Israel’s First Tech Accelerator for Women Gets Underway
Program aims to provide advice and mentoring to an initial group of 11 entrepreneurs
Ruti Levy
Monday.com’s Fundraiser Makes It a Startup Unicorn
Already a unicorn, real estate platform Compass nabs $370 million at reported $6.4 billion valuation
Why This Israeli Startup Rejected an Offer From Google – but Not $300 Million From McDonald's
Dynamic Yield's Liad Agmon tells TheMarker why the burger giant’s acquisition isn’t your typical high-tech hype
The Israeli Brothers Who Wrote the Bible on Online Learning
eTeacher began as a portal for private tutoring and has become a virtual school with 30,000 students worldwide ■ Yariv and Boaz Bin Nun explain how it’s done
Israeli Company Fiverr Lets Its Freelancers Share in the IPO Glory
The online marketplace invited 13 of them to help ring the opening bell last week. Its CEO says its community has a better deal than Uber drivers
Fiverr Seeks to Raise Up to $104m in U.S. IPO
Israeli gig economy startup selling 17% stake at up to $20 a share
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer, to Visit Israel in August
It will be her first time in the country since she became the tech giant’s COO in 2008
SafeCharge to Be Bought by Nuvei for $889 Million
Deal will join two companies in burgeoning payments-processing industry. Israeli Teddy Sagi will get $600 million from sale
Startups Face Roadblocks Despite Record Fundraising
Survey finds that clauses favoring investors remain much more common in Israel than in Silicon Valley
Israeli Gig Economy Startup Fiverr Slates U.S. IPO
Prospectus shows company, which matches freelancers with customers, is growing rapidly but posting losses
Israeli Taboola 'Recommendation Engine' CEO Is Confident It'll Be 'Bigger Than Twitter'
'Google is great, you can find anything you want to look for – but what happens when you don’t have any idea what you want to look for?' Adam Singolda recalls how he secured his first investor at a 2007 bat mitzvah
Breaking the Golden Cage: This Israeli Company Lets Workers Quit and Keep Their Options, Too
EquityBee plays matchmaker between employees who get funding to cash in on options and investors who gain access to privately held firms
Israeli Cybersecurity Startup Acquired by Global Firm for $560 Million
Demisto, U.S.-based Palo Alto Network's fourth Israeli purchase, works to automate threat management in major organizations' situation rooms. It has raised $69 million to date
Salesforce.com in Talks to Buy U.S.-Israeli ClickSoftware Technologies for $1 Billion
If the deal is completed, it would be the second major acquisition by Salesforce in Israel in less than a year after it paid $850 million for Datorama, an Israeli cloud-based artificial intelligence marketing platform
Israel May Be Lauded as 'Startup Nation,' but Its Innovation Ends at Tel Aviv's Limits
Israeli innovation doesn’t reach most Israelis as a product or service – or as a job, report finds
Amazon Buying Israeli Startup CloudEndure for $200 Million
CloudEndure’s software is used to transfer enterprise data to cloud servers, creates a copy and ensures rapid recovery in the event of a system crash
No Israelis Left to Work in Tech?
A report released by the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies shows that many Israelis don't have the skills required to work in the tech industry. Arabs and ultra-Orthodox are the two main groups lacking proper education to fill jobs
Office Porn and Sexist Jokes: Israel's High-tech Women Share Their Stories
Israeli women in the industry don’t face physical violence in the workplace, but they do have to contend with the same kinds of abuse that preserve the power structure and facilitate violence
The Israeli Startup That Knows What You’re Eating
Nutrino, recently sold to Medtronic, uses your cellphone to analyze your diet and create a personalized eating plan
Meet the Most Powerful Woman in Israeli High-tech
The director of R&D for Intel Israel, responsible for a work force of 7,000, talks about her special way of making decisions and how mentoring can help women advance in the world of high tech
Medtronic to Buy Israeli AI-health Startup Nutrino
U.S.-Irish company will use acquisition to help people who have diabetes with nutritional issues
No Longer Just Innovation, Israeli Tech Moves Up a Step
Study finds buyers of startups increasingly seeking new markets or financial gains, a sign of a maturing industry
Bug in the System: How the Israeli Army Is Deterring Female Coders
The army insists it offers equal opportunity for women in its software courses, but studies finds that the dog-eat-dog system of its coding school isn’t structured for women to succeed
U.S., Israel Expected to Announce Talks on New Bilateral Tax Deal
The U.S.-Israeli agreement is outdated, and contain some of the highest tax rates in the world, at a higher rate than U.S. bilateral agreements with other nations
The Israeli Company Tapping Into the Home-schooling Market
TinyTap is profiting from an app that lets anyone create interactive educational games, without prior knowledge in programming
Waze's New Route to World Domination: Carpooling
Gai Berkovich, the development director for the Google-owned company in Israel, tells Haaretz how the new carpool service wants to eliminate traffic, not fight it
Israeli Startup Receives FDA Approval for Computer-assisted Triage
Go-ahead given for product’s algorithm to identify acute intracranial hemorrhage cases in head CTs
Russian Firm to Train Israelis in Hot Tech Fields
Yandex to begin first classes in October with 50 students
Apple Backs Campaign Against anti-LGBT Israeli Legislation
Tech giant voices solidarity with employees 'seeking equality' following legislation excluding gay men from law expanding surrogacy rights
Israel-wide Strike Slated as Tech Firms Protest anti-LGBT Legislation
Firms vow to help workers fund procedure as labor federation comes out in favor of strike called by LGBT group