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Mice Detect Explosives, an App for the Sleep Struggler, and More – This Week From the Startup Nation

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June 29, 2015

Israeli Company Trains Mice To Detect Explosives At Airport

Mice are currently trained by Israeli company X-Test to detect explosives at airports. These specially trained mice will be carried in cages to different checkpoints in order to discreetly smell people and their possessions, alerting officials when they sense a potentially lethal substance.

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Israel's Mapme Makes Its First $1 Million

What started out as a fun side project for 21-year-old Israeli-American entrepreneur Ben Lang while he served in the Israel Defense Forces has just raised $1 million in venture capital. The seed investment in Mapme, a community visualization platform, was announced yesterday. Funding came from leading investors Gigi Levy, Daniel Recanati, Kima Ventures and the DRW Trading Group.

Lang developed Mapme two years ago. The technology is a user-generated map tool for companies and organizations, which allows users to create a map around a specific topic or interest and share it with customers, who can add new locations.

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Insight Venture invests $84 million in Israeli cyber firm Checkmarx

Israeli cyber security company Checkmarx has raised $84 million in funding from New York-based venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners, which will help it accelerate growth and expand globally, it said on Thursday. Founded in 2006, Checkmarx tests software as it is being created, automatically scanning for security vulnerabilities early in the web and mobile app development process, when they are less costly to fix.

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Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange Displays Video Art Work

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) is collaborating with the Minshar School of Art to turn its “trademark” giant video wall into a “canvas” on which students’ video art works will be displayed. The exhibition will include 30 works — by students from the visual communication, photography, cinema and animation departments of the school —  which have been joined together into a single 20-minute video.

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