CTech's Weekly Roundup of Israeli Tech News

Beresheet spacecraft advances on its lunar journey. The Israeli spacecraft successfully launched Thursday, but sun rays are now getting in the way of its star-based navigation system. Read more

Beresheet's launch. Photo: AP

Israel prohibits anonymous online political content ahead of April election. A new decree requires online content paid for or solicited by Israeli political parties and candidates to be identified as such. Read more

This company markets bulletproof backpacks and will donate proceeds to school safety activists. Israeli company ArmorMe has developed a normal-looking backpack with not-so-normal capabilities: it comes with one or two kevlar panels, making

it bulletproof on one or two sides. Read more

Wikimedia is so sorry for taking historical photos from Israeli archives without permission. Apologizing for previous quarrels with Israeli archivists, Wikimedia announced it will be collaborating with the local archives to expand the selection of copyright-free historical materials publically available online. Read more

Walmart acquires product review insight company Aspectiva. Tel Aviv-based Aspectiva has joined Walmart's incubation arm N° 8 following the acquisition. Read more 

Insight Venture buys portfolio from Israel-based venture firm Genesis Partners. Genesis Partners’ portfolio includes several startups that are also backed by Insight, including Monday.com and Sisense. Read more

Opinion | Is space the final frontier for copyright and patent law? Space, in general, represents an inherent problem for patents, as they are fundamentally territorial, while space is axiomatically extraterritorial to all countries, writes researcher Dov Greenbaum. Read more

IPOs and M&As

Content distribution company Outbrain buys Ligatus. Read more 

Online gambling company 888 Holdings buys bingo assets for $23.5 million. Read more

Code management company JFrog acquires DevOps startup Shippable. Read more

Powtoon acquires Showbox. Read more

Startup funding

Operational bot startup Kryon raises $40 million. Read more

Industrial IoT company Tulip raises $18.4 million. Read more 

Micro endoscope developer Zsquare raises $10 million. Read more

Old-meets-new retail company Showfields raises $9 million. Read more 

Business intelligence company Oribi raises $7 million. Read more

Cryptography security startup Curv raises $6.5 million. Read more