Featuring FIBA company Wasteless.In the cult science fiction/comedy film, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, the eponymous time-traveling protagonists are charged with writing a song to unite the world and save humanity.Israeli tech entrepreneur Oded Omer may have had the same mission in mind when he set out on a music career. The virtuoso bass guitar player from […]
Featuring FIBA company Aura Air. Ashtrom Group, one of Israel’s leading construction and property companies, invested $1.25 million in the Israeli startup Aura Air, which develops and markets facilities for purifying and filtering environments from bacteria and viruses, including the novel coronavirus, the company announced in a statement earlier this week.A study at Sheba Hospital concluded that […]
AEYE Health and UMass Medical School, in collaboration with UMass Memorial Health Care, are developing a system which enables family doctors to screen patients for various retinal conditions and enable timely referrals to specialists.As part of this effort, AEYE Health’s AI will be incorporated into UMass’s patient treatment protocols to automatically diagnose various retinal and systemic […]
Featuring FIBA company, XRHealth. For years, telemedicine has been pitched as a way to democratize medicine by driving down costs, increasing access to care and making appointments more efficient. It sounds great—until you look at the data, and find that only about 10% of Americans have actually used telemedicine to make a virtual visit, according to one 2019 survey.An […]
Israeli start-up Aura Air has provided Chabad houses worldwide with specialized air purifiers effective against COVID-19 as part of preparations for the upcoming Passover holiday.The purifiers were flown out of Israel and installed in various Chabad synagogues and dining halls across the globe. The deliveries were made possible thanks to donations by Chabad members who wanted to […]
Ph.D Shimrit Perkol-Finkel, cofounder and CEO of ECOncrete, paved the way for female scientists in the (eco) engineering field. At 45, she died in a road accident while driving a scooter in Tel Aviv. I interviewed her just before her death, her words resonating and inspiring other women in the field, young STEM students and male […]
Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Now tech companies across industries are poised for an even better year, according to more than a dozen investors we talked to in the country.Mainstay sectors like cybersecurity continue to matter, they said, but are maturing (more about that here). Some people […]
Longtime friends from Haifa, Shlomy Ashkenazi and Meir Dudai, realized in 2015 that garbage collection in Israel was an industry stuck in the past. Many other sectors had begun to integrate data and IoT technology into their solutions, but garbage collection hadn’t changed in years. Waste management directors at municipalities continued to remain blind, knowing […]
Featuring FIBA company Agamon. Boston, Mass. (December 17, 2020) – MassChallenge HealthTech today announced the 30 digital health startups that will join its 2021 cohort. MassChallenge HealthTech invites the community to meet the 2021 cohort at its virtual MassChallenge Verticals Opening Night, an introduction to the digital health and financial technology cohorts on January 13. “This year’s MassChallenge HealthTech […]
(FIBA Company) BlazePod, the creator of the ‘Flash Reflex (FRX)’ training program, has raised an additional $8.5 million in its second round of funding. The round, which was led by AP Partners, brings its total capital raised to $10 million. AP Partners was represented by Adv. Atir Yaffe from Pearl Cohen Tzedek, and BlazePod was […]