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A completely correct and good decision by the State of Israel. AI is not only crucial for a modern economy and science, but AI is also important for war. In the future, AI-controlled robot dogs may clear the tunnels of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the PA. Brig. Gen. (Res.) Dr. Daniel Gold said: “Artificial intelligence is … Continue reading Israel launches Phase II of National Artificial Program: 500 Million NIS
The Israeli company 'Pickommerce' (the company) secures, headquartered in Peta Tikva (Israel), a 3.4 million US dollar investment to advance the development, production, and marketing of its innovative PickoBot piece-picking robot. How does it work? Pickommerce AI Robotics is at the edge of transforming logistics with its fully autonomous pick-and-pack station. The company addresses the … Continue reading Warehouse Innovation from Israel. Useful for the IDF too?
Israel may change the outcome of the war, or at least future wars, with the power of quantum computing. The key word is 'Quantum Supremacy' and it means who built the very first large quantum computer holds the ultimate power in hand. It may even decide future wars. However, it will not supersede the boots … Continue reading PHOTONIC QUANTUM COMPUTING powered in ISRAEL. GOLEM COMES BACK
The 2024 Global Startup Ecosystem Report (GSER) by Startup Genome and the Global Entrepreneurship Network launched on the 10th of June at 'London Tech Week', in collaboration with the Founders Forum, Informa Tech, and London & Partners. Presented by Stephan Kuester, Managing Partner at Startup Genome, the GSER analyzes data from over 4.5 million companies across … Continue reading TEL AVIV DID IT – BEST ECOSYSTEM FOR STARTUPS
WEKA was established in 2013 by Israeli entrepreneurs Liran Zvibel, Maor Ben-Dayan, and Omri Palmon. The core business of WEKA is to provide cloud data platforms for AI infrastructures. According to a recent press release WEKA, now headquartered in the USA (Campbell, California), WEKA raised successfully 140 million USD at a valuation of 1,6 billion … Continue reading The next Israeli Unicorn: WEKA
ZWW is currently planning and developing one of three strategic projects: THE OPEN INTELLIGENCE MAP. OPEN INTELLIGENCE MAP will be a global database on the enemies of Israel and Judaism. Anti-Semitic and anti-Israel individuals, organizations, media, networks, foundations, parties, and entities in general are to be recorded in this database. This data will ultimately be … Continue reading Database of Antisemits and Enemies of Israel
RADCOM Ltd. (Nasdaq: RDCM), today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the technology, intellectual property, and customer agreements of Continual Ltd. (TASE: CNTL). Continual is a leading mobility experience analytics company that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to deliver advanced insights to help telecom operators improve their subscribers' … Continue reading M&A: RADCOM (Israel) Acquires Continual (Israel)
And again one of the many daily examples that investors are not deterred from investing in and buying Israeli companies because of the Netanyahu government and the urgently needed judicial reform: The markets trust Bibi. This is McKinsey's first acquisition in Israel. As part of McKinsey's commitment the acquisition will serve clients globally, and Iguazio … Continue reading #The Markets trust Bibi: ‘McKinsey & Company’ Acquires ‘Iguazio’ – A Tel Aviv Deep-AI Start-up
The Technion is the leading university for 'Artificial Intelligence' (AI) within the European sphere and belongs to the top 10 worldwide when it comes to Artificial Intelligence, as reported many times on VonNaftali. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Pfizer, one of the world’s premier biopharmaceutical companies, recently signed a collaboration framework agreement to identify opportunities … Continue reading Technion & Pfizer to Collaborate: AI steps into Pharmacy -D/E
Safran ist ein Luxusgut, wo der Iran nahezu ein Monopol hat. Safran ist so das teuerste Gewürz der Welt. Ein Start-up aus Bnei Brak will dies ändern. Etablieren Sie rasch Geschäftsbeziehungen. Werden Sie Abonnent von VonNaftali für 29,90;- USD/Jahr. Der international bekannte israelische Starkoch und Restaurantbetreiber Meir Adoni ist eine strategische Partnerschaft mit dem israelischen … Continue reading Israel: Sustainable Safran powered by AI. Iran’s Monopoly challenged – D/E
Trigo has raised $100M, reaching a total of $204M raised to date. The investment was led by Singapore state investment firm Temasek (TEM.UL), and 83North. New strategic investors include SAP and existing investors joined the round, including Hetz Ventures, Red Dot Capital Partners, Vertex Ventures, Viola, and supermarket giant REWE Group, one of the world’s … Continue reading Trigo (Israel) raises $100M. Investors are REWE or SAP among others (D/E)
The Technion and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have signed a partnership agreement with IBM Research to advance artificial intelligence capabilities and applications in Israel. In light of the fact that Israel has a severe shortage of people with advanced degrees in computer science, and given higher education’s need for funding and skills from the … Continue reading Israel & Artificial Intelligence (AI): Co-operation Hebrew University, Technion and IBM to Advance AI
Pecan (New York/Tel Aviv) announced significant growth in the first half of 2022, including Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) jumping 150%, customer count increasing by 121% and the number of employees now at 125, up by more than 60%. Pecan is the world’s only low-code predictive analytics and data science platform designed for business teams across … Continue reading The US-Israel Low-Code AI Company ‘Pecan’ doubles Revenue.
