Startup Camel: The startup nation, unveiled: Recent Episodes
Startup Camel
In 2014 alone, Israeli startups generated nearly $15 billion in exits and IPOs. Startup Camel podcast reveals the inside stories behind the sizzling start-up scene of Israel - an 8-million-people-nation with more start-up companies and innovation than anywhere outside Silicon Valley.
Every episode features an insightful interview with a founder of a successful Israeli startup and tells the story of how to build a great company from scratch. Learn entrepreneurship from those who have made it.
CliClap is an AI-powered lead generation and qualification solution for your inbound marketing channels. Their solution helps B2B marketers utilize Artificial Intelligence to predict and apply the next best action for each online visitor. Resulting in converting 150% more visitors to sales qualified leads - autonomously.
GreenQ, a young, innovative and growing company aiming to bring the best technology to the municipal waste pickup procedure. Moving fast with strategic partners, we are working to fulfill our vision to improve the urban living area. Our smart waste management services are designed to meet the needs of municipalities, integrators and collection providers. GreenQ is currently operating in 7 sites, with a SaaS business model, that differentiate to a monthly plan and yearly plan.
Salient Eye was established in 2015, with 5 employees and offices in Ramat Gan. We have developed an innovative technology that turns any unused smartphone/tablet (Android or iOS) into a personal security or monitoring system (such as home security , elderly care monitoring, etc.) with an online connection to a 24/7 Control Center. We have more than 1.3 Million organic downloads worldwide (>150 countries) with a great rating of 4.4 (out of 5) and we support 20 languages. Our Go To Market strategy is B2B2C with Security, Insurance and Telecom companies - we have signed an agreement for a collaboration with a large European Insurance company and a few more pilots are in our pipeline.
Intuition Robotics is the creator of ElliQ™, the Active Aging Companion, which helps older adults stay active and engaged with a proactive social robot that overcomes the digital divide. The company's AI cognitive computing technology, award-winning design, and intuitive interaction models provide a natural way for older adults to reap the benefits of technology without the need to master the tools. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Israel with offices in California. Intuition Robotics has raised over $20M in funding and is supported by renowned industry experts.
Tukuoro is a Voice Tech startup company, transforming any voice-enabled devices or apps- in any language or accent, to an accurate & reliable voice interaction experience. We’ve developed Tukuoro to be the Voice User Interface (VUI) infrastructure for the voice-activated, connected world. Tukuoro solution is easily implemented and processes the voice input, within the user’s dynamically created context, to provide an accurate data results. Using proprietary NLP and ML cloud-based engine, Tukuoro solution is self-improving with every use of the user. These days, Tukuoro is launching several partnerships with global corporations, within the IoT, mobile workforce and Automotive segments. Some of our customers implement our technology as part of smart homes, in-car systems and more...
GreenIQ, the leader of the smart garden revolution, developed an IoT platform for efficient landscape irrigation. The platform controls irrigation scheduling based on current and forecasted weather, and reduces water consumption by up to 50%. GreenIQ also developed a smart sprinkler controller with Wi-Fi and 3G/4G connectivity that can be accessed from anywhere, at anytime, using an app. GreenIQ’s IoT platform enables connectivity to soil sensors for moisture balance control and to a flow meter that provides leaks and pipe break alerts. GreenIQ is the perfect solution for homeowners, professional landscapers, irrigation companies, commercial real estate, and municipalities.
AppReal-VR is an Israeli software company, specializing in VR & AR, Co-founded by Yariv Levski, the CEO and Aviram Eisenberg, the CTO. AppReal-VR recruits and manages dedicated teams in Ukraine for companies who wish to develop VR and AR offshore or lack the internal knowledge or resources to do that. The company has deep knowledge of 3D modeling and software development for XR domains, has its own IP of development tools and platform. AppReal-VR works with some of the largest companies in the world in developing applications and products for VR and AR, in verticals such as – medicine, gaming, advertising and more...
Display.io is a mobile audience network. We enable app developers to become a profitable app business through advertising. Our innovative publisher tools generate ad-funded revenue from in-app audiences and deliver app advertisers with a measurable return on advertising spend.
