Israeli startup Zebra Medical Vision has won the Atlas Award, given by the Ayn Rand Center Israel. Zebra Medical Vision is an Israeli deep-learning imaging analytics company that can detect breast cancer and other diseases. Headquartered in Kibbutz Shefayim, Zebra was founded in 2014 by Eyal Toledano, Eyal Gura, and Elad Benjamin. To date, the Israeli startup has raised $20 million. Read more on NoCamels...
Read MoreWhen Liz Wessel was a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, she received an unexpected email that would help shape her career, even if she didn’t know it at the time. The message didn’t come from a professor or advisor, though. It came from beverage giant Anheuser-Busch. The company wanted Wessel to be a campus ambassador, a role that involved promoting its mechanical engineering openings to fellow students. “I thought it was crazy that Anheuser-Busch needed a sophomore to help them with hiring mechanical engineering students for their full time jobs,” she says. “That’s when I realized this system has to be broken if this is happening.” Read more on Time...
Read MoreInflowz, an AI process optimization company, recently completed their seed round, securing $3.5M solely from Glilot Capital Partners, a venture capital fund specializing in enterprise software that was recently ranked as the 3rd best performing fund in the world (according to Preqin). Read more on PR Newswire...
Read MoreScopio Labs, founded in 2015 by CEO Itai Hayut and Erez Na’aman, develops next-generation digital microscopes, based on computational imaging breakthroughs, as well as a suite of dedicated image analysis tools. Their products enable dramatic clinical and research improvements in diverse areas such as cancer, hematology and cytology, while powering further innovation in areas such as academic research and drug discovery. The company will use the funds to expand the team based in Tel Aviv, and is hiring computer vision experts, physicists and software developers. Read more on Globes...
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Featured post by OurCrowd’s Cybersecurity Venture Partner Ron Moritz. There have been several inflections that have driven cybersecurity and contributed to the growth and maturity of the industry. The emergence of the commercial Internet in the 1990s drove early innovation as it became clear that security was a basic requirement for access. Following the “dot com” collapse of the early 2000s, security spend as a percentage of the overall technology budget reached unprecedented double-digit highs and sparked the first cybersecurity gold rush. There have been several other inflection points along the way and some experts, such as former A&T chief security, Ed Amoroso, are suggesting that the recent WannaCry represents yet another. This may be so but not because of the ransom paid – current estimates put the ransom collected to unlock files at less than $100,000 in comparison to the potential of tens of millions of dollars – but because of how many systems it infected, how quickly it propagated, and how much media it generated. Though the actual damage caused may be small in comparison to the...
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