Here’s another magic cure: Israeli company Insightec, backed by Koch Industries, has made a helmet with 1,020 acoustic sources that when placed on a shaved head can focus ultrasound signals to specific spots in the brain. Read...
Read MoreAn Israeli automotive startup was busy completing its first major contract with car giant Volvo when its team was caught up in the October 7 attack by the Hamas terror group, which killed 1,200 people in southern Israel. Read more...
Read MoreZach Reitano was the only one in his cohort of a dozen summer interns at Booz & Co. a decade ago who didn’t get a full-time job. The failure set him up to lead a $7 billion healthcare company. It was the first of several pivots that led Reitano to found Ro, formerly Roman, a digital clinic that combines a doctor’s office, pharmacy and laboratories to treat sexual health, weight loss, fertility and other health problems remotely. Read more...
Read MoreDeb Schwartz and Dr. Samer Haj-Yehia join the Lemonade board, replacing the departing directors Irina Novoselsky and Silvija Martincevic. Read...
Read MoreYour next package of lettuce could be coming straight outta Compton. Last week, I toured a 100,000-square-foot indoor vertical farm operating in a gritty part of Compton, California. The urban farm run by the Bay Area agricultural-tech startup Plenty is designed to grow up to 4.5 million pounds of leafy greens annually. Read...
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