Meir Orbach

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Imagindairy founders

Foodtech startup Imagindairy receives FDA approval for animal-free milk proteins

04.01.24|Meir Orbach
Imagindairy creates animal-free milk proteins from microorganisms via proprietary precision-fermentation technology that allows the production of a broad spectrum of dairy analogs, from raw milk to cheese, without involving animals
מימין: דרור דוידוף מנכ"ל ומייסד משותף אמיר ג'רבי  CTO ומייסד משותף  אקווה סקיוריטי

Aqua Security raises $60 million at over $1 billion valuation

03.01.24|Meir Orbach
The cyber unicorn, which has now raised $325 million since its founding in 2015, said the new funding is an extension of its Series E from March 2021
מגזין נדלן מרץ 2023 מגדל עזריאלי שרונה תל אביב

Dramatic drop in Seed funding doesn't bode well for future of Israeli tech

03.01.24|Meir Orbach
According to data from Start-Up Nation Policy Institute (SNPI), Israeli startups raised $7.3 billion in 2023, the lowest since 2018 and a 60% decrease from 2022. There was also a 50% decrease in the number of companies who raised a Seed round compared to 2022
מימין: שניים מהמייסדים אבי שועה אבי שוע מנכ"ל ו גיל גרון

Cyber unicorn Orca Security laying off 15% of workforce

03.01.24|Meir Orbach
Orca, which has raised $640 million to date and was last valued at $1.8 billion, is parting ways with around 60 employees
קו רקיע מרכז תל אביב Tel Aviv Business Center

Israeli startups raise $1.45 billion in Q4 despite war, end 2023 with $6.9 billion in total

28.12.23|Meir Orbach
The fundraising activity in 2023 was similar to 2018-2019. The data reflects a 44% decrease in the number of deals and a 56% drop in the amount of raised capital compared to 2022
ועידת MIND THE DATA רון רימון מייסד משותף WhiteSource

Mend.io acquires cyber startup Atom Security

24.12.23|Meir Orbach
The previously bootstrapped Atom Security was founded earlier this year and the acquisition is valued at several million dollars. This marks Mend's fifth acquisition in the last three years, totaling tens of millions of dollars
ענת בונשטיין מוביליון

Dr. Anat Bonshtein appointed as partner at Mobilion Ventures

24.12.23|Meir Orbach
Dr. Bonshtein previously served as the director of the National Program for Smart Transportation and Fuel Alternatives in the Prime Minister's Office
משרדי אנבידיה NVIDIA תל אביב

Nvidia donates $15 million to non-profits amidst war

24.12.23|Meir Orbach
Thousands of employees from 30 different countries donated $5 million, an amount that was tripled by Nvidia with an additional $10 million donation
עמי אברהמי עמית הלר Veev

Construction giant Lennar acquires full control of former proptech unicorn Veev

21.12.23|Meir Orbach
Veev, valued at $1 billion in March 2022, recently entered insolvency in the United States due to an inability to meet financial obligations to suppliers and employees under California state laws
מבחנה ביומד

AnGes laying off 110 EmendoBio employees three years after $250 million acquisition

20.12.23|Meir Orbach
The Japanese pharma company notified the employees of the Israeli firm that they are being fired and the future of the company's technology is unclear at this point
צוות Israel Resilience Fund משמאל מנהל הקרן ג'ף קופייצקי מנכ"ל OurCrowd ג'ון מדבד אלון טל מאיה זכודין קורן

OurCrowd announces $50 million Israel Resilience Fund with eight initial investments

20.12.23|Meir Orbach
The fund has so far received more than $13 million in capital commitments, and approved the first eight investments from the fund, including to BlueTree, Carrar, Edgybees, and Verobotics
משרדים 2 חברות הייטק קייב

Funding troubles plaguing both veteran and young Israeli startups

20.12.23|Meir Orbach
According to the Start-Up Nation Policy Institute, older startups (established before 2017) and those that raised significant amounts before the war are also having problems raising capital
מימין יודר שפריר ו גיא ברון מ ScaleOps

ScaleOps raises $15 million Series A to automate cloud resource management

19.12.23|Meir Orbach
The Israeli startup’s fully-automated platform continuously optimizes and manages cloud-native resources during runtime
עסק קטן הקמת עסק סטארטאפ תוכנית עסקים קטנים 2

Early-stage startups facing extreme difficulty raising funds, says Israel Innovation Authority

19.12.23|Meir Orbach
According to a survey conducted in the past month among 500 entrepreneurs, around half of early-stage Israeli startups have enough money for just six more months of operations
Salvador Technologies founders

Salvador Technologies raises $6 million Seed for cyberattack recovery platform

18.12.23|Meir Orbach
The Israeli startup’s platform bypasses standard recovery protocols and allows critical infrastructure operators and industrial enterprises to recover from attacks and any malfunction within only 30 seconds
מטה איביי Ebay סן חוזה קליפורניה

eBay cutting almost 10% of Israeli workforce in second round of layoffs this year

17.12.23|Meir Orbach
The e-commerce giant is laying off around 20-25 of its 250 employees in Israel after already firing dozens in February
מיקרוסופט קמפוס הרצליה

Inside Microsoft's Israel R&D Center: Almost $1B in annual income and an average monthly salary of $18k

17.12.23|Meir Orbach
According to documents seen by Calcalist, Microsoft's R&D center in Israel employs about 2,700 people and spent around $570 million on salaries in FY 2023
צוות Zero Networks

Zero Networks raises $20 million Series B to prevent attackers from spreading in corporate networks

13.12.23|Meir Orbach
The Israeli startup developed a fully automated SaaS platform that learns all network traffic and creates granular security policies that restrict user and machine access to only strictly necessary assets
מימין: אלון לביא ודור אייזנר

Guardz raises $18 million Series A to help secure and insure small businesses from cyberattacks

13.12.23|Meir Orbach
The funding, which comes just 10 months after the company’s launch from stealth, will enable Guardz to expand its holistic platform for MSPs to seamlessly manage small business cybersecurity