Author: OurCrowd

[Freightos in Forbes] Zvi Scheiber’s Freightos born out of frustration with archaic freight business

Mar 2, 2017 | ,

Freightos is a fast-growing, Israeli-headquartered SaaS software company designed to simplify the complicated and archaic shipping business. Founded by software engineer and serial entrepreneur Zvi Schreiber in 2012, the firm works with 90 percent of the top freight forwarders and automated 60,000 price quotes in the last quarter. Today, the company, not only helps freight with pricing but also is adding marketing and sales as a service with an online freight marketplace. “We are very much like an Expedia for freight,” says Schreiber. The company recently announced the beta launch of the Freightos International Freight Index™ (FIFI). FIFI aggregates live freight rates from hundreds of carriers, forwarders, and shippers, enabling data-informed decision-making, free of charge, for businesses of all sizes. Read more on Forbes...

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[Engie in The Jerusalem Post] This normal life: Land of cars and innovations

Mar 2, 2017 |

Engie addresses a more prosaic safety concern: keeping your car’s engine in tip-top shape. All cars manufactured in the last decade have a computer port where your mechanic can attach a device that downloads data about the vehicle’s performance, Engie’s Harel Meshulam told me. How is your gas mileage? Is the engine running too hot? Will your car pass the air pollution test? Engie puts that power in the car owner’s hands by selling a NIS 100 device that you attach by yourself. Read more on The Jerusalem Post...

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[Argus in The Jerusalem Post] This normal life: Land of cars and innovations

Mar 2, 2017 |

Argus Cyber Security tackles safety in a different way – the company specializes in preventing your car from being hacked. “We all want our cars to be fully connected,” explained the company’s CEO Ofer Ben-Noon – to the Internet, to GPS mapping, to cloud-based diagnostic systems. But that opens up the possibility of someone with ill intent taking control and, in a terrifying example, disabling your brakes on a hill. Argus works to prevent that. As autonomous driving goes mainstream, Ben-Noon pointed out, “the future will be less about traffic accidents and more about hacks.” Read more on The Jerusalem Post...

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[VocalZoom in The Jerusalem Post] This normal life: Land of cars and innovations

Mar 2, 2017 |

VocalZoom’s technology dramatically improves sound quality by distinguishing between speech and background noise. The result, says VP of product Eitan David, is that “you can carry on a conversation even with the window open.” VocalZoom was accepted into Honda’s “Xcelerator” program and, while a development deal hasn’t been inked yet, Honda has been making invaluable introductions for the VocalZoom team. Read more on The Jerusalem Post...

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