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Israel’s OurCrowd Takes Lead in Equity Crowdfunding
23 May 2013
Israel’s hybrid VC-crowdfunding platform OurCrowd announced today that it closed financing for Jeff Pulver’s latest startup, Zula, pushing its total raised for early stage companies above $12 million. This $12 million is in addition to the $5.5 million in funding OurCrowd raised for its own platform in February this year. Zula is OurCrowd’s 18th completed [...]
Business/Economic, General News, High Tech
Senior Policy Advisor to the British Prime Minister to Lead UK ‘Future-Retail’ Delegation Visit to Israel
14 May 2013
Senior Policy Advisor to the British Prime Minister, Mr Rohan Silva, will be leading a high-level business delegation to visit Israel, between 19-22 May 2013. Some of the UK’s largest retail companies, ranging from high-street supermarket chains to internationally-renowned luxury brands, will be accompanying Mr Silva to experience the wide range of cutting-edge retail-technologies that [...]
Business/Economic, High Tech
Microsoft and Israel’s Ministry of Finance sign Memorandum of Understanding
8 May 2013
The Ministry of Finance and Microsoft signed a memorandum of understanding for strategic collaboration for promoting Information and Communication Technologies. Deputy Minister of Finance Mickey Levy, Government Chief Information Officer Carmela Avner, and CEO Microsoft Israel Dani Yamin signed the memorandum which acknowledges technology’s potential to leverage and accelerate economic growth, in light of Israel’s [...]
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The Technion: Israel’s Hard Drive
24 April 2013
The most ambitious project in the sphere of technology studies, and perhaps in all of higher education, in the world is being planned, and Israel’s leading technology institute, the Technion, is playing a major role in it. Cornell and the Technion together won the prize in Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s contest to create a new science school. According to the Technion,The [...]
Business/Economic, Clean Tech, General News, High Tech, Life Science
VIDEO: Israel: 65 Years of Achievement
11 April 2013
Happy birthday to the State of Israel, which was born 65 years ago! Over those six-and-a-half decades, Israel grew from a struggling young nation into a highly developed state. While Israel is now known as a world leader in high-tech, this short clip highlights a number of Israel’s many other accomplishments in nation-building, immigrant absorption, [...]
Business/Economic, High Tech
Israeli startup Brandsforce raises $1.4 million
8 April 2013
Israeli start-up Brandsforce, a plug & play social media marketing platform, yesterday announced it has raised $1.4 million in funding. Currently backed by private investors, Isaac Fisher (Executive Vice President of The Nielsen Company) and Fred Langhammer, (the former CEO of Estee Lauder International and a board member of The Walt Disney Company), the company has developed [...]
Business/Economic, High Tech
Startup MBA: New Technion International MBA in English
14 March 2013
Technion Israel Institute of Technology announces brand new one year MBA in Israel in English aimed at entrepreneurs! Israel is a world-known hub for technology, innovation and startups, second only to California’s Silicon Valley. A new International MBA programme by Technion Israel Institute for Technology is offering global bright students and entrepreneurs from around the [...]
Business/Economic, High Tech
Where is Facebook going for new games? Israel
14 March 2013
Five of the developers of Facebook‘s ten largest social games in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) come from Israel, and the company is now in Israel looking for more. Roy Goldenberg of Globes covered Facebook’s growing interest in Israeli gaming companies: Facebook is building on the Israeli gaming market: five of the developers of Facebook’s [...]
Business/Economic
President Peres presents economic plan to OECD; Secretary General says “Israel is example for other members”
11 March 2013
On a visit to Paris Friday, President Shimon Peres presented an economic plan to involve multinational corporations in addressing the economic needs of developing countries in the Middle East and elsewhere. Peres presented the proposal on a visit to the Paris headquarters of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The organisation’s secretary general praised [...]
Business/Economic, General News
Israel: The Spirit of Technology
5 March 2013
An update from Noah Shani Minister, Trade & Economic Affairs at the Embassy of Israel in London. The start to 2013 has been particularly exciting so far. Israel’s trade with the UK is flourishing, Israel’s innovators are creating and inspiring new technologies and new scientific discoveries and Israel’s entrepreneurial achievements continue to draw high praise [...]