Innovation Lab for Healthy Aging at Ben-Gurion University will address seniors’ challenges with new products and technologies. Source: Israel21C Israel’s first Innovation Lab for Healthy Aging has been launched in Beersheva, simulating the challenges in the everyday living environment of senior citizens in order to inspire solutions. The new project is backed by a ₪5 […]
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A company that cut its teeth developing Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system is now bringing its collective tools and skills sets to help the utility industry manage its complex and growing challenges. For mPrest, Australia is next in its sights. Source: Forbes Last month, mPrest – a self-described ‘global provider of mission-critical monitoring, big data […]
By 2030, new cancer cases are expected to rise to 22 million, marking a 70 percent increase from 14 million in 2012. With numbers like these, it’s no surprise the medical community is focusing on better, and earlier, diagnoses. Source: NoCamels A new Israeli startup, Collage Medical Imaging, appears to be on the right track. Founded […]
CEO: Our AgPest dataset has reached a critical-mass coverage that enables us to provide unique insights on crops, chemicals and geographies. Source: Globes Israeli agricultural pesticide (AgPest) Internet of Things company FieldIn Tech has announced closing a $4 million financing round co-led by Gal Ventures and Germin8 Ventures along with participation of early investors, Terra Ventures. Additional participants […]
Toilet-cleaning robot, selfie-stick phone case, ultra-slim charger, bike trolley among Israeli consumer products due to hit stores in the coming year. As reported in Israel21C: Israeli minds are always dreaming up inventions to bring more fun, convenience or connectivity into our lives. Only time will tell if the gadgets listed below — a small sampling […]
The Petah Tikva based company develops business-driven firewall and security policy management products. As reported in Globes: Israeli cybersecurity company AlgoSec has raised $36 million from private equity fund Claridge Israel. AlgoSec, which develops business-driven firewall and security policy management products, was founded in 2003 by chairman and CEO Yuval Baron and CTO Prof. Avishai Wool but this […]
The Tel Aviv company’s clean meat is produced by growing cells that have been painlessly extracted from a chicken. As reported in Globes: Israeli clean meat biotech and food-tech company SuperMeat has announced today that it has raised $3 million in seed funding led by US-based venture capital fund New Crop capital and VC firm Stray Dog […]
Startups have surpassed the $4.8 billion raised in 2016, which was itself a record. As reported in Globes: Israeli startups have raised over $5 billion in 2017, beating the previous year’s record of $4.8 billion. Startups raised a record $3.8 billion in the first nine months of 2017, IVC-ZAG reported. Israeli startups raised more than […]
Intel and Elron led the investment in the Tel Aviv based company, which will double its workforce from 20 to 40. Source: Globes Israeli cybersecurity company Alcide has raised $5.2 million in an exceptionally large seed round from Intel Capital and Elron Electronic Industries Ltd. The company, which was founded 18 months ago and until a few months ago […]
Three Israeli entrepreneurs have developed a way to turn energy from the sun, a source of heat, into a cooling agent that could save billions on electricity and have significant environmental, and even security, benefits. Source: NoCamels Yaron Shenhav and Gadi Grottas, the co-founders of SolCold, and Hebrew University Professor Guy Ron have invented a […]
