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Former Android and Facebook mobile executive Jonathan Matus unveiled Fairmatic, a new fleet insurance company that focuses on improving road safety and enabling savings. The company also announced that it has raised $42 million in a Series A funding round. Fairmatic uses data and AI to create a more personalized insurance option that incentivizes safety […]

A groundbreaking study at Tel Aviv University successfully eradicated glioblastoma, a highly lethal type of brain cancer. Researchers achieved this outcome in animals by eliminating astrocytes, star-shaped cells in the brain that support normal brain function, and by inhibiting their functions. This follows the researchers’ discovery that astrocytes support tumor growth and survival when exposed […]

Energy generated from liquid ammonia is to be tested as a power source for phone masts in remote locations. GenCell Energy, Israeli developer of zero-emission fuel cells, has partnered with the global telecommunications company Vodafone, and the Romanian solar technology provider Simtel, in a pilot project. The tech is designed to supply continuous power in […]

A Jerusalem-based startup says it is producing the world’s first cultivated scallops based on cellular agriculture. Mermade Seafoods has introduced a novel method to produce sustainable seafood in a circular method of production by recycling microalgae from the cultivation process for other cell-based applications, including pharmaceuticals. Using algae as part of the seafood growth process also […]

Digital therapeutics company Theranica has received $45 million in its Series C funding round towards the commercial expansion of its drug-free migraine treatment, Nerivio, in the US.  Nerivio is a drug-free, smartphone-controlled wearable device for the treatment of episodic and chronic migraine in people aged 12 and older. Philadelphia-based New Rhein Healthcare Investors led the […]

Startup certifies big-brand garments as inclusive for those who have difficulty dressing

UVeye, Israeli developer of automated vehicle inspection systems, is joining forces with a software development company to improve customer service at dealerships. Tekion is a dealership software technology company that has developed the ARC (Automotive Retail Cloud), which unifies customer data across automotive retail businesses and provides dealership customers fast service.  With the collaboration, employees […]

A serial UAE entrepreneur spent 20 days on the road across six countries, bringing sustainability to the Middle East. Bruce Gurfein met investors, land owners, business partners and innovators in food technology and desert agriculture during a 9,000 km road trip across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, Palestine and Israel. He was promoting the […]

Sweeteners have been found to affect people’s blood sugar levels in ways that could contribute to metabolic disease, according to new research. A controlled trial conducted by Weizmann Institute of Science, In Rehovot, found that several kinds of non-sugar or artificial sweeteners can actually alter our microbiomes (bacteria, fungi, viruses, and all other microbes) in […]

An Israeli company says it is cultivating lamb from cells in the laboratory that is indistinguishable from conventional farm-bred lamb. Future Meat Technologies says it can now produce the cultivated lamb at scale, and will focus on producing the meat of other animal species.  The cultivated lamb looks, cooks and tastes like conventional ground lamb […]

"Tudo Bom" singers Static and Ben-El were the first to fuse Mizrahi and pop rap

A group of cyber entrepreneurs in Israel have raised $60 million of venture capital to invest in cybersecurity startups. The fund was raised by Cyberstarts just six months after it raised $200 million for a new opportunity fund in February. Its total assets under management, or the total market value of the investment managed on […]

Breakthrough egg tech could save billions of "worthless males" from the hatchery cull

A new space radiation protection vest for women astronauts, developed by Israeli-US startup StemRad will be used in NASA’s first moon mission in 50 years. The Artemis I mission is the first in a series of planned deep-space missions aimed at paving the way to a new generation of human explorations of the Moon and […]

Israel’s first medical cannabis firm has been given the go-ahead to export to Europe. Cannbit-Tikun Olam Israel has already treated tens of thousands of patients in Israel with various diseases, from children to the elderly. Certification by the German Federal Ministry of Health now allows it to export its products to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. […]