CTech’s Thursday Roundup of Israeli Tech News

Imperva to be acquired by investment firm Thoma Bravo for $2.1 billion. Protesting Underrepresentation, Israeli Female Techies Take Center Stage

Imperva to be acquired by investment firm Thoma Bravo for $2.1 billion. Nasdaq-listed Imperva will delist and operate as a privately-held company under its current administrative team if the deal goes through. Read more

 

Protesting underrepresentation, Israeli female techies take center stage. Around eighty Israeli female techies gathered on Wednesday in front of the Tel Aviv city hall to take a picture with a cardboard figure of Angela Merkel. Read more

 

Imperva co-founder Shlomo Kramer. Photo: Amit Sha'al

 

 

Direct flight From Tel Aviv to South America to launch in December. LATAM Airlines will be operating the new flight route from Tel Aviv to Santiago via Sao Paulo. Read more

 

Sweetwood Ventures raises $40 million fund. The new fund will manage investments in Israel-focused venture capital funds as well as invest directly in Israeli growth stage startups. Read more

 

Israel’s government innovation arm seeks coworking foothold. Israel’s Innovation Authority is scouting for coworking spaces featuring hot and soft beverages, cookies, according to a tender published Monday. Read more

 

SpaceIL pushes back moon launch date to early 2019. Israeli non-profit organization is one of the former competitors for Google’s 10-year space race competition Lunar X Prize. Read more

 

News Briefs

 

Waze launches carpool feature across U.S. Read more

 

Cybersecurity company Nyotron raises $10 million. Read more

 

Salesforce Ventures makes strategic investment in customer engagement startup TechSee. Read more