Author: David Leibermann

HoneyBook CEO Oz Alon, his wife Naama Alon CPO, and CTO Dror Shimoni  Photo: Amit Shaal The Israeli Fintech startup, which has already booked over $1.9 billion in bookings for 2021 alone, has raised more than $400 million in the last six months. Six months after raising a $155 million Series D round, Israeli Fintech […]

Oxeye founders L-R Ron Vider and Dean Agron / credit David Garb Oxeye, a next-generation cloud-native application security testing has raised $5.3 million seed financing round led by MoreVC, an Israeli seed-stage venture capital firm. The latest round of financing includes participation from i3 Equity Partners and other cybersecurity-focused investors as the company prepares to […]

Israel’s Manhattan Mansion / Source Douglas Elliman The State of Israel is selling the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations’ residence in Manhattan, New York, for $11.75 million, Ynet news reports. The Israeli government paid businessman Roy Chuck $ 99,000 for the property. The historic building is on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and […]

Spike, an Israeli startup that offers new e mail tech, has joined up with Facebook and its Occulus platform to become a part of the new Meta brand that Facebook is becoming. In doing so, Spike says that it is joining the metaverse. Founded by CEO Dvir Ben Aroya and CTO Erez Pilosof, Spike calls […]

Israeli agtech startup Vertical Field is bringing its tech for growing food to Russia and Ukraine. As the company’s name implies, Vertical Field can grow food up to down, like on the side of a building or alongside a cliff. Think of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, only someday it will be the Hanging Gardens […]

Jacob Steinmetz, Arizona’s No. 25 ranked prospect by MLB / source ABC7 New York , screenshot by Contributing Author The Arizona Diamondbacks will rely on a rapidly improving farm system to help them eventually return to contention. It won’t be easy, considering the division features the annual powerhouse Los Angeles Dodgers, the 107-win San Francisco […]

Augruy co-founders Gal Shaul (left) and Saar Yoskovitz. Photo Ori Habushi Augury, an Israeli startup that works in the field of internet of things IOT and AI-driven Machine health solutions, has hit unicorn status after raising $180 million in new funding. This brings Augury’s post-funding valuation to over $1 billion. Augury has now raised a […]

GCEC Baltimore- ASPER – HUJI Innovate Deputy Director, Ayelet Cohen accepted the prize together with Yotam Zach, Program manager at ASPER-HUJI Innovate The Innovation Centers of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have been awarded two of the world’s most prestigious accolades for higher education entrepreneurship. The Hebrew University Center […]

Scentech Medical COVID-19 breath test Listen to this amazing story brought to you by Israeli Calcalist. According to Calcalist, in 1998 Harel Hershtik, a 20-years old from Kibbutz Degania Bet, murdered Yaakov Sela, his mother’s lover whom he stole several thousand NIS from. Hershtik was caught. Instead of returning the money, he killed the man. […]

Dr. Robert Montgomery, the H. Leon Pachter, MD, Professor and chair of the Department of Surgery at NYU Langone and director of its Transplant Institute, performs the first xenotransplantation of a genetically engineered nonhuman kidney to a human at NYU Langone Health. Credit Joe Carrotta for NYU Langone Health History was made by doctors at […]