News Summary

• Ido Bronstein learned how to turn messy data into usable intelligence inside the Israeli military.
• Now he wants to do the same for companies trying to make artificial intelligence work.
• Upriver, the startup he cofounded with Omri Lifschitz, has raised $14 million to help companies clean up and manage the business data that software tools need to work reliably.
• Valley Capital and Hetz Ventures led the seed round, with participation from angel investors, including two of the founders of Cyera, the Israeli cybersecurity startup, last valued at $6 billion.