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Israeli-founded Gett acquires New York-rival Juno & more [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Heat’s on across the rideshare/mobility scene: Israeli-founded Gett acquires its New York-rival  Juno; and how did 3 startups get a VC to say yes? Read up on these news items and more below. Start getting this weekly newsletter via email: Subscribe now On-demand ride service Gett confirms acquisition of Juno for $200M The competitive landscape for transportation apps has become a little smaller today. Gett has announced that it has acquired Juno, a rival in the New York market. Read more. OurCrowd & Portfolio Companies in the News Mpirica featured in Crowdfund Insider Zebra featured in Nvidia Consumer Physics featured in Entrepreneur   How 3 startups got a VC to say yes Elan Zivotofsky is not your typical investor. Rather than just choose where his own firm’s money goes, he makes decisions that also influence thousands of smaller investors. Read more. Israeli startup raising dips in Q1 2017 “We expect the Mobileye deal – which shifted paradigms regarding valuations of Israeli companies – to have future impact on the industry in terms of growth in capital raising volumes.” Read more. Israeli urban tech-integrator brings smart city management to East...

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Israeli youth launch nanosatellite into space & more [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Israel is playing a leading role in space innovation, as well as photonics. Read up on these news items and more below. Start getting this weekly newsletter via email: Subscribe now Nanosatellite built by Israeli high-schoolers blasts into space ‘Duchifat-2,’ a joint venture by dozens of high school students from around the country, will study the lower thermosphere. Read more. OurCrowd & Portfolio Companies in the News NSLComm featured in Red Herring Invertex featured in Globes Social Bicycles featured in TechCrunch Argus featured in Yahoo Finance Trendlines featured in Business Times StackIQ featured in Market Wired   The world’s eyes are on Israel for photonics innovations In the early 1970s, when physicist Abraham Katzir was a graduate student at Hebrew University, his supervisor urged him to get into optics, the study of light. The future, he predicted, was all about lasers and optical fibers. Read more. Israeli startups push crowdfunding as investment in Israel Funding platforms like OurCrowd and iAngels — which require relatively low minimum investments and supply easy access to pre-vetted Israeli startups — are making Israeli industry much more accessible to Jews outside Israel. Read more. Microsoft reportedly to acquire...

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Pull over, Detroit – Israel as self-driving leader and more [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Israel is now leading the way in self-driving car tech! Read this item and more in this week’s Startup Nation newsletter. Start getting this weekly newsletter via email: Subscribe now Pull over, Detroit: Israel is new Motown for self-driving car tech Detroit has been known as “the motor city” ever since it became the center of the automobile industry at the beginning of the twentieth century. But now, one hundred years later, with the car tech industry heavily focused on producing self-driving vehicles, it’s not Detroit leading the way, but Israel. Read more. OurCrowd & Portfolio Companies in the News Trendlines featured in Times of Israel BioCatch featured in Reuters ReWalk featured in PR Newswire CyberX featured in Network World MedAware featured in Globes Bizzabo featured in TechCrunch   Israeli startup extracting water from air, around the world Water Gen tech works in remote locations, and where pipes are no longer safe. Read more. In big day for Israeli high-tech, Valens raises $60 million, Dapulse $25 million It was a big day for Israel’s high-tech industry on Thursday, with two startups announcing they had raised a combined $85 million...

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Israeli digital health saw a healthy 30% increase in 2016 [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Florida hospital Tampa uses medical virtual reality Surgical Theater to remove pancreatic tumors for the first time. Read this item and more in this week’s Startup Nation newsletter. Start getting this weekly newsletter via email: Subscribe now Israeli digital health investment grew 30% in 2016 $183 million was invested in the sector in 2016, up 30% from $144 million in 2015, according to Start-Up Nation Central. Read more. OurCrowd & Portfolio Companies in the News Surgical Theater featured in Bay News 9 CrediFi featured in Forbes Intuition Robotics featured in Bloomberg   Samsung to integrate Israeli tech in bid to spot strokes South Korean electronics giant signs 5-year licensing deal with MedyMatch to improve CT imaging for head trauma. Read more. Logistics startup Freightos lands $25 million in funding from GE Ventures Freightos, a startup that wants to digitize more of the international logistics process, announced today that it has raised a $25 million Series B extension round led by GE Ventures, General Electrics’ venture capital arm. Read more. Israeli cyber group sets up multi-million-dollar cyber defense center in Latin America The Israeli Cyber Companies Consortium (IC3), a group of Israeli...

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China and Israel tech ties continue to strengthen [OurCrowd Newsletter]

Collaborations aren’t done yet for Israel and China! What will the Mobileye acquisition do for Israeli startup investing? Check out these stories and more, below in this week’s Startup Nation newsletter. Start getting this weekly newsletter via email: Subscribe now China and Israel tech ties grow closer with $10M deal for 3 AI centers China and Israel tech collaboration just grew a little closer again with the signing of an initial $10 million investment by a Chinese conglomerate and an institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences with the University of Haifa to create three artificial intelligence centers in Beijing, Hangzhou and Haifa. Read more. OurCrowd & Portfolio Companies in the News Neverware featured in Yahoo Finance Argus featured in Fortune OurCrowd Qure featured in MobiHealthNews   50 startups founded in Negev in 2016 The Beersheva high-tech park already has over 40 companies and 1,800 employees. Read more. Mobileye deal to fuel investment in late-stage Israeli startups Intel’s $15.3 billion purchase of autonomous-driving firm sends message that investors can expect significant returns. Read more. Iron dome start-up to provide critical support to New York Power Authority The Israeli...

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