Founder and CEO. Successful exit in 2001. GoCollege was created in 1997 to reduce the hassles and costs in both time and money spent by families researching the best options for their college-bound student. With over 250 undergraduate majors and more than 1,500 North American higher education institutions catalogued, GoCollege was a pioneer in online general college information.*
The prescription drug industry suffers from inefficiency and inflated prices. DaylightRX is making a significant impact on lowering prices: "We believe that the same great technology that powers our consumer lives should also be available for the day-to-day in the prescription drug world."*
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** Investment through OurCrowd
MedAware harnesses patterns from thousands of physicians treating millions of patients to identify and alert on prescription errors in real-time. Its self-learning, self-adaptive system dramatically reduces healthcare costs while improving patient safety, outcomes, and experience. MedAware’s flagship product is the first in a suite of decision support solutions that transform real physician practice data into actionable knowledge for the payer, provider, and consumer markets.**
Verbit uses smart AI technology to disrupt captioning and transcription with speed and automation with the goal to provide a technology that fuels a world where all media shared in classrooms, workplaces and online platforms are inclusive. Verbit is dedicated to providing universities and businesses with the tools they need to make all video and media accessible to all individuals.*
Founder and CEO. Successful exit in January 2021. Gene By Gene was founded in 2000, specializing in DNA-based ancestry and genealogy as FamilyTreeDNA. The first direct-to-consumer DNA testing company, it pioneered an entire industry.
Gene By Gene built a state-of-the-art laboratory, expanding the scope of capabilities into the medical and research fields.*
Disruptive AI is Israel's first AI-focused Venture Capital. It brings a unique advantage to early-stage startups, aiming high with AI. It is leading the AI innovation community with a vibrant global ecosystem of research, networking, and collaboration between talented entrepreneurs and experienced executers.*
myDNA merged with Gene by Gene to dramatically improve people's understanding, not only of who we are and where we come from, but by providing a scientific foundation for actionable, personalized insights, and how they can guide us in how best to care for ourselves and maintain optimal health and wellness both physically and mentally. It aims at being a leading global expert of genealogy, pharmacogenomic and nutrigenomic services.*
AV provides early-stage venture capital financing to healthcare services and technology startups that improve healthcare. Through its offices in Nashville, Tennessee and Houston, Texas, leverages its combined industry expertise, relationships, investment experience, and infrastructure to benefit entrepreneurs, investors, and the overall healthcare system. *
Airobotics provides an end-to-end, fully automatic drone solution for collecting aerial data and gaining invaluable insights. The industrial grade platform is available on-site and on-demand, enabling industrial facilities to access premium aerial data in a faster, safer, more efficient way.**
Maniv Mobility is a venture capital fund that invests in and support the growth of early-stage startups from Israel and around the world helping to expedite the new age of advanced transportation technology, including safety, business model innovation, and vehicle autonomy ("driverless cars"). *
Phantom Auto provides software that enables humans to remotely operate all types of unmanned vehicles from thousands of miles away -- including forklifts, tuggers, robots, trucks, cars, and more. Headquartered in Silicon Valley and with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel, Phantom serves enterprise customers throughout the US and EMEA.*PulmOne has developed an innovative diagnostic that could disrupt the status-quo in the area of pulmonary function testing. PulmOne’s Minibox device brings the full range of lung function testing—which is currently done in phone booth sized devices in the hospital—to the desktop of physician’s office. PulmOne’s patented device is smaller, cheaper, faster and more effective than the current “BodyBox” solution used in hospitals. Type your paragraph here.**
As genetic testing becomes a routine part of patient care, providers need a simple solution to access up-to-date information and genetic expertise. ClearGenetics works on delivering a new kind of healthcare — one that leverages technology, data and design to provide a seamless, modern end-to-end clinical experience.Type your paragraph here. (Successful exit - sold to Invitae in 11/19 at +10x) *
SCiO is a pocket-sized molecular sensor patented by Consumer Physics Inc., a startup based out of Tel Aviv, Israel. By placing the sensor near an object and pressing the button for two seconds, SCiO can immediately analyze the object's chemical makeup and send the information via cloud to the user's smartphone, which then shows the desired information on the screen. **
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TechAviv Founder Partners is a pre-seed venture fund backed and powered by 150 of the world’s most successful company builders who joined forces globally to scout, back and actively support elite Israeli founders building what we believe will be important, massive-scale, enduring companies
enVerid’s HLR technology cleans a building’s indoor air at a molecular level, enabling the building to use far less outside air ventilation while improving indoor air quality. Buildings can then invest in smaller, less expensive HVAC systems and realize immediate capital cost savings while enjoying up to 30% of ongoing annual energy savings for the life of the equipment.**
Nest is building a platform for providers and patients to make genetic information part of everyday healthType your paragraph here.*
CropX is a software service that delivers dramatic cost savings and increased yield to dairy farms, by optimizing irrigation. Deployment is simple, farmer friendly and low maintenance. Scalable delivery through powerful distribution channels.**
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Corephotonics’ mission is to improve camera phone photography. The company develops technologies that will transcend some of the most challenging handicaps of camera phones. Corephotonics’ founding team has pioneered computational photography in commercial devices and has been active in the mobile phone market for several years.(Successful exit - 12/18 at +1.5x)**
Intuition Robotics built ‘ElliQ’, an AI-driven active aging companion that enables older adults to overcome the complexity of the digital world by using a vast array of technologies in a contextually relevant and personalized way, including video chats, online games and social media to connect with families and friends.Type your paragraph here.**
Infuse Energy is a Houston-based premier retail electric provider (REP) offering a variety of plans and services. Its main focus is on residential customers, small commercial and industrial (C&I) and large C&I customers where appropriate. *
BioCatch delivers behavioral authentication and threat detection solutions for mobile and Web applications. Our technology reduces the friction associated with risky transactions, and protects millions of banking and eCommerce users against cyber threats, such as Account Takeovers, Man-in-the-Browser (MitB) Malware and Remote Access (RAT) attacks.**