Spreading Israeli tech throughout Africa, Sivan Ya’ari transforms the

lives of millions

Providing African villages with Israeli solar, water and agricultural technologies, the nonprofit organization, founded eight years ago, has so far completed 128 projects in seven countries, transforming the lives of more than one million people.

Eight new US-Israeli R&D partnerships to receive $7.2M in funding

The projects, which cover a wide range of sectors – such as agrotechnology, medicine, material sciences and homeland security – will each receive conditional grants of up to $1M from BIRD.

Exploring the growing Asia-Israel links for venture capital and

fund-raising

More examples of Israel-Asian dealmaking connections keep popping up. It's a trend that Silicon Dragon has been following closely as we track the Tech Triangle of venture capital and startups in the leading global hubs of China, Israel and the U.S.

• New Israeli app helps overcome cancer (Globes)
• Israeli augmented reality company Lumus raises $30M (Globes)
• Machine learning company Dynamic Yield raises $22M (Globes)
• Israeli data integration startup Xplenty acquires Driven alongside receiving $4M in new capital (Geektime)
• Insuretech startup Lemonade files for licenses in 46 US states (Geektime)