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Traceloop is growing! We're excited to welcome Yaniv Tenzer who joins us from Meta AI as our VP of Research! Yaniv holds a PhD from the Hebrew University and has built data science teams from scratch at companies like Lightricks. He's a true genius and one of a kind. In his own words: "I am passionate about solving data-driven problems and, more generally, research in the fields of statistics and machine learning. I also enjoy teaching courses in those fields. Aside from data, I have a great interest in psychology and, in particular, in interpersonal relationships and decision-making processes. Finally, I enjoy baking, and a carrot cake is my favorite (with a lot of cream cheese frosting!!)"

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"AR computing!" Say goodbye to traditional laptops. An Israeli entrepreneur has innovated a technology that bids farewell to our traditional laptops. Tamir Berliner- founder of Sightful and the innovator behind the Spacetop G1! What is the Spacetop G1? Spatial computer that seamlessly integrates the functionality of a laptop with the capabilities Of Augmented Reality (AR). A 100-inch virtual workspace replaces the need for a physical screen. Spacetop G1 adapts to various environments, whether at home, in the office, or on the go. This represents a step forward in integrating AR technologies with daily tasks. Spatial with AR transforms how we interact with digital content, personally and professionally. The real test will be in its execution. The usability of the AR interface, the battery life, the comfort of AR glasses, etc., are crucial. I believe Sightful has managed to address these practical concerns effectively. And I am awaiting the official release in india. Congrats to Tamir Berliner and the team for their bold move and fantastic innovation. The Spacetop G1 is an evolution in how we think about personal computing. Soorya Narayanan | AppLogiQ #applogiq #innovation #entrepreneur #techentrepreneur #augmentedreality #spatialcomputing #management #startups

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When data science meets #women's health! This is how systemic change happens! Thanks MeDS - Medical Data Science Israel and Aielet Efrati and Chen Yoffe! #womenshealthmatters #innovation #womeninscience #womenintechnology

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10 Exciting Israeli Startups you may not have heard about BUT, you should be following: 1. WINN.AI - Salestech 2. Onebeat - Retail tech company 3. MazeBolt - Cyber Security 4. Cynomi - Cyber Security 5. Canditech - HR Tech 6. Percepto - Autonomous Drones - Drone tech 7. HiBob - HR Tech 8. Mesh Payments - Fintech 9. XTEND - Drone tech 10. Connecteam - HR Tech #startupnation

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Proud of our Progress: Congratulations to Amir Faintuch and the Volumez Team, who are named #27 of the Top 50 most promising Israeli Startups so far in 2024!  Thank you to our community of support Viola Ventures Pitango Koch Disruptive Technologies Shlomo Dovrat Eyal Niv Isaac (Itzik) Sigron    Article: https://lnkd.in/gRrV8a5q     Volumez is an innovative #cloud agnostic #blockstorage set of solutions on marketplaces for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure and is the only solution with public cloud awareness for performance, cost, data resiliency. Learn how we leverage compute and storage resources, use intelligent composition, and deliver “data infrastructure as code” for the “Developer, Platform Engineer and Builder” in your company!     Did you Know: Volumez can deliver ultra-fast 78,000 TPS driving more revenue for your business, guaranteed performance and enterprise-grade data services with up to 50% cost savings for your cloud databases and other data-intensive workloads. #bettertogether for #Linux #CloudCompute and #CloudStorage. John Blumenthal Bob Pacheco Shai Harony Nir Rigai Carmit Levy Philippe Ciampossin Dennis Mulder Shmuel Shottan Alon Vittenberg Scott Dawkins Jean Banko Jonathan Amit   #DatabasePerformance #PostgreSQL #TPS #Oracle #SQLServer #DataManagement #DatabaseScaling #AWS #Azure #MSBuild

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Have you integrated generative AI into your applications? Alon Gubkin, CTO from Aporia, is here to help! Alon, an entrepreneurial full-stack engineer and the CTO of Aporia, leads a team dedicated to creating innovative solutions that enhance the reliability and effectiveness of AI applications. His expertise in the field is demonstrated through his work on Aporia Guardrails, a tool trusted by top enterprises to mitigate risks in AI deployment. 🗣 In his talk, “Mitigating RAG Hallucinations with Aporia Guardrails”, Alon explored: - The Inherent Risk: More than 70% of companies plan to release a RAG chatbot in 2024, but the risk of hallucinations could derail many projects. - Proactive Mitigation: How Aporia Guardrails address hallucinations, ensuring the integrity and reliability of generative AI applications. 🔑 Key takeaways attendees learned: - The critical role of observability and evaluation in generative AI applications. - Strategies to mitigate RAG hallucinations with Aporia Guardrails. - Practical guidance on incorporating robust safety measures in AI applications. If you’re building a RAG chatbot or implementing one into your product, don’t let hallucinations derail your project from reaching production. 🎥 Watch the full session on our YouTube channel! https://lnkd.in/ebmgq6g5

