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Hailing from Israel, and part of the IDF’s elite intelligence unit 8200, Assia leads the iAngel’s investment committee, deal screening, due diligence and portfolio management. Her portfolio includes Calibrate, Neighborhood Goods, Nécessaire, Heroes, Thingtesting, Prose, Stadium Goods and others.
Cool Factor : Government Goes Mobile. I see this site growing as the use of mobile increases, but it’s a great first step and a good role model for other government agencies. Organization(s) : Meir Panim (Network of Soup Kitchens in Israel). Organization(s) : Meir Panim (Network of Soup Kitchens in Israel).
Hailing from Israel, and part of the IDF’s elite intelligence unit 8200, Assia leads the iAngel’s investment committee, deal screening, due diligence and portfolio management. Her portfolio includes Calibrate, Neighborhood Goods, Nécessaire, Heroes, Thingtesting, Prose, Stadium Goods and others.
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He has had random people ask him what his opinions on the caliphate are; what he thinks about Israel. Partly because of the US government and its history of entrapping people and lying about it,” he said. “I Some of the people who asked him such questions were later confirmed by the mosques to be informants.
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Hailing from Israel, and part of the IDF’s elite intelligence unit 8200, Assia leads the iAngel’s investment committee, deal screening, due diligence and portfolio management. Her portfolio includes Calibrate, Neighborhood Goods, Nécessaire, Heroes, Thingtesting, Prose, Stadium Goods and others.
government. More details here. We also wrote about Tellus, a startup that raised $16 million in an Andreessen Horowitz–led seed round of funding last year that is now being scrutinized by the U.S. clients “have some sort of global operations.”
government just last week that it’s intent on improving its crypto monitoring efforts — such as the U.S. It’s pretty great timing, given the various signals coming from the U.S. TC: What do these crimes look like?
Hailing from Israel, and part of the IDF’s elite intelligence unit 8200, Assia leads the iAngel’s investment committee, deal screening, due diligence and portfolio management. Her portfolio includes Calibrate, Neighborhood Goods, Nécessaire, Heroes, Thingtesting, Prose, Stadium Goods and others.
Hailing from Israel, and part of the IDF’s elite intelligence unit 8200, Assia leads the iAngel’s investment committee, deal screening, due diligence and portfolio management. Her portfolio includes Calibrate, Neighborhood Goods, Nécessaire, Heroes, Thingtesting, Prose, Stadium Goods and others.
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