Eco Wave Power- Addressing the global demand for RENEWABLE, RELIABLE and AFFORDABLE energy • Established in 2011 and headquartered in Israel, EWP has developed proprietary technology for extracting energy from sea waves. • EWP completed its wave tank and field testing in the Black Sea, and currently has an installed R&D power plant in Jaffa Port, and a 100kW grid-connected power station in Gibraltar, to be followed by a 5MW grid-connected power station. • Highly competitive & cost effective green solution – EWP's construction costs , as well as production costs per kWh, were found to be the most competitive in the wave energy market and are also competitive compared to wind and solar. • Excellence Awards Winning - Granted the “Frost & Sullivan Product Award” , “Business Green Leaders Award” the “IAIR Sustainability Award”, “Energy Globe Award” for “Best project in Israel“ by Unesco, the Mixiii Innovation Award by the Chief Scientist of Economy, Erasmus University Award and recognition as “pioneering technology” by Dr. Halaf, Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Energy, Government of Israel. EWP’s project in Gibraltar also received funding from the European Union. • Global Spread- EWP has subsidiaries in China, Mexico and Gibraltar, with additional subsidiaries in advanced negotiation phases. • Projects pipeline in capacity of 130 MW
Ranky is a startup marketing company, with a portfolio of 300 known tech companies. The Ranky team helps startups grow using content, social, automation and paid campaigns.
Clients range from israel to europe and US.
Ototok was born at the beginning of 2015, after a long discussion about road communication during a family drive. Ototok aims to deliver the first connected LED display system designed for communication between drivers on the road.
Israel-based social enterprise developing a speech recognition technology that recognizes non-standard speech patterns and translates unintelligible sounds into clear speech in real time, enabling children and adults with severe speech impairments to communicate spontaneously and naturally using their own voices. No other assistive technology solution enables a person with speech disabilities to communicate spontaneously using their own voices.
Right-Hear is an advanced accessibility solution that allows people who are blind or visually impaired to acquire better orientation in public spaces (mostly indoor). Our popular, innovative solution has turned over 300 venues into accessible zones in Israel alone. This includes market leaders such as Weizmann Institute of science and Azrieli Group (valued at $2.5B) and many more. With our free app on iOS and Android, over 1500 Accessible Spots installed worldwide, and an ever-growing user base, our vision of making the world more accessible for people who are blind or visually impaired is becoming a reality every day.
Package Delivery, Re-invented. Veho Technologies is a crowdsourcing technology platform that enables anyone in their own car to become a package delivery driver (often dubbed “the Uber for last mile delivery”). Veho is a disruptor in the $100 billion package delivery industry, which has not seen significant innovation in the past 30 years. Since launching in 2016, Veho drivers have delivered over 10,000 packages in the Northeast US using the Veho app. The company is also developing an AI based dispatch management software that allows it to scale its delivery operation while removing much of the operational friction from the process. Veho is the grand prize winner of the Harvard Business School New Venture Competition (2017) and is backed by some of the top executives in the industry, including Tom Schmitt – the former CEO of FedEx Supply Chain, and several former UPS executives
Bosco is a parental control app that uses artificial intelligence to help parents keep their kids safe online. Bosco bridges the gap between parents and their children’s online activity. Bosco’s monitors children’s digital & real-life activities and provides parents with actionable insights in real-time. Bosco uses AI to build a unique behavioral profile for each child and detects deviations that may indicate a threat. Bosco gives parents the ability to track their children’s location, battery level, and their moods. It also sends parents alerts for explicit images and offensive text communication.
Flytrex is building the world's first drone delivery operating system, enabling the on-demand drone revolution.
Gong.io is the #1 conversation intelligence platform for B2B sales. Gong.io enables sales teams to improve their calls and demos and gives sales leaders insights into how well calls are being conducted. Gong.io’s patented technology records, transcribes, and analyzes sales calls using AI, helping the sales organization understand what works and what doesn’t. Visit Gong.io for more information.
Wisor is developing a product to help loan officers and mortgage brokers to close more deals and reduce the cost of handling leads. It is a SaaS platform that utilizes data to create better engagement with potential customers, create personalized loans, and increase retention using proactive monitoring.
