April 9, 2025 9:15 pm
FUTURE OF JEWISH
The Controversial Company Betting Big on Israel
Amir Mizroch
April 10, 2025
He came, he saw, he dropped a truth grenade. “The West has lost deterrence,” Shyam Sankar, Palantir’s Chief Technology Officer, told Israeli defense entrepreneurs last week. Over an hour-long Zoom webinar, Sankar listed the evidence: a pogrom in Israel, Russian aggression in Ukraine, Iranian provocations across the Middle East, Chinese militarization in the South China Sea. “We’re in the 11th hour. And if we’re going to deter World War Three, we have to get really serious about this,” he added…Sankar’s connection to Israel runs deep, introducing himself as “the biggest Zionist at Palantir, including him [Alex Karp],” referring to the company’s CEO, who himself is as staunch of a supporter of Israel as you can get. He then put on a yarmulke — he calls it his Shyarmulke…READ MORE
SEQUOIA CAPITAL Partnering with Kela: Modern Defense for Israel and Western Allies Israel is unusual in the West: It still has a draft. At the end of high school, instead of applying to colleges, students make bids to join elite units in the military. From the paratroopers to the combat divisions to the elite intelligence group Unit 8200, competition to get the best assignments is fierce. Israel’s startup ecosystem has thrived by leveraging this talent to build tremendous businesses: post-draft, the country’s “technowarriors” staff many of its most successful tech companies. Veterans of 8200 and other units founded Sequoia portfolio companies Wiz, Island, Cyera, Eon and Decart, among others—and today, about half of global cybersecurity investment goes into Israeli companies.
Posted by ArchitectGuy
Categories: Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tags: Alex Karp, Palantir, Sequoia Capital, Shyam Sankar
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