Israel Innovation Authority Adds $115M To Support Startups During COVID-19...
The Israel Innovation Authority, the government’s tech investment arm, has been allotted an additional budget of NIS 390 million ($115 million) to increase government investment in small and medium...
View ArticleTransit Data Company Moovit Expands Services To Local Car And Bike Sharing In...
Israeli-founded transit data company Moovit announced on Thursday that it will incorporate local vehicle sharing services into its public transit app, CTech reported. As part of this expansion, app...
View ArticleInnoviz, Samsung’s Harman Partner To Deliver LiDAR Sensor Tech To Car Makers
Innoviz Technologies, a leading Israel-based provider of solid-state LiDAR sensors and perception software, announced its newest strategic partnership this week with Harman International, a Samsung...
View ArticleOurCrowd Signs Investment, Partnership Agreement With South Korea’s KEB Hana...
Global equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has signed an investment and partnership MOU with South Korea’s KEB Hana Bank (“KEB Hana”), a subsidiary of the Hana Financial Group. As part of the inked...
View ArticleMagenta Venture Partners Launches New $100M Fund For Early Stage Startups In...
Israeli venture capital firm Magenta Venture Partners announced the launch of a new $100 million fund destined for early-stage startups. The fund’s first closing was made in October 2018, while the...
View ArticleAgTech Startup SeeTree Raises $15M For World’s 1st Intelligence Network for...
AgTech intelligence company SeeTree recently exited stealth mode and announced a $15 million Series A funding round led by Hanaco Ventures, with additional participation from seed round investors,...
View ArticleIsraeli Cybersecurity Companies Raised Record-Smashing $1B in 117 Deals In 2018
Israeli cybersecurity companies and startups raised over $1 billion equity investment in 117 funding rounds in 2018, setting a new record and marking a 47 percent increase from 2017, according to a new...
View ArticleStreamElements Raises $11.3M To Expand Live Video Creation Platform
Tel Aviv-based streaming startup StreamElements announced the closing of an $11.3 million Series A funding round led by Pitango Venture Capital and previous investors State of Mind Ventures, Rainfall...
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Israeli Company That Extracts Water From Air Launches Home Device For Cool...
Israeli company Watergen (also Water-gen), known for developing patented technology that turns air into drinking water, is launching an at-home appliance that it says will drastically change the water...
View ArticleSamsung Acquires Israeli Tech Firm Corephotonics For $155M
South Korean tech giant Samsung has signed a deal to acquire Israeli tech firm Corephotonics for $155 million on Sunday, CTech reported Tuesday. Advanced talks have been under way since early January....
View ArticleAI-Powered Transcription Company Verbit Raises $23M For Global Growth
Israeli company Verbit announced the closing of a $23 million Series A funding round led by Viola Ventures, with participation from Vertex Ventures, HV Ventures, Oryzn Capital, Vintage Venture...
View ArticleJerusalem Venture Partners Closes $220M Fund Backed By Global Investors
Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) announced on Wednesday the close of its latest fund, JVP VIII, with $220 million in commitments from international investors. The fund will focus on investments in...
View ArticleInternational Airlines Group To Scout For Israeli Tech Startups In Tel Aviv
International Airlines Group (IAG), one of the largest airline groups in the world, is teaming up with the UK Israel Tech Hub, based in the British Embassy in Israel, to host a pitch day for tech...
View ArticleOurCrowd Marks $1B Raised For Companies, Funds, Oversees 29 Exits In 6 Years
OurCrowd, Israel’s leading global investment platform, announced that since its founding in 2013, it raised a total of $1 billion for 170 companies – 29 of which achieved exits – and 18 funds. The...
View ArticleIsrael Innovation Authority, Mayo Clinic Sign Deal To Cooperate On Health Tech
The Israel Innovation Authority and the Mayo Clinic announced Tuesday they had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to cooperate on health tech innovation, with a focus on new medical devices,...
View Article6 Israeli Startups Nab Transformational Business Awards In London
Six Israeli startups were awarded prizes for transformational solutions in health, environment, disability, and disruptive tech last week at the 2019 FT/IFC Transformational Business Awards in London,...
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Amazon Launches Series On High-Tech, With Focus On Israel’s Startup Nation
This article was first published by The Times of Israel and is re-posted with permission. Over 50 cutting-edge Israeli tech companies are featured in the first season of a new series released on...
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Intel Selects 9 Israeli Startups For 1st Cycle Of New Accelerator Program...
Intel kicked off the launch of its new accelerator program in Israel on Tuesday for early-stage startups, announcing the nine data-centric companies that will be participating in the 16-week...
View ArticleNew VC Firm Co-Led By Randi Zuckerberg Raising $35M To Invest In Israeli...
A new venture capital firm backed by Randi Zuckerberg, founder of Zuckerberg Media and sibling of Mark Zuckerberg, is raising a $35 million fund to invest in Israeli startups aiming to disrupt the...
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Notable Increase In Late-Stage Funding Allows More Israeli Firms To Grow,...
A significant increase in later-stage funding is allowing more Israeli tech companies and startups to grow and expand without going down the road of acquisition or having to raise money on the public...
View Article587 Exits Worth $70 Billion: Startup Nation Had Booming Decade, Has Still...
This article was first published by The Times of Israel and is re-posted with permission. The last 10 years have seen the so-called Startup Nation flourishing, with increasing numbers of...
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Leading Israeli Firm JVP Inaugurates International Cybersecurity Center In...
Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), the international venture capital firm led by one of Israel’s leading social and tech entrepreneurs Dr. Erel Margalit, marked the grand opening of the International...
View ArticleIsraeli VC Firm Grove Ventures Closes $120M Fund For Deep Tech Startups
Israeli venture capital firm Grove Ventures announced on Tuesday that it secured $120 million in total commitments for the Grove Ventures II Fund (Grove II) which will invest in Israeli early-stage,...
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10 Israeli Companies Listed Among Top 50 Global AgTech, Food Tech Firms In 2020
Ten Israeli companies were listed among two separate lists highlighting the top 50 companies worldwide in the food tech and agtech (agriculture tech) sectors in 2020, put together by SVG...
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33 Creative Initiatives Taken By Israeli Companies During The Pandemic
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View ArticleCoronavirus Spurs Debate On Whether Startups Should Get Aid Too
This article was first published by The Times of Israel and is re-posted with permission. The outbreak of the coronavirus and the lockdowns it has led to, along with the recession that will apparently...
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Taiwan Firm Sets Up $70M Program To Invest In Israeli Startups
A Taiwanese firm has set up a new $70 million program to collaborate and invest in Israeli startups focused on digital health, cybersecurity, and AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) and help them...
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10 Israeli-Founded Companies Reach Unicorn Status In 1st Quarter Of 2021
Israel’s “Startup Nation” bona fides have been firmly established over the past decade. With a population of approximately nine million and home to some 6,500 startups, Israel has the largest number...
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‘Everything Is On Steroids’: Funds Are Flowing Into Israeli Startups
Cash flow for Israeli startups is plentiful at present and the local innovation scene is basking in the limelight, according to the recently released Startup Snapshot report based on data from over...
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Israeli Startups Smash Funding Records, Reel In $10.5B In Just Six Months
Israel’s innovation technology sector broke another capital funding record this week and has now topped $10.5 billion since the start of the year – the same amount raised in all of 2020, according to...
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Israeli Tech Scene Ranks 3rd In New Global Startup Ecosystem Index
Israel’s tech ecosystem has ranked third globally and Tel Aviv came in eighth among cities in the new Global Startup Ecosystem Index 2021 published this month by StartupBlink, an Israeli-founded...
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Israeli Tech Firms Break Funding Records Again, Raise $11.9B In 1st Half Of 2021
Israeli companies and startups raised an all-time record of $11.9 billion in the first half of 2021, more than the total amount of investments in 2020 which stands at $10.3 billion, according to a new...
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21 Israeli Tech Companies Selected For Leading Taiwanese Accelerator Program
A leading Taiwanese organization selected 21 Israeli tech companies for three accelerator programs aimed at easing their entry into Taiwan and other East Asian markets. Innovation to Industry (i2i), a...
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Tel Aviv Dips To 7th Place In Global Startup Ecosystem Report
Tel Aviv slipped to seventh place in the Startup Genome’s Global Startup Ecosystem Report (GSER) for 2021. The report is an annual one on global startup ecosystems and subsector trends published since...
View ArticleIsraeli Startups Raised Significant $17.78B In First Three Quarters Of 2021
The Israeli high-tech industry has broken funding records again in 2021, with local companies raising $17.78 billion in 575 deals since the beginning of the year, according to a report published last...
View ArticleGoogle Selects 10 Israeli Companies To Join Its Startup Growth Lab
Ten Israeli startups have been selected to join the 5th cohort of Google’s Startup Growth Lab, the tech giant announced on Monday. The promising startups will attend workshops and meet with Google and...
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Cyber Insurance Explained With 6 Israeli Startups Disrupting The Industry
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7 Israeli Startups Named 2021 ‘Most Promising’ Digital Health Firms
Seven Israeli startups were named to the third annual Digital Health 150, an annual global ranking by New York-based research firm CB Insights of the 150 most promising companies using digital...
View ArticleDeloitte Launchpad Announces 3rd Cohort With 9 Israeli Startups
Israeli accelerator program Deloitte Launchpad, run by professional services and consulting firm Deloitte, announced this week the nine startups that will participate in its third cohort. First...
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6 Israeli Companies Curbing The Global Water Crisis
More than 70 percent of our planet is covered in water. And yet, in all its abundance, water is becoming scarce resource. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), 1.1 billion people lack access to...
View ArticleIsraeli Startups Raised $5.6B In First Quarter Of 2022
Israeli tech companies raised $5.6 billion in 212 deals in the first quarter of 2022, according to a report published this week by IVC Research Center and LeumiTech, the banking arm of Leumi Group....
View ArticleIntel Ignite Selects 10 Startups For 6th Tel Aviv Cohort
Intel’s growth accelerator program Intel Ignite, announced the 10 startups Tuesday chosen to participate in its sixth Tel Aviv cohort. The program had more than 220 applicants, with 10 chosen to move...
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Startups Respond to the Ukraine Crisis: Solving the Global Challenges
This article is sponsored by OurCrowd. As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to disrupt the flow of vital food, medical, mineral, and energy resources and lead to more threatening cyber...
View ArticleIsraeli Food Tech Startup Yo! Egg To Make US Debut
Israeli food tech startup Yo! Egg, which has developed plant-based poached and fried eggs (also known as sunny-side-up) announced that it plans to launch in US restaurants later this year, following a...
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These 5 Startups At Israel’s Vegan Fest Lead In Food Tech Innovation
Israel’s 4th Vegan Fest, said to be the world’s largest vegan festival, welcomed over 100,000 attendees to Tel Aviv this week for three days of vegan cuisine and innovation. The event — held at the...
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