Benzi Rubin, Tal Marciano, knitted news08.28.22 11:34 a.m. in Elol Tishfav
Naftali Bennett (Photo: Avshalom Sashoni, Flash 90)
The replacement prime minister, Naftali Bennett, is looking for a new job – his office said that there are talks with several high-tech companies, but nothing has been agreed upon.
As published today (Sunday) on N12, Bennett is in talks with high-tech companies, among other things he visited the cyber company Talon which has already raised more than one hundred million dollars.
As we know, the former prime minister has experience in the world of high-tech and start-ups that have already brought him quite a bit of money.
Despite the slowdown in the pace of hiring in high-tech companies, Bennett’s office stated that “Bennet meets from time to time with high-tech companies and other companies” and added: “Nothing has been agreed upon regarding the future.”
Bennett has many years of successful experience in the high-tech field, which he gained before joining the political world. According to a review conducted in Forbes, Bennett’s start-up earned him more than 15 million dollars, six years after he founded the information security company Cyota together with Dr. Michal Tzur, Ben Anush and Lior Golan, Bennett and his partners sold it to the American information security company RSA for $145 million.Bennett is estimated to have made about $5 million from the deal.
Bennett’s past roles
In 2009 Bennett was appointed CEO of Soloto by the entrepreneurs Yishai Green and Tomer Dvir who developed a remote support service for personal computers and mobile devices.
Although Bennett did not serve in the position for a long time, and continued as CEO of the Yesha Council, the package of options he received yielded him about $3 million upon the sale of the company in 2013 for $130 million. At that time, Bennett was already the Minister of the Economy and his account was managed with blind loyalty.
Another startup that Naftali Bennett invested in as early as 2010 is Wisestamp, which provides solutions for small business owners.
The Israeli start-up was sold about 3 years ago to a competing Israeli company for an unknown amount, but it is estimated that Bennett pocketed an amount of about 2.5 million dollars. About a year ago, shortly before Bennett was appointed to the position of Prime Minister, he earned at least 5 million dollars from an issue from the Pioneer issue in which he had already invested about 14 years ago.
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