Category: Business

Qbiq, an Israeli startup that offers a visualization platform using GenAI for real estate space planning, raised $16 million in a Series A round of funding led by global software investor Insight Partners. qbiq’s software enables non-architects and architect users alike to immediately plan, visualize and optimize any given space. Founded in 2019 by Solnik, […]

Nearly half of the global population holds elevated levels of anti-Semitic attitudes, according to the latest Global 100 survey by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), conducted in collaboration with Ipsos and other research partners. The survey revealed that 46% of the world’s adult population—approximately 2.2 billion people—harbor deeply entrenched anti-Semitic views. This marks a more than […]

As Los Angeles suffers through one of the worst and most destructive wildfire outbreaks in history, a striking revelation was made in new research from Colorado State University that uncovered a surprising twist in the tale of wildfire smoke and its sweeping impact across the United States. While the choking haze from intensifying wildfires blankets […]

Imagine you’re at a dinner party. The aroma of food sizzling in the kitchen never reaches you, and the cheerful chime of the dinner bell goes unheard. At first, it might sound like an escape from sensory overload—a dreamlike reprieve. But what if it wasn’t a dream? What if it was autism, shaping how you […]

The European Space Agency’s BepiColombo‘s sixth and final Mercury flyby, executed on January 8, 2025, successfully set the stage for its planned orbit insertion in late 2026. The ESA/JAXA mission skimmed just a few hundred kilometers above Mercury’s north pole, capturing close-up images revealing potentially icy, permanently shadowed craters and the expansive sunlit northern plains. […]

Israel Tech Startups and Innovations: Weekly Roundup January 4 – January 10, 2025 New Startups / VC FundingIsraeli AI Startup Fermata Revolutionizes Agriculture with Computer Vision TechnologyFermata, an Israeli aggrotech startup which specializes in computer vision-based solutions for the agriculture industry, raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Raw Ventures. Founded […]

To better understand how Earth is shielded from solar radiation, NASA is sending LEXI, the Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager to the Moon as part of its Artemis campaign to capture the first global images of the planet’s magnetic field. Imagine a camera on the Moon, focused back on Earth, capturing images of our planet’s […]

Urban sprawl is more than an eyesore—it may hinder upward mobility for low-income residents and perpetuate racial inequality, according to recent studies led by a geographer from the University of Utah. One study, co-authored with a former economics graduate student from the university’s College of Social & Behavioral Science, analyzed Census tract data and revealed […]

Following a Wall Street Journal report that some Credit Suisse accounts (acquired by UBS in 2023) with Nazi ties were not disclosed in previous investigations, UBS (UBSG.S) announced on Saturday that it is cooperating with an independent ombudsman to investigate these accounts. The most recent investigation was led by Neil Barofsky, a former federal prosecutor […]

The Monetary Committee of the Bank of Israel on Monday announced that it decided to leave the interest rate unchanged at 4.5%. Despite geopolitical developments, economic activity is recovering at a moderate pace, explained the Bank of Israel. However, supply constraints in certain industries continue to impede the closing of the gap between actual GDP […]