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An Israeli startup will be bringing its burger-grilling robot chef to the US for the first time, starting with the campus of the University of Denver.  SavorEat has developed a robot that grills plant-based burgers according to customer requests in under four minutes. It is the first Israeli food robotic company to ever market its […]

An Israeli venture capital firm has raised $175 million for its dedicated healthcare fund, which it will use to invest in healthtech, life sciences and foodtech and ag-tech startups.  Pitango VC has already used some of the capital from the new Pitango HealthTech II fund to invest in Nevia Bio, which is developing an AI […]

An Israeli startup that uses artificial intelligence to diagnose cancer has unveiled a new solution that will help pathologists detect the specific treatments that will benefit breast cancer patients most.  Ibex Medical Analytics’ Galen Breast HER2 platform can accurately determine the expression in cancer slides of the protein HER2, which is responsible for the proliferation […]

An Israeli cybersecurity firm has established a new center to help it combat viruses and malware that are powered by advanced artificial intelligence.  CyberArk, headquartered both in Petah Tikva and Newton, Massachusetts, protects sensitive information across businesses and cloud platforms. It set up its Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence to explore new ways of embedding […]

An Israeli renewable electricity firm is forming a joint venture with one of the country’s natural gas suppliers to provide clean energy to households and small businesses.  The partnership between Enlight Renewable Energy, which finances, develops and constructs clean energy power plants, and Electra Power, a leading company in the Israeli gas market, will use […]

Thirty Israeli climate-tech companies, ranging from promising startups to well-established companies, have been chosen to represent the country at the United Nations’ 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) in Dubai. The COP conferences are international conferences on the climate held each year in a different location. Government representatives, private institutions and members of the academic […]

An Israeli startup is helping plants signal potentially fatal stresses by giving them jellyfish protein that lets them light up when their picture is taken.  This, Plantell says, not only shows when plants are in trouble but can also help to develop agricultural products that are less harmful to crops.  Crops make up 85 percent […]

Israel and Japan are advancing their innovation cooperation as part of a drive to expand their $3.3 billion commercial relationship.  Israeli Economy Minister Nir Barkat met this week in Tel Aviv with his Japanese counterpart Yasutoshi Nishimura to sign an agreement formalizing a bilateral “understanding of economic and innovation ties.”  The signing followed a series […]

American basketball superstar Steph Curry is among the investors in a $50 million funding round that has just been raised by an Israeli cybersecurity startup. UpWind Security develops a security platform that protects cloud infrastructure in real time, and is already working with dozens of Fortune 500 companies. The funding was raised by Sheva, a […]

Five Israeli scientists have been awarded grants from the prestigious European Research Council, the European Union’s organization that funds groundbreaking scientific and technological research.  The researchers all hail from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, and will use the funds to advance in their respective fields.  The five assistant professors are: Assaf […]

An Israeli firm will be implementing its cybersecurity solution at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky (CVG) International Airport to prevent air travel threats.  Cyber 2.0 has developed a cybersecurity system that provides “total defense” against the spread of cyber attacks within an organization’s networks by isolating the attack and blocking it from spreading.  Now, it has been […]

Greece and Cyprus are planning to use Israeli artificial intelligence capable of early detection of dangerous wildfires.  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met this week with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides in Nicosia to discuss preventative measures on the spontaneously occurring blazes.  The meeting took place on the heels of […]

Israeli researchers have developed artificial intelligence capable of finding drug combinations for cancer treatments that are significantly more powerful than using each individual drug alone.  There are cancer treatments that already employ combination therapy, where different drugs work together in synergy to combat a tumor more effectively than they would individually.  Scientists at the Technion […]

An Israeli FoodTech startup can now use its microorganisms to reduce the glucose, fructose, and sucrose of up to 250 million liters of fruit juice every year. Better Juice uses natural enzymes to convert sugars in juice to non-digestible compounds, like dietary fibers. The sugar is replaced with other sweet molecules, keeping all of the […]

An Israeli startup that develops advanced AI technologies to solve complex problems across various industries has raised $155 million. AI21 Labs previously released the Jurassic-2, a generative AI service that can be used to build text-based applications like virtual assistants, chatbots, text simplification, content moderation, creative writing, and more. It says that the service is […]