focused creative tooling, the pattern is unmistakable. Large U.S. software companies aren\u2019t risking waiting for Israeli startups to scale before acquiring them; they are moving earlier, faster, and with larger checks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over a matter of weeks, three of the most prominent names in global software, Salesforce, HubSpot, and Figma,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-142821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}