TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Seven-year-old venture firm Fort Ross Ventures just raised its fourth fund. The firm doesn’t have a specific focus, but has been deploying funds into fintech with a particular focus on insurance tech. 20-30% of investments in Israel, and the remaining in the U.K. “We are operating four funds.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Global-e , an e-commerce platform that helps online sellers reach global consumers, filed to go public this morning. While Global-e is not a United States-based company — it also has offices in the U.K. While Global-e is not a United States-based company — it also has offices in the U.K. What is Global-e?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

On the heels of Personio raising a big round yesterday , one of its competitors and another big startup in the area of HR has also picked up some funding. The funding values the company at around $1.65 Hibob last raised money about 10 months ago, a $70 million round in December 2020 (a round led by SEEK and Israel Growth Partners).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

How to win consulting, board and deal roles with PE and VC funds. We propose that governments should systematically support funding for their diaspora founders, not just founders locally. There are three main players in any tech ecosystem: The first are founders who want to build companies and need funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

NGK Spark Plug , one of the world’s largest manufacturers of automative spark plugs, announced a new $100 million fund to invest in startups and find potential merger and acquisition deals. DNX Ventures launches $315 million fund for US and Japanese B2B startups. “The selection of those areas is based on global trends and data.

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In early August, NPTech launched Guidestar Israel. It took almost five years to make GuideStar Israel a reality, and it is an incredible resource for Israeli nonprofit organizations. NPTech (established by JDC-Israel and Yad Hanadiv ) is the operating organization behind GuideStar Israel. What is GuideStar Israel? .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

While the impact of macro market conditions on the global venture ecosystem has dominated headlines and conversations since February, it occurred to me a few weeks ago that I hadn’t heard anything about Israel. billion was invested into startups in Israel, according to the IVC Research Center. Was no news good news?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

On-orbit service and logistics startup Astroscale has raised a $51 million Series E funding round , bringing its total raised to date to $191 million thus far. ESS has formed the basis for Astroscale Israel, a new international office for the globe-spanning Astroscale that will be focused on geostationary life extension.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

BeeHero has been growing fast since its debut and seed round last year, and $19M in new funding means it can scale beyond its initial markets and find more uses for its one-of-a-kind collection of data collected from thousands of active honeybee hives. they’re currently the fourth largest). and almonds.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Given the large sums the company has now raised — $430 million to date — the funding will likely be used for acquisitions (cyber is a very crowded market and will likely see some strong consolidation in the coming years), as well as more in-house development and sales and marketing. Its valuation is now over $3 billion.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Released in 2011, “Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle” was a book that laid claim to the idea that Israel was an unusual type of country. The moniker became so ubiquitous, both at home and abroad, that “Israel Startup Nation” is now the name of the country’s professional cycling team. billion, from $6.51

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

The two-year-old Chinese automaker also said it plans to begin selling vehicles in Europe and Israel by the end of 2023. The aggressive push into new markets is fueled by the $750 million Series A funding round Zeekr raised in February, which shot the automaker’s post-money valuation up to $13 billion.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In fact, the global crisis resulted in its revenue dropping to $0, according to CEO and co-founder Ariel Cohen. That pivot has proven to be a smart move for the company, which today announced it has raised $275 million in a Series F “growth” funding round at a $7.25 And so we broadened the types of expenses employees could submit.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

GoTo Global, an Israeli mobility company that offers shared micromobility and car sharing services in Spain, Israel, Malta and Germany, is going public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange through a merger with shell company Nera Tech Media. Adam Neumann is back in the shared economy business with an investment in GoTo Global.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

One year after raising $16 million , construction technology company Buildots is back to claim another $30 million, this time in Series B funding. This gives the company $46 million in total funding, Roy Danon, co-founder and CEO of Buildots, told TechCrunch. Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia and China.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Justt , a Tel Aviv-based chargeback mitigation startup, is emerging out of stealth today with $70 million in total funding. The startup recently raised $50 million a Series B round of funding led by Greenwich, Conn.-based Just aims to help merchants globally fight false chargebacks with the artificial intelligence it has developed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Startups that produce lab-grown meat and meat substitutes are gaining traction and raising cash in global markets, mirroring a surge of support food tech companies are seeing in the United States.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As the Israel-based startup announced today, it has now raised a $2.8 million seed funding round led by crowdfunding platform OurCrowd ‘s incubator Labs/02 and India’s Reliance Industries, in addition to the Israeli Innovation Authority and a number of private investors. Image Credits: MagniLearn.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Mark Pavlyukovskyy, Ajay Gupta and Glen Anderson formed New Zealand’s first operator-run fund, NZVC , over the last year and made its first close of $10 million on what Pavlyukovskyy said will end up being around $15 million when all is said and done. As such, NZVC’s fund is targeting the seed to Series A gap.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Fireblocks , an infrastructure provider for digital assets, has raised $310 million in a Series D round of funding that tripled the company’s valuation to $2.2 The latter is the third global bank to invest in Fireblocks in addition to the Bank of New York (BNY) Mellon and SVB Capital. . billion in just over five months.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Israel-based ForSight Robotics announced today that it has raised $10 million for what it has deemed a “mega-seed round.” As we noted last year , medical and surgical startups have been a hot category for VCs — particularly in the seed stage, which accounts for about a quarter of total funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Those specific investments were from Playfair’s inaugural fund which wasn’t focused on any particular “stage” of company. “I’d say probably half the funding in our portfolio is pre-product, pre-traction,” Playfair managing partner Chris Smith explained to TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

