Unit 8200 Bot: Unit 8200 research: new page

2026-11-10T14:10:12Z

Unit 8200 research: new page

New page

{{short description|'''Israeli artificial-intelligence company listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, making predictive-maintenance software for mining; founded by Talpiot and Unit 8200 veterans who also founded the military AI company Axon Vision'''}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Razor Labs
| trade_name = Razor Labs Ltd. (רייזור לאבס בע"מ)
| logo = Razor_Labs_logo.png
| image_size = 220px
| caption = Razor Labs logo
| type = Public company, [[Tel Aviv Stock Exchange]] (RZR); Israeli company number 515369296
| founded = {{Start date|2016}}
| founder = [[Raz Roditti]], [[Michael Zolotov]], [[Ido Rozenberg]]
| hq_location = 150 Menachem Begin Road, Tel Aviv 6492105, Israel
| industry = Artificial intelligence; industrial predictive maintenance
| services = DataMind AI predictive-maintenance platform for mining fleets and fixed plant; Inspection AI visual quality control
| subsid = Razor Labs Pty Ltd (Australia)
| homepage = [https://www.razor-labs.com/ razor-labs.com]
}}
'''Razor Labs''' (Razor Labs Ltd.) is an Israeli artificial-intelligence (AI) company based in Tel Aviv. Its main product, DataMind AI, uses sensors and machine learning to predict breakdowns in heavy machinery, mainly at mines in Australia, South Africa and the United States.<ref name="RazorAbout">Razor Labs, [https://www.razor-labs.com/about/ About] ''Razor Labs'', accessed 10 November 2026.</ref><ref name="CtechRazor2023">Meir Orbach, [https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/vafkevul1 Razor Labs cuts deal with global mining giant for up to $31 million] ''Ctech'', 8 November 2023, accessed 10 November 2026.</ref> It was founded by [[Raz Roditti]], [[Michael Zolotov]] and [[Ido Rozenberg]]. In announcing its 2021 stock-market listing, the company described Rozenberg as a "former commander at the 8200 intelligence corps unit in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)" ([[Unit 8200]]).<ref name="RazorTASE">Razor Labs, [https://www.razor-labs.com/razor-labs-on-tase/ Razor Labs Becomes the First AI Company on Tel Aviv Stock Exchange] ''Razor Labs'', 22 February 2021, accessed 10 November 2026.</ref> The same three founders set up the military AI company [[Axon Vision]], which Roditti has said applies Razor Labs' AI technology to the military field.<ref name="GlobesRoditti2024">Doron Avigad, [https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001471707 כיתת המחוננים והאכזבה בצה"ל: היזם שהקים חמש חברות עד גיל 32] (The gifted class and the disappointment in the IDF: the entrepreneur who founded five companies by the age of 32), ''Globes'' (Hebrew), 24 February 2024, accessed 10 November 2026.</ref> Razor Labs has also sold an AI system that detects defects in ammunition on the production line to an unnamed "global defense company".<ref name="RazorDefenseQA">Razor Labs, [https://www.razor-labs.com/razor-labs-inspection-ai-for-automated-qa-system/ Razor Labs to provide global defense company with advanced AI solution for automated QA system] ''Razor Labs'', 22 May 2022, accessed 10 November 2026.</ref>

