Face-int: Redefining User Authentication through Facial Recognition and Blockchain

15 Most Promising Startups in Israel - 2020

Israel is a nation filled with nascent tech startups. In fact, Tel Aviv has more startups per capita than anywhere else in the world, earning it the reputation of being the Silicon Valley of the Middle East, prominently known as Silicon Wadi across the globe. The combination of world-class technological educational institutes and extensive investments into the research and development of state-of-the-art technology has made it a hotspot for innovation in new tech. Reportedly, an average of six hundred new startups is established every year in Israel with a strong presence of various multinational R&D centres, including the Big Five—Google, IBM, and Apple, to name a few.

Today, Israel has the most mature tech ecosystem by far. Additionally, right after the United States and China, Israel has the most public companies listed on the tech-heavy NASDAQ exchange. Speaking of which, the Israeli tech-sector is a remarkable success story, enjoying a period of consistent growth over the years. As Israel becomes the first in the world in R&D investment and venture capital investments as a percentage of GDP, StartupCity’s editorial board had started assessing and shortlisting the lynchpin amongst startups in Israel. These companies offer robust products coupled with innovative strategies that are distinctively prominent in the field. After consulting with a wide range of industry experts, we chose to highlight companies that managed to push through and succeed despite the difficult circumstances, while doing their best to avoid risking their workforce in the process. We present to you “15 Most Promising Startups in Israel - 2020.”

