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🚀 Huge shoutout to our portfolio companies, D-ID (#3) and AI21 Labs (#4), for making the LinkedIn Top Startups 2024: The 15 Israeli companies on the rise! 👏 D-ID is changing the game with AI-powered video solutions, while AI21 Labs is transforming how we interact with language through generative AI 🎥🤖🧠💬 Proud to be part of their journey from the seed round as they lead the way in AI innovation. Congrats to both teams! 🌟 Check out the full list: https://lnkd.in/TSU24IL YOU&US Gil Perry, Sella Blondheim, Eliran Kuta & Rami Kalish, Yair Cassuto Yoav Shoham, Ori Goshen, Amnon Shashua & Eyal Niv #startups #AI #innovation #LinkedInTopStartups #ProudInvestor #Tech

It's fascinating to discover that finding product-market fit (PMF) is just the first step in the journey. 🚀 In this intriguing Playbook, Idit Muallem-Yedid presents surprising insights from in-depth research, including interviews with dozens of entrepreneurs navigating significant scaling processes. 📊✨ A must-read for anyone in the startup space! 📚 📈 Read more: https://lnkd.in/djc5EE9j

Join us in welcoming the newest addition to our Pitango team, Yael Leventer Nacker, Principal at Pitango HealthTech. Yael joins us following 10 years of strategic and venture leadership at Digital Health, tech, and management consulting across Israel and the U.S. Most recently, Yael was a project leader at the Boston Consulting Group in New York, focusing on healthcare innovation and HealthTech. Welcome to the team Yael! 🤝 Read more on Yael in her @CTech announcement: https://lnkd.in/dmZeDYDe Pitango Health Tech Team:  Ittai Harel, Jonathan Glazer, MD, MBA, Hila Karah #news #healthtech

Introducing SamChat! 💬 🤖 Sam was determined to expand her role at Pitango, so with the launch of our ESG Chatbot, you can now chat with Sam in our Impact & Sustainability Knowledge Hub. With an entire world of information in ESG, Sam helps you find the high-level answers you’re looking for faster, before taking a deep dive into our extensive resources. Bringing Sam on our team has been a great way to use the power of AI for GOOD. Click here to start chatting away: https://lnkd.in/d79ZVnQp #ChatBot #ESG #AI #ethicalAI

🌟 Congrats to Pitango First’s Quantum Source for raising $50 million A-Round, bringing their total capital to $77 million. This investment reflects our confidence in Quantum Source’s groundbreaking approach to photonic quantum computing 👏🏼 Founded by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs and world-class physicists, Quantum Source is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in quantum computing. Their work promises to revolutionize computational capabilities, drug discovery, and information security 🚀 We’re proud to back this visionary company and look forward to their continued progress and success. Here’s to a bright future in quantum innovation! 💫 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/e6Zm3Umv YOU & US Oded Melamed, Gil Semo, Dan Charash, Barak Dayan & Ayal Itzkovitz #VentureCapital #QuantumSource #TechInvestment #Innovation

Looking forward to an evening in NYC with our friends Latham & Watkins, Valley Bank, and GUTS - Harel Innovation hub. Nothing like autumn in the Big Apple 🍎🗽 #NYC #events #innovation

בתוך שנה קשה, אלו ימים שמדירים שינה מעיני כל אזרח ואזרחית בישראל. בכולנו נשבר משהו שלשום עם קבלת ההודעה הטראגית על רצח ששת החטופים אחרי שהצליחו לשרוד 328 ימים בשבי. החטופים בעזה הם אירוע לאומי שמשפיע על כל בית בישראל. גם עלינו. פיטנגו מצטרפת לשביתה הכללית עליה הכריזה ההסתדרות. משרדינו בהרצליה ושרונה סגורים. אנחנו מעודדים את כולם לצאת לתמוך במשפחות החטופים. זה לא עניין של ימין ושמאל, זה עניין של חיים ומוות. זהו מאבק על המשך קיומנו כאן, ועל עתידה של המדינה. #שביתה #BringThemHomeNow

ESG Webinar announcement! 📣 Are you aware of the latest EU and US ESG regulations, and how they're affecting international corporations and startups? Join our webinar, partnered with MirrorESG, where we’ll tell you everything you need to know regarding the new regulations — from new business opportunities to how it will impact your company. We’ll share practical ways of integrating ESG into small and large startups, and the necessary move from a “nice to have” situation to a business imperative. Our focus will be on software companies and what parts of the regulation applies to them, along with what they’re expected to disclose to their customers and how. Hosted by industry experts, Cecile Blilious, Head of Impact & Sustainability at Pitango, and MirrorESG Founders Nitsan Litwak and Ayala Livni Shoham, Adv. — trust us, you don’t want to miss what they have to share. Please note the webinar will be conducted in Hebrew** Sign up now to guarantee your spot: https://lu.ma/50mzbp51

Huge congratulations to our portfolio company Vertos Medical, for being acquired by Stryker, a global leader in medical technology. 🏆 Our journey with Vertos began in 2013, when we led their financing. Since then, we’ve passionately supported and invested in their growth every step of the way — reaching this significant milestone fills us with immense pride. Millions of aging adults  suffer from Lumbar spinal stenosis (LLS) around the world, and these numbers represent only those that have been diagnosed. Until Vertos introduced their groundbreaking minimally invasive procedure, the only meaningful solutions available were open-back surgery, or living with pain on strong medication. The Vertos Mild procedure is minimally invasive, and able to effectively and easily alleviate LSS, using a similar safety profile to an epidural steroid injection (ESI). It results in the ability to stand longer and walk farther with less pain. Tens of thousands of people have already benefited from Mild. The numbers are growing rapidly with physicians adopting it as the method of choice for those suffering from LSS!    Congratulations and thank you to the Vertos team for your brilliance and unwavering dedication to this cause, solving such an acute problem, empowering freedom of movement in the health and quality of life for so many. Our partnership with the Vertos team throughout the years has been outstanding, working together side by side through challenges and successes. We are proud and grateful to have been your partners in this journey. The positive impact of Mild and Vertos innovation is only beginning, and will ever increase with the backing of Stryker. Cheers to here and beyond. You rock! You&Us Eric Wichems and Ittai Harel  Rebecca Colbert Steve Paul, Karen Davis Dave Lalor Hugh Neuharth Mehrzad Khakpour, PhD Hila Karah Jonathan Glazer, MD, MBA Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eQx5dTsV #news #acquisition #healthtech

כשחושבים על הטמעה של פרקטיקות של אימפקט וקיימות, טיפול במשבר האקלים או פיתוח טכנולוגיה לפתרון בעיות חברתיות, אפשר להרתע מגודל המשימה. לכן כדאי לחשוב על אימפקט גם בגדול וגם בקטן - מיקרו אימפקט. ססיל בליליוס, ראש תחום אימפקט וקיימות ישבה לדבר עם החברים בעמותת בוגרי 8200 על מיקרו אימפקט, הוליסטיק-אימפקט, על החשיבות של טכנולוגיה לפתרון בעיות חברתיות וסביבתיות, על דור ה-z והמחויבות שלו ליצור עולם טוב יותר ועל מה כל אחת ואחד מאיתנו יכולים לעשות. לינק לשמיעת הפרק : https://lnkd.in/daEuFuns Cecile Blilious. GUTS - Harel Innovation hub