Eden Shochat

Software Poet by Birth, Early Stage Investor by Profession & Entrepreneur at heart. Working w/ the @aleph team to help build meaningful Israeli companies

[Eden Shochat @eden]

Wow. If you read one thing today, this should be it.

https://t.co/U2jiUfHfPD

@avi_lewis_ managed to put the feelings of most Israelis onto words.

(re-posted with right attribution)

[aleph @aleph]

We're doing something we've never done before.

Welcome to הכל בערך with @TomerDiari, Aleph's first Hebrew series on investment, technology, entrepreneurship, startups—and pretty much everything else.

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[aleph @aleph]

@eden and @mikeeisenberg bet against @hellosimply a decade ago. They were wrong. @yuvalkaminka on laying off a third of the company, then growing 50%, and what a company built on joy does when grief walks in.

[Itai Damti @itaidamti]

Today, we’re launching international payments to 190+ countries, over the SWIFT network.

With this launch, SWIFT officially becomes a new payment rail alongside our existing ones: ACH, wires, checks, cards, Real-Time Payments (RTP), and FedNow (preview coming soon).

International payments follow our standards for all payment rails:

⚪ They are sent or received from any account.
⚪ They go through state transitions with full programmatic & Dashboard observability
⚪ They allow you to handle all edge cases.
⚪ They let you charge fees through profiles - or programmatically.

But we also needed to support the complexity that’s inherent in international payments:

🇨🇦 For each payment, your customers can see transaction-level data on exchange rates, fees, expected recipient amounts, and payment status from the time it is initiated through completion.
🇬🇧 Each payment starts with a quote that locks the exchange rate and shows exactly how much will be sent, what the fees are, and how much the recipient will receive in their local currency.
🇮🇱 Your customer sees and approves those terms before the payment is sent.
🇩🇪 International payments can fail in ways domestic ones don't. Each scenario is processed as a distinct, structured event via the API, so your product can guide the customer on what to do next.

More here: https://t.co/35GfW7k9VO

[Eden Shochat @eden]

probably one of the more impressive product builds I've seen. you'd think getting the numbers right for ecomm is bread & butter of every store, but wow it's not. benchmarking against what other stores like yours is a total dark art. great stuff.

[Lioran Pinchevski @Lioranpi]

Today we launch Margins, a financial infra and analytics suite that feeds your and your agents’ day to day. Margins is the first fully-reconciled data layer built for consumer brands.

It connects to all your data sources, including Shopify, Amazon, Payments processors, Meta, 3PL, EDI, billing, and bank transactions.

Connect Claude and chat with your data, build your own dashboards and workflows, or use our sleek, designed ones built off our experience working with thousands of brands.

🎉 To celebrate the launch, we’re giving away free forever, unlimited access to the FULL Margins product for the first 200 brands to sign up, no matter your size from starter to 9 figures. No trial. No sales call. No stripped-down version.

RT+ comment “MARGINS” and I’ll send you your personal link.

The story 👇👇

[Eden Shochat @eden]

@yairwein why did you compare to sol? did you check Terra, or even Luna?

benchmarked it on internal coding evals. was surprised to see it underperformed against deepseek 4 flash.

also curious is kimi 2.7 code outperformed all open weights (including kimi 3).

[Eden Shochat @eden]

@inbarraz how so?

[Eden Shochat @eden]

subscription service of monthly teaspoon refill for families with 2+ boys (father included)

#ThingsIdAbsolutelyPayFor

[Eden Shochat @eden]

@nukemberg בצורה שמנרמלת בין מדינות ולא סוביקטיבית?

[Eden Shochat @eden]

עצוב
https://t.co/LYNMhI9Fgq

[Eden Shochat @eden]

@nukemberg \ואיך היית מגדיר אחרת?

[Eden Shochat @eden]

@nukemberg מה הבעיה בהגדרה לדעתך?

[aleph @aleph]

Aleph Fund V is here, and it’s not too exciting. Actually, it’s just more of the same.

We’re doing what we’ve always done: backing Israeli founders building companies that change the world.

[Eden Shochat @eden]

@aleph @brian_lovin be gentle. it's a design by a VC ;)

the calendar is used to extract meeting agenda and is looked up to ground the transcriber. the bottom UI allows you to turn the phone around and get an indication what's the best recording angle for the setup.

(event was in a different tz)

[Eden Shochat @eden]

@aleph @brian_lovin we just open sourced the plug-your-brain-right-here transcription repo we built for ourselves to our portfolio companies. was shocked how much you can do client side today. diarization & language identification running on a phone. crazy.

[Itai Damti @itaidamti]

Today, we’re announcing that we’ve doubled our annual transactions volumes in the last 12 months, and reached $100 billion.

This is an especially sweet moment for us. It took us 5.5 years to reach the first $50 billion.