million seed round led by boldstart ventures , with Insight Partners, Tiger Global, TeachAviv and a number of strategic angel investors also participating. The company was incubated by FXP , a Boston-Israel startup venture studio.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2023

Yet, relatively little has been written outside of Israel about the major concerns local entrepreneurs are currently dealing with. But Israel is even more outstanding when it comes to tech — so much so that it earned the nickname “Startup Nation.” We talked to one of them, MDI Health CEO Avishai Ben-Tovim.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The funding was led by Corner Ventures, with participation from Udi Angel, Vertex Ventures, and Yuval Tal, founder and president of Payoneer. Cymbio, a B2B dropship automation platform, is planning to use the new funding to grow its global footprint by establishing an office in Europe and expanding its team in the US. “We

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

HoneyBook is the latest to feel some love in this area, unveiling Wednesday that it raised $250 million in Series E funding, just six months after securing $155 million of Series D capital. This time around, Tiger Global Management doubled down on its investment into the company to lead the round. and Israel.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Dror Sal’ee , co-founder and VP APAC of Israeli startup Guardicore (acquired by Akamai Technologies) added that Israel’s high tech protest movement is extremely well organized. It started with a threat to divest Two months ago, Eynat Guez , co-founder and CEO of payroll startup Papaya Global (which has raised $444.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

The global plant-based foods industry accounted for $8 billion in sales and received $1.2 Israel-based Chunk Foods took in $15 million in seed funding in November, which Golan said “is the biggest seed round ever for an Israeli plant-based company.” Chunk Foods previously raised $2 million in pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Cymbio , a Tel Aviv-based startup focused on what it calls “brand-to-retailer connectivity,” announced today that it has raised $7 million in Series A funding. ” The new funding was led by Vertex Ventures, with participation from Udian Investments, Payoneer founder Yuval Tal and Sapiens co-founder Ron Zuckerman.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Virtuous, a responsive fundraising software, announced $100 million growth investment through a funding round led by Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE), an entrepreneur-centric growth equity firm. The firm is targeting $10 billion of net new generosity globally. “We Canada, Europe, and Israel.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Adaptive Shield, a Tel Aviv-based startup that automates the security of software-as-a-service ( SaaS ) applications, has secured $30 million in Series A funding led by Insight Partners. The funding round, which also saw participation from Okta Ventures and existing investor Vertex Ventures Israel, follows a $4 million seed round in 2019.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup called Cyabra has built a SaaS platform that measures authenticity and impact within the online conversation, detects false information and its authors, and further analyzes it to connect the dots. . State Department, global advertising agency TBWA, and several large financial institutions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

It was a lightning visit of only two days (Sunday and Monday), with a focus on attending the World Economic Forum's Global Redesign Summit 2010 (the GRI). James Moody, also from Australia, presented a concept for a Global Social Responsibility license focused on humanitarian applications of patents and technology.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Wolt , the Helsinki-based online ordering and delivery company that initially focused on restaurants but has since expanded to other verticals, has raised $530 million in new funding. The round was led by Iconiq Growth, with participation from Tiger Global, DST, KKR, Prosus, EQT Growth and Coatue.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

The Singapore-based company announced today that it has raised $640 million in Series E funding to expand its products, which combine computer vision and cloud-based software to help brick-and-mortar stores manage their inventory, merchandising and operations. Other participants included new investors OMERS and Sony Innovation Fund by IGV.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Felicis Ventures is leading the latest round that gives the company $56 million in total funding to date. Vilner says the firm’s name was one he kept hearing over and over, and he and co-founder Danni Friedland were interested in Felicis’ fund for SaaS and software, thinking it would be the right fit.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

Global plastic waste has more than doubled , and 40% of that waste comes from packaging. Woola (Estonia), Papkot (France), Biotic (Israel), FunCell (France) and Traceless (Germany). The investment will be used to fund the opening of its first raw material production plant. one • five (Germany), Shellworks (U.K.),

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