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Roi Bar-Kat leads Intel Capital’s investing in Israel—and he’s helped back companies across AI, deep tech, cybersecurity, and more. In this conversation with Haggai Klorman Eraqi, Roi breaks down what consistently separates the startups that earn conviction (and outcomes) from the ones that don’t: founder quality, storytelling, and defensibility in an AI-accelerated world.
We go from Roi’s “non-traditional” path into venture to Intel Capital’s unusually strong model for combining financial discipline with long-term strategic value. Along the way, Roi shares a practical pitching framework, two lists every founder should write, why deep tech is getting even more compelling, and what AI could mean for the next wave of companies.
In this episode you’ll learn:
• Why Intel Capital shifted toward investing in “the best companies first”—and how that creates strategic value
• What makes a founder investable
• How AI is reshaping SaaS risk and boosting deep tech opportunity
• Why single-founder companies are harder to bet on
• What “physical AI” looks like and why it’s defensible
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