Author: David Rutman

912 Israeli startups operate in the EU countries, employing 24,223 workers According to a first-of-its-kind map of Israeli high-tech companies operating in Europe, 912 startups are active in 28 EU countries, employing 24,223 Europeans. More than third companies are in the information and software technology market, with the rest in the internet, telecommunications, biomedical, and […]

Israeli Content Recommendation Co Outbrain Set for IPO Outbrain goes public after almost merging with Taboola. Outbrain Inc., an Israeli startup which offers content recommendation to businesses, announced that it has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) relating to the proposed initial public offering […]

Israeli Payroll Startup Co Deel Hits $1.25 Billion Valuation That’s the tenth unicorn for Startup Nation this year. Deel Team (PR Pic from company blog post) Deel, an Israeli startup which deals with payroll solutions for firms with international staffs, has just become a unicorn. The company hit a $1.25 billion valuation by bringing in […]

Israeli Heads of Binary Options Firm SpotOption Charged By SEC With Fraud Israel was forced to ban binary options after a scandal over fraudulent firms. SpotOption’s former website home page. The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Israeli-based binary options firm Spot Tech House Ltd., formerly known as Spot Option Ltd., and two of its […]

Can humans talk with Whales? Research Project Aiming to do just that Mother and baby sperm whale/ Gabriel Barathieu In a joint five-year interdisciplinary research study with MIT, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Israel’s Haifa University, and other prestigious institutions, marine scientists hope to decipher how sperm whales speak with each other and if the speech patterns […]

Israeli Strartup Montfort transforms Mental Health into an Exact Science Montfort (Mon4T) help diagnose and treat psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia. /photo Montfort  Montfort (Mon4T), an innovative medical startup specializing in neurological disorders, announces a new platform to help diagnose and treat psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia. The development is based on ‘Brain Profiler’, a […]

Roman Abramovich Kills New Soccer Super League He took his Chelsea club out of the new league before it even started. Chelsea Fans Protest Team’s Move (YouTube Pic) Jewish billionaire Roman Abramovich may have just singlehandedly felled the new European soccer super league before it ever even got off the ground. He decided that his […]

Microsoft to Open New Israel Data Center in Early 2022 The company will spend more than $1 billion in Israel. Microsoft SFT new campus- Amit Geron Microsoft has announced that its new Israeli data center will open in 2022. The center is currently under construction in the town of Modiin which is located about halfway […]

Jeff Weiner, executive chairman of LinkedIn funds Israeli startup Loris.AI Loris has developed a system that helps customer service agents provide an adequate response instead of bots that may estrange customers Jeff Weiner/ Wikipedia. Photo source: TechCrunch on Flickr  Jeff Weiner, executive chairman of LinkedIn, funds the startup company Loris.AI as part of a $5.1 million […]

Taboola Beats Q1 Expectations Ahead of Planned IPO It brought in more than $300 million. Taboola, the Israeli web content recommendation company, had a better than expected first quarter for 2021. Taboola reported revenues of $300 million to $303 million, versus the prior projection of just $286 million. Hopefully this is a sign that the […]