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Does Snyk support Israel?

Snyk Ltd.

Statement on recordupdated 2026-09-26

Snyk has publicly expressed support for Israel, but we found no record of donations or aid. Every claim below links to its source.

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Background

Snyk's Israeli connection is one of founders and engineering history rather than of corporate nationality or giving. Three Israeli Unit 8200 alumni — Guy Podjarny, Danny Grander and Assaf Hefetz — founded it in 2015 and ran it from London and Tel Aviv simultaneously before the headquarters settled in Boston; Podjarny has said publicly that investors of the time considered an Israeli branch a precondition for building a cybersecurity company at all. That Israeli site is now the smaller part of the story: after four rounds of layoffs the Tel Aviv development centre had fallen from several hundred people around 2020 to roughly 90 of about 1,550 employees worldwide by June 2026, as AI coding assistants squeezed the code-scanning market. This research pass found no corporate donation, employee-matching programme, in-kind contribution, reservist-support scheme or official company statement by Snyk relating to Israel after the October 7, 2023 attack, in English or Hebrew sources; JLens's June 2025 survey of global companies that stepped up for Israel after October 7 does not mention Snyk either. Snyk does not appear on the BDS movement's consumer-boycott target lists, which concentrate on retail brands rather than developer-security software. Hebrew business coverage adds the commercial side of that relationship: Snyk has bought two Israeli companies — the application-security startup Enso Security in June 2023, a deal TheMarker put at $32.6 million while Globes reported no official disclosure and Israeli estimates of $45-50 million, and the Tel Aviv runtime-data company Helios in January 2024, for an undisclosed mix of cash and shares. Those are purchases, not gifts.

Snyk — About (headquarters and hub locations) The Algemeiner — Snyk founder on why a cyber company needs an Israeli branch The Jerusalem Post — Snyk to lay off 90 employees JLens — When Crisis Strikes: how global companies stepped up to support Israel after October 7 (Snyk absent) TheMarker — Snyk acquires an Israeli startup founded by Wix alumni for $33 million (7 June 2023) Snyk newsroom — Snyk acquires runtime data pioneer Helios (the company's own press release, 16 January 2024)

