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Unitywater Teams Up With TaKaDu To Make Cloud-Based Network Monitoring A Reality For Small Water Utilities

Australian water utility Unitywater and TaKaDu, a global leader in integrated event management solutions for the water industry, recently announced a collaboration enabling TaKaDu to offer its IoT cloud-based solution to other water utilities across Queensland. Amir Peleg, the CEO of TaKaDu, is currently in Australia and will present a keynote at OzWater 2016 on Thursday May 12th.  […]

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Cyber-Security Company Perception Point Raises $2m

Perception Point is a cyber-security company that has developed a unique end-point protection information security platform. Their solution offers low performance impact and seamless integration to proactively hunt cyber attackers by exploiting their methods to defend organisations. The Israel Trade Commission in Sydney assisted Perception Point in the Australian market in February/March 2016 by arranging a series […]

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Global Connections Fund Opens for Australian SMEs and Researchers to Meet Partners in Israel

The Australian Department of Industry, Innovation and Science has announced the opening of the Global Connections Fund (GCF), a key component of the Global Innovation Strategy under the Australian Government’s National Innovation and Science Agenda. The GCF will enable researchers and small to medium enterprises (SMEs) from the priority economies identified in the Strategy to […]

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Chinese Company Kuang-Chi Launches $300m Israel Fund

The Kuang-Chi GCI Fund & Incubator will be based in Tel Aviv and will invest in early to mid-stage Israeli and global companies. As reported in Globes; Chinese corporation Kuang-Chi is launching an international innovation fund based in Israel to invest in companies worldwide. The “Kuang-Chi GCI Fund & Incubator” will be the first Chinese […]

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Israeli Government Lowers Tax on Startup Exits

Company founders will pay 25-30% tax on the sale of their shares, instead of 48-50% in improved terms offered to high tech companies. As reported in Globes; The Israel Tax Authority is putting taxation on exits in order, after a period of uncertainty about taxes on the sale of shares in startups, following different rulings […]

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Israeli Startups Raise More Than $1B In The First Quarter Of 2016, Surpassing 2015

During the first three months of the year, 173 Israeli startup and high-tech companies raised a whopping $1.09 billion, a 9 percent increase over the first quarter of 2015, in which 162 companies raised roughly $1 billion, according to a report released by Israeli research firm IVC Research Center and Israeli accounting firm KPMG Somekh […]

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Australian Mining Company Acquires Israeli Cyber Security Firm

Another Israel-based company is floating on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) via a reverse listing. Perth based Drake Resources has expanded its business activities from mining to technology with the acquisition of Israeli based cyber security form Genome Technologies Ltd for A$11,000,000. Genome Technologies mitigates cyber threats by focusing on an organisation’s and the risks from a […]

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Medical Research Partnership Established During NSW Premier Led Trade Mission to Israel

With medical technologies as a focus of the New South Wales Premier’s Trade Mission to Israel last week, a partnership in cellular genomics research has been established between Sydney’s Garvan Institute of Medical Research and Israel’s Weizmann Institute. The Garvan-Weizmann Centre for Cellular Genomics will be housed in The Kinghorn Cancer Centre in Darlinghurst. The research facility will […]

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New South Wales Signs Technological R&D Cooperation Agreement with Israel

An official signing ceremony between the Government of the Australian State of New South Wales (NSW) and the State of Israel on a joint industrial R&D agreement took place in Tel Aviv last week. The goal of the agreement is to establish a mechanism of cooperation with parallel funding for companies from both countries conducting joint […]

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Israeli Fitbit competitor Milestone Sports to list on the ASX

Another Israeli company is listing on the Australia Stock Exchange through the back door from a reverse takeover by Victory Mines. Israeli Fitbit competitor Milestone Sport offers a MilestonePod sensor which attaches to the user’s shoe. The small device collects data such as foot strikes, cadence, stance time, rate of impact, as well as the regular […]