Founders DNA by ThinkUp

In this episode, we sat down with Yoav Oren, Co-Founder & CEO at Zoog. Zoog is leveraging Augmented Reality to bring families closer together through storytelling and other fun, educational, and engaging content and activities that children absolutely love and enjoy. Zoog taps into both through books and video. Adapting classics to the medium of video communication, where grandparents can read to their grandkids and the kids can engage with the story and their relatives. Books are the gateway between generations, and by offering a unique book reading experience, ZOOG brings generations closer to each other. ZOOG allows older adults to tap into their creative energies and encourages kids to read. We created a new format of storytelling, allowing grandparents (or any other distanced family member) to take any children's book and bring it to life using modern AR, ML and advanced animation capabilities. We built a tool that grandparents can use and create through, and that children love.

In this episode, we sat down with Tomer Levy, Co-Founder & CEO at Logz.io, a company that helps cloud-native businesses to monitor and secure their environment with comprehensive open source tools. The platform turns observability from a high-cost, low-value burden to a high-value, cost-efficient enabler of better business outcomes by combining and extending familiar, powerful and relevant Open Source capabilities across Logs, Metrics and Traces - complemented by security monitoring in the form of cloud-based SIEM.

In this episode, we sat down with Lior Shalev, Co-founder and CEO at AlgaeCore - SimpliiGood. AlgaeCore Ltd. is the parent company of SimpliiGood, a global brand specializing in growing and harvesting edible spirulina, considered the most nutritious food on the planet. SimpliiGood's mission is to become the leading provider of sustainable, clean-label, and nutritious protein-based micro-algae products. The company produces fish and meat analogs made entirely from spirulina and has proprietary technology in the areas of native colorization and texturing, allowing the company to produce products with a neutral taste and scent in any colour or texture. The company's first product, a salmon analog, will be available by the end of 2023. SimpliiGood operates with a B2B business model, serving clients such as food and beverage manufacturers, hospitality, and retail, as well as a D2C pilot in Israel.

In this episode, we sat down with Gil Pekelman, Founder and CEO at Atera. A company he established to Unlock 10X efficiency for IT teams, powered by AI! Companies can now run IT ops infinitely better with Atera's AI-powered IT management platform, which includes Remote Monitoring & Management, IT Automations, Patch Management, Scripting, Ticketing, and Reporting, and dozens of integrations, all from a single platform. A new world of infinite possibilities with Atera’s force multiplier, an AI-powered IT platform that integrates AI end-to-end, cuts down time-to-resolution, and delivers better outcomes faster.

In this episode, we sat down with Ami Daniel, Co-Founder & CEO at Windwar, a a global leader in maritime risk analytics: it helps organizations, including marine insurers, governments and law enforcement, understand maritime risk, enabling them to take better actions to manage it. Based in Tel Aviv and London, Windward is backed by world-renowned investors, including XL Innovate, Aleph, Horizons Ventures, Marc Benioff and Lord Browne.

In this episode, we sat down with Gil Zimmerman - Founding Board Director and Investor at Jit - A DevSecOps Orchestration platform empowering high-velocity developer teams to own product security from day zero. Gil is also an Entrepreneur and Investor with a passion for building exceptional teams, which create transformative companies, solving big problems.

In this episode, we sat down with Elad Schaffer, Co-Founder and CEO at Faye that is redefining insurance for modern travelers, taking it from a forgettable add-on to a must-have advantage that enhances the entire travel experience. As the first to offer whole-trip travel protection and care, Faye’s proprietary technology enables immediate assistance and claims processing anywhere in the world, setting a new customer-service standard for the industry.

In this episode, we sat down withDekel Skoop, Co-CEO & Co-Founder at accessiBe. accessiBe is the market leader in AI-powered web accessibility solutions and products.As a web accessibility hub, accessiBe provides different AI-Powered solutions for testing and remediating web accessibility, as well as various professional services aimed to create an inclusive web and help businesses comply with web accessibility standards and regulations, i.e., WCAG and ADA. accessiBe's full suite of web accessibility solutions and products enable businesses of all sizes, from solopreneurs to large corporations, to participate in global inclusion efforts and make their websites available to everybody, regardless of ability. Web accessibility is necessary for everyone - plain and simple. Therefore the solution must reflect the clarity of the problem. By making the process of web accessibility automated & effortless, businesses don't have to think twice about implementing accessiBe to enable users with disabilities to use the Internet effectively. accessiBe has made thousands of websites accessible and compliant, from industry leaders such as BMW, Hilton, and Pacific Life to small businesses around the globe - all using the same reliable solution.

In this episode, we sat down with Lanor Daniel, Co-Founder & CEO at Shopper AI, a company that is aiming to be the next generation of Shopper research, by using cutting-edge behavioral recognition technology powered by proven algorithms to show how customers make decisions at the shelf. Unlike other research tools which are expensive, difficult to run frequently, and are subject to answer bias, ShopperAi is based on a continuous review of customer behavior in real store environments, and with ShopperAI you can: Identify opportunities to increase revenue and profit; Track shoppers behavior at the shelf, product interactions, time to purchase, conversation rates and more; Experiment with variations in price, location, packaging and promotions to convert your shoppers and increase sales; And much more

In this episode, we sat down with Guy Altagar, Co-founder and CEO of Unlimited Robotics, a company that is changing the way makers and developers communicate with robots, helping all the eco-system members to build robots in a simple, more efficient way, while changing the life of millions worldwide.

