Author: David Leibermann

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 […]

Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel Startup Israel New Startups / VC FundingTeddy Sagi Returns To FinTech With New Startup Pay.ComTeddy Sagi is making a comeback in the fintech sector with the launch of a new startup, Pay.com, three years after selling payment solutions company SafeCharge to Nuvei for $889 million. Pay.com was founded in 2020 […]

EastMed pipeline canceled by Biden administration Tamar rig / by Ilan Nissim / Energy Ministry by Neville Teller Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in unprecedented unity of action by the Western world.  Acting in concert, the West has imposed the heaviest sanctions yet on Russia and its leaders.  The country has been isolated across […]

L-R Volodymyr Zelensky, Naftali Bennet, Vladimir Putin The British publication Financial Times stated last night that Russia and Ukraine talks were led by Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett who “has served as the key international mediator in the talks.” FT which was the first to publish the 15-point peace plan, aimed at putting an end […]