Israeli high tech

Workers from the tourism sector, calling for financial support from the Israeli government, protest outside Ben Gurion International Airport, on December 13, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

December 19, 2021, 2:01 pm

Daily Briefing Dec. 19 – Tech firms celebrate best year as tour guides bemoan fate

Military correspondent Judah Ari Gross discusses last week’s terrorist attack, followed by Startup Israel editor Ricky Ben-David on the tourism industry and tech exits

By TOI staff

An illustration of the Lunar Extractor technology developed by Helios, which the startup hopes will be able to make oxygen on the moon (Courtesy)

October 18, 2021, 4:39 pm

Israel’s Helios to deliver space tech to the moon aboard European lunar lander

Startup signs agreement with Germany-based OHB to prove its oxygen-from-moon-sand tech works in no-gravity conditions

By Ricky Ben-David

From left: Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel, Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion, Eran Feigenbaum, country manager, Oracle Israel, and Economy Minister Orna Barbivai attend the inauguration of Oracle's new cloud center region in Jerusalem, October 13, 2021. (Ezra Levy)

October 13, 2021, 3:39 pm

Oracle inaugurates regional cloud center in Jerusalem, plans to open 2nd site

Data center set up in underground facility of thousands of square meters over four floors

By Ricky Ben-David

The Tel Aviv skyline at night. (Shai Pal on Unsplash)

October 13, 2021, 3:17 pm

Israeli tech firms raised staggering $17.8b this year, almost double 2020 total

Funding rounds of over $100m account for more than half the total sum for first 3 quarters of 2021; tech exits reach over $18b

By Ricky Ben-David

A drone flies near the city of Tel Aviv on October 11, 2021, in a pilot run by the Israel Innovation Authority with partners to create a network of drone deliveries in Israel (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

October 11, 2021, 7:41 pm

Drones deliver sushi, beer in Tel Aviv as Israel tests commercial UAVs

Israel National Drone Initiative enters third phase as momentum builds for government-led drone delivery network

By Ricky Ben-David

Fiverr's co-founder and CEO, Micha Kaufman. (Courtesy / Yoav Hornung)

October 10, 2021, 7:37 pm

Israel’s Fiverr acquires US online learning company to offer education, training

Fiverr announces it is buying Seattle-based CreativeLive for an undisclosed amount; this is the company’s 3rd acquisition in over a year

By Ricky Ben-David

The Orca Security team, March 2021 (Orca Security)

October 5, 2021, 4:22 pm

Israel’s Orca Security raises additional $340m at $1.8b valuation

Singapore-based firm Temasek leads extended Series C round in Israeli cybersecurity startup, founded just 2 years ago

By Ricky Ben-David

The Qwilt leadership team. (Berzi Goldblatt)

September 22, 2021, 5:45 pm

US giant Cisco invests in Israeli streaming software firm Qwilt

Founded in 2010, Qwilt develops solutions that help providers deliver high-quality streaming and video to consumers

By Ricky Ben-David

One of the last photos taken by Beresheet before it crash landed into the moon, on April 11, 2019. (Courtesy SpaceIL)

September 5, 2021, 5:10 pm

SpaceIL issues call for scientific research proposals on 2nd moon mission

Israeli organization gears up for follow-up space mission in 2024, asks global research institutes to submit ideas for experiments

By Ricky Ben-David

Ibex Medical Analytics is an Israeli maker of AI-based cancer diagnostics software. (Courtesy)

August 25, 2021, 7:27 pm

Israeli AI tech to help pathologists detect gastrointestinal cancer

Ibex Medical Analytics deploys advanced solution at Maccabi pathology institute to support accurate diagnosis

By Ricky Ben-David

Upstream Security founders Yoav Levy, CEO (right) and Yonatan Appel, CTO. (Photo: Yarin Taranos)

August 24, 2021, 4:52 pm

Japan’s Mitsui insurance ups investment in Israel’s Upstream Security

Japanese company leads $62m expanded Series C round in provider of cloud-based cybersecurity solutions for connected and autonomous cars

By Ricky Ben-David

The Bzigo mosquito detector in action (Courtesy)

July 28, 2021, 10:22 am

With computer vision, Bzigo creates ‘Iron Dome’ against mosquitos

Israeli startup’s tech doesn’t kill the pests, just pinpoints them with laser light and alerts your smartphone

By Shoshanna Solomon

July 27, 2021, 4:17 pm

Dmytro Spilka

Catering to cleantech: how Israel is evolving into a sustainability pioneer

Israel is a nation that has a muddled relationship with sustainability, but emerging ‘cleantech’ and pioneering innovations may be set to put the record straight on the environment

Illustrative. Hackers/cybersecurity (iStock by Getty Images)

July 27, 2021, 4:07 pm

Cybersecurity insurance firm At-Bay raises $185 million, becomes latest unicorn

At-Bay uses machine learning and other tech to assess cybersecurity risk of firms seeking insurance against attacks; funding gives 5-year-old startup valuation of $1.3 billion

By Shoshanna Solomon

Wiliot chips can tag onto crates and products to provide info about their environment and location (Courtesy)

July 27, 2021, 3:40 pm

Wiliot gets $200 million led by SoftBank for product-tracking chip tags

Startup’s tiny, inexpensive, self-powered computerized tags are made to be attached to products or packaging and convey data on their physical and environmental conditions

By Shoshanna Solomon