What I’m most proud of is the character and unusual choices that led to it.

We chose the most valuable problems, not the easiest ones. We saw huge value in building a system DEEP and BROAD enough to replace 10-15 vendors that banks + fintech programs typically use, starting with a core system. Many people that had 10x our knowledge tried to help and tamper our ambitions: “why build a core system?”, “why operations and not just tech?”, “why not partner with a vendor that already built a credit card ledger?”

Today, Unit could be installed on any bank - immediately. There is no dependency on legacy tech. All money movement happens directly with the Federal Reserve and card networks. Banks and the programs they power do business at scale, with 10x better security, oversight, and modularity.

We built heads-down while there was widespread skepticism. Until recently, the category of modern financial infrastructure has been attacked non stop. For years. People questioned it from every single angle: is it sound? Valuable? Sustainable? We weren’t phased. We had the field context that many skeptics didn’t have, and we saw the proof points every day.

We made changes along the way when they were needed. We took no shortcuts and turned down high-risk deals that could make us bigger.

Importantly, we put ourselves on an independent financial trajectory, so that we don’t have to take shortcuts OR depend on the opinions of others.

Proud of our team for the hard work and character. Grateful to our customers (old and new) that placed trust in us. And to millions of end-users who have access to better financial services... without knowing that Unit exists 😉

Back to work.

https://t.co/qVYsLIC72o

[Eden Shochat @eden]

simply brilliant.

wow.

[Mykhailo Fedorov @FedorovMykhailo]

Ukraine launches TrophyLab: we are opening access to captured Russian weapon technologies for our global partners. Every missile, drone, and vehicle seized on the battlefield is now a source of knowledge for the free world.

Through this secure platform, allied governments, labs, and defense tech manufacturers gain access to deep technical data, reports, and vulnerabilities. Users can also request physical equipment for testing, significantly shortening the development cycle for countermeasures.

What was meant to be the enemy's secret advantage is being dismantled to defend democracy. Join the platform:
🔗 https://t.co/xoeCfXsIy3

[Eden Shochat @eden]

אז הולכים לשדר תוכן ידוע לחלוטין בשביל שיהיה אפשר לעשות cryptanalysis עם video plaintext? מעולה.

[ינון שלום יתח @inon_yttach]

פרסום ראשון: צה"ל יפעיל מערכת מסווגת כדי לשדר את המונדיאל ללוחמים בלבנון

באגף התקשוב יקרינו את משחקי המונדיאל - החל מהערב - בתוך הרשת הסגורה והמוצפנת "Z-TUBE" שמשמשת ביומיום את הצבא להעברת תיעודי תקיפות מאיראן וליווי כוחות בעומק לבנון.

לפי ידיעות שהתפרסמו על המערכת, מהירות ההפצה שלה: "מרגע התיעוד ועד הצפייה, לא משנה איפה - התמונה תוצג במסך תוך 300 מיליסקנד (ms) עד חצי שנייה".

בנוסף, למערכת יש את יכולת שמירת התוכן והרצה אחורה - אך לא ברור כרגע אם הפונקציה תופעל גם על המשחקים בטורניר.

*הפרסום באישור גורמי ביטחון

[Eden Shochat @eden]

חבורת מטומטמים.

טייסים לומדים מקצוע בצבא?
קצינים מקבלים יכולות ניהוליות?

יאללה למסות.

בחזרה לתוכנית חלם. אתם רוצים בכוח לוודא שאלו שיש להם את היכולות שהצבא מחפש, והיום חותמים לעוד 3+ שנים של שרות לחשוב פעמיים?

@mikeeisenberg דיבר על חובבנות. זה כבר מעבר

[Eden Shochat @eden]

independent board members are some of the most consistent value drivers for companies. well done. welcome aboard @saumil!

[Itai Damti @itaidamti]

Big day at Unit: we're proud to welcome @saumil to our Board of Directors, as our first independent board member.

Saumil is the Global President of Ticketmaster. He spent the previous 9.5 years at @Square as CPO and Head of Business, scaling the company from pre-IPO to $3.6B in annual gross profit.

I have admired Saumil from the moment I met him. He's an incredibly smart, sophisticated, and humble operator. He has a world class network. And he plays to win.

Saumil's background is also a statement: great companies rethink every piece of infrastructure and stay close to the metal. With this foundation, they can solve the single toughest problem in embedded finance: adoption. Saumil has spent most of his career proving these things at Square.

Read more: https://t.co/rM4l4TANDf

[Lemonade @Lemonade_Inc]

ICYMI: @shai_wininger recently joined @eden on the Almost Human podcast to discuss Lemonade's journey to becoming a fully AI-native organization, from product and team design to self-healing systems, making AI the end-to-end default, and more. 🎧 https://t.co/8dopc7iFO8