Author: David Leibermann

EquityBee Israel team (co PR pic) EquityBee, an Israeli startup that provides an employee-focused stock options funding solution, is making layoffs. The company is letting go of about 25 of its employees in Israel, or roughly 20% of its total workforce. The company has raised $85 million in total investment to date. Israel Startup Nation […]

  By Adv. Nechama Tzivin * The Supreme Court ruling that was published in 2021, on the subject of conversion, is no less than a huge loss and damage to the Jewish cause in the State of Israel, it emphasizes the poor status and condition of the religious parties and especially the ultra-Orthodox in the […]

Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel Startup Israel New Startups / VC FundingTrigo Raises $100 MillionTrigo, an Israeli startup that offers retailers new technologies for in store customer service and checkout, raised $100 million in a new equity financing round led by Singapore state investment firm Temasek Holdings and 83North. Founded in 2018 by brothers Michael […]

By Contributing Author The volatile economy and shaky stock market are just two reasons for a surge of interest in startup companies. Working adults are choosing to start small businesses as a way to offset the effects of inflation, and launching a new company is one of the best ways to develop a reliable second […]

Amy Leinbach, the founder of children’s tool company Big Bee, Little Bee with her daughter If you want to get advice on being an entrepreneur, listen to Mark Cuban. The billionaire businessman gives out such advice on his reality show “Shark Tank.” Mark Cuban is one of a panel of judges who decide if a […]

SNYK Facebook pic Snyk, an Israeli cybersecurity startup in the field of cloud native application security, is the second Israel Startup Nation firm on Monday alone to reveal that it is forced to make cutback in its workforce. The company is laying off 198 of its employees, or about 14% of its workforce. Synk previously […]

A desert region – The Fredy & Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences at Hebrew University A new project, led by Dr. Assaf Hochman at the Fredy & Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU), in collaboration with Dr. Paolo De Luca at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Dr. […]

Iran’s Generation Z Protests, 2022/ Photo credit Taymaz Valley / Flicker by Neville Teller             The Washington-based Pew Research Center, founded in 1996, has made its name by investigating the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world.  Part of its early work involved studying the last generational cohort before the millennium.  It named them the […]

Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel New Startups / VC FundingOSSIO Raises $38.5 Million For New Orthopedic Med TechOssio, an Israeli medtech startup that develops orthopedic fixation technology announced today that it closed a $38.5 million Series C financing round led by Growth equity firm MVM Partners. In other good news for Ossio, the company its […]

Giphy (website pic) The British Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has ordered that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, sell its Giphy subsidiary due to antitrust concerns. Meta said that it disagrees with the ruling, but will comply with it. Facebook has been under scrutiny over monopolistic practices for some time as it also owns […]