Category: Business

Pagaya Fintech Startup Looks to $8 Billion IPO Fintech is really big these days. Israeli fintech startup Pagaya is planning to hold its initial public offering, possibly through an SPAC merger. The P2P credit and loans company specializes in managing alternative investments through technology. Reports indicate that Pagaya is looking at an $8 billion valuation […]

Israel High Tech Scene Week In Review Apr 18 – 24 Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel New Startups / VC Funding Israeli Startup Minute Media Offers Digital Content SolutionsIt just made a deal with WynnBET. Minute Media is an Israeli media and technology startup focused on platform and content. Minute Media’s platform serves as the […]

Greta Thunberg – Please Just Go Away Already The Swedish teen is at it again. Greta Thunberg (YouTube clip) Swedish teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg is at it again. This time she condemned the American government for its continued policy of subsiding the fossil fuel industries. Whether you agree with her or not, its […]

Deep Instinct Offers an Artificial Brain for Cybersecurity The company just raised $100 million. Deep Instinct CEO Guy Caspi. (Courtesy company PR) Israeli cybersecurity startup Deep Instinct offers anew kind of self learning artificial intelligence based cybersecurity solution. The company raised $100 million in Series D funding. The Deep Instinct platform can predict, prevent, and […]

Dror Efrat Sells Investing.com to Asian Fund The deal could be worth as much as $500 million. Israel’s Investing.com has been sold. According to Israeli business daily Globes, the website’s owner Dror Efrat has sold out to an unspecified Asian fund. The purchase price was not disclosed. But Globes cited insiders who revealed that the […]

Facebook Stops Palestinian Hackers Run By Mahmoud Abbas Himself They tried to interefere with democracy. Mahmoud Abbas (CNN Clip) Facebook says that it has successfully thwarted a hacking campaign run by a group of Palestinian cyber terrorists. The company accused the people behind the campaign of being affiliated with the Palestinian Preventive Security Service (PSS), […]

How secure is the Iranian régime? Twitter by @agnos_pharmos by Neville Teller A new and rapidly growing popular rebellion is affecting the Iranian regime. On March 11 a statement signed by 640 eminent Iranians, some living within and some outside Iran, was posted on-line in English and Persian with the hashtag “No to the Islamic […]

Ex.Co Buys Cedato The two Israeli firms deal with content. Global content technology company, EX.CO, acquires video technology, Cedato. (from press release) Israel’s Cedato, a video technology company with unique yield optimization capabilities, has been acquired by fellow Israeli company EX.Co “The Experience Company,” a global content technology firm which was co-founded by Shaul Olmert, […]

The Complete Guide to Working with a Finder by Jonathan Gan “I know everyone and can connect you with any investors you want”; “We charge based on intros”; “With respect to investors to whom I make the intro, I only work exclusively”; “We work with a retainer and will begin with two-months of work in […]

Top 10 Hottest Israeli Instagram Stars Believe it or not, some of their pictures may have been photo-shopped. Yael Shelbia instagram Nowadays anyone can become famous, provided that they are good looking and willing to post half naked pictures of themselves online. This applies to both men and women. Back in the 90s fake blondes […]