The Data Index, March 2021

Posted on April 5, 2021 by GilPress

Data is eating the world and there are numerous indicators of its ubiquitous presence in our lives.

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The Future of Global Workforce Management

Posted on March 25, 2021 by GilPress

How do you get from $0 to $1.2 billion valuation in 60 months? You deliver the future of work now. Or, as Eynat Guez, CEO of Papaya Global, says laughing, “you put in a lot of working hours,” ten-year-worth of working hours in the five years since she launched the company with her two co-founders.

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AI in Healthcare Now

Posted on March 23, 2021 by GilPress

Kira Radinsky, co-founder and Chairman of Diagnostic Robotics, wants to make healthcare more affordable and accessible. The lessons learned from initial deployments of the startup’s AI-based digital triage platform in Israel and the U.S. and the valuable experience gained during the Covid-19 pandemic, point to a future of better healthcare: Providing the right treatment at the right time in the most appropriate setting.

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The Future of Work Now from Israeli Startup Centrical

Posted on March 16, 2021 by GilPress

The future of work is about reinventing how companies motivate their employees. Centrical, a startup focused on delivering the future of work now, announced on March 10th that it closed a $32 million funding round led by Intel Capital, a new investor, and JVP, the company’s largest shareholder. The round also included participation from C4 Ventures and Citi Ventures, also new investors, as well as existing investors Aleph, CE Ventures, La Maison Compagnie d’Investissment and 2B Angels.

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Erel Margalit on the Future of Work and Life Post-Covid

Posted on March 15, 2021 by GilPress

It is by now conventional wisdom that work in the post-Covid “new normal” will shift for many to working-from-home most of the time. The new “hybrid virtual model,” says McKinsey, “promises greater access to talent, increased productivity for individuals and small teams, lower costs, more individual flexibility, and improved employee experiences.”

But Erel Margalit, founder and Chairman of leading Israeli VC Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) begs to differ. He believes there is no alternative for “the process when you get in a room with a group of people and you come out after two or three hours with a different level of thinking, feeling much smarter and more invigorated.” Based on his 25-plus years of divining trends, successfully betting on the startups capitalizing on them and often going against the conventional wisdom, Margalit thinks that face-to-face meetings “is something a lot of people are longing to get back to.”

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UAE Minister of State for Food and Water Security Mariam al-Muhairi, left, and Erel Margalit, founder and chairman of Jerusalem Venture Partners, touch elbows after their meeting at the headquarter of the Government Accelerators in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020 (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
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The Future After the First Telephone Call

Posted on March 14, 2021 by GilPress

145 years ago, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell said into his experimental device “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you.” Thomas Watson, his assistant, sitting in an adjacent room at 5 Exeter Place, Boston, answered: “Mr. Bell, do you understand what I say?”

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Startups Continue to Hire During the Pandemic

Posted on February 26, 2021 by GilPress

Jerusalem-based venture investing platform OurCrowd released the first installment of the quarterly OurCrowd Jobs Index showing that the number of open positions listed by OurCrowd’s portfolio companies rose from 350 in June 2020 to 912 in December 2020. The startups surveyed by OurCrowd predict that job growth would continue through 2021 and they expect to maintain a mix of in-person and remote working. Only 14.3% of the surveyed startups expect all their employees will be back in the workplace by July 1 while 85.7% expect a mix of in-person and remote work.

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Data will Continue to Eat the World in 2021

Posted on December 31, 2020 by GilPress

54 predictions about the state of data in the near future

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Data is Eating the World

Posted on December 30, 2020 by GilPress

Here’s the data on the state-of-data at the end of 2020

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Data is eating the world

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AI, Immunotherapy, and Precision Medicine

Posted on December 30, 2020 by GilPress

Tel-Aviv-based Nucleai is developing AI software for image analysis and modeling of pathology data to assist in the development of more effective drugs.

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