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5 Promising Israeli Startups In 2020

YoungUpstarts

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. As the world’s second largest start-up nation, Israel has witnessed unprecedented success in this sphere. Intezer.com. Namogoo.com.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Noteworthy Machine Intelligence startups in Israel ?? There’s been a proliferation of Machine Intelligence companies in Israel. Below are 30 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) startups to watch in Israel (Part 1). Voyager Labs (2012) – cognitive computing for understanding human behaviour.

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Seculert Raises A Round to Protect the Enterprise on the Cloud

VC Cafe

Earlier this week YL Ventures announced a 7-figure USD investment in Israel-based Seculert , a new non-intrusive Security-as-a-Service that comprehensively detects cyber threats affecting corporate networks. The bad news are that such a attacks are on the rise. The exact sum was not disclosed.

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Why Computer Vision Has Become a Major Investment Theme for Me

Both Sides of the Table

The founder & CEO —  Assaf Glazer  — is a Phd in computer vision from Technion in Israel and furthered his work with a postdoctorate from Cornell Tech in New York, where he hatched Nanit. 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

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. And the company’s client base includes such heavyweight clients as eBay.

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

The Next Web

“[At HotelTonight], we built in lots of opportunities for people to interact, from a ping pong table and vintage video game room to lots of comfortable, casual conversation areas scattered throughout the office,” Simon says. Perhaps your company is not at a level to own acres of office space just yet.