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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

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In the last 3 months of 2024, Israel’s GDP shrank by 20% in annualised term s and Israel’s credit rating was downgraded by Moodys. Sophisticated investors and tech leaders are bullish on Israel But don’t take it from me. What is important for them now in the context of Israel is a permanent ceasefire.

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Israeli startup Landscape Maps (Updated April 2021)

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Israel has already produced three Insurance Tech Unicorns including Lemonade, Hippo Insurance and Next Insurance. The map, created by InsurTech Israel and The Digital Insurer shines a spotlight on the sector in Israel. Source: The Digital Insurer in collaboration with the InsurTech Israel ( Download ). Energy Tech.

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2021 was a record breaking year for Israeli startups. What now?

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2021 Tech Trends: Israel is winning the global race for tech funding. Israel: $25.4 Shortage of talent – Israel is a country of 9 million people, and according to a recent report by the Israel Innovation Authority, only about 334,000, about 9.8% Israeli tech investments 2015-2021 (source: IVC ). US: $330 billion ??China:

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The Anti-Israel BDS Movement Will Fail

David Teten

The BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement) is a global attempt to persuade people not to do business with Israel or businesses that do business with Israel. All these technologies were developed primarily or entirely in Israel. . 40% of Intel’s sales are from chips developed in Israel.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

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Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

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Israeli startup landscape maps – 2022 Q1 edition

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The landscape was officially published in Calcalist , Israel’s top business publication. Israel’s first Metaverse tech landscape (Source: Remagine Ventures and Calcalist ). Israel proptech and contech startup landscape (source: Deloitte ). TLV partners published this handy map of Israeli ecommerce startups.

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Covid-19 is a marathon, not a sprint, for startups in US, UK and Israel

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Israel – 500M NIS to cash strapped startups. Earlier this week, Israel started with an alleviation of the self-quarantine measures that restricted people’s movement to no more than 100 meters from their house. This is part of Israel’s Ministry of Finance NIS 1.2 On the health front, there are signs of recovery.

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