Author: OurCrowd

[Flytrex in Franchise Times] Drone delivery from Flytrex and El Pollo Loco wows crowd at FODC

“Food delivery has reached new heights” intoned the video played with dramatic music at the Food On Demand Conference today. People look skyward, gasping, from atop a horse or in their car, then customers make a mad dash to their backyard as an El Pollo Loco-branded drone lowers their food via a cable, right at their feet. “Introducing Air Loco, the first national restaurant to deliver by air,” the video says, and just like that, the Jetsons become a reality. Flytrex, an Israeli company, produces the drones, partnering first with Wal-Mart and now with U.S. restaurant companies from select but rapidly expanding locations. Read...

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Newsletter: Shopping enters the metaverse

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: Scopio, AI-powered digital blood diagnosis OurCrowd signs MOU with Colombian innovation authority OurCrowd Global Summit, Jerusalem, May 25, 2022 ByondXR launches shopping into the metaverse Gates-backed fund grants MigVax $4.3M for oral Covid vaccine Orbital Insight detects N. Korea’s increased uranium mining Lemonade expands into car insurance, acquires MetroMile Ravin delivers AI-powered car inspections Innoviz sensors to be integrated in China’s smart city projects Zoomcar raises $92M, targets new market expansion D-ID and MyHeritage partner to expand AI features for photos OurCrowd portfolio introductions More than 3,600 high-tech jobs   Startup of the Week:Scopio: AI-powered digital blood diagnosis Although crucial medical diagnostic information is held in our cells, frontline hematology lab tests have not changed in 50 years and are still conducted using a manual microscope, giving only a partial picture of what may be present in our blood. OurCrowd is reinvesting in Scopio, an Israeli company that has developed the world’s first digital cell morphology imaging and AI platform that can scan a full-field image of thousands of cells at 100X...

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