Author: David Rutman

Israel’s Voca.ai Bought by Snapchat for $70 million Another exit for Startup Nation brought to you by Voca.ai. Snapchat has reportedly acquired Israeli startup Voca.ai for $70 million. Voca uses artificial intelligence to create realistic lifelike automated speech. Based in Herzilya, Israel, Voca.ai was founded in 2017 by Einav Itamar and Dr. Alan Bekker. Its […]

Israel’s Lightico Offers B2C Service Solutions Lightico, helps businesses make it easier for their customers. Lightico is an Israeli startup which offers an enterprise-consumer interaction platform. Its platform is used in B2C (Business to Customer) relations. The company just brought in $13 million in new funding in an investment round led by Oxx, with participation […]

Charles Schumer Reelected Senate Minority Leader Unanimously In a unanimous vote, Democratic Senators have decided that Charles Schumer will continue to serve as their leader. The senior Senator from New York has been in the Senate since 1999. Today the Democrats are still in the minority in the U.S. Senate. The new Senate will be […]

Peregrine Ventures launches new $300 million fund to focus on late-stage life science companies Peregrine Ventures, an Israeli venture capital firm today announced the launch of a new growth fund, Peregrine Growth, which focuses on late-stage life science companies.  Peregrine closed $101 million of the planned $300 million fund, with participation of leading Israeli institutional […]

Technion Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence to Generate Jazz Solos These Solos are described as personalized and match human-specific preferences. Students from the Technion’s Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science in Haifa, Nadav Bhonker (already graduated) and Shunit Haviv Hakimi, together with their advisor Professor Ran El-Yaniv have shown that it is possible to […]

Celsius Network Now Holds $2.2 Billion A cryptocurrency platform, Celsius Network has doubled its assets in just six months. Celsius Network, a cryptocurrency lending and borrowing platform, it has surpassed $2.2 billion worth of assets it holds under management. Founded in 2017 by Israelis S. Daniel Leon and Alex Mashinsky, Celsius provides an earning and […]

With Trump gone, Netanyahu should worry for his future Opinion: Though PM’s base is still with him, center and left-wing voters change tactics, alongside those used to stay home and bemoan the current state of affairs, reaching a boiling point and rallying in the street Baruch Leshem In Israel, the Likud party released a very […]

Is Rahm Emanuel Headed to Joe Biden’s Cabinet? Rahm Emanuel’s brother Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is already on the Biden team. Rahm Emanuel, former Mayor of Chicago, the former White House Chief of Staff and former Congressman, is being touted as a possible member of President Elect Joe Biden’s future cabinet. But with all of his […]

There Are 300 Million Possible Other Earths Out There These planets are known as exoplanets. According to NASA, about half of the stars out there which are similar to our own sun have planets which could sustain life. This amounts to as many as 300 million worlds which could possibly be colonized by human beings […]

Check Point Software Is Changing Its Office Concepts And the Israeli company just released a new cyber security platform called Check Point R81. We all know that Israel’s Check Point Software pioneered the fire wall for internet security, but now the company is innovating in the ways how people work. In part due to the […]