January through June marked the strongest six months for Israeli tech funding in three years, according to nonprofit foundation Startup Nation Central, which estimates $9.3 billion of private capital has been raised—a 54% jump from the second half of 2024. In March, Google paid $32 billion for cloud security platform Wiz, and in July, Palo Alto Networks acquired Israel-founded CyberArk, a security software firm, for $25 billion; acquisitions of fintech firm Melio, software company WalkMe and the small-business-focused Next Insurance fetched more than $1.5 billion each. In July artificial intelligence chip king Nvidia announced plans to build a large campus in the north of the country during the next few years.