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Iron Nation’s Jason Wolf: “Every single company is doing AI better”
At Calcalist’s AI Conference in Tel Aviv, Jason Wolf, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Iron Nation, spoke to CTech about how the fund emerged in response to the October 7 war and the ways its portfolio companies are leveraging AI across different verticals.
Jason Wolf
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“Iron Nation is a VC fund that was founded in response to the war,” Jason Wolf, Iron Nation’s Co-Founder & Managing Partner, explained to CTech at Calcalist’s AI Conference 2025. “A lot of tech founders were either called up to serve their country, and investors saw the war of October 7 as a risk, so they pulled back.”
He continued: “We needed a VC fund that could fund some of these companies, and the entire Israeli ecosystem stood up behind us, and we managed to save a lot of companies [and] build some great companies in the future.”
While Iron Nation is a generalist fund investing across software, cyber, deep tech, and life sciences, Wolf noted that nearly all of its companies are now leveraging AI. “Every single company is doing AI better,” he said. Among its portfolio, UltraSite has embedded AI into ultrasound devices to “enable someone who's not a trained cardiographer, someone who hasn't had years of training, to actually use that device.” Another, Green Eye, uses AI in sprayers to “determine which is a weed and which is the crop, and only spray the weeds,” allowing farmers to cut chemical use by 90% while protecting the environment.
Having developed out of a wartime response into one of Israel’s most active investment funds, Wolf said Iron Nation is now preparing to expand further. “Iron Nation has been so successful from a fund that didn’t exist at the end of 2023 with the war to the most active seed and A investment fund in Israel. In 2024 we made 24 investments in a very short time frame,” he said.
“Now we’re looking at extending that platform and, using the great partners that we have in the 48 VCs, and building and investing in more Israeli great companies,” he said.
You can watch the entire exchange in the video above.
