Category: Business

Zesty CEO Maxim Melamedov and CTO Alexey Baikov. Photo Zesty Zesty, the developer of an AI-powered cloud management platform, announced a $35 million Series A fundraising round headed by Next47 on Monday. Sapphire Ventures and Samsung Next have joined the round as new investors, with participation from returning investor S-Capital and Lior Elkan’s M-Fund Club. […]

Geneyx, an Israeli medtech startup that offers a genetic data analysis and interpretation platform, brought in $10 million in a seed round led by Capri Ventures and Accenture Ventures. Geneyx helps improve patient outcomes associated with hereditary and rare diseases by providing disease-specific, clinically relevant insights around risk prediction, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment for clinical […]

Natalia Fadeev Instagram Text-to-Speech is the new service from Instagram that will allow users to hear the text that comes along with posts. This new feature will be available through text tools in the Reels camera on Instagram. Instagram stated, “Text to speech helps you add narration without using your own voice, get creative and […]

NSO Menagment team Isaac Benbenisti has announced his resignation as CEO of Israeli cyberattack firm NSO Group, less than two weeks after being appointed. The previous CEO of Partner Communications and Bezeq International was supposed to succeed founder and current CEO Shalev Hulio, but he has decided not to take the post owing to the […]

Doral Energy Solar Field in Israel (Company website) Dozens of farmers in Indiana are leasing their land to Israeli company Doral Renewable Energy Resources for what will be the largest solar farm in the United States. The Mammoth Solar Farm will cover 13,000 acres – almost 1,000 times the size of a football stadium – in […]

Psilocybe semilanceata, magic mushrooms Pharmocann, an Israeli firm that specializes in medical cannabis products, has established a joint venture with the Shamir Research Institute to conduct research and development on psychedelic medications derived from psilocybin semilanceata mushrooms (magic mushrooms). Psilocybin, or liberty cap is a fungus that produces psychoactive compounds. Whether fresh or dried it is […]

The Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM for Climate) is a new initiative led by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and United States (US) with the support of over 30 government countries from six continents including the recent addition of Canada, and the United Kingdom, as well as Israel. It had its official launch at […]

On Thursday, Blings.io won the Calcalist and Poalim Hi-Tech’s StartUp+ competition. The startup is developing a platform for creating dynamic and interactive videos, coming up with a new video format named MPFlyer (MPF) to replace all MP4 files. Calcalist is an Israeli business publication affiliated with the Hebrew daily newspaper Yedioy Ahronot. Hapoalim is one […]

Agora team (Facebook) Agora, an Israeli startup offering new tech for real estate firms, has completed a seed round of funding raising $9 million led by Aleph, with participation from River Park Ventures and Maccabee Ventures, along with strategic investors from the US real estate market.to further develop its investment management software and to expand […]

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 […]