While chemotherapy is often a life-saving treatment for cancerous tumors, choosing the right chemo for each patient remains an unmet clinical challenge. Furthermore, current chemotherapies cause harsh side effects and damage healthy organs alongside the tumors.“We want physicians to have…
July 2014. A special purpose company formed by Alstom (25.05%), BrightSource (25.05%), and NOY Infrastructure & Energy Investment Fund (49,9%) – obtained the financing of the European Investment Bank and the Bank Hapoalim for the construction and operation of the…
EarlySense Ltd., the market leader in contact-free monitoring, has completed a $20 million financing round, led by Samsung Ventures with an investment of $10M. Existing investors whose participation was also substantial include Pitango Venture Capital, Welch Allyn, JK&B, Proseed and Noaber.…
Ravello Systems continues momentum of enabling enterprises to use AWS and Google Cloud as a true extension of their data center. Ravello Systems, Inc. has closed a third round of funding of $28 million bringing the total capital raised to date…
Alstom has signed a bilateral agreement with the Israeli company Atlantium to expand the use of an innovative water treatment solution using ultraviolet rays (UV) in hydropower equipment. The technique destroys microorganisms that proliferate in the auxiliary water circuits of hydropower equipment…
How does the experience of using public transit compare around the world? How long do you wait for the bus or train? And, what frustrates you most along the way? We surveyed nearly 12,000 transit riders to find out. Transit takes…
Taboola, the leading content discovery platform, announced that it has completed a $117 million financing round led by Fidelity Management and Research Company, the investment adviser to Fidelity’s family of mutual funds. Also participating in the round are existing investors…
Building on their joint success of the spreading of Israel Science Information (paper version) on international lines, Air France and Israel Science Info magazine decided to extend their partnership. Since February 1, 2015, Air France offers the digital version of…
The funding round, led by EMC and Sequoia capital, is the company’s second in a year. Five million will be used to buy out some of the founders’ shares. Yet another funding round was announced in what is turning out…
MOND is a theory concerning the Dark Matter problem. The problem is that our observations of certain systems are inconsistent with Newtonian dynamics. We measure less mass than Newton’s law predicts there should be. There are 2 ways of looking…