== History ==
=== Founding ===
Most sources give 2016 as Razor Labs' founding year. The company's own listing announcement says it was "Founded in 2016", as do reports in ''[[Globes]]'' and ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'' in 2021 and ''Techtime'' in 2022.<ref name="RazorTASE"/><ref name="GlobesRazor">Globes correspondent, [https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-ai-co-razor-labs-raises-36m-in-tase-ipo-1001365654 AI co Razor Labs raises $36m in TASE IPO] ''Globes'', 29 March 2021, accessed 10 November 2026.</ref><ref name="JPostRazor">Ariel Shapira, [https://www.jpost.com/jpost-tech/the-new-industrial-revolution-starts-with-this-israeli-company-662000 The new industrial revolution starts with this Israeli company] ''The Jerusalem Post'', 14 March 2021, accessed 10 November 2026.</ref><ref name="TechtimeAmmo">Techtime, [https://techtime.co.il/2022/05/22/razor-labs-3/ רייזור לאבס תספק לחברה ביטחונית גלובלית מערכת בדיקה לזיהוי תחמושת פגומה] (Razor Labs to supply a global defence company with an inspection system to identify defective ammunition), ''Techtime'' (Hebrew), 22 May 2022, accessed 10 November 2026.</ref> In a 2024 interview with ''Globes'', [[Raz Roditti]] gave a fuller account. He said that he met [[Michael Zolotov]] in the gifted programme at Ironi Dalet high school in Tel Aviv, and met him again near the end of his military service. [[Ido Rozenberg]], "ששירת איתו בתלפיות" (who served with him in [[Talpiot]]), then joined them. In 2015 they founded a casual-jobs app, Jobhop, which they sold to [[JobNet]], and then the software house [[Compie Technologies]] to generate cash. "A year later", Roditti said, they founded Razor Labs as a services company offering AI solutions for problems in manufacturing processes.<ref name="GlobesRoditti2024"/>

Roditti said that in the following four years the company trained about 70 AI engineers and reached annual revenue of $7 million, but that during the COVID-19 pandemic almost all its customers demanded price cuts of 20–30% and the company was saved by a loan from the [[Israel Innovation Authority]]. After it was brought in to work for one of the world's largest Australian mining companies, it developed a product to predict faults in mining machinery.<ref name="GlobesRoditti2024"/>

=== Stock-market listing ===
In February 2021 Razor Labs floated on the [[Tel Aviv Stock Exchange]] (TASE). In its own announcement, dated 22 February 2021, the company said that it was the first AI company to go public in Israel, that it had raised $36 million in an offering led by [[Discount Capital Underwriting]], and that its shares rose 10% on the first day, valuing it at more than $151 million (NIS 500 million). It said it had been bootstrapped until then, with no outside investment.<ref name="RazorTASE"/> ''Globes'' published a report on the flotation on 29 March 2021.<ref name="GlobesRazor"/> ''The Jerusalem Post'' reported that the shares were priced at NIS 12.6 and that Roditti's next goal was a listing on [[NASDAQ]] within 24 months.<ref name="JPostRazor"/> A filing to the exchange on 18 February 2021 said that the company's shares would join the TA-Tech Elite index on 6 May 2021, and was signed by Roditti as "יו"ר דירקטוריון ומנכ"ל" (chairman of the board and chief executive).<ref name="MayaFeb2021">Razor Labs Ltd., [https://mayafiles.tase.co.il/RHtm/1352001-1353000/H1352478.htm דוח מיידי] (Immediate report, reference 2021-01-019362), ''Tel Aviv Stock Exchange'' (Maya), 18 February 2021, accessed 10 November 2026.</ref>

=== Losses and recovery ===
''Techtime'' reported that Razor Labs' revenue fell from NIS 22.2 million in 2020 to NIS 14.1 million in 2021, with an operating loss of NIS 43.3 million.<ref name="TechtimeAmmo"/> Roditti told ''Globes'' that the company's largest customer left in mid-2022, partly because the product "לא סיפק תוצאות מספיק טובות" (did not deliver good enough results), and that it laid off about 60 of its 100 employees.<ref name="GlobesRoditti2024"/> By November 2023 its market value had fallen to NIS 18.1 million, according to ''[[Calcalist|Ctech]]''.<ref name="CtechRazor2023"/>

In November 2023 Razor Labs announced its largest contract, with an unnamed multinational mining company with sites mainly in Australia, South Africa and the United States. According to ''Ctech'', it covered DataMind AI licences, hardware and installation at 14 mining sites, worth up to $31 million, of which about $19 million was guaranteed over five years; the share price rose 304% that day.<ref name="CtechRazor2023"/> ''Techtime'' put the total at $31.2 million, made up of licences of about $3.3 million a year, $9.1 million of hardware and about $5.6 million of installation services. In the same report Zolotov said: "The technological challenge that the 8200 unit alumni team here managed to solve is the ability to analyze and integrate such diverse types of data".<ref name="TechtimeRazor2023">Techtime, [https://techtime.news/2023/11/15/razor-labs/ Razor Labs secured a $31.2 million Deal] ''Techtime'', 15 November 2023, accessed 10 November 2026.</ref>

