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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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In the News: Announced: Winning consortium to lead Israeli FoodTech incubator…

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Big announcement! After months of planning and presenting, we are proud to share that Tnuva, OurCrowd, Finistere Ventures, and Tempo Beverages have together been chosen by the Israel Innovation Authority to operate the new FoodTech incubator in the north of Israel! We are excited to be part of this initiative to establish Israel as a world leader in the FoodTech arena. In other news, OurCrowd is partnering with NOAH Advisors to promote startup investments in Europe. Congratulations to our Toronto-based portfolio company Wave, acquired by one of the world’s largest tax preparation companies, H&R Block; big win for Canadian tech.

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Pictured: Representatives from the FoodTech incubator consortium

Startup Nation and beyond

Insurance startup Lemonade expands into Europe with its launch in Germany.

Venture fund of ABN AMRO Bank takes stake in big data startup ThetaRay, after the bank used the company’s software to “stay ahead of threats, including detecting money laundering, human trafficking and terrorist financing.”

Yossi Boker, head of business development for the TSX/TSXV exchanges in Israel shares, “…if everything goes as planned, the list of Israeli companies on the TSX and the TSXV is going to increase significantly in the coming few weeks.” Toronto Stock Exchange woos firms as race for Israeli tech listings grows.

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In the News: FoodTech: A hot dish on the Israeli innovation menu

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We’ve had some big news this past week! Our portfolio company BOL Pharma filed its IPO prospectus in Toronto while data protection company Cognigo was acquired by Nasdaq-listed NetApp. FoodTech is now one of the hottest dishes on the Israeli innovation menu – we are excited to partner with Finistere Ventures, Tnuva and Tempo Beverages in the hopes of championing FoodTech and AgTech innovation in Israel. 

Startup Nation and beyond

Now Intuition Robotics is leading a new industry: Will robots ever be better caretakers than humans?

Yulife, the emerging insurtech star raises $10M in funding.

What the future of farming will look like thanks to technology, featuring thoughts from Taranis CEO Ofir Schlam.

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In the News: Big news for Israel’s mobility sector

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Good news for the Jerusalem tech ecosystem, ranked as 8th best for life science startups, a great start for a global city ranking! IPO news: Israeli startup Fiverr files to go public. Why are Singapore banks and businesses working with AI startups? Read up on Israeli tech’s Singapore connection, featuring OurCrowd. Big news for Israel’s mobility sector as autonomous vehicle startup Foretellix partners with software company Metamoto, Ford will open an innovation center, and we are less than a month away from EcoMotion week – see more details and a discount code below.

Startup Nation and beyond

Ford to open an innovation center in Israel, bringing delegation to scout for tech in artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, and cybersecurity.

Mossad expands scope of investment arm, “calling on startups from fintech, robotics, data sciences and big data, among others, to apply for funding”.

Check out this interview where I share perspectives on the Israeli tech scene and secrets to OurCrowd’s success.

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In the News: Big news from 3 brilliant startups

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Congrats to Hailo on the launch of Hailo-8, their deep learning processor for edge devices. MultiVu raised a $7M seed round for its next-gen 3D sensor, led by OurCrowd, Cardumen Capital and Hong Kong-based Junson Capital. In other big news, Zebra Medical Vision received FDA approval for the world’s first AI chest X-ray triage product. 

Startup Nation and beyond

Including insights from myself and others: India & Israel – The New Tech Frontiers.

Check out Venture Capital Journal: OurCrowd, Israel’s most active investor, blends VC and crowdfunding model. 

With a second WannaCry looming, more than half of industrial sites are vulnerable. How do we avoid it? See it in Forbes.

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In the News: Lots of IPO talk, while Israel works to ‘scale up’

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Everyone’s talking about how it’s raining IPOs – following Beyond Meat’s Nasdaq debut, Uber went public this past Friday; see interesting data here on today’s tech IPOs. Or watch my interview where I discuss how OurCrowd provides access to startups before they go public. Is Israel at 71 a scale-up nation? Read what I and other VCs have to say in this article.

Startup Nation and beyond

“There are more than 6,600 startups in Israel’s small and connected economy, 14 times the concentration of startups per capita in Europe.” Turning 71, Israel can look with pride at the tech firms it has generated.

Featured in Forbes: How is fintech unicorn Lemonade disrupting the insurance business? See how the startup BioCatch prevents identity fraud by observing device interactions.

Great coverage of Sweetch: Promising patients’ compliance and engagement with AI-based behavioral intelligence engine.

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In the News: Who’s craving private investments?

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Can you taste it? The talk this weekend was Beyond Meat’s IPO, debuting on the Nasdaq (BYND) last Thursday, exceeding expectations. In this Bloomberg interview, OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved explains that for us, it’s not just about another exit – it’s that individual investors got access to Beyond Meat before it went public by investing with OurCrowd. 

Watch OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved on Bloomberg

Meanwhile, read on about another hot topic, BOL Pharma and Israel’s cannabis tech scene: BOL Pharma grows in a favorable climate that made Israel leader of $100B medical cannabis market. Two big sectors join to create new solutions: how self driving tractors and AI are changing agriculture, featuring Taranis in Forbes.

Startup Nation and beyond

Read this Israeli tech overview, including, “Israel has even invented a new type of venture capital, with a crowd-sourced venture fund named OurCrowd.” Israel’s High-Tech paradise: Built by the IDF, increasingly looking to Arab-Israeli talent.

Hillel’s Tech Corner: Holograms saving lives; captures the essence of RealView Imaging’s amazing new tech.

Israel announces its participation in World Expo 2020 in Dubai; the Foreign Ministry welcomes “the opportunity to… present Israeli innovations and trailblazing technology in.. water, medicine and information technology.” [Read more…]

In the News: Most successful Q1 for Israeli hi-tech in 6 years

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A new IVC-ZAG report shows that Israeli high-tech raised $1.55B in the first quarter of 2019, “the most successful first quarter in the past six years.” Here’s an insider’s view on the most active Israeli venture investor, startup investing, and the value of network in 2019 in this thoughtful Forbes piece written about OurCrowd. Another OurCrowd exit: Vimeo acquires Magisto which we invested in this past August. Congrats to the Magisto team! 

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Startup Nation and beyond

“Zebra’s work experience with radiologists in more than 50 hospitals worldwide highlights the role of AI as Augmented Intelligence…” Check out the full feature in Forbes: AI Startup Zebra Medical Vision Enlists Deep Learning To Save Lives.

What if there was a “spell-checker” to prevent doctors from prescribing the wrong medicine? Read about how Dr. Gidi Stein founded MedAware, the startup catching prescription errors and already helping nearly 6 million in the United States and Israel.

A game changing product to improve our health: Consumers get another digital home health offering as Tyto Care and Best Buy launch TytoHome.

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