Author: Rivka Coleman

Newsletter: Checkout-free shopping + Israel’s startups under fire

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...

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[SeeTree in SeeTree] SeeTree raises $30M in Series B funding round

FRESNO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SeeTree, an AI-powered, end-to-end service that provides growers with intelligence on trees and tree clusters, announced today that it has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. This third round of funding, one of the largest investment rounds for an Israeli Agtech company, will allow SeeTree to scale globally, grow the R&D and customer-facing teams and broaden services to cover new crops. Read more...

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