Author: David Rutman

Seagram’s Heir Jeremy Bronfman Pays $30 Million for Santa Monica Estate He will live there with his wife Stephanie Beck Bronfman. Jeremy Bronfman House Google Maps Jeremy Bronfman, heir to the great Seagram’s family fortune, has bought a new home in Santa Monica, California for $30 million. He will live there with his wife Stephanie […]

Israel High Tech Scene Week in Review Mar 20 – 26 (Happy Pesach!) Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel We have a short week this week because of the Passover holiday this weekend. New Startups Israeli Industrial Cybersecurity Company SCADAfence Protects Companies On Line (JBN)The company just raised $12 million. SCADAfence is an Israeli startup in […]

Israeli Driver Safety Startup SaverOne Looking to Expand to the NASDAQ The company already lists on the TASE. SaverOne is an Israeli company which offers a new system takes which can take control over a driver’s telephone and prevent the use of dangerous applications. Globes reports that the company is thinking of offering its shares […]

Israeli Startup StarkWare Offers Cybersecurity Solutions The company just raised $75 million. StarkWare is an Israeli cybersecurity startup which specializes in the development of solutions for enlarging blockchain capacity. The company just completed a $75 million financing round led by Paradigm and with the participation of existing investors Sequoia and Funders Fund, DCVC, Pantera and […]

Utilis Is an Israeli Startup Which Finds New Underground Sources of Water The company just raised $6 million. Utilis Corp Team Twitter Israeli startup Utilis calls itself a pioneer of satellite-based infrastructure intelligence. It basically uses satellites to detect underground sources of water. The company has raised $6 million from Beringea, a transatlantic venture capital […]

Israeli’s Morphisec Offers Cloud Security and Ransomware Defense Cybersecurity is more important than ever. Morphisec Copany Pic Morphisec is an Israeli cybersecurity startup which offers in cloud-delivered endpoint and server security solution. It just raised $31 million in funding led by JVP. Other existing investors, including Orange and Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, also participated in […]

NASA Teams with Israel’s Agro-Tech Company The new arrangement will give NASA Harvest unprecedented soil insights for its global agricultural monitoring efforts. NASA Harvest (NASA’s Food Security and Agriculture Program) and CropX, an Israeli firm which specializes in soil analytics for agriculture, have entered into a strategic partnership. The new arrangement will give NASA Harvest […]

Marc Benioff’s Salesforce.com To Face Sex-Trafficking Charges in Texas The charges are related to Backpage.com. Salesforce.com, a company owned by Mar Benioff which offers a CRM for companies’ sales systems, will now be required to face charges must face state and federal charges over the facilitation of sex-trafficking. The charges are related to the now […]

Waze Founder Noam Bardin Promotes New Company Paygo Media Paygo Media helps websites monetize their content. Noam Bardin has a new company called Paygo Media. The Israeli founder of Waze and former Google exec is now trying to help people access content on line which is available only to paid subscribers. Paygo lets users pay […]

New York State to Legalize Marijuana Marijuana legalization would net NY $350M a year. Lawmakers in New York have come to an agreement on the legalization of marijuana in the state. A new law, if passed, would allow people over the age of 21 to engage in the use of marijuana for recreational purposes. The […]