Amid growing concerns over the health and future of our oceans, Sea2cell embraces the challenge of providing the world with sustainable and safe cell-cultivated “blue food” that will be as good as traditional seafood in taste, culinary functionality, and nutritional value.The company started operating in 2021 and is funded by the FRESH START FoodTech Incubator IL, led by the international AgriFood VC Finistere Ventures, Tnuva (Israel’s largest food manufacturer), OurCrowd's investments platform, and Tempo (Leading beverage company).We dived with Orna into her inspiring entrepreneurial journey.

In this episode, we sat down with Roie Onn, the Co-founder & CEO of Cervello, a leading rail cybersecurity startup that, in a few short years since its founding in 2019, has successfully broken into one of the world's oldest and most critical industries, railway. The startup, which has raised $19 million to date, was formed by Roie, Shaked Kafzan (CTO), and Nadav Avidan (COO).

In this episode, we sat down with Dotan Lazar, the Co-Founder & CEO of LSports.LSports is a world-leading provider of real-time sports data, working with sports betting industry key clients since 2012. Powered by a unique proprietary API technology, state-of-the-art sportsbook trading management, innovative stimulation tools, and accurate sports data feeds, LSports is the one-stop shop for sportsbooks.

In this episode, we sat down with Eran Tal, the founder & CEO of Volta Solar. Eran is a serial entrepreneur, and his unique entrepreneurial journey involves running & managing two different startups in parallel. Volta Solar specializes in developing, constructing, and operating solar energy rooftop systems for private homes, commercial and public buildings, and residential buildings. Recently, Volta has raised $12.4 million, its first significant investment, to expand into the energy storage market.

In this episode, we sat down with Chen Arad, the co-founder & COO of Solidus Labs, who lately raised $45 million in a Series B funding round led by Liberty City Ventures, on the "Founders DNA" podcast show by ThinkUp, hosted by ThinkUp's co-founder, Ron Navon. Solidus Labs developed a trade surveillance platform to improve manipulation detection techniques in the cryptocurrency market. The company's blockchain-native, machine learning-powered platform offers tailored actionable alerts, streamlined ticket management, and regulatory reporting by continuously learning about the new manipulation schemes, enabling financial service providers to reduce risk, increase transparency and minimize costs while trading crypto assets. We had a sneak peek into Chen's fascinating entrepreneurial journey, including his unique path, challenges, mindset, and vision.

In this episode, we sat down with Rani Plaut, the Co-Founder & CEO of AIR on "The Founders DNA” podcast show by ThinkUp. Air is developing a “flying” vehicle, an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for individual consumers. Its prototype aircraft successfully completed a first hover test with regulators recently, setting the company on a path for further flight certification. When we say “change the world,” these guys are actually on it.

In this episode, we sat with Tal Lev Ami, Co-Founder, and CTO at Cloudinary, for a conversation about his startup journey, from an idea to unicorn status. Founded by CEO Itai Lahan, CPO Nadav Soferman and CTO Tal Lev-Ami, Cloudinary has developed a platform and software that allows high-quality and rapid delivery of images and video. The company reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue in 2022. The company has over 50 billion assets under management and nearly 10,000 customers worldwide, including brands like Atlassian, Bleacher Report, Bombas, Grubhub, Hinge, NBC, Mediavine, Minted, Peloton, and Petco. Cloudinary raised over $110m in funding at a $2b valuation.

In this episode, we sat down with Aviad Mizrachi, the Co-Founder and CTO at Frontegg, on the ”Founders DNA” podcast by ThinkUp. To date, frontegg raised a total of $70 million, from investors such as Stripes, Insight Partners, Pitango First, Global Founders Capital and i3 Equity. We dived with Aviad into his fascinating and inspiring entrepreneurial journey.

In this week's episode, we sat dawn with Guy Tytunovich, the Founder & CEO of CHEQ. CHEQ has developed security applications for marketing staff to help protect sales pipelines, marketing funnels, sites, eCommerce, data and analytics from fake visitors, fraudsters, and malicious bot traffic. CHEQ says its platform is used by over 50,000 websites worldwide and the company aims to nearly triple its growth in 2022 in North America, EMEA and APAC. The company was founded in 2016 by CEO Guy Tytunovich, chairman Ehud Levy, and CTO Asaf Botovsky. The company has offices in Tel Aviv, New York and Tokyo and has 200 employees. Earlier this year, CHEQ completed a $150 million series C financing round led by Tiger Global, with the participation of existing investors Battery Ventures, Hanaco and Phoenix Insurance, and new investor Key1 Capital. This brings to $183 million, the total amount raised by CHEQ. No company valuation was disclosed.

Insoundz is disrupting the content creation domain by enabling content creators worldwide to create high-end audio experiences without expensive equipment and knowledge and is shaping the next generation in the evolution of sound. The magic happens due to Insoundz’s innovative AI technology. We dived into Insoundz’s fascinating journey, from an idea to building a global venture while facing challenges in a super-aggressive domain.