General Atlantic doles out $1 billion to maturing Israeli startups

New York investment firm, among the global leaders in private equity, looks for next Mobileye while dipping into Mideast climate tech

When Max August was a Harvard undergraduate, he scraped data from about 8,000 startups and 11,000 of their founders to complete a senior thesis on Israel’s fast-maturing tech scene that was supervised by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers.Three...

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