Author: OurCrowd

[Diagnostic Robotics in TechCrunch] Diagnostic Robotics has AI catching health problems before they take you to the ER

A stitch in time saves nine, they say — and a blood thinner in time saves a trip to the emergency room for a heart attack, as Diagnostic Robotics hopes to show. The company’s machine learning-powered preventative care aims to predict and avoid dangerous (and costly) medical crises, saving everyone money and hopefully keeping them healthier in general — and it has raised $45 million to scale up. Read...

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Newsletter: Tackling the Chinese auto industry + OurCrowd’s new FoodTech fund

Top investment opportunitiesStartup of the Week: Cyfirma, one step ahead of cyberattacksAugust 18 online: Introducing OurCrowd’s FoodTech fundAmerican Robotics’ parent enters into definitive merger agreement to acquire AiroboticsC2A Security tackles Chinese auto industry with OS giant ThunderSoftBoatsetter raises $38M to boost its boat rental marketplaceRefurbished furniture marketplace Oliver Space raises $36MJohn Deere Operations Center integrates with CropX platformTovala upgrades smart oven with new cooking optionsIntroductionsMore than 3,300 high-tech jobs Startup of the Week:Cyfirma: One step ahead of cyberattacks Cyberattacks are growing in frequency and sophistication, yet most businesses are flying blind with little insight on when or how they may be targeted and where they are vulnerable. Cyfirma, a rapidly growing Singapore-based company, has developed a comprehensive platform that gives companies awareness of when and how they may be targeted by cybercriminals and where they may be vulnerable. The company uses analysis of threat indicators collected from the deep web, dark web, hacker forums and other closed communities, as well as its own research, to predict attacks using probability models and analytics engines. Its unique offering has seen it...

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[Corelight in PR Newswire] Corelight Co-founder Dr. Vern Paxson Receives Prominent USENIX Security Test of Time Award

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Corelight, the leader in open network detection and response (NDR), today announced company co-founder, and creator of Zeek®, Dr. Vern Paxson has received the distinguished USENIX “Test of Time” award for his work entitled “Bro: A System for Detecting Network Intruders in Real-Time” published in 1998. The paper marked the official launch of open source technology Bro (now known as Zeek), which has since become the de-facto standard for network security monitoring and network visibility. Read...

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