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Israeli Controlled Drug Release Company Polypid Raises $50 Million
CTech - Israel-based biotech company Polypid has closed a $50 million funding round led by unspecified institutional shareholders, the company announced Monday. Polypid intends to...
El Al Starts Selling Tickets for First Direct Flights to Tokyo
CTech - Israel’s national carrier El Al Israel Airlines has begun selling direct flights to Tokyo, the company announced Tuesday. Ticket prices start at $999...
Intel Announces First AI Chip Developed in Israel
CTech - Intel unveiled an inference tasks chip for large computing centers on Tuesday at the Hot Chips 2019 conference in Silicon Valley. Called Nervana...
Israeli Cybersecurity Company Checkmarx Wins U.S. Navy Contract
CTech - Israel-based cybersecurity company Checkmarx announced Wednesday that it was awarded a contract with the US Navy’s Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC PAC)....
Beresheet May Have Unleashed a Horde of Water Bears on the Moon, Report Says
CTech - When Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashed on the Moon in April it may have left more than just rubble on its surface. The spacecraft...
Japanese Insurer Tokio Marine Partners With Israel’s Harel Insurance to Scout Israeli Tech
CTech - Tokyo-listed multinational insurance holding company Tokio Marine Holdings has signed a partnership agreement with Israeli insurer Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services, the...
Over Four Million Tourists Spent Nearly $6 Billion in Israel in 2018
CTech - More than four million tourists visited Israel in 2018 spending an estimated sum of NIS 20.88 billion (approximately $5.8 billion) excluding flight costs,...
Singapore’s ST Engineering to Scout for Israeli Startups
CTech - Singapore-based ST Engineering, incorporated as Singapore Technologies Engineering, has partnered with government investment arm the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) to identify and scout...
Cancer Treatment Monitoring Startup Techsomed Raises $2.6 Million
CTech - Medtech startup Techsomed Medical Technologies Ltd. has raised $2.6 million in a round led by Johnson & Johnson Innovation–JJDC Inc., the company announced Wednesday....
MIT Partners With Seven Israeli Academic Institutions on a STEM Fund
CTech - MIT has partnered with seven Israeli academic institutions to launch a new fund dedicated to collaborations between researchers in the fields of science,...
Candy Company Mars Partners With Israeli Venture Capital Firm on Foodtech and Agtech Initiative
CTech - Candy bar company Mars has partnered with Israeli venture capital firm Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) to invest in foodtech and agritech research and...
In 2018, a Quarter of the Companies Samsung Catalyst Invested In Were Israeli Startups
CTech - Samsung Catalyst, the evergreen multi-stage fund of Samsung Electronics, had invested $300 million throughout 2018, according to its head Shankar Chandran. A quarter...
Three Israelis Rank Among Sunday Times’ Top 50 UK Richest People List for 2019
CTech - On Saturday, The Sunday Times published its annual ranking for the UK’s top 1,000 richest people, naming three Israeli businessmen among its top...
Google Announces Startups Selected for Its Tel Aviv Accelerator
CTech - Google announced on Tuesday the eight startups selected for the first official cohort of its Tel Aviv accelerator program Google Startup Growth Lab....
