The most productive cross-border startup engine on Earth?

It isn’t U.S.–China. It isn’t U.S.–Europe.

It’s U.S.–Israel.

🇮🇱 Israel is the #2 tech startup ecosystem in the world (behind the U.S.) despite being a country of <10M people.

🇺🇸 The U.S. is where Israeli companies raise capital, set up second HQs, and ultimately IPO.

Together, they’ve created a startup flywheel like no other:

• 88 Israeli-founded unicorns now have U.S. HQs (CA, NY, MA).

• 80% of foreign investors in Israeli rounds are American.

• 131 Israeli companies are listed on NASDAQ—behind only the U.S., Canada, and China.

• $111B+ in exits in the 2010s, another $13.4B in 2024, and record years like $25.6B raised in 2021.

• Companies like Mobileye, Mellanox, Waze, Wiz, Check Point, JFrog, Monday.com, Fiverr and more have defined categories from autonomous driving to cloud security to freelance marketplaces.

This partnership isn’t just about startups.
It’s about entire new market categories.

At scale.

🔹 Israel brings talent density, speed, and scrappy innovation.
🔹 America brings capital, customers, and the global market stage.

The result.

Tens of thousands of U.S. jobs, hundreds of billions in market cap, and technology the whole world uses.

The U.S.–Israel tech corridor is mutual advantage, not charity.

And it’s the most important cross-national startup relationship in the world.

Join me at the Restart Innovation Israeli - US Startup Forum

Next week: Palo Alto | August 27, 2025 | 9:00-15:00

https://www.restartileconomy.com/

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