Israel High Tech Scene Feb 13 – 18

Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel New Startups / VC FundingIsraeli Startup WSC Sports Raises $100 MillionWSC Sports, an Israeli startup that develops tech for AI-driven sports highlights, has closed a $100M Series D round, led by ION Crossover Partners (ICP). The company plans to use the new funding to support its aggressive growth plans for […]

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Permit.io Raises $6 Million Seed to Streamline Permissions in Cloud-Native Applications

Access control interfaces are a must for modern systems: Permit team/ Photo: Adi Lamm Permit.io, the full-stack authorization framework that enables developers to quickly integrate access control into cloud-native applications, emerged from stealth today with $6 million in venture funding. Or Weis, former CEO and Co-Founder of Rookout, and Asaf Cohen, a former software engineer […]

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Blackstone acquires James Packer’s Crown casino empire for $6.5 billion

Blackstone acquires James Packer’s Crown casino empire. Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone Australia’s largest casino operator Crown Resorts has decided to enter into takeover negotiations with Blackstone after the US private equity firm increased its offer to approximately A$8.9bn (US$6.5 billion). Blackstone already owns 9.99 percent of Crown. Crown’s shares increased by as much as 9% following the […]

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Vicarius Raises $24 Million for Cyber Security

Vicarius Founders (company pic) Vicarius, yet another Israeli cyber security startup and one which has developed an autonomous vulnerability remediation platform, raised $24 million in Series A funding led by AllegisCyber Capital, JVP, and AlleyCorp. Founded in 2016 by the security experts Michael Assraf, Yossi Ze’evi and Roi Cohen, Vicarius protects clients against the exploitation […]

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