16 Startups Selected for Calcalist and Poalim Tech’s RoadShow+ Event

Tel Aviv RoadShow+ event selects 16 startups

A group of sixteen startups has been chosen for the upcoming RoadShow+ gathering presented by Poalim Tech and Calcalist, scheduled for November 17 at The George Hotel located in Tel Aviv.

Marking its sixth consecutive year running, the program caters to founders ranging from the pre-seed to Series A phases, pairing them up with venture capitalists from top Israeli firms via curated, one-on-one sessions.

Startups address challenges in AI, cybersecurity, and more

This year’s selected roster features enterprises operating across digital health, food tech, fintech, defense, energy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. Their innovations tackle various obstacles, such as managing commercial real estate investments, spotting equipment failures beforehand, stopping financial fraud, and safeguarding AI agents.

“In this year’s group, we encountered companies that aren’t just looking to integrate into the global market. They aim to lead it,” says Erez Rachmil, Chief Information and Technology Officer at Bank Hapoalim.

“We were impressed by the technological depth, the business acumen, and the people behind these companies, and we are confident that we will be hearing much more about them,” he added.

Bank Hapoalim supports global expansion

“Artificial intelligence enables entrepreneurs to turn ideas into reality faster than ever before. However, building a leading company also requires a long-term vision, an understanding of customer needs, and the ability to identify opportunities,” Rachmil stated. “These qualities reflect the values that guide us at Bank Hapoalim, as well as the bank’s proactive, entrepreneurial approach.”

In this spirit, he added, “we are working with the companies to build a financial infrastructure that will support their growth and global expansion.”

Sixteen startups showcase diverse new technologies

Here are the 16 startups selected to participate in the event:

• Arbell Energy: Established in 2021, this firm creates quantum-based “solar ink” engineered for printing onto transparent, lightweight, and flexible panels. The technology aims to turn a variety of surfaces into sources of solar energy.
• Asadra: Founded this year, developing a food safety management and regulatory compliance system for small and medium-sized food manufacturers.
• Cantaloupe AI: Launched this year, this company builds a system that enables insurers to track, evaluate, and recognize risks tied to the deployment of AI models and agents by their corporate clients.
• Cygnal: Founded this year, developing fraud-prevention infrastructure that creates a real-time link between telecommunications companies and banks.
• Livcoin: Founded this year, developing an application that uses artificial intelligence to turn healthy habits into a personalized social game.
• Ghostlayer: Founded this year, developing technology to optimize the alignment between artificial intelligence models and the hardware on which they run.
• guaRdF: Founded in 2023, developing technology for detecting, classifying, locating, and tracking devices and vehicles through the passive reception of wireless signals.
• Koladin: Founded this year, operating in the U.S. class-action litigation market, aiming to turn potential legal claims into financial assets.
• Mikagu: This venture is building an AI-driven platform geared toward anticipating breakdowns in vital infrastructure, with a particular focus on the defense, data center, and energy domains.
• Neodawn: Established this year, this enterprise is working on “Neo,” an artificial intelligence framework built to adapt continuously and derive insights straight from physical-world data streams.
• Nerlos: Created in 2025, this startup is engineering a communication framework that allows multiple radio units to function concurrently and autonomously via a single shared antenna, even across disparate frequencies.
• PlexAI: Founded in 2025, developing an AI-agent platform for commercial real estate investment firms.
• SaolaAI: Founded in 2022, developing a platform for automating software testing and business processes within enterprise applications.
• Tktide: Formed in 2025, this organization is crafting an AI system that hooks into an enterprise’s core infrastructure to convert everyday operational metrics into practical business insights and recommendations.
• Ark Security: Founded this year, developing secure infrastructure for deploying artificial intelligence agents within organizations.
• xFUSION: Established in 2024, this company is creating an artificial intelligence tool that matches internal enterprise hurdles with prospective answers sourced from separate sectors and domains of knowledge.