Author: OurCrowd

Israeli tech companies raised $4.5B in the last 9 months, which, according to IVC, “may turn 2018 into another record year in capital raising.” Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan, Jack Ma, and Eric Schmidt were guests of honor at the inauguration of the Israeli Innovation Center of the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation. China continues its active funding role in Israeli tech – see the 2018 uptick compared to 2015-2017. Plus, below, more stories we are excited about, like Airobotics’ latest raise and why “Big Data is Machine Learning’s great uncle.” Startup Nation and beyond The Peres Center for Peace inaugurated its Israeli Innovation Center in the presence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan, Jack Ma, Eric Schmidt and even a hologram of Shimon Peres himself. RealView Imaging was selected among hundreds of Israeli medical startups to be featured. The third quarter of 2018 had $1.6B raised in 131 rounds, with a record $4.5B raised between January and September of 2018, “the most ever raised in Israeli high tech during a nine-month period,” (Globes). Chinese investors participated in 12% of Israeli financing rounds...