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5 Promising Israeli Startups In 2020

YoungUpstarts

Israeli startups have gained international recognition as cutting-edge enterprises with game-changing potential. While Silicon Valley remains a hub of technological innovation, it is not the only hi-tech enclave where big ideas are brought to the fore in the commercial arena. Intezer.com. Namogoo.com.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. In 2016 alone, 300+ “machine intelligence” (AI + ML) startups in Europe raised over €1.4

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Startup spaces: How to design your startup office for a productive workforce

The Next Web

If you look at some of the latest startup offices, there seems to be a competition to who can have the coolest ping pong tables, kitchen, and big TVs displaying real time data. But are they essential to office productivity and culture? Perhaps your company is not at a level to own acres of office space just yet.

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Why Computer Vision Has Become a Major Investment Theme for Me

Both Sides of the Table

Computer Vison Startup Nanit If you follow me on Snapchat ( msuster ) you might already know that I’ve been looking at and investing in a number of companies in the computer vision space. The CTO, Tor Ivry , heads engineering out of Israel.

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Face.com Gets $4.3 Million from Russian Yandex and Rhodium

VC Cafe

I n its first investment in Israel, Russian search engine Yandex is rumoured to invest $3.4 million in Israel’s Face.com , a startup developing face recognition technology. As a result of the investment, Yandex’s CEO Arkady Volozh is now a member of Face.com’s board.

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Monetizing Groupthink – Interview with Israel’s Gift Project

VC Cafe

Startup Intelligence recently interviewed him for VC Cafe. For example, Dr Yossi Vardi , Israel’s most famous angel investor, provided the original seed funding in 2009. In January of this year it closed a $1million+ funding round led by Gemini Israel Funds which also included Index Ventures.

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Our Second Rotation Investment

Genuine VC

I am happy to share that we at Venrock have made an investment in a startup which directly addresses this problem. Before joining as President & COO, Israel Ganot spent six years at eBay, where he was instrumental in the company’s international expansion. You could sell them on eBay or Craigslist, but that’s such a pain.