Author: David Leibermann

Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman / Facebook Pershing Square Capital Management, the hedge fund run by billionaire activist investor Bill Ackman, has appointed Ryan Israel as Chief Investment Officer. Some observers are speculating that Bill Ackman may be ready to pass the torch onto someone else. On the appointment, Bill Ackman told his investors, “I […]

AccessiBe AccessiBe, an Israeli startup that offers a platform for making websites accessible to people with disabilities, raised $30 million in an extension of its Series A round led by private equity firm K1 Investment Management LLC. The funding round has now brought in a total of $58 million in investment. Yes, it is true! […]

Assaf Resnick, co-founder and CEO of BigPanda. Courtesy BigPanda, an Israeli unicorn that develops an AIOps event correlation and automation platform, has raised an additional $15 million in new investments from existing customers UBS and Wells Fargo. This raise is an extension of the company’s $190 million raise made in January which at the time […]

Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel New Startups / VC FundingXinteza Unveils Way To Synthesize Cannabinoids From Non-Cannabis PlantsXinteza, an Israeli biosynthesis technology company, says that it has found a way to produce cannabis type synthesis from other plants in the Cannabacae family that are not known for producing the drug commonly known as marijuana. Xinteza […]

DriveNets team (Facebook pic) DriveNets, an Israeli startup that offers cloud-native networking solutions, raised $262 million in a Series C round of funding led by D2 Investments. The raise makes DriveNets yet another unicorn to come out of Israel Startup Nation. This raise by DriveNets constitutes some much needed good news for Startup Nation as […]

Guesty Team(company pic) Guesty, an Israeli startup that offers a property management platform for the short-term rental and hospitality industry, raised $170 Million in a Series E funding round, led by the Apax Digital Funds, MSD Partners and Sixth Street Growth. Guesty previously raised $50 million in a Series D round held in April 2021. […]

The ironSource management team in 2021 (Company PR pic) American video game company Unity Software and Israel-based ironSource which offers a multi-media platform, have completed their merger. The merger, which was first announced in July, came into doubt when another firm threw a wrench into the works. After the Unity/IronSource deal was first announced, gaming […]

Facebook is losing the younger generation to competitors like TikTok. This is according to a study conducted by the world-renowned Pew Research Center. Pew found that the share of teens using Facebook has declined sharply in the past decade. Today, 32% of teens report ever using Facebook, down 39 points since 2014-15, Please help us […]

Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel Startup Israel New Startups / VC FundingElbit Systems Joins Peregrine Ventures’ New NIS 300 Million Investment Consortium For Medical StartupsPeregrine Ventures, an Israeli investment firm dedicated to supporting life-changing healthcare opportunities, established a consortium of leading companies and research institutes that will invest NIS 300 million in medical startups. The […]

James Franco 11-22-63 promo pic James Franco is still trying to be taken seriously as an actor. The disgraced former wunderkind who started out as a teen movie idol – and a stoner idol along with buddy Seth Rogen – and who later began directing movies based on serious literature while pursuing a Ph.D. in […]