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Hosted by Zeevi Michel and Sophia Tupolev-Luz · 🇺🇸 US · HE · 17 episodes
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This is The Endgame, a podcast for startups about the path to mergers and acquisitions - and their aftermath. We look at how transactions go terribly wrong or, terrifically right. We’re joined by people who make or break deals, often in working the shadows.
Zeevi Michel and Sophia Tupolev-Luz hosts THE ENDGAME: Israel’s Tech Exits Show, a business show with 17 episodes published.
He's on the speed dial of every strategic and financial acquirer doing business in Israel - both foreign and domestic. After 20 years making some of Israel's best-known - and largest - deals, representing both the buy-si
She leads billion-shekel exits, IPOs, and complex cross-border transactions for strategics, private equity, and VCs. One of Israel's top dealmakers, Shelley Oppenheimer-Levi, is a partner at EY’s Strategy & Transacti
The top highlights from conversations regarding real PR, deceptive reporting, and the truth behind the numbers. For more: 002: Skeletons. The Razor’s Edge. Deal Breakers. Sim Koevary, Meitar (HE, with EN subs) 009: Yaron
Join hosts Sophia Tupolev and Zeevi Michel on The Deal Room for your roundup of a hectic summer in Israeli tech M&A. Join the conversation re: The Endgame on LinkedIn This episode highlights: • 25 announced deals totalin
Chen Manzur, partner at Goldfarb, Gross, Seligman, is one of Israel’s leading M&A attorneys going on 18 years, hundreds of deals, and billions closed. Chen takes us into the minds of major Tier-1 North American acquirers
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10 minutes on 10 exits in June 2025 (~$500M in deal volume, plus one $3B mega-deal). A quick chat looking back at the most notable moments in the last month's popping tech M&A scene in Israel. We cover a bunch of fintech
Everyone knows his work — he literally writes the annual Exits Report at PwC — but few know what he actually does for founders and deals, behind the scenes. Meet Yaron Weizenbluth, Partner & Head of Assurance at PwC Isra
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12 minutes on 12 exits in May 2025 (at least $365M disclosed in M&A). Mostly strategics making moves, one blockbuster IPO and one unexpected move in the capital markets. A quick chat on the month's tech M&A. With hosts
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23 deals in 2025 so far. Startups snapping up others. PE... Still Bueller? A quick chat on this year's deal making so far, trash talking about the first half's deals in Israel tech M&A. Navigate the episode: (00:00) Show
He's the ultimate guy in finance. Hear from the VC that once launched Goldman Sachs in Israel, doing 17 years of M&A there as an investment banker: Amit Pilowsky then low-key started a tier-1 growth fund (Key1 Capital),
He’s been in venture longer than some founders have been alive: The OG, Modi Rosen, of Magma, with 30 exits in his portfolio, including as the very first investor in Waze. Modi tells founders he won’t always be nice, b
(Hebrew w/English-only subtitles) This is the role founders know the least about - but has the most influence on your deal. Learn how these elusive executives at acquirers find your company, evaluate you, and make or bre
Change is a constant, but in M&A, the target company is always going to be the product. AI is already influencing the pace, valuation, and strategies in mergers and acquisitions, and we keep looking at the core of deal d
The deal dynamics founders rarely talk about—how internal motivations, external messaging, and decision-making shape their startup’s endgame. 👇 This episode is in Hebrew, with English subtitles. In this episode, Sophia
English episode: From mistakes to misconduct, we get the data on where M&A transactions go south after closing - and why it hurts so bad for both buyers and sellers. Insurance, of course, is there to help clean up the me
M&A attorney Sim Koevary (Meitar | Law Offices) takes us into the ring on deals that've gone spectacularly right—and disastrously wrong. From the hidden skeletons that implode transactions to the razor-thin boundaries of
Behind the headlines of the high-stakes mergers and acquisitions game in Israel's tech sector. Triangulating the competing interests of the buy-side, sell-side, and shareholders (including investors). In this pilot, meet
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