Tomobox uses artificial intelligence and human collaboration to drive customer experiences through texting and messaging for financial institutions.
VRHealth develops breakthrough certified medical solutions using VR (Virtual Reality) to deliver real-time data analytics that benefits patients, clinicians, and healthcare providers, at clinics and at home.
Their products include VRPhysio™ for physical rehabilitation, VRCogni™ for cognitive rehabilitation and Customized VR Medical Apps all leveraging VR for enhancing rehabilitation via immersive experience and meaningful analytics. All of our products are authorized by the FDA.
Citizen Café is a leading new-style Hebrew ulpan, offering language- culture-lifestyle courses, lectures and events to smoothly integrate the international community into the local Tel-Avivian culture. Today, Citizen Cafe caters over 800 students each year and includes clients from Embassies, Google, Facebook, Waze, My Heritage and The Jewish Agency.
Cybereason is the leader in endpoint protection, offering endpoint detection and response, next-generation antivirus, managed monitoring and IR services. Founded by elite intelligence professionals born and bred in offense-first hunting, Cybereason gives enterprises the upper hand over cyber adversaries. The Cybereason platform is powered by a custom-built in-memory graph, the only truly automated hunting engine anywhere. It detects behavioral patterns across every endpoint and surfaces malicious operations in an exceptionally user-friendly interface.
Tevatronic offers farmers a fully autonomous irrigation system. In the autonomous mode of operation, the system can reduce water and fertilizer usage up to 75% while increasing the yield. The system uses proprietary hardware and a unique algorithm to analyze plants’ water consumption and calculate how much and when to irrigate each section of the field or greenhouse without user intervention.The company was founded in 2013 where one of entrepreneurs is world known agriculture scientist Isaak Klein, holding 2 post doctor degrees. The company has invested the last 3 years in development and testing its innovative irrigation system for reducing water & fertilizer consumption and soil contamination problems.
Operating since 2014, Optibus was founded by Amos Haggiag and Eitan Yanovsky and is the leading vendor of city-wide mass transportation planning and operation. Based on proprietary AI and optimization algorithms, Optibus provides a dynamic platform to enable public transportation and fleet operators to optimize resource allocation and improve the transport experience, while saving their clients tens of millions of dollars annually. Powering some of the largest transit operators internationally, Optibus is developing the future operating system that will control and optimize multi-modal, flexible transportation within cities.
Abilisense empowers IoT with Smart Listening Abilities, a Black-box that interprets sounds to alerts, for smart devices, applications and services. Established in 2015, and has been covered all over the world for their ground-breaking technology. Till today, they have sold over 100 thousand licenses, for sound analysis. Use case example: Your mother is home alone and suddenly slips and falls down, her smart-TV, with AbiliSense Technology, will send an alert to you immediately.
Kanabo Research is a biotech company pioneering cutting edge solutions in the medical cannabis industry. Kanabo brings together decades of experience in some of the most important fields revolutionizing the medical world; including extraction technologies, medical devices, delivery systems and more. Kanabo’s mission is to provide turnkey solutions to licensed companies looking to expand their product offering, generate new revenue streams and learn the most advanced technologies developed in Israel’s centers of R&D excellence.
WeKast makes it easy to connect screens together and share any experiences anywhere. WeKast's mission is to put an end to the painful presentation process that wastes time by creating a setup-free personal presentation solution that is compatible with all mobile devices. It connects to any screen and lets you present straight from your smartphone.
NeuroApplied empowers Brand Managers and Consumer Insight Researchers in understanding their customers’ thoughts and quantifying them. Our technology accurately measures the true brand perception by consumers. Unlike traditional market research methods, our tool reads subconscious perceptions objectively. It does it in a fast, convenient and fun way. We use Neuro-Cognitive science combined with Deep Neural Networks algorithms and gamification to come up with a state of the art method that disrupts the realm of Market Research.
eMojo Digital Marketing is an international data-driven full-service online marketing agency with offices in NYC and Tel Aviv. eMojo has been managing the online marketing efforts for both startups and global enterprises such as Disney, Samsung, Discount Bank, Electra, Hilton and more.
