Entrepreneurship
Latest news on Team8 companies and innovation trends
Ask Yourself One Question: What Is Your Board of Life?
For thousands of years, people lived in tribes. These were not symbolic collectives, but practical ecosystems: shared spaces for labor, security, parenting, decision-making, and survival. The tribe wasn’t optional. It was infrastructure.
Modern society rewrote that script. As we industrialized, globalized, and digitized, the dominant cultural narrative shifted toward independence. The solo architect. The lone genius. The self-made founder. Today, we celebrate autonomy and individual achievement in nearly every domain, particularly in technology and entrepreneurship. But we’re starting to see the limits of that model - socially, emotionally, and strategically.
Announcing VC II: Doubling Down on the Israeli Ecosystem
It’s been 5 years since Team8 launched its venture-capital fund, Team8 capital. The rationale for establishing an investment arm was clear - as part of Team8’s distinctive “venture-creation” process we identify and validate core problems and needs in our target markets. We then partner with founders to launch entirely new companies from scratch, addressing these needs. However, there are occasions when great companies, founded outside of Team8, are already innovatively addressing these needs
A CDOs Guide – Making Data Work: On the Need for Next-Gen Automated Data Fabric
Data lies at the heart of modern business operations, with organizations increasingly seeking to leverage data and analytics to drive revenue growth and cost reduction. However, many companies face challenges in extracting value from data at scale and speed.
Do I Need to Replace My Social Media Manager with a GTM Engineer?
For over a decade, social media managers have been the heartbeat of brand marketing. They’ve shaped voice, fueled community, and helped companies build trust one post at a time.
But today, something bigger is happening. It is reshaping how we think about growth, content, and execution. Behind the shift is a new role quietly gaining traction: the GTM (Go-To-Market) Engineer.
We are entering an era where content creation, distribution, and measurement are no longer fragmented tasks. They are programmable systems. Growth is no longer defined by creative instinct alone. It depends on who can build the smartest, most automated pipeline to cut through the noise. The skills that once defined a social media manager are evolving into something much more technical.
What Being Ranked Israel’s #1 Early-Stage Venture Fund Really Means
Dun & Bradstreet recently named Team8 the #1 early-stage venture capital fund in Israel.
While the ranking is grounded in hard metrics, AUM, DPI, TVPI, exit activity, and fund performance, what it represents goes deeper.
It’s not a finish line at all, but a meaningful affirmation of the path we set out on over a decade ago and the mission we continue to pursue today.
2022 Year in Review: Data Investments in Israel
The Israeli data ecosystem is alive and well, even with cross-sector slowdowns in the Israeli and international tech industry. Israel’s world-renowned data companies still managed to raise impressive capital in 2022 and are set up to thrive in the years to come. Below, we have identified several key trends pushing the data ecosystem forward in...
3 Practical Financial Tips for Managing B2B Startups During a Crisis
Startups are never easy. But in the last decade - and especially during the 'Covid boom' of 2020-2021 - money was less of an issue. With near endless flows of capital into private markets and a booming stock market, founders had access to unprecedented amounts of cash.
See Yourself in Cyber – 7 Industry Leaders Share Their Journey and Learnings
Who are the cybersecurity insiders? What motivates them to build companies in this ever-evolving landscape? What’s keeping them up at night? October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This year’s theme is “See Yourself in Cyber”, highlighting the human element in an industry that might seem complex and daunting to many. To mark the occasion, we spoke...
Founders Spotlight: Q&A with Dig Security Co-founder and CEO Dan Benjamin
Dig Security came out of stealth last week with the announcement of its seed funding, led by Team8. To mark the milestone, we sat down with Dig Security Co-founder and CEO, Dan Benjamin, to find out more about Dig’s unique solution.
Welcoming Dig Security to Team8’s Portfolio to Solve Data Security in the Cloud
I’m excited to share that cloud data security company, Dig Security, emerged from stealth mode with today’s announcement of its $11M seed funding, led by Team8 Capital.
Q&A with Team8 alumnus Ben Borodach: from day job to startup founder
It’s always exciting when someone who was part of the team then decides to chart their own entrepreneurial journey and become one of our portfolio company founders. Ben Borodach, previously Team8's VP of Strategy and Operations is doing just that with his new fintech startup, April, purpose built to “make taxes less taxing.”