Timeline of documented records

Documented records

Type	Date	Amount	Recipient	Sources
Operations in Israel	2015	—	Israel (Tel Aviv development centre, engineering jobs) Snyk was founded in 2015 by three Israelis — Guy Podjarny, Danny Grander and Assaf Hefetz — all of them alumni of the Israeli military's Unit 8200 signals-intelligence corps. The company started operations in two places at once, London and Tel Aviv, and only later moved its headquarters to Boston, Massachusetts, where it sits today at 100 Summer Street. Snyk's own site lists Tel Aviv among its principal hubs alongside Boston, London, San Francisco and Singapore. Attribution note: Snyk is not an Israeli-incorporated company. Its founders are Israeli and its first engineering centre was in Tel Aviv, but the operating parent is a UK-registered company with a US headquarters, and the Israeli site is one development centre among many.	Wikipedia — Snyk Snyk — About (headquarters and hub locations)
Public statement	2022-03-24	—	Not applicable — public interview remarks by founder Guy Podjarny In an interview published on March 24, 2022, Snyk founder Guy Podjarny said that when he set the company up, 'investors told me that it is impossible to set up a cyber company without a branch in Israel.' He described building Snyk with two centres of gravity from the start — London and Tel Aviv — and deliberately splitting development teams across both rather than separating them by geography, so that the company could draw on Tel Aviv's cybersecurity depth alongside London's developer-experience and interface expertise. Snyk was valued at $8.5 billion at the time. Attribution note: this is a founder's explanation of a business decision about where to place engineering, not a statement of political support for Israel and not a donation. Source note: the Algemeiner text read for this row is bylined 'Omer Kabir / CTech' and credits Calcalist's own English edition — it is a republication of Calcalist's report of its Mind the Tech London conference, where the interview was conducted by Calcalist reporter Sophie Shulman. The Hebrew Calcalist item and this one are therefore one piece of reporting, not two independent ones.	The Algemeiner — Snyk founder: investors told me that it is impossible to set up a cyber company without a branch in Israel One source
Acquisition	2023-06-07	$32,600,000	Enso Security, an Israeli application security startup, and its shareholders On June 7, 2023 Snyk announced its intent to acquire Enso Security, an Israeli application security posture management startup founded in 2020 by three Wix alumni — CEO Roy Erlich, CPO Chen Gour Arie and CTO Barak Tawily; Snyk's own January 2024 announcement refers back to the deal as completed in June 2023. TheMarker reported that Snyk gave the deal amount as $32.6 million, of which $1 million in shares and the rest in cash, with options, retention grants and restricted stock for the founders and employees on top of that. The figure is reported rather than officially confirmed: Globes wrote that no financial details were disclosed and that Israeli media put the deal at $45-50 million. Those are two separate pieces of reporting and not one wire story — they disagree with each other — while TheMarker's later reference to $33 million is the same outlet and the same reporter, so it is not a second witness. Attribution note: this is Snyk spending corporate money to buy an Israeli company. It is commerce, not a donation, aid or a statement of support.	TheMarker — Snyk acquires an Israeli startup founded by Wix alumni for $33 million (Ofir Dor, 7 June 2023; states the $32.6m deal amount) Globes — Snyk buys Israeli co Enso Security (8 June 2023; read via the Wayback Machine capture of the same day) Snyk blog — Snyk welcomes Enso (the company's own announcement, 7 June 2023)
Acquisition	2024-01-16	—	Helios, a Tel Aviv-based Israeli runtime-data company, and its shareholders On January 16, 2024 Snyk announced the acquisition of Helios, a Tel Aviv-based Israeli company that captures application runtime data, founded by CEO Eli Cohen and CTO Ran Nozik; Globes reported that it had closed a $5 million seed round in July 2022. It was Snyk's second Israeli acquisition, after Enso Security. No price is on the record: Snyk's own press release disclosed no financial terms, Globes reported the same, and TheMarker reported only that the consideration would combine cash and shares. TheMarker also reported that one of Helios's investors was Guy Podjarny, a Snyk co-founder and a director of the company — an individual's investment and not the corporation's, and the two must not be read as one. Attribution note: an acquisition is commerce. Snyk bought a company; it did not donate, give aid or make a statement of support.	Snyk newsroom — Snyk acquires runtime data pioneer Helios (the company's own press release, 16 January 2024) Globes — Snyk buys Israeli runtime data co Helios (16 January 2024; read via the Wayback Machine capture of the same day) TheMarker — Snyk acquires the Israeli startup Helios (Ofir Dor, 16 January 2024; cash-and-shares consideration, price not given)
Operations in Israel	2026-06-25	—	Snyk's Israeli development centre in Tel Aviv (contracting, not expanding) Snyk's Israeli footprint has shrunk rather than grown. On June 25, 2026 the company announced its fourth round of layoffs, about 90 people worldwide, with the Israeli development centre taking a significant share; The Jerusalem Post reported that the Tel Aviv centre, which had several hundred employees around 2020, was down to roughly 90 people out of a global workforce of about 1,550. The reporting attributes the pressure to AI coding tools eating into the code-scanning market that Snyk, Checkmarx and GitHub share. Attribution note: this is recorded here because an honest page has to show the direction of travel — Snyk's Israeli operation is a small and shrinking minority of the company, and no charitable or political motive is involved either way.	The Jerusalem Post — Snyk to lay off 90 employees Globes — Snyk to lay off 90 employees

Frequently asked questions

Did Snyk donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?

We have no records of donations. What is on record is a public statement of support — see this page for the wording and its source.

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Record last updated: 2026-09-26