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Pitango
Pitango Venture Capital, established in 1993, is Israel's largest venture capital fund with over $1.8 billion under management. Pitango is focused on seed, expansion and late stage companies in core technologies, consumer, and Life Sciences. The firm's investors include Time Warner, Citigroup, Eastman Kodak, Deutsche Bank and HarbourVest Partners. History The fund was founded as Polaris Venture Capital in 1993 by Rami Kalish, as part of a government initiative named the Yozma program ("Initiative" in Hebrew); which offered attractive tax incentives to any foreign venture-capital investments in Israel and offered to double any investment with funds from the government. In 1996, Kalish was joined by Chemi Peres, son of former Israeli president Shimon Peres, to create Polaris Fund II, which raised more than $100 million. Polaris II invested in 35 high-tech companies. Some were partially funded by another Israeli VC firm, Eucalyptus Ventures. When the investments proved successful, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evolven
Evolven is a technology company that provides IT operations analytics (ITOA) for businesses. Founded in 2007, Evolven is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, with offices in Europe and Israel. History Evolven applies the principles of IT operations analytics, correlating symptoms and IT context data with changes. Evolven's software performs data cleansing, correlation to prepare high volumes of diverse, cross silo data for analysis. Evolven was founded in 2007 by Mercury Interactive (acquired by HP in 2007) veteran, Alexander (Sasha) Gilenson, and is majority owned by Pitango Venture Capital and Index Ventures. On May 13, 2013, Evolven announced integration with ServiceNow products. In September 2014, Evolven received integration certification from ServiceNow ServiceNow is an American software company based in Santa Clara, California that develops a cloud computing platform to help companies manage digital workflows for enterprise operations. Founded in 2003 by Fred Lud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AppsFlyer
AppsFlyer is a SaaS mobile marketing analytics and attribution platform, headquartered in San Francisco, California. History AppsFlyer is a privately held company founded in 2011 by Oren Kaniel, its current CEO, and CTO Reshef Mann. AppsFlyer received its first funding from the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator program. Following the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator, AppsFlyer raised Series A funding from Pitango and Magma partners. In January 2015, AppsFlyer announced that it had raised $20 million in Series B funding Venture capital financing is a type of funding by venture capital. It is private equity capital that can be provided at various stages or funding rounds. Common funding rounds include early-stage seed funding in high-potential, growth companies ( ... from Fidelity Growth Partners Europe, which has helped accelerate the company’s growth. Following 2 years of development, AppsFlyer announced on 17 January 2017 that it had raised an additional $56 million in Series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres (; he, שמעון פרס ; born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923 – 28 September 2016) was an Israeli politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Israel from 1984 to 1986 and from 1995 to 1996 and as the ninth president of Israel from 2007 to 2014. He was a member of twelve cabinets and represented five political parties in a political career spanning 70 years. Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and except for a three-month-long interregnum in early 2006, served as a member of the Knesset continuously until he was elected president in 2007. Serving in the Knesset for 48 years (with the first uninterrupted stretch lasting more than 46 years), Peres is the longest serving member in the Knesset's history. At the time of his retirement from politics in 2014, he was the world's oldest head of state and was considered the last link to Israel's founding generation. From a young age, he was renowned for his oratorical brilliance, and was chosen as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Formlabs
Formlabs is a 3D printing technology developer and manufacturer. The Somerville, Massachusetts-based company was founded in September 2011 by three MIT Media Lab students. The company develops and manufactures 3D printers and related software and consumables. It is most known for raising nearly $3 million in a Kickstarter campaign and creating the Form 1, Form 1+, Form 2, Form Cell, Form 3, Form 3L, and Fuse 1 stereolithography and selective laser sintering 3D printers. History Formlabs was founded by Maxim Lobovsky, Natan Linder, and David Cranor, who met as students at the MIT Media Lab while taking a class called "How to Make (almost) Anything". The founders also drew on their experience with MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms Fab Lab program, as well as Lobovsky's experience with the Fab@Home project at Cornell University. Formlabs was officially founded in September 2011 to develop the first desktop-sized, easy-to-use, and affordable stereolithography 3D printer. Formlabs rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Via (company)
Via Transportation, Inc. is a global public transport, logistics, and Transit Tech company headquartered in New York City. Via was founded in 2012. Via licenses its technology to cities, transportation authorities, school districts, universities, and private organizations to help build their own technology-driven transportation networks. It operates in partnership with over 400 local governments across more than 20 countries globally, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Israel, Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, Brazil, Finland, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. In October 2020, Via acquired the logistics company Fleetonomy to accelerate its entry into the last-mile deliveries industry. In March 2021, Via purchased the transportation planning platform Remix for $100M to create the first end-to-end Transit Tech platform for cities and transit agencies. Business overview Via operates as a software as a service (Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varonis Systems
