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In the News: Israel keeps on innovating 💡

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Israel received a visit from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg this week, where she launched Facebook’s “Playground”, a “new hub for startups and entrepreneurs in Israel to build connections, develop skills, and foster innovation.”

Israel’s Defense Ministry also announced the launch of an innovation hub aimed at fostering security-related technologies and strengthening the relationship between the country’s civilian and defense markets.

In recent acquisition news, Salesforce buys the Israeli field service software company Clicksoftware for $1.35B.

Startup Nation and beyond

Israel – from Startup Nation to FoodTech Nation? See it in CTech. FoodTech is a hot topic now, as the United Nations warns: Climate change threatens the world’s food supply.

Meet ClimaCell’s new weather app – alerting you when it’s about to rain, down to the minute, all around the world.

Which Israeli startups are playing a leading role in data-driven digitized production? Read it in Forbes.

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In the News: Israel’s latest IPO + a foodtech menu

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The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange hosted its own IPO this week; as I told Bloomberg, “this is a sort of transformative moment that might focus the minds of Israeli companies.”

What’s on the menu for Israeli foodtech? See the breakdown of 252 startups, as reported it in Forbes, along with what’s in store for the new Sparks foodtech incubator (with Finistere Ventures, Tnuva, Tempo Beverages and OurCrowd).

Did you know? Google wants in on 6,000 Israeli startups within the next 3 years. Read the interview in CTech.

Startup Nation and beyond

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In the News: Beyond Meat teams up with Dunkin’, humanoid robots – creepy or dangerous?

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The excitement around Beyond Meat is still sizzling as the company teams up with Dunkin’, has new plant-based products in store, and its stock continues to rise. Meanwhile, The Financial Times asks: Why does Israel lead the world in computer vision? Back at the office, we celebrated National Intern Day with WayUp. Read that and more below.

Startup Nation and beyond

“Humanoid robots are a familiar trope in popular culture, but is making machines look like us a little bit creepy and even potentially dangerous?” See what leaders in the field have to say, including Intuition Robotics CEO and co-founder Dor Skuler.

Forbes explores: Why WayUp Launched a National Holiday That Trends #1 Worldwide Every Year.

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In the News: Meet the sports startup funded by Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic

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Breaking all previous records, Israeli companies raised $3.9B in a brilliant first half of 2019 – let the good times roll! Congrats to Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic, who, together with SoftBank, is an investor in sportstech startup PlaySight; who better to back the immersive sports video and analytics tech connecting the next generation of athletes. Learn more about PlaySight, which we’re currently investing in. 

PlaySight Tennis and Novak Djokovic - Impact on Player Engagement

Startup Nation and beyond

Check out unicorn Klook in Forbes: Klook’s nomadic cofounder turns wanderlust into a $1 Billion enterprise. 

“Venture-backed financing for advanced technologies grew 223% in 4 years, placing the Jewish state third globally after the US and China, Start-Up Nation Central says.” Israeli startups to play key role in the fourth industrial revolution. 

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In the News: Who’s hungry for FoodTech? We are

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The food industry is GIANT – $12 trillion and growing. The transformation of the food industry is active around us, from tech companies developing foodtech solutions related to composition, like Beyond Meat, as well as supply chain and analytics. Check out my 3-minute interview on CNBC where I talk about why I’m bullish on food companies, and read on below for more tech industry highlights from the week.

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Startup Nation and beyond

Congrats to LED lighting communications infrastructure company, Juganu, on their $23M raise. 

OurCrowd portfolio company CyberMDX’s latest discovery: Flaws in hospital anesthesia and respiratory devices allow remote tampering.

PitchBook’s rank of Israel’s 11 most active VCs – with OurCrowd proudly at the top – see it here.

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In the News: NSLComm launches its first satellite 🚀, @doctor.mike, & more

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Congrats! Israeli nano-satellite startup & OurCrowd portfolio company NSLComm successfully launched its NSLSat-1 satellite (via the Soyuz rocket) into space this past Friday.

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Speaking of revolutionary tech, what will our world look like a decade from now? We just released our 2019 Q2 edition of Innovation Insider exploring a realistic look at how startups will change the way we drive, shop, heal, and live.

2019 Q2 Innovation Insider

Startup Nation and beyond

Featured in TechCrunch: Viziblezone, part of OurCrowd’s Labs/02 incubator, wants to make pedestrians more visible to autonomous cars.

Israeli startups raised nearly $600M in June – “Startups have raised nearly $3.4 billion in the first six months of 2019, on course to beat the record $6.4 billion raised by startups in 2018.” 

Congrats to OurCrowd portfolio companies Airobotics and MeMed Diagnostics, featured on the World Economic Forum’s 2019 Technology Pioneers list!

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In the News: Touring Israeli tech with NFL visitor, agtech miracles

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Last week was fruitful across many sectors: Reps from over 40 countries arrived in Israel to discover Israeli agtech miracles; one of our newest agtech portfolio additions Tevel wowed the crowd with its robotic drone fruit picker. Meanwhile, we had the pleasure to introduce NFL star Deshaun Watson to Israel’s sports tech landscape, with a view of Jerusalem. In weather news, various startups are aiming to predict the weather with utmost accuracy – but Israeli-founded ClimaCell is a major player in the “real cloud wars”. Read on for more Israeli startup news.

Startup Nation and beyond

New US-Israel R&D center to get $16M for advancing energy tech – the center will “tackle finding tech solutions to challenges facing the energy, water, cybersecurity and fossil fuel sectors.”

Lemonade: Reinventing renters and homeowners insurance with on-demand service and social responsibility.

“To remain at the head of the pack, or even to survive, businesses need to constantly embrace cutting-edge innovation.” prooV: Removing barriers to speedy innovation.

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In the News: What’s hot in healthtech

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Big news this past week as Zebra Medical Vision received FDA clearance for its AI-powered intracranial hemorrhage detection product, its second FDA approval in a month! Congrats to sugar reduction company DouxMatok on their $22M raise; OurCrowd is proud to take part in this effort to reduce the world’s sugar dependency. data.world is bringing data to the next level with its recent acquisition of Capsenta – read about it here, and find more top news below.

Startup Nation and beyond

New in medical cannabis: Syqe Medical releases its first cannabis inhaler.

The latest on Intel and Israel: The reality of autonomous cars is beginning to feel closer as Intel’s Mobileye plans to launch a trial of robo-cabs next year in Israel. Intel has also announced its accelerator launch in Israel, which aims to give early-stage startups “a unique advantage in their quest to disrupt the future.”

Sweetch on the front lines of disease prevention: Getting healthy with tech.

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