Israel

Protego Ventures closes debut $125 million fund for Israeli defense tech

TechCrunch Anna Heim

29 Sept 2026 20:00 AEST Summary

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The investment firm said that Leshem and Moser join forces and start Protego in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel.

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As for Leshem she also brings 11 years of experience in the military and intelligence field to their approach.

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Niral Score 11.2 · mostly calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, jingoistic and 2 more and 4 at zero

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Sentiment +0.1 hostilefavourable Jingoistic 2 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Sourcing 44 unattributednamed sources Mood 50 sorrowjoyful

4 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Religious 0 not invokedovert

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