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Israeli sports startup MindFly has an agreement with EuroLeague, Europe’s top tier basketball competition, to fit players and referees with its AI bodycams and give the fans a first person view of everything they do on the court. (Courtesy)
May 17, 2023, 4:26 pm
Israeli startup to give fans a referee’s-eye view at the EuroLeague final games
In first, referees will wear MindFly’s bodycam to capture a first-person view of games for fans to watch, hear and experience everything basketball players do on court
By Sharon Wrobel
For illustration: Minnesota State Lottery website, which features eScratch Games. (AP Photo)
May 15, 2023, 4:03 pm
Australia’s Aristocrat to buy Israel’s NeoGames in deal worth $1.2 billion
Nasdaq-listed NeoGames is a Tel Aviv-based online gaming tech solutions provider for iLottery, iGaming and online sports betting operators
By Sharon Wrobel
People walk past a Ladbrokes betting shop in London, Wednesday June 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Leonora Beck)
April 5, 2023, 2:17 pm
Ladbrokes owner Entain snaps up Israeli livescore sports media firm in $160m deal
365scores mobile live app covers 10 sport categories across 2,000 competitions globally, providing users with live push notifications and feed on results and personalized news
By Sharon Wrobel
A soccer match between Wales and Belgium at the Cardiff City stadium in Cardiff, Wales, June 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
September 4, 2022, 4:50 pm
Backed by FIFA, Playermaker dives into sports analytics feet first
Israeli company says its shoe-mounted trackers can give athletes a leg up honing footwork or avoiding injury by crunching masses of data for key insights
By Ethan Freedman
A soccer match between Wales and Belgium at the Cardiff City stadium in Cardiff, Wales, June 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
June 21, 2022, 10:27 am
Israeli shoe-tracking sports startup Playermaker raises $40 million
Company tracks athlete performance with a wearable sensor for soccer shoes, plans to use funding to expand to other sports, starting with basketball
By Luke Tress
Griiip has developed cloud-based software that allows fans, drivers and team players to get data in real time from racing cars, to get a feel of driver stress levels, tire data, and battery status, and compare drivers' performance (Courtesy).
July 8, 2021, 3:43 pm
Carmaker Porsche invests in Israeli startup to give fans greater race thrill
Griiip’s software allows fans & teams to get real-time data from racing cars, feel drivers’ stress levels and compare performance results
By Shoshanna Solomon
Players greet each other at the end of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier group F football match between Israel and Scotland at Bloomfield stadium in the Israeli Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv on March 28, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
May 23, 2021, 1:23 pm
Step up: Israeli shoe-tracking startup Playermaker joins FIFA innovation program
The Tel Aviv company, with HQ in London, will test out its technology with pro soccer teams; it aims to become a standard device for games
By Shoshanna Solomon
Full house at OurCrowd 2019 summit in Jerusalem. (Shoshanna Solommon/Times of Israel)
February 12, 2020, 4:28 pm
OurCrowd to up its focus on ‘huge potential’ of overlooked early-stage firms
Crowdfunding VC firm to hold Global Investor Summit in Jerusalem on Thursday, with Chinese and other Asian delegations absent amid coronavirus crisis
By Shoshanna Solomon
Israel Team Start-Up Nation racing in the 2020 Men's Tour Down Under, a road cycling stage race that took place between 21 and 26 January in and around Adelaide, South Australia (Bettini Photo)
February 2, 2020, 2:12 pm
Israel cycling team to pilot tech of 8 startups in race for better results
Technologies to be tested monitor physiology, nutrition, sleep quality, performance and even cyclists’ emotional state
By Shoshanna Solomon
The Israel Start-up Nation (Israel Cycling Academy) professional team roster to compete in the 2020 Tour de France (Noa Arnon)
December 11, 2019, 3:18 pm
Israeli cyclists to race in Tour de France bearing Start-Up Nation banner
Bike riders will team up with entrepreneurs to test technologies that may give them a competitive edge in one of the world’s most popular sporting events
By Shoshanna Solomon
PlayerMaker's CEO Guy Aharon, left, former Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger, center, and Yuval Odem the COO of PlayerMaker. (Woody Rankin)
May 24, 2019, 4:00 am
Former Arsenal manager Wenger invests in Israeli startup PlayerMaker
PlayerMaker has developed tech that tracks and analyzes soccer players’ technical, tactical and physical performance using sensors that are mounted on their shoes
By Shoshanna Solomon
OurCrowd's Jon Medved speaks at the OurCrowd Global Summit, February 16, 2017 in Jerusalem, (Yosef Adest)
February 1, 2018, 11:51 am
OurCrowd sets up $50 million fund to invest in sports tech
Jerusalem-based equity crowdfunding VC also launches seed-stage incubator for firms developing tech for AI, deep learning, autonomous cars and and smart cities
By Urvashi Verma
Illustrative: Bodybuilders. In Israel, bodybuilders use food supplements approved by the Health Ministry. (YouTube screenshot)
September 19, 2017, 8:01 pm
4 more arrested in probe of food supplement smuggling
Two senior Health Ministry employees and two customs agents nabbed, following earlier arrest of major importer, quarantine head
By ToI Staff
The Minnesota Vikings stadium that has been equipped with Intel's freeD technology developed by Israel's Replay Technologies (Courtesy: Intel)
September 7, 2017, 6:03 pm
Intel to equip NFL stadiums with Israel-made replay technology
Installed at 11 US pro football arenas, 3D video format will let fans feel like they’re right in the middle of the action
By Shoshanna Solomon
Runners during the 2014 marathon in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/ Flash90)
From the WebApril 16, 2017, 10:55 am
Smart running shoes won’t make you faster, but they could help you avoid getting hurt
TechCrunch: I only recently started running again after grinding every joint and muscle below my waist into a powder; even accounting for all the health benefits one gets from running, doing it for long periods of time can be positively destructive
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