As reported in IVC Online: Atlantic Capital Partners has $100 million for secondary investments in European and Israeli technology companies. While Israeli venture capital firms are scarcely managing to raise follow-on funds, Israeli technology companies continue to pique the interest of foreign funds and investors. US private equity firm Sliver Lake invested in Israeli company […]
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The Israel stand at the Sydney Travel Expo won the Award for the Best Small Stand Exhibit last weekend 26th & 27th March, for its unique design. The Israel stand which was co-exhibited by the Israel Trade & Tourism Commission and the Israel travel Centre was designed by ExpoDirect who structured an amazing look featuring […]
As reported in IVC online: The following summarizes exits of Israeli and Israel-related high-tech companies in merger & acquisition deals and initial public offerings in 2010. The data are based on information derived from IVC-Online Database, and developed by IVC Research Center, which for more than 14 years has been at the forefront of Israeli […]
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The Jerusalem Scrabble Club is the largest weekly Scrabble club in the world. Members have been connecting letter tiles together for nearly 30 years. You might think the largest weekly Scrabble club in the world would meet in, say, London. Or maybe New York. But you’d be wrong. With 50 loyal members coming every Tuesday […]
As reported in Israel21C: A new invention from Israeli scientists looks deeper into DNA to show with certainty whether or not a suspect was at the scene of a crime. By examining the unique elements that make up a person’s DNA, Israeli scientists have made it possible to provide DNA as evidence even when there are […]
As reported in Israel21C: Israeli researchers develop a vaccine that could stave off stroke as well as one of the most common and devastating causes of memory loss. Researchers from Tel Aviv University are working on a nasal two-in-one vaccine that could protect against both Alzheimer’s disease and stroke. The proposed vaccine appears to repair vascular […]
As reported in IVC Online: Israel’s universities are revolutionizing robotics, programming their inventions to think and perform tasks even better than humans. Open your imagination and you might just find some lifesaving, time saving and entertaining robotics invention that has already been invented in Israel. Many of the advances in this science fiction-inspired field are […]
As reported in Israel21C: Israel’s formula for getting green mileage from old tires could be a boon for countries with similar raw materials and climates. Old, used tires are an environmental nuisance. But now a new “green” project in Israel intends to recycle the rubber from old tires, and use as many as 1,400 tires […]
As reported in Globes.co.il: Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz: This is an important day for the Israeli economy. “This is definitely an important day for the Israeli economy. Over 30 years ago, a company called Intel decided to set up in Israel a small unit with 20 scientists. The result was that very large high-tech companies came […]
As reported in Port2Port: According to the research the local hotel industry contributed to economic growth and to employment in the country’s periphery. Value-added tourism services were estimated (in 2007) at some NIS 12 billion A research by the Bank of Israel, citing the important role tourism plays in the Israeli economy, says that Israel […]
