An Israeli startup has been selected to participate in a prestigious European tourism accelerator. Tel Aviv-based EasyWay (www.easyway.ai) will spend three months in Berlin’s METRO accelerator (https://metroaccelerator.com/) for hospitality and retail, operated by Boulder, Colorado-based Techstars. EasyWay competed against over 400 other startups from around the world to claim its space, which includes a potential investment of up to €120,000 and mentorship from a pool of 300 experts in the METRO and Techstars network. EasyWay’s virtual assistant, “Eve,” is an artificially intelligent … [Read more...] about Israeli Chatbot App Joins European Hospitality Accelerator
Israeli Firm Launches World’s First Blockchain Smartphone
Finney, billed as the first open-source, ultra-secure blockchain smartphone, has been launched by Sirin Labs of Ramat Gan, Israel. Barcelona soccer star Leo Messi and middleweight boxing champion Gennady “Triple G” Golovkin are brand ambassadors. The phone is priced at $999 and is available for pre-sale to SRN token holders on the company website. Later on, the Sirin Labs website will offer additional channels of payments, including credit card. Finney will also be available to purchase on Amazon Launchpad starting in January. Sirin Labs is opening two flagship concept stores, first in … [Read more...] about Israeli Firm Launches World’s First Blockchain Smartphone
Novel Gel Propulsion Affects Communication Satellites
Watching a live event happening half a world away, or chatting with someone in another country, would not be possible without the hundreds of communications satellites orbiting Earth to relay telecommunications signals electromagnetically. Propelling the largest of those satellites requires costly and highly toxic jet fuel, while launching smaller satellites requires other liquid fuels that could benefit from improvement. Israeli startup NewRocket is developing gel propulsion – a cheaper, more environmentally friendly rocket-engine technology offering the same level of performance and … [Read more...] about Novel Gel Propulsion Affects Communication Satellites
Israeli Tech Company Makes Self Driving Cars Safer
Self-driving cars will soon become a daily part of our lives It is almost surreal to imagine hopping on to a car that drives itself to your work, while you are playing your favourite game or reading your daily quota of morning news. This scenario may not be too far from becoming reality if the buzz around self-driving is true. The idea of breezy commutes where autonomous vehicles will make road accidents a thing of the past is garnering a lot of public interest. The promise of no crash, lowered emission, and reduced traffic congestion is too tempting to ignore. Undoubtedly, self-driving … [Read more...] about Israeli Tech Company Makes Self Driving Cars Safer
Israeli Startup Has An App That Can Detect Impairment
The medical and recreational use of marijuana is increasing globally, and its effects on drivers can — like alcohol — be devastating, as the drug influences the cognitive abilities of drivers, as much as alcohol does. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, cannabis users in 2016 were 192 million worldwide, a number that has increased by 16 percent in the decade from 2006 to 2016. While Uruguay and Canada are the only two countries where it is legal to produce, sell, and consume medical and recreational marijuana, its recreational use has been totally legalized in 10 US … [Read more...] about Israeli Startup Has An App That Can Detect Impairment
VeganNation Site To Launch With Its Own Cryptocurrency
Israeli friends create online vegan lifestyle ecosystem offering products and services, meal-sharing app, tech incubator, meetups, content and more. On September 2 – 118 years since the birth of Donald Watson, coiner of the term “vegan” in 1944 – Israel-based VeganNation will launch its initial coin offering to kick off a decentralized community and marketplace for millions of worldwide vegans. Cofounder Isaac Thomas, 34, says VeganNation is meant to be the first fully functioning ecosystem for people who avoid animal products, offering an online platform for content and … [Read more...] about VeganNation Site To Launch With Its Own Cryptocurrency
10 Israelis At The Head of US Businesses
Arriving in America flush with ambition rather than cash, these Sabras climbed quickly up the ladder of success. r was added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame in honor of “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” creator and media mogul Haim Saban last year, it was another feather in the cap of Israeli citizens who have built successful enterprises in the United States. The list of Israelis heading American companies is impressively long. ISRAEL21c chose 10 to highlight here, all of whom spent their formative years in Israel (excluding, for example, Israeli-born Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz, who … [Read more...] about 10 Israelis At The Head of US Businesses
Elevator Tech Could Save Lives
Seventeen years after 9/11, an Israeli startup is testing its solution to turn the elevator into a traveling ‘safe room’ that can facilitate rescue operations. When there’s a fire in a high-rise building, safety rules dictate that you don’t take the elevator. You head for the stairs instead. But what if using the elevator could actually be the fastest – and safest – way to evacuate a building on fire? Salamandra Zone is an Israeli startup that wants to make it possible for people trapped in a burning building to flee using the lift. Today, elevators automatically shut off if … [Read more...] about Elevator Tech Could Save Lives
Israeli Firms Protecting Our Kids On Social Media
The Startup Nation has jumped to the fore as one of the leaders in deterring hackers, securing data and detecting bullies on your social media. In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which saw raw data from some 87 million Facebook users harvested without their knowledge, netizens have been increasingly concerned about protecting their privacy on social media. The European Union’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) that recently went into effect (as anyone with an email inbox could not have failed to notice), is part of the push to counter future privacy … [Read more...] about Israeli Firms Protecting Our Kids On Social Media
Israel And The Audio Content Revolution
Tel Aviv startup Audioburst is making radio, TV and podcasts instantly searchable and enhancing the capabilities of voice assistants. The days of aimlessly scanning through AM/FM radio stations in search of something that interests you may be coming to an end. An Israeli startup is organizing the world’s audio so that you can instantly find and listen to any piece of audio from anywhere, on demand. Tel Aviv-based Audioburst has developed an AI-powered technology that can listen to millions of minutes of live and pre-recorded audio content each day – podcasts, radio shows and … [Read more...] about Israel And The Audio Content Revolution