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Over this past year, we’ve learned anew the strength that we have as a nation. And if you’ve read recent headlines regarding funding rounds and exits of Israeli startups, you will see a clear demonstration of resilience in action. According to a recent report by Startup Nation Central, the Israel tech ecosystem has recently completed: - 220 private investment rounds - An estimated $3.1 billion raised - $3.7 billion in M&A transactions - 20 new venture capital funds were established, raising $1.7 billion And it’s not just internal optimism. A recent poll conducted by the global accounting company Ernst & Young showed that about 60% of multinational companies expressed confidence in the Israeli tech industry. Some might say that what happens in Israel is simply miraculous. I say that it’s because of the resilience, grit, determination, creativity, innovation and perseverance of our people. And Google Cloud Israel is proud to support our hi-tech community, from early stage to enterprise and everyone in the middle. 76 years and counting… Israeli tech continues to deliver No Matter What. https://lnkd.in/dbpvwcuW. #GoogleCloud #CloudForIsrael #StartupNation #Resilience #NoMatterWhat

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Yuval Regev and his BI & Analytics team at Atera, the world’s first AI-powered IT management platform, lifted a core business KPI by 34% using the Loops Feature Impact Model. We are so proud and delighted to work with this leading analytics team. Initially, the naive effect (before/after) of a recent feature release appeared to have a positive outcome. However, with Loops they not only discovered that the causal effect was negative, they were empowered to make a series of iterative changes to maximize the KPI. You can read their case study to learn more about the process Yuval and team applied in making this significant impact on growth at Atera. #productledgrowth #causalml #causality https://lnkd.in/euc2JQDU

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I went on Uri Goren, Tamir Nave, and Michael Erlihson's podcast "explAInable" (in Hebrew) to talk about uncertainty quantification literature in AI, nuances about what their algorithms do and what they don't, and in particular about my 2021 LSF paper with Yuyang (Bernie) Wang, Tim Januschowski and Jan Gasthaus for making point prediction algorithms (like XGBoost) into probabilistic ones. If you are interested but do not know Hebrew, see https://lnkd.in/g9SGPwbd for a plain English explanation of the algorithm, and for hassle-free copy-and-paste code so you can use it yourself within seconds. (And a link to the paper, of course.)

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Very interesting report of Israel's AI ecosystem by F2 Venture Capital, Google Cloud and Deloitte. 🔍 On a high level: - The AI startup ecosystem in Israel is booming, with over 2,150 active AI companies, representing ~30% of the local tech sector. - Startups leveraging AI attracted over 60% of all capital raised in 2023. - The country ranks 3rd globally in private AI investment, demonstrating its strong position in the global AI market. 💡 Key takeaways from the report: - Vertical AI is a stronghold. It attracts the largest share of private funding, with Life Sciences, Healthcare and Fintech (banking, financial services and insuretech) leading the charge. Israel's deep domain expertise in these sectors positions it as a potential global leader. - Autonomous Enterprise (Horizontal AI) shows promise. Cybersecurity is a particular strength, capturing 56% of the segment's funding However, the development of multi-modal, end-to-end solutions and AI agents presents further opportunities for cross-industry applications. - AI & Data Ops is a key area for growth. Israel's strong talent pool and focus on enhancing existing infrastructure make it well-suited to address the growing demand for cloud-based AI Ops platforms and efficient data management solutions. There are also plenty of challenges: securing and nurturing AI talent, sustaining investment and navigating the global AI landscape/competition. Link to the report in the first comment 🔗

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Conferences are the perfect blend of intellectual stimulation and meeting new friends, and it was so much so this week at PyData Tel Aviv!!! (Proof of a fun moment in the video) As with all good conferences, it's worth a summary post. This year's PyData Tel Aviv was intimate, with many planned breaks which allowed a 4th session - "The hallway session". Many talks enlightened my day: professional, personal, and all the in-between. The atmosphere was light and real connections could be made. Kudos to the organizers for that!!! Miki Tebeka, Iddo Berger, Tali Fulman, Dean Langsam 🍁🌕, Hila Weisman-Zohar On the professional side, all the sessions I participated in were absolutely great. Let's dive in. I started the day listening to Ortal Ashkenazi talking about the journey of NLP. She explained the different models throughout the years and how each of them improved significantly from what existed before. You will be happy to know that Ortal has joined our team for the next #RAG hands-on workshop by WiDS Israel Community, hosted at Earnix. