Verbit, a transcription startup with offices in Tel Aviv and New York, today announced that it has raised a $23 million Series A round led by Viola Ventures. Vertex Ventures, HV Ventures, Oryzn Capital, Vintage Venture Partners and ClalTech also participated in this round. The company, which currently focuses on the legal and academic sector, uses […]
View More Verbit raises $23M for its transcription serviceCategory: Tel Aviv
SeeTree raises $11.5M to help farmers manage their orchards
SeeTree, a Tel Aviv-based startup that uses drones and artificial intelligence to bring precision agriculture to their groves, today announced that it has raised an $11.5 million Series A funding round led by Hanaco Ventures, with participation from previous investors Canaan Partners Israel, Uri Levine and his investors group, iAngel and Mindset. This brings the […]
View More SeeTree raises $11.5M to help farmers manage their orchardsRed Hat acquires hybrid cloud data management service NooBaa
Red Hat is in the process of being acquired by IBM for a massive $34 billion, but that deal hasn’t closed yet and, in the meantime, Red Hat is still running independently and making its own acquisitions, too. As the company today announced, it has acquired Tel Aviv-based NooBaa, an early-stage startup that helps enterprises manage […]
View More Red Hat acquires hybrid cloud data management service NooBaaKZen raises $4 million to bring sanity to crypto wallets
KZen, a company run by former TC editor Ouriel Ohayon, has raised $4 million in seed to build a “better wallet,” obviously the elusive Holy Grail in the crypto world. Benson Oak Ventures, Samsung Next, Elron Ventures invested. Ohayon, who has worked at Internet Lab and founded TechCrunch France and Appsfire, wanted to create an […]
View More KZen raises $4 million to bring sanity to crypto walletsTaxify is entering the e-scooter game
Estonian ride-hailing company Taxify will compete with Bird and Lime in Europe with its new brand of e-scooters, called Bolt, launching in Paris on Thursday.
The company has rolled the scooter sharing service into its mobile app, which has attracted 10 million users in 25 countries since it launched in August 2013.
View More Taxify is entering the e-scooter gameSAP’s SAP.io Foundry debuts the graduates of its second women-focused accelerator
SAP, the German-based enterprise software giant, has unveiled the New York-based cohort from its SAP.io Foundry accelerator programs focused on women-led technology companies. The first program was launched in San Francisco in July 2017, and while the company has launched additional accelerator programs in Berlin and Tel Aviv (with plans for a Paris accelerator in […]
View More SAP’s SAP.io Foundry debuts the graduates of its second women-focused acceleratorBird’s electric scooters are going international
Electric scooter startup Bird, the one worth $2 billion, is going international. This does not come as a surprise given TechCrunch’s June report that Bird was looking to expand to Europe. Today, Bird is launching a pilot program in Paris to see how the electric scooter service operates in a city with more than two […]
View More Bird’s electric scooters are going internationalBag Week 2018: WP Standard built the leather messenger bag you want
Welcome to Bag Week 2018. Every year your faithful friends at TechCrunch spend an entire week looking at bags. Why? Because bags — often ignored but full of our important electronics — are the outward representations of our techie styles, and we put far too little thought into where we keep our most prized possessions. […]
View More Bag Week 2018: WP Standard built the leather messenger bag you wantTC Tel Aviv begins tomorrow; buy your ticket today
This goes out to all the die-hard procrastinators. We’re just 24 hours away from TC Tel Aviv 2018, our inaugural day-long conference focused on mobility tech. The Israeli startup scene stands at the forefront of this rapidly changing frontier, and we’ve gathered some of Israel’s greatest thinkers, makers and investors to share their insight and […]
View More TC Tel Aviv begins tomorrow; buy your ticket todayLuminaries from across Israel’s tech ecosystem are joining us onstage in Tel Aviv
Tickets are going fast for our inaugural Tel Aviv event and no one should miss out on the opportunity to see some the nation’s rising stars discuss the challenges and opportunities ahead for mobility technologies. Hear from some of the architects and creators of Israel’s latest technology marvels like Orit Nissan Messing, the co-founder and […]
View More Luminaries from across Israel’s tech ecosystem are joining us onstage in Tel AvivPick up some moving insights into the future of mobility with Gett chief executive Dave Waiser in Tel Aviv
Dave Waiser has been at the forefront of the mobility technology revolution in Israel for the past eight years, ever since he launched Gett in 2010. One of the last companies standing in the ultra-competitive global ride-sharing market, Gett has withstood competition from Didi Chuxing, Grab, Ola, Lyft and Uber and kept pace with those […]
View More Pick up some moving insights into the future of mobility with Gett chief executive Dave Waiser in Tel AvivHear from the executives of Innoviz and Oryx Vision about the eyes and ears of the new automobile in Tel Aviv
The success of the autonomous vehicle revolution relies on complicated systems of sophisticated sensors working in harmony to provide the magic of sight to machines. In Tel Aviv, we’ll hear from experts in the field as they discuss the technological marvels that are the driving force behind the transformation of mobility in the modern world. […]
View More Hear from the executives of Innoviz and Oryx Vision about the eyes and ears of the new automobile in Tel Aviv