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Investment in Israeli startups: (5/12/21)

Posted on December 5, 2021

Israeli startups raised $2.8 billion in November, following October’s record $3 billion. These are the largest investments (over $30 million). Moon Active raised $300 million; HoneyBook raised $250 million; Verbit raised $250 million; Stoa (FlipOS) raised $136 million; Via raised … Continue reading →

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Virtual camera to detect overcrowding

Posted on June 1, 2020

Israel’s Nexar (reported here previously) developed its dashboard smartphone camera to prevent vehicle accidents. It has now launched a Virtual Camera to help public officials resolve overcrowding issues – e.g. at public events, recreational areas and even hospital entrances. http://nocamels.com/2020/05/ai-road-safety-startup-nexar-raises-52m/

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Investment in Israeli startups (24 May 20)

Posted on May 24, 2020

Recent startup investments include: Shopic raised $7.6 million; Xsight Labs raised $50 million; Aqua Security raised $30 million; Newsight raised $7 million; Immunai raised $20 million and Nexar raised $52 million.

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Six Israeli AI startups are most promising

Posted on March 16, 2019

CB Insights’ 2019 list of the 100 Most Innovative Artificial Intelligence Startups includes six Israeli companies previously featured in this newsletter – Habana Labs (see here), BioCatch (here), Nexar (here), Taranis (here), Anodot (here) and LawGeex (here). https://www.cbinsights.com/research/artificial-intelligence-top-startups/#global

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A highway for driverless cars

Posted on October 29, 2017

Israel has opened a new 1.5 km stretch of Road 531 north of Herzliya for two months, exclusively for five companies to test their technology for autonomous cars. The five are Nexar (dashboard camera), GM (autonomous car). Mobileye, Innoviz (LIDAR … Continue reading →

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The world’s first vehicle to vehicle network

Posted on December 11, 2016

Israel’s Nexar has come a long way since I’ve been reporting it. (See here.) In addition to its “bad driver” reporting function, it now says it has created the world’s first vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) network that aims to detect dangers on … Continue reading →

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Preventing accidents

Posted on July 24, 2016

I featured previously (Oct 4) the dashcam app from Israel’s Nexar which records and reports bad driving.  App users have automatically profiled the driving behavior of over 7 million cars in San Francisco, New York, and Tel Aviv.  Nexar has … Continue reading →

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App to report bad drivers

Posted on October 4, 2015

Just the ticket! The iPhone dash-cam app from Israel’s Nexar records and reports traffic violations and reckless driving. Israeli drivers, please join the Nexar community to make the roads safer. http://www.israel21c.org/nexar-keeps-an-extra-eye-on-bad-drivers/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=68&v=_4fq56LYBYw

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