Where we’re at: I’m recapping my travels in 2019, including this retreat research trip to Israel in September. There are more details about our Israel retreats, postponed to 2021, at the end of this post. It’s a weird time to write about... ... I realize for some this is a difficult time to read about travel. I am writing often about our current global crisis — the impact it’s having on me personally, on the world of travel, and on the world at large — regularly on my social media channe... ... In case you haven’t heard, TC Sessions: Mobility is back for second year. This one-day event, which will be held May 14 in San Jose, promises to feature some of best and brightest engineers, policymakers, investors, entrepreneurs and innovators, all of whom are vying to be a part of this new age of transportation. Attendees ... Intuition Robotics, the company best known for its ElliQ robot, a digital home companion for the elderly, today announced that it has raised a $36 million Series B round co-led by SPARX Group and OurCrowd. Toyota AI Ventures, Sompo Holdings, iRobot, Union Tech Ventures, Happiness Capital, Samsung Next, Capital Point and Bloomberg Beta also participated ... On Tuesday, January 28, 2020, the Trump Administration revealed its vision for an Israel-Palestine peace plan. The proposed two-state solution would leave the state of Palestine completely surrounded by Israel, with tunnels connecting different sections. The "deal" was brokered in part by Jared Kushner. I put "deal" in quotes because no actual Palestinian humans were ... Tencent, one of the world’s biggest videogaming companies by revenue, today made another move to help cement that position. The Chinese firm has made an offer to fully acquire Funcom, the games developer behind Conan Exiles (and others in the Conan franchise), Dune and some 28 other titles. The deal, when approved, would value the ... Sisense, an enterprise startup that has built a business analytics business out of the premise of making big data as accessible as possible to users — whether it be through graphics on mobile or desktop apps, or spoken through Alexa — is announcing a big round of funding today and a large jump in valuation ... Mobileye announced Tuesday an agreement to test and eventually deploy a robotaxi service in Daegu City, South Korea, the latest example of the company’s strategy to expand beyond its traditional business of supplying automakers with computer vision technology that power advanced driver assistance systems. Under the agreement, which was announced at CES 2020, Mobileye will ... Jerusalem Venture Partners has raised more than $1.4 billion raised over two decades, powering some of Israel's largest cybersecurity startups. ... Microsoft is hiring former Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder to provide legal window dressing for their AnyVision technology, which the company says complies with the ethical principles stipulated during the ****** recognition company's Series A. Olivia Solon at NBC News reports that AnyVision's technology has powered a secret military surveillance project that has ...
Posts Tagged ‘Israel’
More Than a Lake: A Weekend In the Galilee
Flying Tel Aviv to Cairo With a Mysterious “Paper Only” Airline
Maniv Mobility General Partner Olaf Sakkers is coming to TC Sessions: Mobility
Intuition Robotics raises $36M for its empathetic digital companion
Jared Kushner says Palestinians *****-up every opportunity they’ve ever had, in celebration of a proposed two-state deal that he left them out of
Tencent to grow gaming empire with $148M acquisition of Conan publisher Funcom in Norway
Sisense nabs $100M at a $1B+ valuation for accessible big data business analytics
Mobileye expands its robotaxi footprint with a new deal in South Korea
Top Israeli VC talks cybersecurity, diversity and ‘no go’ investments
Microsoft hires former AG Eric Holder to audit ****** recognition tech used on West Bank