Category: Business

Prof. Neta Erez / Breakthrough in the battle against breast cancer Scientists at Tel Aviv University observed changes in healthy lung tissue that indicate the tissue is preparing for supporting the growth of disseminated breast cancer cells. The changes were discovered in the tumor’s “microenvironment,” notably in connective tissue known as fibroblasts. According to the […]

Israel’s Rapyd Hits $10 Billion Valuation Rapyd just brought in $300 million. Rapyd co-founders Arkady Karpman (right), Arik Shtilman, and Omer Priel (left). (Company PR pic) Rapyd, an Israeli global payments and fintech company, is now a unicorn. And what a unicorn! Rapyd now has a $10 billion valuation. Rapyd hit this milestome mark upon […]

Tel Aviv University Unveils New Climate Change Exhibition Judi Lax of TAU presents the new exhibit (Press Release) Tel Aviv University has opened a new exhibition about climate change, “Global Warning: The Climate, the Crisis and Us”. Considering the current spate of heatwaves around the world, it seems that TAU has a good sense of […]

Israel IPOs and Unicorns July 2021 Fireblocks co-founders Idan Ofrat (from right), Michael Shaulov and Pavel Berengoltz (PR Pic) Startup Nation continues to excel at what it does best: multi-billion dollar exits by way of an IPO and startups reaching valuations of more than a billion dollars. The latter are known as unicorns. While things […]

Coralogix Israeli Data Streaming Startup Raises $55 Million Coralogix co-founders Ariel Assaraf (right) and Yoni Farin. (Photo Asaf Peretz) Israeli streamlining analytics startup Coralogix raised $55 million in a Series C funding round, led by New investor Greenfield Partners with participation from Red Dot Capital Partners, StageOne Ventures, Eyal Ofer’s – O.G. Tech, Janvest Capital […]

Jared Kushner is Quitting Politics Poor Jared Kushner! His political career seems to have come to an end. Well, Jared Kushner will just have to settle for being extremely rich from family money and being married to a super-rich beautiful woman, Ivanka Trump. The son-in-law of former U.S. President Donald Trump got to spend four […]

Russian-Jewish billionaires in British court: Putin’s book defames us Roman Abramovich Russian-Jewish billionaires including Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich, Mikhail Fridman, and his partner Petr Aven, the co-founders of Alfa-Group, real estate tycoon Shalva Chigirinsky, and Russian’s state-owned energy giant Rosneft will stand today in the High Court in England over a book about the […]

Israeli Startup Propel Has PR Solutions Propel just raised $1.1 million. Propel is an Israeli startup offering software for use by public relations professionals. Propel just brought in $1.1 million in new investments led by LogicBoost Labs. Public relations does not sound like a field that one ordinarily associates with new startups or any single […]

Israel’s Payoneer Fined $1.4 Million by U.S. Treasury Department Payoneer did business in countries under U.S. sanctions. Scott Galit CEO Payoneer Israel’s Payoneer Inc., a global payment and commerce-enabling platform has been fined $1.4 million by the American government. The U.S. Department of the Treasury USDT Office of Foreign Assets Control levied the fine on […]

Turkey and Israel – are they to be friends? (L-R) President Herzog and Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdogan by Neville Teller             Diplomats the world over blinked in disbelief on Tuesday, July 13 when the news broke that the previous evening Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had phoned Israel’s newly elected president, Isaac Herzog, to offer […]