Best High Tech Companies in South District, Israel
The 37 best High Tech companies in South District, Israel in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Phytech.
Our analysis of 50 High Tech companies
$3.2b in tracked funding; 98% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best High Tech companies in South District
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phytech AI-powered IoT platform optimizing irrigation and crop health for growers | $38M | 71 mo ago | Series C | — | 2010 | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+27 | 18 patents Patents concentrated in health & consumer products | — |
| 2 | Valid Network Blockchain security platform | $10M | 74 mo ago | Seed | — | 2018 | — | 15 patents Blockchain smart contract risk analysis and code conversion tools | — |
| 3 | EcoPlant AI and cloud-driven platform for monitoring and control systems | $10M | 39 mo ago | Acquired | Moti Yakov Co-Founder & COO | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Nehora Photonics Sensor and algorithms to non-invasively and continuously monitor Hematocrit | $780K | 181 mo ago | Deadpooled | David Frank Chairman & CEO | 2007 | — | — | — |
| 5 | PDP Technologies IoT system for partial discharge monitoring in electrical systems | $54K | 127 mo ago | Deadpooled | Yuval Levin Co-Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | 3 patents Mapping and detecting electromagnetic discharge fields for measurement and monitoring systems. | — |
| 6 | ACiiST Developer of networking solutions for smart cities | — | 44 mo ago | Seed | Sagi Gurfinkel Founder & CEO | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 7 | PulseNMore Mobile-based ultrasound device for fetus monitoring | — | 51 mo ago | Deadpooled | Elazar Sonnenschein CEO | 2014 | WordPressPleskMySQL+28 | 116 patents Portable ultrasound imaging and ergonomic follicle assessment devices for medical diagnostics | 1 partnership |
| 8 | Sightbit AI-based image recognition solutions provider | — | 69 mo ago | Seed | — | 2018 | — | — | — |
Top 9 High Tech companies in South District
#1
Acquired · Ashkelon, South District · founded 2016 · 23 employees$9.7Mraised▾
AI and cloud-driven platform for monitoring and control systems. Offerings include air compressor systems, chillers cooling, heating systems, and vacuum pumping systems. The platform allows users to monitor, alert, control, and recommend changes for energy efficiency.
- Jun 2023Grant (prize money)$3M
- Aug 2020Series A$8M
- 2019Series A—
- Aug 2018Series A$1.7M
#2
Series C · Ashkelon, South District · founded 2010 · 125 employees$37.5Mraised▾
AI-powered IoT platform optimizing irrigation and crop health for growers. This innovative solution bridges the gap between growers and their plants, delivering real-time insights and actionable recommendations. The platform optimizes irrigation, enhances crop health, and simplifies farming operations. It offers comprehensive monitoring capabilities, including hydraulic data, distribution uniformity management, and real-time alerts for critical issues. The service includes installation and maintenance of hardware, along with agronomic consultation by experts. Features include fruit size optimization, dynamic soil and plant algorithms, weather station data, NDVI imagery, and frost management tools. This is a subscription-based service, providing a one-stop digital farming platform for enhanced yields and efficient resource management.
- Sep 2020Series C$23.5M
- Sep 2017Series B$11M
- Dec 2015Series A—
- Apr 2014Series A$1M
#3
Seed · Omer, South District · founded 2018 · 9 employees$10Mraised▾
Valid Network is a blockchain security platform for dApps. Its proprietary behavioural protection engine provides trusted representations and explanation regarding functional behaviours. It is an intelligent security layer between smart contracts and the underlying protocol, which detects & blocks any attempts to modify business logic or perform malicious actions. Utilizes advanced AI engine for predictive analysis and anomalies detections.
- Jul 2020Seed$8M
- Oct 2018Seed$2M
#4
Deadpooled · Ofakim, South District · founded 2007 · 11 employees$780Kraised▾
Sensor and algorithms to non-invasively and continuously monitor Hematocrit. They are developing an portable technology that incorporates a small sized sensor attached to the digit or other area on the hand and allows non-invasive continuous monitoring of Hematocrit (Hct) and SpO2, based on an optical technology. Measurements of Hematocrit provide vital information regarding the body’s hydration and the blood’s ability to carry oxygen and iron. Nehora photonics is a portfolio company of Okafim Hi-tech ventures
- Jul 2011Series A$300K
- Jul 2011Series A$480K
#5
Deadpooled · Ashkelon, South District · founded 2014 · 5 employees$54.5Kraised▾
PDP has developed a non-invasive IoT system to monitor power plants and electrical grids. The system is integrated with a Command & Control software which monitors the phenomena of Partial Discharge (PD) and analyzes the Electro Magnetic (EM) emission generated by these discharges in real-time to detect the signs of insulation degradation faults in their very early stage. The company is funded by the Israeli Chief Scientist and Horizon Greentech Ventures.
- Feb 2016Grant (prize money)$54.5K
- Aug 2014Seed—
#6
Seed · Emunim, South District · founded 2016 · 9 employees—raised▾
Developer of networking solutions for smart cities. Its products are based on MetropoLAN technology which provides a secure connection through industry-standard methods and protocols such as Internet Protocol (IP) to the devices and allows them to all co-exist on the same physical medium. Claims that its products are being implemented as the smart IOT outdoor systems for Smart Buildings, Smart Factories, and Smart Farms.
- Jan 2023Seed—
- 2018Seed—
#7
Deadpooled · Omer, South District · founded 2014 · 75 employees—raised▾
Mobile-based ultrasound device for fetus monitoring. The device has to be connected with a smartphone for pregnant women to send information to expert clinicians.
- May 2022Post IPO—
#8
Seed · Be er Sheva, South District · founded 2018 · 7 employees—raised▾
AI-based image recognition solutions provider. The product offers real-time alerts, risk analytics, and management solutions. It also provides real-time data on changing winds, waves, and hazards. The features of the product include the reduction of drowning risk and continuous monitoring.
- Dec 2020Seed—
- Seed—
#9
Seed · Be er Sheva, South District · founded 2015 · 3 employees—raised▾
Creative IC3D is developing technology to implement three-dimensional printing in manufacturing circuit boards. They are integrating number technologies with multi-disciplinary chemistry such as Inkjet, Nano technology to develop prototype circuit boards through 3D Printing. They claim it will reduce manufacturing time of PCBs to hours from weeks. They completed writing part of developing plan as of July, 2016.
- Jan 2016Seed—
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- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology27
- Bar-Ilan University22
- Tower Semiconductor13
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev12
- Intel11
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- Transistor1→4
- Integrated circuit5→6
- Electronic circuit4→6
- Electronic circuit6
- Integrated circuit5
- CMOS5
- Transistor5
- Reliability (semiconductor)4
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