In October 2026 Razor Labs announced a partnership with [[Wabtec]]'s mining division, Wabtec Digital Mine, at the IMARC mining conference in Sydney. Under it Wabtec is to offer DataMind AI to its mining customers.<ref name="RazorWabtec">Razor Labs, [https://www.razor-labs.com/wabtec-and-razor-labs-announce-partnership-to-bring-predictive-maintenance-to-mining-fleets/ Wabtec and Razor Labs Announce Partnership to Bring Predictive Maintenance to Mining Fleets] ''Razor Labs'', 28 October 2026, accessed 10 November 2026.</ref><ref name="IMWabtec">Paul Moore, [https://im-mining.com/2026/10/27/wabtec-partners-with-razor-labs-to-bring-predictive-maintenance-to-mining-fleets/ Wabtec partners with Razor Labs to bring predictive maintenance to mining fleets] ''International Mining'', 27 October 2026, accessed 10 November 2026.</ref> According to a summary of the company's stock-exchange filing, its Australian subsidiary, Razor Labs Pty Ltd, signed a memorandum of understanding with Wabtec on 23 October 2026 for pilots of DataMind AI on heavy trucks and other machinery at Wabtec customers.<ref name="InvestingWabtec">Investing.com, [https://il.investing.com/news/global-filings/article-93CH-1003259 רייזור לאבס: מזכר הבנות עם Wabtec Corporation לפיילוטים במוצר DataMind AI לניטור כלי צמ"ה] (Razor Labs: memorandum of understanding with Wabtec Corporation for pilots of DataMind AI), ''Investing.com'' (Hebrew), 26 October 2026, accessed 10 November 2026.</ref>

== Products and customers ==
The company describes DataMind AI as "an end-to-end predictive intelligence platform designed to protect every critical asset – across mobile fleets, fixed assets, and AI-powered visual monitoring systems", and says that its products are "reshaping the mining industry".<ref name="RazorHome">Razor Labs, [https://www.razor-labs.com/ Razor Labs] ''Razor Labs'', accessed 10 November 2026.</ref><ref name="RazorAbout"/> Its website carries endorsements from staff at [[SIMEC Mining]], [[Glencore]], [[Coaltech]], [[Microsoft]] and the [[Maagan Michael]] water desalination plant.<ref name="RazorHome"/> In 2022 the company announced a pilot for [[Siemens Energy]] at what it called Siemens Energy's "O&M site in Israel", on a power station's cooling system.<ref name="RazorSiemens">Razor Labs, [https://www.razor-labs.com/siemens-energy-chooses-razor-labs/ Siemens Energy chooses Razor Labs' DataMind AI for increased efficiency utilizing Deep Learning] ''Razor Labs'', 15 March 2022, accessed 10 November 2026.</ref> ''The Jerusalem Post'' reported in 2021 that Razor Labs was a professional services partner of [[Nvidia|NVIDIA]].<ref name="JPostRazor"/>

=== Defence work ===
On 22 May 2022 Razor Labs announced that it had signed a memorandum of understanding worth NIS 6 million over 18 months with "a global defense company", which it did not name, for four systems based on its Inspection AI product, then still in development, "that can automatically detect and classify a wide range of ammunition defects at the production process".<ref name="RazorDefenseQA"/> ''Techtime'' reported that the system, installed on the production line, identifies dozens of types of defects in ammunition in real time and sorts the rounds automatically according to the defect found.<ref name="TechtimeAmmo"/> In February 2023 the company said that, after an initial test phase with the same defence company, it had received a $1.9 million order to deploy the system.<ref name="RazorConveyor">Razor Labs, [https://www.razor-labs.com/razor-labs-secures-usd1-9m-order-high-speed-conveyor-monitoring/ Razor Labs Secures USD 1.9 Million Order for High-Speed Conveyor Monitoring Solution] ''Razor Labs'', 6 February 2023, accessed 10 November 2026.</ref>

