{"id":516331,"date":"2026-06-29T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T08:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/516331\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T08:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T08:56:08","slug":"israel-to-expand-assistance-to-next-generation-deep-tech-firms-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/516331\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel to expand assistance to next generation deep-tech firms &#8211; Israel &#038; Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            (June 29, 2026 \/ JNS)\n                    <\/p>\n<p>The Israel Innovation Authority announced on Sunday that it is expanding its budget for the Startup Fund project that supports early-stage deep-tech companies in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Its flagship Startup Fund aims to reduce investor risk in breakthrough deep-tech technologies that requires long development cycles. Deep-tech is characterized as \u201cdisruptive technologies\u201d based on profound scientific discoveries, advanced engineering, and rigorous research that create entire new capabilities to solve massive global and industrial challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The Startup Fund is one of the authority\u2019s core projects, combining government investment with private-sector capital.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new framework, the authority\u2019s maximum investment in approved deep-tech companies will increase from 1.5 million shekels (~$500,000) to 2 million shekels (~$670,000) at the pre-seed stage, and from five million shekels (~$1.67 million) to six million shekels (~$2 million) at the seed stage.<\/p>\n<p>The changes are designed to help startups secure sufficient capital in an increasingly challenging fundraising environment, the authority stated.<\/p>\n<p>As part of these enhancements, companies operating in National Priority Area A or led by entrepreneurs from under-represented populations will be eligible for even higher investment ceilings, increasing the authority\u2019s maximum participation to 2.2 million shekels (~$740,000) at the pre-seed stage and 6.6 million shekels (~$2.2 million) at the seed stage.<\/p>\n<p>The new budgetary framework will come into effect on July 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(June 29, 2026 \/ JNS) The Israel Innovation Authority announced on Sunday that it is expanding its budget&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-516331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}