Author: David Leibermann

Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel Startup Israel New Startups / VC FundingTotango Raises $100 MillionTotango is an Israeli startup that leverages data to orchestrate and transform revenue experiences. Totango has raised $100 million in Series D funding led by Great Hill Partners, a thematic growth equity investor that targets leading businesses in disruptive markets. Existing […]

Le Royal Excel Mouscron / youtube Pini Zahavi, football’s most influential agent, one of the most famous football agents, has been indicted by the Brussels investigating judge Michel Claise for forgery, use of forgery, fraud, and money laundering, according to Belgium media reports. Pini Zahavi, was allegedly at the center of the investigation and an indictment […]

French mobile gaming company Voodoo acquires Israeli gaming startup Beach Bum for $500 million, according to Calcalist. This is Voodoo’s second acquisition of an Israeli company. Earlier this year it added Tel-Aviv-based gaming marketing platform Bidshake to its portfolio paying an unknown sum. Beach Bum is a mobile interactive game developer for players with challenges, […]

Professor Eliezer Rabinovici, 24th President of the CERN Council (Image CERN) CERN Council in Geneva has been elected Professor Eliezer Rabinovici of the Hebrew University its 24th president. CERN, the world’s largest particle accelerator research center, is an organization of 23 countries, including Israel, the only non-European country. Israel joined as a full member in December […]

Optimove Team (company PR pic) Optimove is an Israeli startup that offers a Customer Service Management (CRM) marketing service. The company is celebrating the end of the Sukkot holiday with a $75 million cash investment, led by global growth investor Summit Partners. Optimove also announced the addition of Summit Partners’ Managing Director Steffan Peyer, and […]

Buligo Capital Leadership Team Buligo Capital, an Israeli real estate firm, is holding its initial public offering IPO on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange TASE. The company has already raised $20 million, and has reached a total valuation of $100 million. Buligo Capital will begin trading officially on the TASE on Thursday. Buligo Capital Partners […]

Palestinians protesting against their own government/ Screenshot from BBC by Neville Teller In the small hours of June 24, 2021 fourteen Palestinian Authority (PA) security officers burst into a house in Hebron, made for a room where 42-year-old Nizar Banat was sleeping and, according to his family, began beating him with metal bars. Security camera […]

Leonardo Dicaprio in The Departed (screen shot) Leonardo DiCaprio, the Oscar winning movie star, has invested in the Israeli alternative meat producing startup Aleph Farms. This marks Leonardo DiCaprio’s biggest Israeli investment, or deposit as the case may be, since he dated Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli. The “Reverent” star’s investment came as part of Aleph […]

Pictured left to right BGU VP for Global Engagement Prof. Limor Aharonson-Daniel, BGU President Prof. Daniel Chamovitz, BGU Rector Prof. Chaim Hames​ (BGU press pic) A year after the signing of the Abraham Accords, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel and Université Internationale de Rabat (UIR) in Morocco signed a historic Memorandum of […]