Author: David Leibermann

Otonomo Team (company pic) Otonomo Technologies Ltd., an Israeli mobility intelligence company, is the latest Israel Startup Nation firm to make cutbacks in its workforce and is even in danger of being dropped from the NASDAQ as a publicly traded company. The company, which only went public on the NASDAQ a little over a year […]

Prime Minister Yair Lapid meets Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Amman, in July 2022 / photo credit JORDANIAN ROYAL PALACE REUTERS by Neville Teller             As Israel’s foreign minister, Yair Lapid was generally accounted a notable success.  Proactive by temperament, he seemed tireless in his efforts to improve Israel’s standing on the world stage.  He […]

Magic Mushrooms are a popular psychedelic “party drug” that are illegal basically everywhere. But recent studies have shown that hallucinogens like “Magic Mushrooms” offer numerous benefits for the treatment of a variety of psychological issues such as PTSD. And now, researchers from NYU have found that psilocybin – the psychedelic compound found in “magic mushrooms” […]

EastMed pipeline canceled by Biden administration Tamar rig / by Ilan Nissim / Energy Ministry Revenues from Israel’s natural gas fields jumped by almost 50% in the first half of 2022. Israel has several natural gas fields off its coast in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, like the Tamar and Leviathan, that were discovered in recent […]

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. […]