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Partnering to advance AI

Posted on September 18, 2022

Celebrating 50 years in Israel, IBM is partnering Israel’s Technion Institute and Hebrew University of Jerusalem to advance artificial intelligence capabilities and applications in Israel. IBM will fund AI research into Natural Language processing, medicine discovery and multi-cloud computing. https://www.afhu.org/2022/09/08/hebrew-university-and-the-technion-partner-with-ibm-to-advance-artificial-intelligence/ … Continue reading →

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Solving the airline chaos

Posted on July 10, 2022

OurCrowd hosted CEOs from Israeli startups SeeTrue, IntellAct, Freightos, and IBM’s digital transformation executive advisor to discuss how technology can improve our jet-lagged transportation networks. https://events.ourcrowd.com/on-demand/

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Investment in Israeli startups to 10/7/22

Posted on July 10, 2022

Voyantis raised $19 million; Phytolon raised $14.5 million; Spiritt raised $5.5 million; Opster raised $5 million; Maolac raised $3.2 million; IBM has acquired Israel’s DataBand;

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Eliminating malaria in Africa

Posted on June 27, 2021

Israel’s ZzappMalaria (see here previously) uses AI to combat malaria. It has won first place and $3 million in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Competition. ZzappMalaria also won the People’s Choice Award as the “Most Inspiring Team.” It is running … Continue reading →

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Zapping malaria-spreading mosquitos

Posted on March 7, 2021

Israel’s zzappmalaria uses topographical analysis to determine the formation of bodies of water. It helps professionals scan the fields, find these bodies of water where mosquitos may breed, and upload them to the system so that the spraying team can … Continue reading →

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Investment in Israeli startups:

Posted on December 6, 2020

Bizzabo raised $138 million; Envoy raised $81 million; Mitrassist Medical raised $50 million; Logz.io raised $23 million; Databand raised $14.5 million; Caja Robotics raised $12 million; Tipa raised $4 million; NewRocket raised $1 million;

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Tracing problems in the data pipeline

Posted on December 6, 2020

Companies these days regard their data as important as their electricity or water supply. Israel’s Databand helps scientists and data engineers resolve problems with their data, such as failed processes, why data updates are running late, and how system changes … Continue reading →

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Foundations of Quantum computing

Posted on November 8, 2020

Can you be in two places at the same time?  Yes, if you attended Israel Technion’s Quantum computing summer school. 220 students took the 6-day course. It introduced them to the foundations of quantum computing theory and to practical programming … Continue reading →

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An expert health fund

Posted on October 26, 2020

Veteran medical and financial experts have partnered together to form Medination – a new health-tech fund. Its team originates from Teva, IBM, BGU, Hadassah, TLV Medical Center, Ichilov-Tech, Clal and VC fund managers. Medination will invest in breakthrough stage R&D … Continue reading →

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Med-tech startups pitch up

Posted on July 5, 2020

Five graduates of the Hadassah IBM Alpha Zone Accelerator presented their solutions to investors. Their products included wearable pain relief, distance eye diagnosis, preventing medication errors in hospitals, help for stroke patients and a brain-wave sleep headband. https://www.ukisraelhub.com/event/il-hadassah-acclerator-class-2-demo-day/

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