Concrete is vital for protecting our coastlines – but it comes at a huge environmental cost. An Israeli startup has found a way to make concrete sea defenses that get stronger over time, while encouraging life to thrive. Catch FIBA company ECOncrete featured in this Bloomberg video. Watch here. 

US cloud computing company Salesforce said Wednesday it had acquired the Israeli-founded company ClickSoftware in a deal valued at $1.35 billion. Salesforce said the deal would help it become a leader in the field service software industry. “The addition of ClickSoftware will enhance Salesforce Service Cloud’s leadership as the #1 service platform, empowering every service […]

Featuring FIBA company WizeCare.The Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation has approved $8.2 million in funding for nine new joint US-Israeli projects.The grants will help these firms to get access to additional private sector funding, thus boosting the total value of funding available for all of the projects to approximately $20 million, the […]

Featuring FIBA company SiteAware.  or years, real-estate technology startups watched from the fringes as big banks and venture-capital firms lavished attention on financial-technology firms.Now “proptech” has joined the party. Startups are raising more cash than ever while landlords are adopting a range of new software and hardware that is changing the way they do business.New capital […]

(FIBA company) Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), the world’s largest beer brewer, has announced plans to open a cybersecurity unit in Tel Aviv after an upsurge in hacking attacks.Headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, AB InBev produces 25 percent of the beer globally, making over 400 brands including Budweiser, Corona, Becks, and Stella Artois. The company has recently faced regular […]

Renault and Nissan, part of one of the world’s leading automotive alliances, on Monday inaugurated an open innovation lab in Tel Aviv that will work together with Israeli startups to test their technologies in a bid to tap into the next big thing of automotive industry. The lab was set up in partnership with the […]

Featuring FIBA company QinFlow. Accidents and unintentional injuries are the third leading cause of mortality in the United States. The ratio of death happening immediately after the injury is even more alarming. Despite advances in medical and emergency management services, more than half of injury patients expire in the field or die shortly after reaching the hospital. […]

Israeli company Fieldbit among many firms providing technology aimed at helping field technicians fix issues and prevent oil spillsAugmented reality (AR) technology is moving beyond the world of gaming and transforming the oil and gas industry by enabling on-site technicians to immediately access remote expert help.A number of firms have already adopted the emerging technology […]

Shimrit Perkol-Finkel, cofounder and CEO of Israeli startup ECOncrete, has had an outstanding month of May.She was one of four women crowned by the European Union as outstanding female innovators at VivaTech in Paris; received the women’s “Forward Actor of the Year” award at the GreenTech Festival in Berlin; and was named one of Fast Company’s “Most Creative People of 2019.” ECOncrete […]