The funds come as Percepto pivots from drone-based products to general robotics-driven inspections incorporating third-party platforms 

Cyberpion helps enterprises identify and neutralize the kinds of risks that typically stem from connections to their infrastructure assets

Rakefet Russak-Aminoach will lead Team8 Fintech alongside Yuval Tal, Galia Beer-Gabel, and Ronen Assia

DouxMatok is developing new forms of real sugar, to deliver sweetness with fewer calories.

XponentialWorks CEO Avi Reichental unveils the first-ever washable, reusable, 3D printed N-95 mask

The wearable Upright GO device attaches to your back and vibrates when your posture starts to slip

XponentialWorks is bringing the future of digital manufacturing to life in Ventura County.

SAM Seamless Network reveals the most vulnerable smart home devices.

How Drivenets raised $110M from angel investors.

Xponentialworks CEO Avi Reichental on 3d printing, automation and the future of work.

WANdisco: Innovating Blockchain in 2019.

The growth of the aging in place population is rising and with it the demand for wellness monitoring and personal tech solutions for the aging is surging.

Danielle Ishak left Alphabet’s X in search of a home assistant the elderly might actually want.

Michael S. Rogers and Nadav Zafrir discuss cyber attacks, predictions, and why companies need to continue taking risks and innovating despite these threats.

TechCrunch visits Airobotics' test site to see its drones in action.

ElliQ helps older adults battle loneliness.

D’vash Date Nectar is a delicious and healthy natural sweetener.

Sygnia, a Team8-incubated startup compay, was acquired by a Singaporean government-controlled company to beef up its cybersecurity business.

Tastewise launched today bringing predictability to the world of food and beverage. 

WANdisco brings the power of multi-cloud to the masses.

Avi Reichental's piece about how 3D printing is changing healthcare.

AtScale's recent Big Data survey shows some very interesting results on organizations' challenges, opportunities, and concerns. 

Erel Margalit, founder of Jerusalem Venture Partners, and Ofer Israeli, CEO and Founder of Illusive Networks,  discuss Israeli entrepreneurship in NYC. 

Read about Aperio System's Yevgeni Nogin in Forbes Israel 30 Under 30. 

3D print pioneer shares how 3D printing is fighting global warming. 

Watch ElliQ on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Israel’s Aperio Systems, which today announced that it has raised a $4.5 million seed round, aims to make it easier for operators to detect and mitigate potential intrusions before they can cause any harm.

Watch ElliQ in Action at CES 2018 on The Today Show

The two-year-old Israeli startup has certainly attracted its share of fans with deep pockets. The company used the occasion to announce that it’s raised a $20 million Series A thus far, bringing its total funds up to $22 million

Read Michael Shalyt's newest article on how data integrity could prevent the next attack

Tel Aviv-headquartered cybersecurity startup Alcide announced Wednesday it had raised $5.2 million in seed funding

Anodot, which also has an office in San Francisco, has raised $15 million in new funding. 

As artificial intelligence continues its spread into all aspects of computing, many believe that it will be the next big frontier in CRM. Today a startup called Gong.io underscores that trend.

Magenta Medical Ltd, an Israeli start-up founded by cardiology veterans and backed by miniaturized heart pump specialist Abiomed, has reeled in $15m in Series B financing

Another companion bot in development, ElliQ, approaches the challenges of human-robot interaction a bit differently

Read about Douxmatok's patented technology that reduces sugar content by up to 40%.

Watch and learn all about Intuition Robotics' invention, ElliQ.

Read about Gong.io's research in Business Insider

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The elderly, a group notoriously indifferent to new technology, now finds itself as a target market for the growing robotics industry.

WSJ names illusive networks as one of 25 tech companies to watch.

Read about how Intuition Robotics’ ElliQ stands out for its human-like persona.

Read all about the next AR start-up, Tipit. 

Michael Shalyt, CEO and co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity start-up Aperio Systems, is interviewed by CNBC

Everything you need to know about illusive network's recent Email Data Deception launch. 

Deception is becoming increasingly popular as a defensive tool. Here's what we discovered about how deception works and the unique features that deception tools from TrapX Security, Cymmetria, illusive Networks, and TopSpin Security bring to network defenses.

