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Does Claroty support Israel?

Support documentedupdated 2026-07-30

Yes — Claroty has documented support for Israel on record. Every claim below links to its source.

Filed under: Tech companies · Companies that support Israel

Background

Claroty is Israeli by origin and engineering, American by headquarters. It was created in Tel Aviv in October 2014 inside Team8, the foundry set up by former Israeli Unit 8200 commanders, by Amir Zilberstein, Benny Porat and Galina Antova, and it secures the cyber-physical systems that run factories, hospitals and buildings. In March 2017 it moved its global headquarters to New York while keeping its Israeli site — it still lists a Tel Aviv address on Yigal Alon Street — and it has raised about $890 million across seven rounds, most recently $150 million in January 2026, with a workforce of roughly 800. Its best-known Israeli-flavoured asset is Team82, the research group it formally launched in July 2021, whose name nods to the Unit 8200 lineage of its founders but which is a corporate research team with no documented relationship to any Israeli state body. That is where the record ends. This pass found no corporate donation, employee-matching programme, in-kind contribution, reservist-support scheme or official company statement by Claroty relating to Israel after the October 7, 2023 attack, in English or Hebrew sources, and JLens's survey of companies that supported Israel after October 7 does not mention it. Claroty does not appear on the BDS movement's consumer-boycott target lists, which concentrate on retail brands rather than industrial security software.

Claroty — press release: Claroty Establishes Global Headquarters in New York Startup Nation Central Finder — Claroty Claroty — Team82 research team page JLens — When Crisis Strikes: how global companies stepped up to support Israel after October 7 (Claroty absent)

Timeline of documented support

201520162017201820192020202120222014-10 — Operations in Israel: Israel (Tel Aviv founding site, R&D base, jobs)Operations in Israel2014-102017-03 — Operations in Israel: New York City (global headquarters relocated from Tel Aviv)Operations in Israel2017-032021-07 — Operations in Israel: Team82 — Claroty's in-house threat and vulnerability research groupOperations in Israel2021-07

Documented support

TypeDateAmountRecipientSources
Operations in Israel2014-10—Israel (Tel Aviv founding site, R&D base, jobs)
Claroty was founded in Tel Aviv in October 2014 inside Team8, the Israeli cybersecurity company foundry set up by former commanders of the Israeli military's Unit 8200. Its founding team was Amir Zilberstein, who had previously co-founded the Israeli industrial-firewall maker Waterfall Security Solutions, Benny Porat, a researcher with an Israeli military technology background who became chief technology officer, and Galina Antova, formerly global head of industrial security services at Siemens. The company builds security for cyber-physical systems — industrial control systems, hospital equipment, building management and other operational technology. It came out of stealth in late 2016 with $32 million from investors including Bessemer Venture Partners and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, has raised about $890 million across seven rounds including a $150 million round in January 2026, and employs roughly 800 people. Its Israeli office is at 82 Yigal Alon Street, Tel Aviv. Attribution note: this is the company's own operational and commercial footprint in Israel — founding, offices and engineering jobs — not a donation to any Israeli body.
Operations in Israel2017-03-13—New York City (global headquarters relocated from Tel Aviv)
On March 13, 2017 Claroty announced it was moving its corporate headquarters from Tel Aviv to New York City, with the two co-founders then serving as chief executive and chief business development officer, plus the head of global sales and the chief marketing officer, all working full time from the United States; it also opened offices in Washington, D.C. and Houston, Texas. The company kept its Israeli site and continues to list a Tel Aviv address today. Attribution note: this is recorded because precision matters — Claroty is an Israeli-founded company with a New York global headquarters and a continuing Israeli engineering presence, and describing it flatly as 'an Israeli company' or flatly as 'an American company' would both be wrong.
Operations in Israel2021-07-21—Team82 — Claroty's in-house threat and vulnerability research group
On July 21, 2021 Claroty formally launched Team82, the in-house research group that had until then worked as its internal research team, announcing it alongside a set of critical vulnerabilities the group had found in cloud-based industrial control system management platforms. Team82 publishes vulnerability research and threat intelligence for defenders of industrial, healthcare and commercial networks, discloses findings to vendors through coordinated disclosure, releases open-source tooling and maintains a public disclosure dashboard that was still logging new CVEs in 2026. Attribution note: the '82' echoes the Israeli military's Unit 8200 lineage of the Team8 foundry that created Claroty, but Team82 is a commercial corporate research group, not a military or government unit, and no relationship between Team82 and any Israeli state body is documented. Claroty does not state publicly where the group is based or how many researchers it has, so no such figure is claimed here.

Frequently asked questions

Did Claroty donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?

We have no records of cash donations, but Claroty has documented support of other kinds (Operations in Israel). See the records on this page.

Where does this information come from?

Every record on this page links to its source — news reports, official company statements, tax filings, or government records. 6 distinct sources are cited for Claroty. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.

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Record last updated: 2026-07-30

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