The 2020 figure represents a 55% year-on-year surge in funding in digital health, medical devices, biotech and pharma firms, IATI says; M&A deals plunge

Startup's existing investors and new ones participate in funding round; app helps people with diabetes and other metabolic diseases eat best-suited foods

Tel Aviv-based startup uses AI to build digital models of the human immune system and diseases to speed up treatments; two firms will test out new drugs

Israeli firm's AI-based device enables clinicians to perform remote medical checks of heart, lungs, skin, ears, throat and belly, and take temperature

Theator, based in Palo Alto with an R&D site in Tel Aviv, raises $15.5 million in a Series A funding round to grow its surgical intelligence platform

Hugo Hagen, Bayer's local chief, says the company has invested heavily in Israeli firms and is looking for more: The Israeli 'culture of innovation is amazing'

Kahun, backed by Waze co-founder Uri Levine, says platform can go through text and point doctors to a recommended course of action based on medical sources

Serenno Medical gets $1.5 million investment and teams up with Elcam Medical to mass-produce urine monitoring device to detect kidney injuries for hospitalized patients

Israeli startup Zebra Medical Vision and Scottish consultancy Storm ID will work with UK's NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Israel's Assuta to develop the models

Shares surge 21% on first day of trading, bringing valuation of startup that is developing an alternative to X-ray machines to almost $1 billion; tech has not yet got FDA nod