Monthly Archives: July 2021

The Jerusalem Botanical Gardens

These beautiful free videos from Jerusalem’s Botanical Gardens include “Autumn in the Eastern Mediterranean” and “A virtual tour of the JBG” by Dr Ori Fragman-Sapir, plus “Saving rare and endangered species” by Omri Bachrach. Donate or become a Friend of … Continue reading

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AnyVision is another Unicorn

Israel’s AnyVision (see here previously) makes face recognition technology. It has just raised $235 million to speed up growth and development of its software. It is one of the largest visual intelligence funding rounds, giving AnyVision a market value of … Continue reading

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Motorsport technology for Porche

Porsche Ventures, has invested in Israeli motorsport technology startup Griiip (see here previously). Griiip has developed a cloud-based data platform called RAMP (Racing Media Platform) that enables the transmission of motorsport data directly from the racing car. https://nocamels.com/2021/07/porsche-israeli-motorsport-tech-startup-griiip/

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Investment in Israeli startups: 11/7/21

AnyVision raised $235 million; Outbrain raised $200 million; Orca Security raised $150 million; Aleph Farms raised $105 million; Silk Technologies raised $55 million; CoreTigo raised $13 million; NanoLock Security raised $11 million; BioT raised $6.5 million; Medorion raised $6 million; … Continue reading

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Encouraging Israeli fintech

Israel has introduced two bills to encourage Israeli fintech (financial technology) companies to operate in Israel as well as overseas. Removing regulatory barriers for their Israeli activities Israel and tripling the amount of credit that they can offer to their … Continue reading

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Don’t get left behind

When Israel’s IronSource went public last week, it generated 230 new Israeli millionaires and they will change Israeli society. The opportunities are out there – Israel still has more than 13,000 hi-tech job vacancies. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3911652,00.html https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3911676,00.html

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Tel Aviv is booming

The Tel Aviv Innovation Ecosystem Report 2020 shows that the Israeli tech scene, and specifically Tel Aviv, is thriving. Tel Aviv is home to 20 unicorn companies – 14 having reached a valuation of over $1 billion in 2020 alone.  … Continue reading

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On the road to recovery

A key sign that Israel has turned an economic corner is June’s all-time record month of 30,000 new car deliveries. 183,000 cars were delivered in the first six months of 2021 – almost equal to all of 2020.  The world-wide … Continue reading

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Europe’s Top AI Institute

CSRankings, the leading metrics-based ranking of top computer science institutions around the world, has ranked the Technion in first place in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Europe, and 15th worldwide. In the subfield of machine learning, the Technion … Continue reading

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Israel’s first facility to treat brackish water

Israel’s IDE Water Technologies has launched the Afikey Maim reclamation plant – a first of its kind brackish/surface water reverse osmosis (BWRO) plant in Israel. It will transform 2 million cubic meters a year of polluted water from the southern … Continue reading

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