Jeen Technologies, once a small civilian robotics spinoff, is rapidly becoming one of Israel’s most significant defense‑AI companies, securing major contracts with strategic security organizations and embedding its technology across the country’s defense agencies.
In recent months, the company’s defense subsidiary, Jeen Defense, has received NIS 8.6 million in orders from a single strategic defense customer, advancing a framework agreement valued at up to NIS 45 million over the next two years. The latest order, worth NIS 4.3 million, is the second procurement from the same customer in three months, signaling a growing reliance on Jeen’s AI platform inside sensitive operational environments.
An enterprise AI company, Jeen.ai has developed a secure platform for rapidly installing generative AI in large enterprises. Its defense-dedicated subsidiary is focused on sovereign AI systems, intelligence‑driven analytics, and mission‑support technologies for defense customers.
For CEO Oded Tahori, the company’s trajectory has been both rapid and unexpected.
Speaking to Defense & Tech by The Jerusalem Post, Tahori explained that Jeen began as a civilian robotics initiative within One Technologies before being spun out just a year and a half ago.
“We started in civilian robotics,” he explained. “I didn’t think what we were developing was meant for defense. But they came to us, saw the platform, and now we’re embedded across the defense agencies.”
Reshaping the landscape
In a sign of how rapidly artificial intelligence is reshaping Israel’s defense landscape, Jeen Technologies has accelerated the expansion of its defense subsidiary, Jeen Defense, securing a series of significant orders from a strategic security organization and advancing what may become one of the company’s most consequential multi‑year partnerships to date.
The enterprise AI company announced that Jeen Defense received an additional NIS 4.3 million work order this month, bringing total orders from the same customer to approximately NIS 8.6 million in just three months. The orders are part of the ongoing execution of a framework agreement valued at up to NIS 45 million, signed in March with a major defense organization.
In that short time, it has raised $25 million, grown to nearly 140 employees, and expanded to offices in Singapore, London, and New York, with Israel serving as the company’s R&D and implementation hub. The team includes former senior figures from Israel’s intelligence community, among them a former R&D manager of the Mossad, the Mossad’s former head of research, and a former data manager at the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency).
The company’s defense division, led by Nir Mitchell, a former combat officer in the IAF’s elite Shaldag unit and a senior official in the Prime Minister’s Office, is expanding rapidly.
Tahori says Jeen is now part of Israel’s emerging national AI strategy, providing sovereign, secure systems that can operate without internet connectivity, something that is an essential requirement for defense and intelligence bodies.
The company’s main solution is an agentic AI platform capable of running entirely offline and under strict security controls. This capability has become a decisive advantage as Israel’s defense establishment seeks technologies that do not rely on global cloud providers.
“Defense bodies in Israel understand that there is a company that can deliver AI without the internet,” Tahori told D&T. “They cannot work with OpenAI or global cloud systems, especially when it comes to intelligence.”
Jeen’s platform is already being used by large Israeli defense primes, where Tahori says the company has a strong connection with thousands of users. Over the past year, Jeen has begun working with all major defense agencies in Israel, providing AI tools for intelligence analysis, operational planning, and administrative workflows.
“We’re shaping how defense agencies work with AI at scale,” he said. “For intelligence, for operations, for commanders who need cognitive support when they’re exhausted. Systems don’t feel stressed.”
Tahori told D&T that the company is hoping to build the Israeli equivalent of Palantir-a sovereign AI system designed to support intelligence, operations, and decision‑making at scale.
“We’re already showing Jeen as part of Israel’s defense capability in generative AI,” he said. “You cannot depend on global organizations. The tech needs to work without the cloud - efficiently, and independently.”
Tahori believes Jeen will become a foundational system for Israel’s defense architecture. “Jeen will be a core system for operational and administrative needs,” he said. “Connecting defense agencies to generative AI in a secure, sovereign way.”
Like many other Israeli startups drifting into the defense market, Tahori describes Jeen as a dual‑use company, bringing civilian AI capabilities into defense where they are urgently needed.
Jeen’s technology has already been adopted by major civilian institutions, including Bank Mizrahi, the Israel Electric Corporation, and Maccabi Healthcare Services, reinforcing its dual‑use positioning.
As Israel’s security establishment accelerates adoption of AI across intelligence, operations, and command‑level decision‑making, what began as a civilian robotics project has evolved into a company that defense agencies sought out themselves, thus allowing Jeen to become a key player in delivering critical AI infrastructure for Israel’s defense agencies.