Startups

20 stories about Startups
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WeTechBerlin Conference to Showcase Israeli Startups, Part Two

24.01.19|Adi Pick
Calcalist will host a two-day tech and innovation conference in Berlin on February 18-19. As part of the event, Calcalist is leading a delegation of some 50 Israeli startups
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How Tel Aviv Became an Unlikely Sandbox for Non-Israeli Tech Companies Looking to Expand Services

23.01.19|Orr Hirschauge and Lilach Baumer
One of the densest tech innovation hubs in the world, the small size of the predominantly Hebrew-speaking Israeli-market used to mean technology services came here late. 2018 signaled a wind change
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AXA's Venture Arm Launches Second Early Stage Fund With $150 Million

22.01.19|Mair Orbach
The fund will invest up to $6 million apiece in startups in North America, Europe, and Israel
וינסנט צ'נגוויז Vincent Tchenguiz

New Israeli Medical Technologies Fund Aims to Close $150 Million in Commitments by End of Year

21.01.19|Tzally Greenberg
CBG Asset Management, an investment firm owned by U.K.-based businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, is one of the partners in the venture
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Rakuten Looking to Expand Investments, Collaborations in Israel

20.01.19|Meir Orbach
The Japanese online retail company bought Israeli messaging app Viber in 2014 for $900 million
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2018 Saw a Drop in the Number of Israeli Tech Companies Acquired

15.01.19|Lilach Baumer and Hagar Ravet
Three of the four largest deals included in the list aggregated by IVC and Meitar for 2018 concern publicly traded companies, one involves an Israeli subsidiary of an American corporation that was sold as part of a larger deal, and two of the buyers were hedge funds
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South Korea's KEB Hana Bank Partners with Israeli Equity Crowdfunding Company OurCrowd

15.01.19|Lilach Baumer
OurCrowd has started its Asian expansion in 2015, and has since signed partnerships with several leading Asian financial institutes
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Magenta Venture Partners Announces Early Stage Fund Targeting $100 Million

14.01.19|Lilach Baumer
The Israel-based fund, founded in October 2018, is a partnership between two Israeli venture capitalists and Japanese trading company Mitsui & Co.
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The BIRD Foundation to Invest $7.3 Million in Eight Joint U.S.-Israeli Projects

08.01.19|Meir Orbach
The foundation will invest across a variety of technological domains including agtech, medical devices, digital health, and defense
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Chinese Delegation to Explore Cannabis Research Opportunities in Israel

07.01.19|Tzally Greenberg
A Chinese delegation will be landing in Israel next week to meet with Israeli cannabis researchers and companies
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SoftBank Ventures Invests in Fourth Israeli Startup, Venture Partner Says

03.01.19|Meir Orbach
Once completed, the transaction will bring the fund’s total investment in Israeli companies to about $20 million, according to Benjamin Weiss, venture partner at SoftBank Ventures Asia
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The Ten Biggest Investment Rounds in Israeli Tech in 2018

31.12.18|CTech
As the year comes to a close, CTech takes a look at the biggest funding rounds of the past 12 months
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Smart Mobility Startup Valerann Raises $5 Million Seed Round, Tech.eu Reports

25.12.18|CTech
The Tel Aviv-headquartered company announced a partnership with Bosch and Jaguar Land Rover in November
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Over Five Years, 3,307 Israeli Startups Went Belly Up

24.12.18|Adi Pick and Hagar Ravet
The now-defunct companies raised nearly $4 billion between them, almost a quarter of which was raised by once ambitious electric car company Better Place
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Cloud Security Startup Avanan Raises $25 Million

17.12.18|Hagar Ravet
Avanan offers organizations a cloud-based platform for monitoring and protecting employee usage of public applications
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Can More Israelis Join the Country’s Tech Boom? Two Reports Draw Conflicting Conclusions

16.12.18|Amarelle Wenkert and Hagar Ravet
Jewish, non-Orthodox men take up 74.1% of the country’s tech jobs. Two-thirds of the tech companies that participated in a survey reported having zero Arab employees
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Israeli Medical Device Company WhiteSwell Raises $30 Million

11.12.18|Lilach Baumer
WhiteSwell will use the funding to develop its catheter-based technology to treat a condition related to heart failure
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Israel and Brazil Sign R&D Collaboration Agreement

10.12.18|CTech
The joint venture will have a budget of $5 million over five years, to be financed by both countries
מדטרוניק מנכ"ל עומאר ישראק

Medtronic CEO Lands in Israel, Set to Meet with Netanyahu

02.12.18|Meir Orbach
In October, the company announced the acquisition of Israel-based surgical robotics company Mazor Robotics Ltd. for $1.34 billion
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Skoda Expands Israeli Presence with Three Startup Collaborations

02.12.18|Lilach Baumer
The Czech automaker established a technology scouting outpost in the country in 2017