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Israel leads in B2D

Posted on June 27, 2021

The Israeli Business to Developer (B2D) sector is growing as companies develop products that automate and simplify the jobs of highly sought-after hi-tech developers. Examples include Lumigo, Orca Security, OwnBackup, Redis, Snyk and JFrog. (All but Lumigo featured here previously). … Continue reading →

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The Israeli Arab that founded a Unicorn

Posted on June 6, 2021

Wagde Zabit describes growing up in the Israeli Muslim Galilee town of Kafr Mand. As a five-year-old he received a present of his first computer. Much later he graduated from Israel’s Technion to co-found Israeli cybersecurity startup Orca Security, now … Continue reading →

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Latest Unicorns

Posted on March 31, 2021

Israel’s Yotpo (see here) has just raised $230 million to give it a market valuation of $1.4 billion. Simultaneously, Israel’s Orca Security (see here) raised $210 million for a $1.2 billion valuation. https://www.timesofisrael.com/ecommerce-marketing-startup-yotpo-raises-230m-hits-1-4-billion-valuation/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAdYLzvuvFo https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3901012,00.html https://orca.security/

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Investment in Israeli startups (30/3/21)

Posted on March 31, 2021

Yotpo raised $230 million; Orca Security raised $210 million; Incredibuild raised $140 million; Veev raised $100 million; StarkWare raised $75 million; Axis Security raised $50 million; SCADAFence raised $12 million; Utilis (now Asterra) raised $6 million;

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Intel ignites more startups

Posted on October 26, 2020

Intel Israel has selected 10 Israeli startups for the 3rd cohort of its Ignite TLV AI accelerator program (reported here previously). They are Armo, Bria.ai, Komodor, Konnecto, Lightsolver, Lynx, Oolo, Orca AI, Solvo and Valerann. Only Orca and Valerann have … Continue reading →

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Israeli recovers Catalonian Jewish prayer book

Posted on September 13, 2020

National Library of Israel director of rare books Dr. Idan Perez has won a Catalan culture prize for his publication of the “Sidur Catalunya,” the first complete recreation of a prayer book used by the Jews of Catalonia, Valencia and … Continue reading →

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More funds for Israeli startups

Posted on May 10, 2020

This week, Otonomo raised $46 million; GigaSpaces raised $12 million, Pluristem is raising $15 million, Orca Security raised $20 million, Hargol raised $3 million, Hub Security raised $5 million and Ermetic raised $10 million. https://orca.security/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58-4UOELehQ https://hubsecurity.io/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXnzxRXq-JA https://ermetic.com/

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Israir’s new direct flights

Posted on January 26, 2020

Israeli carrier Israir Airlines is to launch a new weekly route from Tel Aviv to the Armenian capital, Yerevan. It also plans to launch seasonal routes from Tel Aviv to Palma de Mallorca in Spain and the Latvian capital Riga. … Continue reading →

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Preventing ships from colliding

Posted on February 16, 2019

Israel’s Orca AI develops a sensor-based imaging technology to prevent collisions between maritime vessels. It has been installed on several Ray Car Carriers vessels as part of a pilot program.  Orca has just raised $2.3 million of funding. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3755531,00.html https://www.orca-ai.io/

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