Author: David Leibermann

Miriam Schwab Strattic CEO (courtesy) (Disclaimer: JBN uses Strattic’s services.)  Strattic is an Israeli startup that offers services for users of the popular open source web developing program WordPress. And the company is expanding, acquiring fellow startup WP2Static in February. Strattic was founded in 2018 by CEO Miriam Schwab and COO Josh Lawrence. A mother […]

ChargeAfter team. (ChargeAfter) ChargeAfter, an Israeli fintech startup that offers a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) consumer financing network, brought in $44 million in a Series B round of investment led by The Phoenix. ChargeAfter has now brought in $60 million in investment to date. Investopedia explains that BNPL is a type of short-term financing […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky may have miscalculated in an address that he made to Israel’s Knesset Sunday evening pleading for more help to defend against Russia’s invasion of his country. The speech, which was made through teleconferencing from his office in Kyiv, came after a similar long distance address was given by Zelensky to the […]

Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel Startup Israel New Startups / VC FundingTeddy Sagi Returns To FinTech With New Startup Pay.ComTeddy Sagi is making a comeback in the fintech sector with the launch of a new startup, Pay.com, three years after selling payment solutions company SafeCharge to Nuvei for $889 million. Pay.com was founded in 2020 […]

EastMed pipeline canceled by Biden administration Tamar rig / by Ilan Nissim / Energy Ministry by Neville Teller Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in unprecedented unity of action by the Western world.  Acting in concert, the West has imposed the heaviest sanctions yet on Russia and its leaders.  The country has been isolated across […]

L-R Volodymyr Zelensky, Naftali Bennet, Vladimir Putin The British publication Financial Times stated last night that Russia and Ukraine talks were led by Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett who “has served as the key international mediator in the talks.” FT which was the first to publish the 15-point peace plan, aimed at putting an end […]

Attivo Networks Ad SentinelOne, an Israeli cybersecurity firm, is buying out Attivo Networks, an American identity security and lateral movement protection company, in a cash and stock transaction valued at $616.5 million and is expected to close in SentinelOne’s upcoming fiscal second quarter,. SentinelOne currently has a market cap of almost $9 billion. SentinelOne said […]

Affogata Team (Photo Reiss Studio) Affogata, an Israeli startup that offers businesses a customer intelligence platform, has now brought in a total of $9.5 million in seed funding. The company added $4 million to the $5.5 million that it raised in April of 2021. Founded in 2019 by Sharel Omer Ran Margaliot and Itamar Rogel, […]

Israel’s Nuclear reactor in Dimona by Louis Rene Beres “Deterrence is not just a matter of military capabilities. It has a great deal to do with perceptions of credibility.” – Herman Kahn, Thinking About the Unthinkable in the 1980s (1984) Abstract: Theoretic assessments of Israel’s nuclear strategy – especially ones concerning a prospective shift from […]

DataRails Leaders (PR Pic from webdsite) DataRails, an Israeli fintech startup that offers a financial solution designed for SMEs, has raised $50 million in a Series B round of investment. DataRails has now brought in a total of $105 million in investments to date. SMEs are small and mid-sized businesses. Fintech is anything new having […]