    Most Promising Startups in Israel

    Face-int
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    Face-int has created a revolutionary biometric framework that converts the images of individuals obtained for verification to a deterministic value or hash key that are only encrypted and not decrypted. The company also creates a secure way of user authentication by combining a variety of breakthrough technologies like face recognition and sophisticated encryption algorithms. The biometric data gets transformed into deterministic values of hash functions that does not require the image files to be opened for comparison when performing log in or validation functions. Face-int—in addition to offering this technology on a myriad of devices and authentication terminals—carries out the entire user identity protection process on the cloud ... read full profile
    ADASKY
    ADASKY is the leading developer and manufacturer of intelligent thermal sensing technologies. The company was established with the purpose of solving the problem of perception gaps left by other sensors in automated vehicles by way of intelligent thermal cameras, making cars function better and safer to drive at all levels of automation. As ADASKY evolved, it began developing advanced thermal imaging solutions to address additional mobility challenges such as smart city roadway safety for all road users and safe entry into public places, to help mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. In just a few years, ADASKY revolutionized the thermal sensing industry by creating end-to-end, the smallest, most intelligent, energy-efficient camera systems in the market, at a price that anyone can afford, making safety accessible to all, for safe travel and a safe return
    Aidoc
    Aidoc is the leading full body imaging AI software. The company's products help detect and pinpoint critical anomalies for radiologists through deep learning and AI algorithms that analyze medical images and patient data. Aidoc eases up the work list and frees up time and attention to save lives, critical time and investment by maximizing workflow's potential with Aidoc
    Broadsay
    Broadsay’s mobile-first, cloud-based video platform provides content creators with all the features and functionalities necessary for video creation. The platform can be easily integrated into users’ existing content creation avenues with the help of SDK or API to mitigate high overhead costs.With the Broadsay platform, content creators can establish complete ownership of their content. It helps them in ensuring transparency, accountability, and credibility of the content as well. Besides, users can broadcast videos instantly, providing a quick turnaround time. The Broadsay platform also makes sure that only the authorized users can produce content on the platform, eliminating the possibility of vandalism
    Cognata
    Cognata is a leading global supplier of large-scale automotive simulation for the Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle markets. Working with leading automotive technology companies around the world, its end to end platform accelerates time to market by delivering simulation solutions for the entire automated driving product lifecycle, from training to testing to deployment
    Copilot
    Copilot is an automated Customer Experience platform for consumer electronics companies. By analyzing and segmenting data from smart and connected consumer devices, Copilot provides a critical advantage to companies that manufacture these products, enabling them to automatically interact with their entire customer base according to behavior, and improving the overall Customer Experience. Companies that employ Copilot improve onboarding, reduce product returns, boost product ratings and open new channels of revenue, giving them a critical advantage that increases overall customer satisfaction and builds Lifetime Value
    Minute.ly
    Minute.ly helps publishers, broadcasters and content owners better utilize their video content. The company's AI-driven technology solutions amplify the effects of video, increasing user engagement, distribution and maximizing content-generated revenue. The solution automatically identifies the most captivating moments of a video, and compiles them into short previews, which are used to capture viewer attention and navigate users towards video content. We automatically adapt the content to make it suitable and engaging across any medium, content platform, or technological frameworks that exist
    Onvego
    Onvego offer smart voice control for operating devices, equipment and apps in industrial segments, such as storage, logistics, manufacturing, maintenance and field services. Onvego’s technology can be deployed cloud-based or on premise – which is more suitable for certain use-cases due to security, accessibility or stability/latency concerns. Even more important, the company's solution can be implemented or embedded on small wearable devices and sensors to work off-line. In addition, Onvego provide a set of tools which allows quick and easy development and deployment of smart voice solutions for devices and smart industrial apps
    Paygilant
    Paygilant enables a frictionless mobile payment experience, whether executed by NFC, QR Code or online. By triggering an immediate authentication only upon a suspicious fraudulent attempt, mobile payment providers benefit from an unparalleled fraud detection rate that also drastically saves in operational costs. Paygilant protects the user at multiple checkpoints to determine if a criminal activity is occurring and stops fraud long before the actual transaction occurs. Additionally, the company protects against all kind of digital fraud providing its clients a safe transaction experience
    Portshift
    Portshift’s Kubernetes-native security solution leverages the power of Kubernetes and Service-Mesh to deliver a single source of truth for container and cloud-native application security. It is the only solution offering an agentless approach, with one Kubernetes admission controller for seamless integration. The company empowers DevOps and Security teams to continuously protect their growing Kubernetes deployments and multi-clusters. Portshift ensures a continuous security process during the entire containerized applications lifecycle, from code to runtime. The platform generates and applies the logic to configure network policies and security rules, while automating the process and encrypting traffic between services
    proteanTecs
    proteanTecs is on a mission to enable the electronics industry to continue scaling. The company is a dynamic fast-paced start-up company, transforming the way reliability of electronics is achieved. proteanTecs has developed a cloud-based platform, which combines data created in chip-embedded Agents, with machine learning, to predict faults before they become failures. The solutions provide unprecedented insights throughout the value chain, from Chip Vendors to System Vendors and Digital Service Providers. The company was founded by seasoned industry veterans, including three former founders of Mellanox Technologies, with deep knowledge and experience in the electronics industry and is backed by worldwide leading investors
    Rail Vision
    Rail Vision is the leading provider of obstacle detection and classification systems in the railway industry. With the company’s unique cognitive sensor fusion technology, based on advanced electro-optic sensors, artificial intelligence and deep learning, Rail Vision systems detect objects on and along the tracks from a distance of up to 2 kilometers – in real time, as well as in all weather and light conditions. When an obstacle is detected, the system sends visual and acoustic alerts in real-time to both the driver and the command-and-control center. Tailormade to meet every customer’s specific needs, the systems are available for Main Lines and Shunting Yards, as well as Light Rail Vehicles (LRVs) operating in urban environments. In addition, Rail Vision offers a range of optional complementary features based on collected and analyzed data
    VDOO
    VDOO is leading the tech revolution by providing the only end-to-end platform for security automation, certification, and protection. The company was established to pioneer the space of embedded systems. The VDOO founders, Uri Alter, Netanel (Nati) Davidi and Asaf Karas, are experts in the area of intelligence and cyber-security, who have been living the field for over a decade
    vHive
    vHive is only developer of a cloud-based AI that enables enterprises to deploy autonomous drone hives for the acquisition, management and processing of field data. vHive’s Mission AI™ uniquely enables enterprises in a variety of industries such as infrastructure, telecom, rail and civil engineering to scale their drone operations by intelligently using off-the-shelf drones as part of a hive. vHive supports Fortune 500 companies who use its software platform across a variety of industries and geographies. As the leading enterprise drone hive software, the platform has supported more than undreds of thousands of flights and hundreds of millions of images
    Viisights
    viisights is a leading innovator of behavioral understanding systems for real-time video intelligence. The company provides AI-powered behavioral understanding systems for safe and smart cities, enterprises, campuses, banks, financial institutions, critical infrastructures, transportation hubs, and for shared and autonomous mobility. viisights’ mission is to leverage artificial intelligence technologies that facilitate human-like pattern prediction to create fully autonomous video intelligence systems. viisights harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to bring behavioral understanding to video surveillance and practically to every video stream