Ofer Israeli, CEO of illusive networks, comments on WannaCry attacks.

Read MindBlower CEO and Founder Carmit Turgeman's interview with Forbes

Gong's recent research utilizes AI in conversation analytics to understand sarcasm in sales. 

Bloomberg Television interviews CEO Dor Skuler on the future of robotics. 

Companies like Intuition Robotics are building consumer technology products aimed at aiding seniors

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Watch CEO of Appsvillage Max Bluvband's interview on Fox News

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Watch a video about Intuition robotics

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Read and watch all about Intuition Robotics and their new device, ElliQ.

Read APERIO Systems' CEO Michael Shalyt's piece on the future of cyber-security. 

Welcome to the bot-centric future, which is set to make smartphone users — i.e. almost everyone in the Western hemisphere — navigate the internet in a chit-chat fashion with a virtual assistant. 

​Ben Dov went on to found Sesame Enable, a company that sells smartphones for people who can't use their hands.

Taking terror online

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AtScale is one of the top ten coolest big data products of 2016

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Illusive Networks aims to confuse the attackers once they get in by creating large numbers of fake resources based on actual information technology and digital files already on the network.

Startup Gong.io came out of stealth mode today, announcing a $6 million in Series A funding. Gong’s cloud-based artificial intelligence software helps improve the performance and productivity of B2B sales teams ... 

If you are an entrepreneur, or want to become one, do yourself a favor and make the one resolution that can make 2016 your best year: Stop believing the Silicon Valley lies and those who tell them. 

Illusive Networks Ltd. plants false data in vulnerable parts of a company’s network. Once the hacker reaches for the fake information, he triggers an alarm that allows security officers to quarantine that section ...

The success of that pairing bodes well for NeuroRx, a new pharmaceutical company that is developing Cyclurad, a drug that combines D-cycloserine and Lurasidone into one pill.

Lyft’s users (that is, people who have the Lyft app downloaded on their phone) are more likely to open the app than Uber users are likely to open the Uber app, according to an analysis from Wefi.

With the Sesame smartphone, those with mobility impairments can call, text, surf the Web, participate in social media and play games, just like anybody else, without buying any special equipment.

Online payments company PayPal, a unit of eBay (EBAY.O), is establishing a cyber security center in Israel and has bought local start-up CyActive to help launch the development. 

Aperio answers the challenge by non-intrusively plugging into an existing control system and unleashing its advanced machine learning algorithms to study and identify the system’s unique “fingerprints.”

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Gong.io uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to help B2B sales teams win more deals.

SiSense, a business intelligence startup that is among those making big data analytics accessible to ordinary business users (and not just data scientists) is today announcing more funding: a $30 million Series C round led by DFJ Growth. 

People have suddenly decided that enterprise software is "sexy."...Having recently relocated from Israel to New York, SiSense makes it simple for anyone to crunch terabytes of data on a laptop and generate compelling charts.  

WSJD has identified 11 companies to watch this year, based on our reporters’ research and reporting...SiSense, a business intelligence company from Tel Aviv, secured a $30 million investment in 2014...Having grown from a 30 person operation in 2012 to nearly a 90-strong company with offices in New-York, it is now looking to expand again and intends to open new offices in the U.S. and Europe.

Alpine Data Labs doesn’t just help companies crunch data and learn about operations. The startup’s marketers also use data to boost Alpine’s own prominence.

Sesame Phone is the latest example of how gesture and facial recognition technology are turning things like smartphones and tablets into vital communication devices for people with special needs. 

Predictive modeling startup Alpine Data Labs announced a new feature called Chorus that helps data science teams collaborate on projects and makes it easier for people to find existing data sources and models from which they can start their work. 

Many people would be satisfied with a couple of successful businesses, but Eldad Matityahu saw beyond his two thriving frozen-yogurt stores. He'd been reading about the fiber-optic space and decided he wanted in on the technology sector that surrounded him in Silicon Valley. 

Is your business running on top executives' opinions or cold hard data? Be prepared for vast cultural changes if you choose to start making decisions based on analytics, not instinct.