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Employees at Tel Aviv-based venture group Team8. (Courtesy)
March 5, 2024, 7:06 pm
Backed by Microsoft and Cisco, Israel’s Team8 raises $500m to help build startups
Venture group plans to use fresh funds for building and investing in 30 startups in the areas of cyber, data infrastructure, fintech, digital health and AI
By Sharon Wrobel
For illustration: Workers in a startup.(Vadim_Key; iStock by Getty Images)
December 20, 2023, 4:23 pm
Small startups hurt most by wartime challenges – report
Survey finds startups as well as older tech firms need funding assistance amid call-up of reserves for Gaza war and difficulties in nabbing foreign investment and clients
By Sharon Wrobel
Israeli startup CatAI wins health tech challenge led by Start-Up Nation Central. (Vered Farkash)
September 18, 2023, 5:44 pm
Israeli startup wins healthcare tech challenge to help US hospitals cut costs
CatAI uses smartphone cameras to track medical data of home patients; has been awarded $75,000 to run pilot with Florida’s US Baptist Health
By Sharon Wrobel
Pitango's health tech venture capital fund team (from left to right): Jonathan Glazer, Ittai Harel, Hila Karah, and Joel Schoppig. (Yoram Reshef/Courtesy)
September 6, 2023, 3:10 pm
Pitango pulls in $175 million to invest in Israeli health tech startups
Herzliya-based venture capital firm launches second fund to back locally founded startups in areas of digital health, medical devices, diagnostics, and life sciences
By Sharon Wrobel
AccYouRate's washable smart T-shirt. (Courtesy)
July 16, 2023, 5:38 pm
Italian smart T-shirt developer to open data analysis center in Tel Aviv
Accyourate seeks to provide healthcare insights from wearables harnessing AI, advanced data analytics, and machine learning
By Sharon Wrobel
Industry leaders, scientists, engineers, physicians, and investors from over 45 countries at Biomed Israel 2023 conference, Tel Aviv, May 16, 2023. (Alexander Elman)
May 17, 2023, 10:47 pm
At Biomed Israel conference, medical start-ups discuss challenges in reaching success
Companies dealing in life sciences and technology face tougher times ahead due to global economic uncertainty and political crisis at home
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative image of a doctor with digital icons (chaiyapruek2520, iStock by Getty Images)
April 18, 2023, 1:56 pm
Investment in Israeli healthtech startups drops 13% in 2022 – report
But local life sciences industry proves more resilient than any other high-tech sector as firms raised $2.8 billion in 2022, IVC-aMoon report finds
By Sharon Wrobel
Medical staff at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital wear safety gear, as they work in the hospital's newly reopened COVID ward in Jerusalem on December 27, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)
May 30, 2022, 9:34 pm
Israel approves 19 programs for $30 million digital health initiative
Project to enable health organizations to share anonymized medical data with startups for better healthcare
By Ricky Ben-David
Illustrative. Medical technology and digtal health concept. (metamorworks via iStock for Getty Images)
January 30, 2022, 8:28 pm
Investors expect to pour more funds into digital health, survey shows
New study says 60% of leading VC funds and investment companies plan to increase backing in health tech
By Ricky Ben-David
Hadassah Ein Kerem medical staff are seen wearing safety gear as they work in a coronavirus ward, in Jerusalem, on August 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 9, 2021, 1:47 pm
Israel earmarks $17m for new digital health innovation program
Initiative by health and economy ministries and Innovation Authority will let startups access anonymized medical data for better healthcare
By Ricky Ben-David
Illustrative image of a doctor with digital icons (chaiyapruek2520, iStock by Getty Images)
May 30, 2021, 3:30 pm
Israeli digital health startups raise $700m in Q1, nearly equal to all 2020
Sharp rise is due to increase in later-stage funding rounds and is indication that ecosystem is maturing, Start-Up Nation Central study says
By Shoshanna Solomon
Illustrative image of a patient treated in an ICU, coma, brain injury (sudok1; iStock by Getty Images)
January 18, 2021, 1:53 pm
Startup hopes to track coma patients’ condition with goggles that monitor pupils
Israel’s BrainWatch Tech is working on prototype of device that will automatically measure and record pupillary reactions to light in patients with severe brain injury
By Shoshanna Solomon
An Israeli man receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Jerusalem, on January 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
January 10, 2021, 7:14 pm
Experts urge dose of transparency as medical data traded to Pfizer for vaccines
Privacy activists ask if pharma firm is truly only getting publicly available information, decry lack of transparency and fear what will happen if records are de-anonymized
By Shoshanna Solomon
An illustration of the software developed by Vocalis Health, to identify vocal biomarkers to detect illnesses (Courtesy)
November 1, 2020, 3:15 pm
Israel’s Vocalis, Mayo Clinic to develop voice-based medical biomarkers
Vocalis Health uses AI-based software to analyze voice and identify illnesses; first joint study with Mayo will focus on finding vocal signs for pulmonary hypertension
By Shoshanna Solomon
One of Sheba's innovation projects: the "hospital room of the future," built in the Israel Center for Medical Simulation at Sheba Medical Center (courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)
October 18, 2020, 1:55 pm
Israel’s Sheba, New Jersey’s Holy Name to join forces on digital health
Program gives global digital healthcare startups chance to collaborate with medical professionals to test out ideas
By Shoshanna Solomon
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