Author: David Rutman

IronSource to Be Valued At $8 Billion in Israel’s Biggest IPO Ever Startup Nation scores its biggest exit yet with ironSource.. Israeli tech startup ironSource is planning to hold its IPO in the first half of 2021. Goldman Sachs is expected to be the underwriter of the IPO, which very well might be the largest […]

Larry Ellison May Not Get TikTok After All ByteDance had agreed to create a new and independent company called TikTok Global which Oracle would run. Remember back in September when TikTok and Larry Ellison’s Oracle looked like they had sealed the deal for Oracle to buy a new company which would control TikTok’s American operations? […]

Israeli Scientists Developed AI Technology to Detect Early Suicidal Tendencies Israeli researchers have developed an innovative technology for early detection of suicidal tendencies based on automatic text analysis of social network content Suicide is the number one cause for young people under the age of 24 and a significant cause of death worldwide. Approximately one […]

Instagram Marketing: How to Use Instagram For Business By Contributing Author Instagram has a great potential to be a marketplace. It is already being used as a marketplace by big brands and influencers to generate some revenue by using the platform. If you are looking to promote your business on Instagram then you need to […]

U.S. bankruptcy court approves sale of J.C. Penney JC Penney Simon Property and Brookfield, and J.C. Penney’s main creditors will become its new owners as it emerges from bankruptcy by Thanksgiving. JC Penny filed for Chapter 11 in bankruptcy proceedings in May due to collapse during the coronavirus pandemic. Under the agreement, America’s largest mall owners to […]

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 […]