In February 2024 Razor Labs was listed as a member of Trust.AI, a consortium on adversarial AI and AI security funded by the [[Israel Innovation Authority]], alongside [[Elbit Systems]] and other companies and universities, including [[Ariel University]] in the occupied West Bank.<ref name="TrustAI">BUFFERZONE Security, [https://www.vktr.com/the-wire/bufferzone-security-joins-trustai-consortium-to-enhance-ai-based-cybersecurity-technologies/ BUFFERZONE Security Joins Trust.AI Consortium to Enhance AI-Based Cybersecurity Technologies] ''VKTR'' (PR Newswire release), 29 February 2024, accessed 10 November 2026.</ref>

== Relationship with Axon Vision ==
Roditti told ''Globes'' in 2024 that in 2017 the partners founded two defence companies, [[Axon Vision]] and [[Axon Pulse]], "שמיישמות את טכנולוגיות ה-AI של רייזור לאבס בתחום הצבאי" (which apply Razor Labs' AI technologies in the military field). He said that Axon's sensors were fitted to cameras on drones and in tanks and armoured personnel carriers, that "the technology is already operational", and that "אנחנו עובדים עם צה"ל" (we work with the IDF).<ref name="GlobesRoditti2024"/> Sources differ on when Axon Vision was founded: the [[Tel Aviv Stock Exchange]] and the Israeli business database IVC give 2017, while an English-language ''Globes'' report in 2024 said it "was founded in 2018 by Roditti with CTO Ido Rozenberg and Michael Zolotov".<ref name="TASEAxon">Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, [https://mondovisione.com/media-and-resources/news/axon-vision-joins-tel-aviv-stock-exchange-axon-vision-is-one-of-17-new-compani-2025109/ Axon Vision Joins Tel Aviv Stock Exchange - Axon Vision Is One Of 17 New Companies That Joined TASE In 2025] ''Mondo Visione'', 30 September 2025, accessed 10 November 2026.</ref><ref name="IVCAxon">IVC Research Center, [https://www.ivc-online.com/Google-Card?id=5e02a9cf-baf3-e711-80e1-00155d0b8329 Axon Vision Ltd.] ''IVC-Online'', accessed 10 November 2026.</ref><ref name="GlobesAxon2024">Dean Shmuel Elmas, [https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-idf-using-axon-visions-ai-to-combat-drones-1001489208 IDF using Axon Vision's AI to combat drones] ''Globes'', 15 September 2024, accessed 10 November 2026.</ref>

IVC records that Razor Labs lent Axon Vision money "from time to time, totaling NIS 3.4m", starting in 2017.<ref name="IVCAxon"/> IVC gives Axon Vision's address as 150 Begin Road, Building B, Tel Aviv, the same street address as Razor Labs.<ref name="IVCAxon"/><ref name="MayaFeb2021"/> In 2024 ''Globes'' reported that Israel's [[Ministry of Defence (Israel)|Ministry of Defence]] had bought dozens of Axon Vision's EdgeUAV drone-detection systems, which analyse images from cameras mounted on armoured fighting vehicles or fixed installations, and quoted Roditti, as Axon's chairman, on its work with the ministry's [[Directorate of Defense Research and Development]] (MAFAT).<ref name="GlobesAxon2024"/> When Axon Vision listed in 2025, the exchange described it as "the second company listed on TASE by the founders".<ref name="TASEAxon"/>

== Founders and military backgrounds ==
* [[Ido Rozenberg]]: the company's 2021 announcement and ''Globes'' both called him "an AI expert, researcher and developer of complex AI systems, and former commander at the 8200 intelligence corps unit in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)" ([[Unit 8200]]; [[Aman|Intelligence Corps]]).<ref name="RazorTASE"/><ref name="GlobesRazor"/> ''The Jerusalem Post'' described him as "a former commander in the 8200 technological unit in the IDF".<ref name="JPostRazor"/> Roditti told ''Globes'' that Rozenberg served with Zolotov in [[Talpiot]].<ref name="GlobesRoditti2024"/>
* [[Michael Zolotov]]: according to Roditti, he served in [[Talpiot]], the IDF's elite science and technology programme.<ref name="GlobesRoditti2024"/> In 2023 Zolotov described the company's team as "8200 unit alumni".<ref name="TechtimeRazor2023"/>
* [[Raz Roditti]]: he told ''Globes'' that he had wanted to serve in military intelligence but failed the screening, and that in the IDF he was "ראש מדור מבצעים באגף טכנולוגיה ולוגיסטיקה" (head of an operations section in the [[Technology and Logistics Directorate]]).<ref name="GlobesRoditti2024"/>
All three founders were named in ''[[Forbes Israel]]'''s 30 under 30 list, according to the company.<ref name="RazorTASE"/>

