Category: Business

Israel Tech Startups and Innovations: Weekly Roundup April 12 – April 25, 2025 New Startups / VC FundingIsraeli AI Healthtech Startup Healthee Secures $50M Series B Funding to Revolutionize Healthcare Cost ManagementHealthee, an Israeli startup offering an AI-powered platform transforming healthcare cost management, has successfully raised $50 million in a Series B funding round. The […]

The European Union has fined Apple and Meta Platforms a combined €700 million for breaching the bloc’s digital competition regulations, a move that could escalate tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump. And the Trump Administration has already issued angry statements about the move. Meta is the parent company of Mark Zuckerberg‘s Facebook, which has been […]

In 2024, the United States experienced a record-breaking surge in antisemitic incidents, with a total of 9,354 cases reported—the highest number ever recorded in the 46-year history of the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Audit of Antisemitic Incidents. This marks a 5% increase from 2023, when 8,873 incidents were documented. At the same time, coinciding with Holocaust […]

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen and his investment firm RC Ventures are facing a lawsuit filed by the company formerly known as Bed Bath & Beyond, seeking to recover $47.2 million in trading profits allegedly gained through insider trading. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan ruled that the case will proceed, stating […]

Kodiak Robotics, a leading developer of autonomous trucking technology and an OurCrowd portfolio company, has announced plans to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Ares Acquisition Corporation II (NYSE: AACT), according to TechCrunch. The deal values Kodiak at a pre-money valuation of approximately $2.5 billion and is anticipated to close […]

A breakthrough artificial intelligence (AI) tool RibbonFold is offering new insights into how disease-related proteins misfold, a process that plays a central role in neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Developed by Mingchen Chen of Changping Laboratory and Peter Wolynes of Rice University, the novel AI method—called RibbonFold—accurately predicts the structure of amyloids, twisted […]

O‘ahu’s iconic sandy beaches could face severe erosion by the end of the century, according to a new study from the Coastal Research Collaborative (CRC) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. The research, published in Scientific Reports, warns that 81% of O‘ahu’s coastline is at risk of erosion by 2100, with 40% of shoreline […]

Hertz, one of the world’s largest car rental companies, has announced a strategic partnership with Israeli AI startup UVeye to deploy automated vehicle inspection technology across its U.S. rental operations. This move marks a major shift in how Hertz maintains its fleet of over 500,000 vehicles worldwide. Historically, vehicle assessments in the rental industry have […]

A groundbreaking archaeological study by the University of Haifa, published in PLOS One, has uncovered direct evidence of tools used to produce the prestigious scarlet dye during the Iron Age (1100–600 BCE), overlapping with the First Temple period. The research sheds light on the ancient dyeing industry at Tel Shikmona, one of the most important […]

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in U.S. District Court this week, acknowledging that Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012 because its in-app camera technology outperformed Facebook’s own. The revelation came during a high-stakes antitrust trial in Washington, D.C., where the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is challenging Meta’s past acquisitions. Under intense questioning from FTC lawyers, Zuckerberg […]