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Immpact was formed from a merger between US company Kalthera and a company founded in Israel's FutuRX biotech incubator.

The Israeli venture capital fund has sold 33% of its holdings in the fourth fund to US investment giant StepStone.

Viola Ventures had a highly successful 2021, with eight of its portfolio companies reaching unicorn status and beyond.

The Tel Aviv company's AI financial-data-driven personalization solutions for banks and financial services providers, enables them to target the needs of individual customers.

The company's no-code platform enables customers to create individually tailored product demos quickly and efficiently.

The new early-stage fund and early growth fund bring Entrée's total assets under management to $1 billion.

Dr. Isaac Bentwich reveals Quris, which aims to save pharmaceutical companies hundreds of millions of dollars and years of development.

The Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund is investing in Israel's tech sector, "The Wall Street Journal" reports.

Supersmart's systems scans and validates the contents of a supermarket cart in three seconds.

The company provides insights about foot traffic in malls and shopping centers, other retail centers, casinos, theme parks and stadiums and more.

BigPanda provides an AIOps event correlation and automation platform that enables IT Operations teams to automate incident management.

With no orderly policy, measures to increase the tax take are creating uncertainty for global tech giants and local startups alike.

The Israeli company's platform tests IT infrastructures, reveals risk and creates a surgical remediation plan that automatically validates security for continued resilience.

MeMed's technology rapidly distinguishes bacterial and viral infections, and can predict which Covid-19 patients need drug treatment.

The Israeli company's platform integrates an off-the-shelf single-focal lens with a proprietary flexible lens to create a high-quality progressive lens.

Weka develops technology that streamlines data storage within enterprises and the cloud and allows more efficient storage and swift transmission of AI applications, machine learning, financial and medical analysis.

Energy major Chevron is part of a consortium of five companies bidding in the Israel Innovation Authority's tender to operate a climate-tech incubator.

Remilk will scale production of its dairy-identical milk protein for commercial use by manufacturers in traditionally dairy-based products including cheeses, yogurt and ice cream.

Grove III will focus on edge computing, cloud infrastructure, data infrastructure and management, developers’ tools and software, DevOps, AI and automation.

The company has built an end-to-end AI-based platform that comprehensively maps the course of a disease on the protein level.

The Israeli medical device company has developed neurovascular treatments for hemorrhagic and ischemic strokes.

The Israeli company's platform warns about latent morbidity, and the beginning of a future wave of morbidity, and the discovery of new variants.

Google will reportedly pay $500 million for the company, which has developed an automated, rapid threat response system.

As Sequoia Capital has acknowledged, the traditional VC model no longer serves companies' best interests. Tel Aviv may have one solution.

The new fund will operate based on a dual model: a primary fund of $150 million to focus on seed investments for early-stage startups, with $85 million used for follow-on investments.

The round is led by Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturer VinFast, which plans to scale up manufacturing and deploy StoreDot's battery technology in its electric vehicles.

IVC - Meitar also reports that Israeli tech exits skyrocketed to $22.2 billion last year, with almost equal amounts of IPOs and M&As.

You don't have to be Israeli to work in secure multiparty computation, but it helps.

The sale price is six times higher than the price for which it purchased the shares in April 2021.

Booming valuations, big financial institutions moving in, and fewer new companies, perhaps spell the end of the traditional VC role.