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Newsletter: OurCrowd signs $60M Abu Dhabi deal

OurCrowd

Top investment opportunities WSJ, CNBC, Wired: OurCrowd signs $60M Abu Dhabi deal Startup of the Week: NetOp keeps enterprise networks running Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2022 highlight four OurCrowd startups OurCrowd meets Australian Innovation Trade Mission Dandelion Energy raises $70M Series B1 FDA clears AEYE Health’s retinopathy screening platform for diabetics Cybersixgill: We can help Twitter with the dark web Apploi acquires OnCall to help healthcare employers manage staffing Mo

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The latest in Plaid’s payments push

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Dubai’s Baraka raises $20 Million from Valar, Knollwood

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Bookmark( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register Baraka , a fintech firm that is based in Dubai , announced that it raised $20 million in a funding round led by Valar Ventures , a New York-based investor backed by billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel. In a statement, Baraka said, it was the first investment in the Middle East for Valar Ventures, adding that investment firm Knollwood also participated in the Series A round.

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How real estate king Ben Mallah used content to sell you everything. A case study.

Founder Bounty

Ben Mallah, worth 250M$, has smartly used content about his real estate investments to excel traffic to his site B enmallah to cross-sell you various consulting projects and other things. He has been successful in his real estate but his youtube and content creation have given him even more exposure. His youtube channel documents his life - with catchy titles " how to make 10M$" Who is he?

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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The Best Time of Year to Raise for Your Startup

Tomasz Tunguz

I set out to determine if fundraising seasonality had changed from this post I published in 2014 which suggested Q2 & Q4 were best for founders. The answer is yes. The US software Series A market has become much less seasonal since that post in 2014. I’ve plotted the data above & smoothed it to clarify the patterns. In 2013, the surge in June/July & December stand out.

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[Flytrex in Calcalist] FlyTrex CEO explains journey to becoming largest drone delivery service in the US

OurCrowd

Yariv Bash, Co-founder & CEO of FlyTrex, noted how an average delivery takes 3-4 minutes so the company’s drones can even deliver ice cream and coffee. Read more here. The post [Flytrex in Calcalist] FlyTrex CEO explains journey to becoming largest drone delivery service in the US appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Fairmat raises $35 million to recycle carbon fiber composite into a new material

TechCrunch

French startup Fairmat closed a $35 million Series A funding round (€34 million) last month. It wants to turn carbon fiber composite that is no longer in use into a new material that can be used in new products. Temasek and CNP (Compagnie Nationale a? Portefeuille) are leading the round with Pictet Group, Singular, The Friedkin Group International and others also participating.

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[Biolojic in The Times of Israel] Cancer patients test world’s first ‘computer-designed’ antibodies, made in Israel

OurCrowd

‘Nano-robot’ antibodies can be programmed to do much more when designed from scratch than when based on animal/human antibodies, says inventor. Read more here. The post [Biolojic in The Times of Israel] Cancer patients test world’s first ‘computer-designed’ antibodies, made in Israel appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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[YOOM in Calcalist] “The metaverse is not a revolution, it’s a natural evolution”

OurCrowd

Matan Efrima, CPO at YOOM, said his company’s technology enables people to bring their real selves into the metaverse in order to engage with their audiences. Read more here. The post [YOOM in Calcalist] “The metaverse is not a revolution, it’s a natural evolution” appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.