During the venture’s first year, more than 60 different ‘Lofters’ raised an accumulated $8 million.
Technology
Indian conglomerate puts its cash in future Israeli inventions
New Technology Innovation Momentum Fund at Tel Aviv University’s Ramot technology transfer company gets $5 million kick-start.
Kids under fire attend school via computer
Dodging missiles, Israeli distance-learning tech specialists bring laptops to pupils in bomb shelters.
Top Israeli innovators receive Prime Minister’s Prize
Geniuses behind an interactive video platform and an in-classroom early-intervention program are to get $18,000 prizes.
Space-age rapid transit to debut in Tel Aviv
Developer of NASA-designed skyTran chose Israel as the perfect place to pilot the software-guided personal transport pods that glide on a cushion of air.
Camera ‘sees’ through skin, around corners
An early-stage Israeli invention could one day make the surgical biopsy obsolete.
Just think it, and the computer will say it
A sophisticated Israeli brain-machine interface may one day help mute people express out loud the words they intend to say.
Israeli fridge lands on Mars
When the US Jet Propulsion Lab needed a special cooler for the Curiosity rover, it called a company housed on an Israeli kibbutz.
The IDF incubator for Israel’s future CEOs
The top physics and math students in Israel are groomed for dazzling careers through an unusual military training program.
China sends execs to learn how Israel does business
A five-year agreement will bring 1,000 Nanjing municipal officials and executives to study Israeli entrepreneurship and innovation.
Weather forecasting set to undergo high-tech revolution
In an age of increasingly uncertain weather, a new Israeli meteorological innovation may become the most powerful way of predicting the weather yet.