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
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,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-137850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}