Author: OurCrowd

[OurCrowd Portfolio Companies in The Times of Israel] Israeli AgTech: Driving innovation to feed the world sustainably

Sep 5, 2023 | ,

Modern Israel’s agricultural ingenuity has impressed the world since it first began to “make the desert bloom” in the 1950s, but as it turns out, Israel has been a global center for farming innovation for much, much longer. In 2015, researchers from Tel Aviv, Haifa, Ben Gurion, and Harvard universities found the oldest evidence for crop cultivation at Ohalo II, an archaeological site on the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee, from 23,000 years ago. This indicates that farming developed in Israel a full 12,000 years before archaeologists had previously estimated that agriculture began. Read more...

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[ThetaRay in TechCrunch] ThetaRay nabs $57M for AI tools to fight money laundering

Sep 5, 2023 |

Money laundering — the process of transferring assets around in order to disguise the illicit origin of the money behind them — has been a huge and growing business for years, used by terrorists to finance their work, criminals to wash their spoils, (some) fat cats to avoid taxes and more. Aided by the rise of digital tools to speed up the flow of funds, and increasingly sophisticated techniques to evade detection, bad actors are moving between $800 billion and $2 trillion annually, equivalent to 2-5% of global GDP, according to the United Nations. Read more...

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[ReWalk in GlobeNewsWire] ReWalk Robotics announces additional change to Board of Directors

Sep 5, 2023 |

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. and BERLIN and YOKNEAM ILLIT, Israel, Sept. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ReWalk Robotics Ltd. (Nasdaq: RWLK) (“ReWalk” or the “Company”), a leading provider of innovative technologies that enable mobility and wellness in rehabilitation and daily life for individuals with neurological conditions, today announced that Yasushi Ichiki has informed the Company on September 4, 2023 that he intends to resign from the Board of Directors (the “Board”) immediately following the Company’s 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the “Annual Meeting”) on September 13, 2023. Read more...

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