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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
After the controversial court rulings against Trump and his real estate company, the New York economic center is considered to be uncertain and risky. It's better to avoid him. Nevertheless, a US investment company with ties to Israel wants to take the risk and invest against the trend. A risky bet that might , or … Continue reading 20 million USD, Israel, and the NYC Tech EcoSystem
Why a new messaging app, one might ask. Well, the Israeli startup 'EdenSender' wants to offer the answer and solution.The basic idea is very simple: the company's own messaging app under full control with state-of-the-art encryption and every possibility to adapt the app to the company's special needs. And above all, to be in control. … Continue reading #InnovationFromIsrael: Messaging App for Business: ‘EdenSender’
The daily investment scoop. And much more can be reported. The panic orchestra argues mostly with a prognoses, might be right, might be wrong, ot a calls of retired seniors or companies which ask in a somehow strange and bully way for more taxmoney. Today success to report is the Israeli start-up 'Chaos Labs'. It … Continue reading #TheMarketsTrustIsrael: Israeli Start-up ‘Chaos Labs’ Raises $20M (Seed). Investment by PayPal
The daily news refuting the left lie spreaded by left leaning media that the markets allegedly do not trust Israel and Israeli companies. The opposite is true. It is irresponsible behavior towards Israel and its people, especially by left-wing Israeli politicians and media, to spread this incitement and untruths about Israel. The truth is, that … Continue reading #TheMarketsTrustIsrael: Israeli MedTech Start-up raised $20 Million. Funding led by INTEL Capital
The daily example that international capital, investors or Israeli companies themselves continue to invest in Israel. They do not run away because some left-wing hysterics believe that Israel is sinking into dictatorship since the members of the Supreme Court will soon be determined by the Knesset – instead by an opaque body – and the … Continue reading #TheMarketsTrustBibi: Israeli FinTech raised $220 Million
Some Israeli business media are currently playing the role of blaming the Netanyahu government for an alleged withdrawal of venture capital from Israel with little-substantiated reports. They join the left-wing chorus of scaremongering. However, it's more accusatory blame-game and political propaganda than solid business news. The economic news seems only to be bad, but the … Continue reading VCs do not bow away from Israel because of Netanyahu – D/E
Investor interest is shifting more and more towards FoodTech start-ups and away from digital service start-ups such as FinTech or platforms. According to a global trend, the web is becoming more concrete and is transforming more in the direction of IoT ('Internet of Things') and Web 4.0. The tenth cybersecurity startup is not needed. Market … Continue reading Israeli Deep-FoodTech Company raises $6,5 Million by ADS – D/E
DisruptAD, ADQ’s venture platform, announced an investment in Blueground, a Greek PropTech company offering a turnkey housing solution for renters globally. ADQ launched DisruptAD in 2021 as its venture platform to enable entrepreneurial innovations. The platform aims to be a long-term partner by providing access to capital to early and late-stage startups, as well as … Continue reading Abraham Accords: DisruptAD (Dubai) invests in Greek PropTech company
The food tech industry in Israel seems to be replacing the darling of venture capitalists - internet start-ups - more and more. Venture capitalists have understood: Israel feeds the world. Learn more on VonNaftali: SUbscription $29,90/12 months (net) Equinom, the company on a mission to cultivate better food from the ground up, has announced a … Continue reading FoodTech: Israeli Start-up secures $35 Million Funding. Global VCs understand – Israel feeds the World
Businesses receive trillions of messages that all need to be filtered, documented, and eventually responded to. A complex process. A startup from Israel helps with AI-supported compliance for communication. Read 'VonNaftali': Subscription $29,90/year The Israeli company 'Shield' offers an advanced end-to-end communications compliance platform that allows organizations of any size to mitigate risks, escape data … Continue reading Israeli Platform: AI powered Communication Compliance raised $20 Millions – D/E
The latest funding round accelerates the commercialization of a leading voice tech startup’s next-generation technology and expands its proprietary speech database of non-standard speech. CISCO recognized the huge potential and stepped in. The Israel-based award-winning leader in speech recognition technology - Voiceitt - for non-standard speech, announced the closing of its latest funding round led … Continue reading Start-up: CISCO invests in Israeli Start-up to Help Disabled Persons – D/E
ZOOM was essential, especially during COVID, so the next step may not be a surprise: The 3D meeting by you as an avatar. Groundbreaking technology from a US-Israel company. Read more about the future of communication: Subscription $29,90;-/year (net) Based in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv (Silicon Wadi), CommonGround aims to improve communications and online … Continue reading ZOOM was yesterday – Welcome 3D interactive Avatar Meetings without VR-Headset. Invented in Israel.
Hummus and chickpea are known. But chickpeas and ice cream are a new universe. And a tasty one. An Israeli high-tech food startup creates a vegan ice cream out of chickpeas. Learn more about this start-up looking: Subscription $29,90 (net)/year ChickP Protein, Ltd., a food-tech startup, introduces chickpea protein isolate for plant-based ice cream. Protein … Continue reading Israel: Foodtech Start-up makes Ice Cream of Chickpeas – D/E
The Northern Region of Israel with Haifa is step by step becoming a considerable ecosystem for start-ups.In December a summit of investors and startups takes place. Learn more about new investment opportunities on VonNaftali: Subscription $29,90/year Although Haifa seems completely neglected due to the very bad administration and the equally bad infrastructure - from dilapidated … Continue reading Investor&Start-up Summit in Haifa – D/E
Deep-food tech companies from Israel are booming. There are already big names from Israel like Aleph Farms or Redefine Meat. A third company joined. Learn more about the next chance of growth for your company on 'VonNaftali' by subscribing for $29,90. Deep-tech Food companies are the next success story of the Start-up Nation Israel. Steakholder … Continue reading Israeli Deep-tech Food Company boosts Research&Development – D/E
Die EU hat einen von ihr finanzierten, aktuellen Bericht (2021) zum Status quo israelischer Techunternehmen in der EU vorgelegt. Durchgeführt wurde die Studie von EIT HUB, CQ Global und ISERD. Sieht man sich Tonalität und präsentierte Fakten an, dann weiß man, warum die EU dort steht, wo sie steht: Am Abgrund und vor maßgeblicher Destabilisierung. … Continue reading A Gleaning: EU in Self-Delusion. Report on Business Co-operation Israel – EU – D/E
Loops.ai claims to have developed the first 'Product Growth Platform' beyond dashboard. A claim that is $14 million worth. Loops.ai announced its public launch with $14 million in Seed funding. Loops, an US-Israeli start-up, enables product and growth teams to improve their key performance indicators (KPIs) by automatically identifying concrete opportunities from their data. Using … Continue reading Sales made by Israel: No more Dash-Board Gussing and “Dark Data”
Akeyless, the leading SaaS-based Secrets Management Platform for securing DevOps and IT workloads within hybrid and multi-cloud environments, today announced $65 million in series B funding, bringing the total funding to date to $80 million. Akeyless was founded in 2019 by Shai Onn, Refael Angel, and Oded Hareven with the vision to protect and manage … Continue reading Investment: Akeyless (Israel) raises $65M and performed 350% growth in revenue over the past year – D/E
"OurCrowd, Israel’s most active venture firm, is to significantly expand its Abu Dhabi operations with a new venture capital (VC) office and Artificial Intelligence (AI) tech hub enabled by the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO)", explains founder and CEO of OurCrowd Jon Medved. The press release further states: "The two new initiatives, which were announced … Continue reading Abraham Accords: OurCrowd (Israel) expands Abu Dhabi and launches global AI hub – D/E