Monthly Archives: July 2024

Driving economic recovery in the North

Posted on July 7, 2024

Startup Nation Central is partnering with Tzafon Medical Center near Tiberias to help drive economic recovery in northern Israel. Startup Nation Central will help Tzafon train medical staff, create global partnerships, and connect to the local and global health tech … Continue reading →

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3-week response

Posted on July 7, 2024

eHealth Ventures specializes in early-stage health tech startups. It operates a fast-track investment program that promises a response to all investment requests within three weeks. A positive response guarantees an investment of NIS 3 – 3.5 million within three months … Continue reading →

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$80 million Korean fund

Posted on July 7, 2024

The South Korean NHOC Global Open Innovation fund will invest in DeepTech (engineering and scientific innovation) startups in Israel & South Korea. It will be one of the largest international investment funds, aiming to invest $80 million in some 30 … Continue reading →

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Best funding quarter in two years

Posted on July 7, 2024

Israeli startups raised $1.9 billion in funding in the second quarter of 2024 – its best quarter since Q4 2022. A further $1 billion was raised by Wiz – the highest raised in one round in Israeli history. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1fo1ac8r

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The best speech to text

Posted on July 7, 2024

Israel’s aiOla (see here previously) won the “Best Speech to Text Solution” award at the annual AI Breakthrough Awards. aiOla’s Natural Language Processing and Automatic Speech Recognition accurately interprets complex jargon, acronyms and accents in 100 languages, regardless of background … Continue reading →

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Turning wastewater into protein

Posted on July 7, 2024

Israel’s Fabumin (see here previously) purifies the wastewater discharged from the vegetable processing industry, extracting the “mud” to make “aquafaba” – an egg substitute. Clean water and “no-chicken” eggs. https://nocamels.com/2024/06/no-yolk-egg-alternative-made-from-aquafaba-tastes-like-real-thing/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFGoUBApbQY

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A sustainable solution to weed control

Posted on July 7, 2024

One of the Israeli startups on show at Israel’s 2024 PlaneTech conference in Tel Aviv was AgriPass. Its (proof of concept) tool mimics a human laborer with modern tech. AI-powered sensors identify the weeds, map the terrain, and instruct the … Continue reading →

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DeserTech Innovation Center

Posted on July 7, 2024

The DeserTech Innovation Center in Beer Sheva is part of the World Zionist Village, which aims to create a Living Lab for research, education and development of startups. It will be a hub for DeserTech, ClimaTech, AgTech, FoodTech, clean energy, … Continue reading →

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Light years ahead of time

Posted on July 7, 2024

Israel’s CogniFiber is developing DeepLight photonic processors that utilize multi-core optical fibers to process data at the speed of light. It means processing speeds can increase up to 1,000 times, while using only 1% of the energy. https://www.cognifiber.com/ https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1r07pmvc

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An AI matchmaker

Posted on July 7, 2024

Israel’s Heyoosh is the world’s first AI-based personal matchmaker. The founders’ main goal was to make the digital dating environment safer. Currently only available on iPhone, it allows users to get to know each other’s personalities, rather than appearance. Images … Continue reading →

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