TGE Tech Turns Trash into Electricity; Plans Pilot Programs

Maayan Venture’s portfolio company TGE Tech has “developed and patented a system whereby unrecycled refuse can be converted into fuel with a special patented device that turns garbage into gas - syngas, a well-known element that has some of the properties of gas, oil and coal,” according to Israel21c. The technology addresses a huge [...]

Leviathan Energy Signs $50M Deal to Provide Electricity for India

Leviathan Energy Ltd., is an Israel-based cleantech startup that aims to offer the least expensive electrical energy generation on the market by developing clean energy from waves, water, tidal, and wind. They take their name from the bible: “The Leviathan is mentioned in the Bible as a huge and powerful sea creature and is commonly [...]

Israel Delivers: TechnoSpin, Gizmox, Endogun, Applicure

Today Israel’s innovators made all kinds of headlines from cleantech to medical devices to software security.
Let’s start with TechnoSpin. The four year old startup has raised $8 million from US VC 21 Ventures. They develop and produce rotors for small wind turbines which, it claims, are cheaper to produce and more easily assembled than competitor’s [...]

Military Heavyweight to Head Project Better Place

According to EETimes, Project Better Place (PBP) has just picked three more partners in its efforts to create an electric car-friendly Israel. San Francisco strategic design firm NewDealDesign will develop the industrial designs for the charging stations and other touch points on the grid, Israel’s Aran Research and Development Ltd. and Nekuda DM Ltd. [...]

Israeli Holding Co. to Invest in India Cleantech Projects

Granite Hacarmel Investments Ltd., a publicly-traded holding company that owns leading Israeli companies in [...]