== People ==
Sources differ on who chairs the board. The February 2021 exchange filing was signed by Roditti as chairman and chief executive, and ''Ctech'' described him in November 2023 as "chairman and CEO".<ref name="MayaFeb2021"/><ref name="CtechRazor2023"/> The Israeli financial site ''Bizportal'' listed [[Eyal Shiran]] as chairman of the board, and Roditti as chief executive and director, in November 2026.<ref name="BizportalRazor">Bizportal, [https://www.bizportal.co.il/capitalmarket/quote/profile/1172527 רייזור - פרופיל מניה] (Razor – share profile), ''Bizportal'' (Hebrew), accessed 10 November 2026.</ref> ''Ctech'' reported in 2023 that the founders were the main shareholders, with the rest held by the public and the investment house [[Altshuler Shaham]].<ref name="CtechRazor2023"/> A notice of a special general meeting in December 2024 included approval of an updated salary for Ido Roditti, described as "קרוב של בעל שליטה בחברה" (a relative of a controlling shareholder in the company).<ref name="RazorGMDec2024">Razor Labs, [https://www.razor-labs.com/general-meeting-4/ General Meeting] ''Razor Labs'' (Hebrew notice of a special general meeting on 25 December 2024), accessed 10 November 2026.</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Directors and senior managers
! Name !! Role !! Source
|-
| [[Raz Roditti]] || Co-founder; chief executive; director; chairman and chief executive in 2021 and 2023 filings and reports || <ref name="RazorAbout"/><ref name="MayaFeb2021"/><ref name="CtechRazor2023"/>
|-
| [[Michael Zolotov]] || Co-founder; chief technology officer; director || <ref name="RazorAbout"/><ref name="RazorGMDec2024"/>
|-
| [[Ido Rozenberg]] || Co-founder; director || <ref name="RazorTASE"/><ref name="RazorGMDec2024"/>
|-
| [[Eyal Shiran]] || Director (reappointed December 2024); chairman according to ''Bizportal'' (November 2026) || <ref name="RazorGMDec2024"/><ref name="BizportalRazor"/>
|-
| [[Mordechai Peled]] (Modi Peled) || Independent director (reappointed December 2024) || <ref name="RazorGMDec2024"/><ref name="BizportalRazor"/>
|-
| [[Gilai Dolev]] || External director (second term proposed March 2026) || <ref name="RazorGMMar2026">Razor Labs, [https://www.razor-labs.com/general-meeting-march-2026/ General Meeting March 2026] ''Razor Labs'' (Hebrew notice of the annual general meeting on 27 April 2026), accessed 10 November 2026.</ref><ref name="BizportalRazor"/>
|-
| [[Tomer Srulevich]] || Chief business officer || <ref name="RazorAbout"/><ref name="RazorWabtec"/>
|-
| [[Erez Egozi]] || Chief financial officer || <ref name="RazorAbout"/>
|}

== See also ==
* [[Axon Vision]]
* [[Raz Roditti]]
* [[Michael Zolotov]]
* [[Ido Rozenberg]]
* [[Cyber and tech firms founded by ex Unit 8200 or occupation forces veterans]]

== External links ==
* [https://www.razor-labs.com/ Official website]

== Notes ==
<references/>

[[Category:Israel]]
[[Category:Companies]]
[[Category:Arms Industry]]
[[Category:Unit 8200]]
[[Category:Mining]]

Razor Labs - Revision history

Unit 8200 Bot: Unit 8200 research: new page