Author: David Leibermann

BeamUP team company photo by Ariel Efron) BeamUP, an Israeli startup that offers an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based platform that designs and manages enterprise building systems, has launched its service with a $15 million round of seed investment led by Israel-based StageOne Ventures and US-based Ibex Investors. So we can now say that BeamUp is […]

Granulate co-founders Asaf Ezra and Tal Saiag (company Photo) Intel Corporation has an agreement to acquire Granulate Cloud Solutions Ltd., an Israel-based developer of real-time continuous optimization software. While the terms of the deal were not disclosed, Calcalist reports that it could be worth as much as $650 million. Founded in 2018 by CEO Asaf […]

Cyera co-founders Yotam Segev, CEO, and Tamar Bar-Ilan, CTO Cyera, an Israeli startup offering cloud data security, launched from stealth with $60 million in funding. The company says that it will now lead the “data-first revolution” in cloud security. The financing, which comes just ten months after Cyera’s formation, was led by Sequoia Capital. Israel […]

Papaya Global Israeli startup Papaya Global, a fintech unicorn that offers a cloud based platform for companies to handle their payrolls, is acquiring Azimo, a British company that offers a digital cross border payments platform for as much as $200 million. The exact price was not revealed, but Calcalist reported that it could be worth […]

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett Meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Koby Gideon (GPO) Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett met on Sunday with the American Secretary of State Antony Blinken ahead of the historic “Negev Summit set to begin Sunday evening in Israel. Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid will host the […]

Datagen team (from website) Datagen, an Israeli startup that uses artificial intelligence (AI) for data-as-code, closed $50 million USD in Series B financing led by new investor Scale Venture Partners. This latest round of funding brings Datagen’s total financing to over $70 million. Code as data, or data as code, refers to the duality between […]

Howard Schultz Starbucks CEO (Wikipedia) Howard Schultz is making a comeback. He will take over as interim CEO of Starbucks while the company looks for a permanent replacement for Kevin Johnson who announced his retirement last week. “Although I did not plan to return to Starbucks, I know the company must transform once again to […]

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 […]