CyberArk wins Best APT Protection in SC Awards Europe 2014
Earlier this month, CyberArk was selected as best advanced persistent threat protection at the SC Awards Europe 2014. The Israeli cyber-security software startup was selected from a select group of finalists representing the information security industry. CyberArk was also ranked ‘highly commended’ in the identity management category. To read more about CyberArk and the SC Awards, click here.
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New Israeli app for special-needs communication
Ola Mundo, “Hello, World” in Portuguese, is a new iPad and iPhone app that is revolutionizing communication between special-needs children and their families. The app developer, Ofir Harel, was inspired by his own personal journey as the father of a son with autism. The idea is to enable children who lack verbal skills to be able to send and receive messages — the way everybody else does on their mobile devices – by applying pictorial symbols. To read more, click here.
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Dr. Michal Tsur, president and co-founder of Kaltura, is Israel’s ‘Iron Lady’ of tech
Co-founder of Cyota, the online security firm that sold for $145M in 2005 and the current president and co-founder of a multi-million dollar company, Dr. Michal Tsur has rightfully earned her nickname as the ‘Iron Lady’ of Israeli startups. Embodying the ideals of Israeli innovation, Tsur has proven that women can successfuly take on leading roles in the high-tech industry, infamously known as a male-dominated playing field. To read more about Tsur’s road to success, click here.
Superwomen from the Startup Nation: Top 10 female Israeli tech leaders
James Brown sang “this is a man’s world,” but as these Israeli women show, that couldn’t be further from the truth. NoCamels, a leading news website on Israeli innovations, lists the top ten key female figures in Israel’s booming tech scene who put the quality in equality. To read more about these bright and bold female leaders, click here.
Haredi startup star Yossi Rabinovitz’s feet set firmly in two worlds
Yossi Rabinovitz, CEO of Israeli e-commerce startup SelfPoint, is selling to customers around the world, and his pop-up grocery platform development company is a member of the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator, showing that the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) high-tech revolution is growing rapidly and making him its “poster boy.” To read more, click here.
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