Itamar ben Hemo, the CEO of an Israeli tech startup called Rivery, survived being shot in the chest while in combat in Gaza earlier this year and signed a $100 million deal with data management company Boomi in the U.S. this week.ones in Israel — of men and women with jobs and families and lives who put everything on hold to fight for their country in the Israel Defense Forces after the October 7, 2023, attack.
For the next three months, the 49-year-old major, who previously served many years in a paratrooper division around Gaza, participated in military missions — including the evacuation of survivors of the Hamas massacre in the kibbutzim and rescue actions in Gaza — while using breaks in combat to conduct management meetings every couple of days, either from his car or nearby border communities, he said.
Boomi, an American company founded in 2000 specializing in data integration, has announced the acquisition of Israeli startup Rivery. Rivery developed a platform for end-to-end ELT which covers key processes for medium and large enterprises. The startup employs 80 people, all of whom are expected to continue working at the company following the acquisition.