Author: Rivka Coleman

Startup of the Week: Sfara leads an unknown $400B market Airobotics Drone Box to protect Dubai Expo Thousands tune in for Post-Pandemic Tech Trends Alpha Tau Medical plans $1B SPAC YuLife: Fast-growing digital insurer raises $70M Jasper raises $34M, gets $100M receivables from Webank SaNOtize anti-viral nasal spray goes on sale in Israel CyberMDX wins Global Health & Pharma Excellence Award Introductions More than 2,700 high-tech jobs worldwide Startup of the Week:Sfara: Leading the $400B+ market you don’t know Automotive telematics is a booming business, expected to grow more than 600% from $64B in 2019 to $416B by 2027, a CAGR of 26%. It provides crash detection, accident management, event-driven safety response, fleet-driver risk management and other essential safety protections for cars and their drivers. Join OurCrowd as we invest in Sfara, a US-based company that leads this market, replacing specialized in-vehicle hardware previously required, with software-only technology based on smartphones. With $3.4M in revenue and $10M ARR projected for 2021, Sfara’s remarkable solution has been vetted by Daimler, Bosch, and the University of Virginia using National Highway Traffic...

Startup of the Week: Zippin’s checkout-free shopping OurCrowd Jobs Index: Job-seekers’ market Startups need resilience – especially in Israel Israel, land of unicorns ThetaRay: SONAR to tackle money laundering risks Bizzabo acquires Sweden’s Whalebone Celeno: new chip combines Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Doppler Radar Dandelion Energy expands residential geothermal to Vermont Future Family Raises $9M in Series A-1 Funding Introductions More than 1,200 high-tech jobs Startup of the Week:Zippin: Checkout-free shopping for busy people Zippin, like Amazon Go, offers checkout-free shopping for a frictionless customer experience that dramatically improves store profitability and shopper convenience. Just watch the video to see how shoppers zip in, choose products, and zip out without stopping as purchases are instantly charged to their phone. Zippin’s vision is to become the operating system for the automated store of the future, powering the leading checkout-free platform for stores around the world, eliminating lines for shoppers and significantly boosting profitability for retailers. The company is already providing services to eight major retailers, including some of the world’s largest food service groups. With 12 stores open and 100 planned before...