Varonis Systems is a software company with headquarters in New York City with R&D offices in Herzliya, Israel. They developed a security software platform that allows organizations to track, visualize, analyze and protect unstructured data. Varonis performs User Behavior Analytics (UBA) that identifies abnormal behavior from cyberattacks. Their software extracts metadata from an enterprise's IT infrastructure and uses this information to map relationships among employees, data objects, content, and usage. History Varonis Systems was founded in 2005 by Yaki Faitelson and Ohad Korkus, in order to address security issues such as file activity tracking, information rights management, and access control. Prior to Varonis, Faitelson and Korkus worked at the global professional services and systems integration divisions of NetVision and NetApp. Faitelson and Korkus invented a solution that would retrieve metadata contained in file systems. They brought in Dr. Jacob Goldberger, an exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MySupermarket
mySupermarket was an independent shopping and comparison shopping website for groceries in the United Kingdom. It retrieved price information from multiple online retailers, so that customers could compare their prices. On 27 February 2020 Gilad Simhony (CEO of mySupermarket) announced it would be closing on 1 March 2020. His statement read: "After 14 years of service to UK shoppers, the mySupermarket website and mobile application will be taken down from March 1st, 2020 as we shift our activity toward other business areas. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the tens of millions of you who have used our services over the years and who have contributed to its amazing success. It has been our pleasure and privilege to serve you and to share this journey with you." History mySupermarket.co.uk launched as a UK-based supermarket shopping and price comparison site in October 2006, using data on four of the main supermarkets Sainsbury's, Tesco, Asda and Ocado.Jill Papwor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaminario
Silk is a technology company headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, United States. Silk offers a cloud platform for enterprise customers with mission-critical applications. The company has offices in Boston and Israel. History CEO, Dani Golan, founded Silk in 2008. Originally called Kaminario, after the Japanese god of lightning, the company was a flash storage start-up. The company's first venture capital funding round was announced in May 2011 with a $15 million investment from Globespan Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Pitango Venture Capital. Silk received $25 million in series D funding in June 2012 from Tenaya Capital and existing investors. In December 2014 and January 2015, the company announced $68 million in a series E round from Lazarus Hedge Fund, Silicon Valley Bank, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment, and existing investors. In 2017, the company evolved to focus purely on storage software in a Storage as a Service model. It partnered with Tech Data Tech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graphcore
Graphcore is a British semiconductor company that develops accelerators for AI and machine learning. It aims to make a massively parallel Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) that holds the complete machine learning model inside the processor. History Graphcore was founded in 2016 by Simon Knowles and Nigel Toon. In the autumn of 2016, Graphcore secured a first funding round led by Robert Bosch Venture Capital. Other backers include Samsung, Amadeus Capital Partners, C4 Ventures, Draper Esprit, Foundation Capital, and Pitango. In July 2017, Graphcore secured a round B funding led by Atomico, which was followed a few months later by $50 million in funding from Sequoia Capital. In December 2018, Graphcore closed its series D with $200 million raised at a $1.7 billion valuation, making the company a unicorn. Investors included Microsoft, Samsung and Dell Technologies. On 13 November 2019, Graphcore announced that their Graphcore C2 IPUs are available for preview on Microsoft Azur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EarlySense
EarlySense was an Israeli medical device company with offices in the United States. It has sold its proprietary contact-free continuous monitoring technology to Hillrom, now Baxter. History The company was founded in 2004 by Dr. Danny Lange, Yossi Gross, and Avner Halperin. The CEO is Matt Johnson. The product has two components: a sensor that is placed under a mattress and a software application. The company sells a version of the product designed for use in hospitals that received 510K marketing clearance from the FDA in 2009, meaning that it is equivalent to devices already on the market. It also received the CE mark in Europe. In this system, the sensor measures changes in pressure applied to it through the mattress, and transmits the measurements to the software, which converts them to heart rate, breathing rate, and motion. The application can be used by nurses to monitor patients in their ward remotely; it can provide alerts if patients try to get out of bed, and can pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zerto
Zerto Ltd., through its main product the ''Zerto IT Resilience Platform'', provides disaster recovery, backup and workload mobility software for virtualized infrastructures and cloud environments. Zerto is co-headquartered in Boston and Israel and is a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. History Ziv Kedem, Zerto's founder and CEO, previously co-founded Kashya. Zerto has received investments from venture capital firms such as 83North (formerly Greylock IL), Battery Ventures, Harmony Partners, RTP Ventures, IVP, and USVP. In 2016, the company was ranked #45 on the Deloitte Fast 500 North America list. Zerto IT Resilience Platform 6.0 is a Silver Winner in the Backup and Disaster Recovery Software Category in Storage Magazine and SearchStorage’s 2018 Product of the Year. Zerto was bought by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2021 for $374 million. Products Zerto provides disaster recovery software for virtualized and cloud infrastructures. The company's original pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taboola
Taboola is a public advertising company headquartered in New York City. The CEO of Taboola is Adam Singolda, who founded the company in 2007. It provides advertisements such as "Around the Web" and "Recommended For You" boxes at the bottom of many online news articles. These sponsored links on publishers' websites send readers to the websites of advertisers and other partners. These online thumbnail grid ads are also known as chumbox ads. History Taboola was founded in 2007 by Adam Singolda. The company was founded in Israel and initially provided a recommendation engine for video content. The company headquarters were later moved to New York City. Taboola raised $1.5 million in funding in November 2007. This was followed by $4.5 million in November 2008, and $9 million in August 2011. Additionally, Taboola raised $15 million in February 2013. By 2019, Taboola was used to provide 450 billion recommendations on a monthly basis, due to adoption by major news websites, like the IBM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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