Payoneer empowers global commerce by connecting businesses, professionals, countries and currencies with its innovative cross-border payments platform. In today’s borderless digital world, Payoneer enables millions of businesses and professionals from more than 200 countries to reach new audiences by facilitating seamless, cross-border payments. Additionally, thousands of leading corporations including Amazon, Airbnb, Getty Images, Google, and Upwork rely on Payoneer’s mass payout services.
With Payoneer’s fast, flexible, secure and low-cost solutions, businesses and professionals in both developed and emerging markets can now pay and get paid globally as easily as they do locally.
88: Soomla created God Mode for game developers (Feat Yaniv Nitzan, Soomla) by Startup Camel
87: Create pixel-perfect, responsive websites for your clients. Code-free (Shmulik Grizim, Webydo) by Startup Camel
85: A framework to tackle challenges of people around the world (Feat Arnon Zamir, TOM) by Startup Camel
83: The COO of a billion dollar company Nir Zohar tells the story of Wix by Startup Camel
SC 82: Innovation for survival – This is how ebay does it (Feat Sergio Gonzales, eBay) by Startup Camel
PowToon's co-founder talks about using low-budget hacks to grow startups and how his company turned customer pain points into 5 million users
80: Proven Tips for Managing Your Startup Like a Boss (Feat Oren Kaniel, CEO of AppsFlyer) by Startup Camel
FeeX, the next startup by Waze co-founder, Uri levine, has already saved its users more than $300M. See how it's changing lives across the world.
How can a small startup get Fast Company, Techcrunch, and many to write about it? Zula's CMO, Hilel Fuld, shares how his startup did just that
The investor behind Meerkat, Joytunes and Frieghtos reveals how to grab his attention and what NOT to do if you want a VC to fund your startup
Hola has zero marketing and yet 47 million users from around the world use it daily. Here's how they did it.
See how Yuval Kaminka transformed JoyTunes from a startup no investor wanted to hear about, to one with $7 million in investments.
74: Nailing Product-Market Fit and ACTUALLY Getting Things Done (Feat. Yotam Cohen, Wibbitz) by Startup Camel
Ishay Green tells all on startup Pivots and how Spot.IM can turn any site into a social media platform
SpaceIL's co-founder Kfir Damari on how to tell an unforgettable startup story and building a team that beat any challenge
Oktopost's Daniel Kushner shares his personal road to entrepreneurship stardom, and how constant measurement can save your startup.
COLU's founder on how to to recruit star players for your startup and the one thing you need to do before becoming an entrepreneur
Rounds is giving Skype, Hangouts and FaceTime a run for their money. Find out how they manage to stand out in the saturated video chat market.
StoreDot's battery technology is about to change the world. Hear what the startup's founder has to say about finding the right investor, success and more.
The kings of viral reveal their secrets to the throne. An exclusive chat with Shaul Olmert, Playbuzz's CEO, about going viral and the new age of content.
Hanan Lavy, Managing Director of Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in Tel Aviv, takes us behind the scenes of turning rookie startups into giants.
Ron Gura, entrepreneur from birth and part of VC Aleph, shares how to increase the chances of an early investment for your startup.
A rising star in the Israeli venture capital industry with both an impressive and unique background, David Israeli is a Partner at Pitango
BillGuard's Raphael Ouzan shares how they overcame their greatest challenge: making their audience realize they have a problem only BillGuard can solve.
Kaltura's Ron Yekutiel spills the best tip EVER for pitching to an investor and how to choose the right co-founders
imonomy's Avishai Sam Bitton talks about building marketing strategy from the ground up and the most common marketing mistakes you should avoid
What's the true price of running a startup? ironSource's Tomer Bar Ze'ev reveals how he founded the world's leading platform for software monetization.
Israeli startup HoneyBook and its Silicon Valley accelerator, UpWest Labs, explain how to penetrate the US market
Any.DO is a suite of integrated mobile (and now Web) productivity apps that are entirely focused on helping you achieve more from your day-to-day life.