Three selected news about business, innovation and sustainability from Israel. Today the three fields are: Innovation: Platform for Sensors, Sustainability: Platform Against Cancer powered by AI, Business: Platform Against Virus Selected and brought to you by Naftali - doing business and searching for innovation and sustainability for 40 years. You think you are relevant too? … Continue reading Raise of Platform-Economy: Platform for Sensors, Platform Against Virus, Platform Against Cancer
Three selected news about business, innovation and sustainability from Israel. Today the three fields are: Innovation: Sales powered by Artificial Intelligence, Sustainability: Superfood with Fungis&AI, Business: Health, Investment & AI Selected and brought to you by Naftali - doing business and searching for innovation and sustainability for 40 years. You think you are relevant too? … Continue reading More Sales by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Investment in Health&AI, Superfood powered by Fungis&AI
Three selected news about business, innovation and sustainability from Israel. Today the three fields are: Innovation: Treatment by Vaccination against HIV, Sustainability: Reducing Airpollution of Traffic by AI, Business: Co-operation for Power&Sustainability Selected and brought to you by Naftali - doing business and searching for innovation and sustainability for 40 years. You think you are … Continue reading Treatment of HIV, Reducing Airpollution by AI and Airbattery: Energy Store System
Three selected news about business, innovation and sustainability from Israel. Today the three fields are: AI & Fertility, Algae: Superfood of Evolution, Clean Beach Index: Sustainability Declining Selected and brought to you by Naftali - doing business and searching for innovation and sustainability for 40 years. You think you are relevant too? Send your press … Continue reading AI&Fertility, Superfood of Evolution and Clean Beach Index
Three selected news about business and innovation from Israel. This time from the fields: Oncology&Artificial Intelligence (AI), Democracy&Genomics and Biology. Selected and brought daily to you by Naftali - doing business and searching for innovation for 40 years. Check out who is in today. You think you are relevant too? Send your press release to … Continue reading Oncology&AI, Democracy & Genomics and Biology
ENGLISH FOLLOWS GERMAN Der aktuelle 'Global Artificial Index' (GAI), erstellt von 'Tortoise Intelligence', ist meines Wissens nach der einzige global relevante Index zum status quo von Artificial Intelligence. Nach Eigenangabe von 'Tortoise' ist der GAI überhaupt der erste Index, der Staaten entlang von drei Säulen bewertet: Investitions-, Innovations- und Umsetzungsniveau im Bereich Artificial Intelligence. Diese … Continue reading Global Artificial Index: Israel with top ranking. Main Challenge: State& Infrastructure
A recent study by the Technion (Israel) shows what some have already suspected. If all the homework is done, then the emotion, the so-called "warmth", the heart decides and can more than compensate for many a competitive disadvantage, missing features or a somewhat slower algorithm. Figuratively speaking, the virtual hug counts more than competence. In … Continue reading Technion (Israel) Study on Marketing&Artificial Intelligence. Heart is the Trump-Card. AI is not enough // Studie Technion (Israel) zu Marketing&Artificial Intelligence. Herz ist Trumpf. AI ist nicht genug.