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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
Filed under: Alternative Energy, Biotech, Cleantech, Healthcare, Hi-Tech, Media Technologies, Medical Devices, Security, Semiconductors, Software, Uncategorized | Tagged: 21 ventures, applicure, biomedix, endogun, gizmox, maayan, meytag, technospin, trafalgar | No Comments »
Startech Early Ventures is trying to connect between Israeli hi-tech and Texas investors, according to Globes. Similar to Virginia’s Gateway America (which I mentioned in an earlier post), Startech is aiming to help Texas boost trade relations with Israel and capitalize on Israel’s robust growth in the technology sector.
The VC has just hosted the ”largest-ever delegation [...]
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British fund Trading Emissions PLC (TEP) has recently invested in Israel’s Ecotraders, a greenhouse gas emission trading company founded about seven years ago by former Environment Ministry Director General Roni Kumar and his colleague Adi Dishon. This start-up has grown to a formidable size in a sophisticated market. Here’s what they do [...]
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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. [...]
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Lextran Ltd. is an Israeli company formed in 1997 that has developed an emission-reducing technology used in power plants. According to Globes it has just raised $2 million in its second round of financing from US investment company Poleris Energy Technology Holdings Ltd. at a value of $26.5 million. Its value has tripled [...]
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AquAgro, a venture capital fund formed in 2007 to focus on Israel’s water and agriculture technologies, has invested $3.75 million in Netanya-based start-up Computerised Electricity Systems (CES). According to Globes, “CES’s technology aims to replace the household electricity box, enabling the electricity utility to reduce the supply on the grid during peak house in a [...]
Filed under: Cleantech | Tagged: advanced desalination technologies, aquagro, computerised electricity systems, electricity, gaon holdings, lulo wittner, yaron sheinman | 1 Comment »
StreamControl has developed a product that saves water by controlling the pressure within municipal water pipes. Apparently this may solve a big problem that afflicts countries with chronic water shortages, such as Israel. Only 60-80% of water that is pumped through a city is actually used, according to Yozmot HaEmek, the incubator developing [...]
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Granite Hacarmel Investments Ltd., a publicly-traded holding company that owns leading Israeli companies in [...]
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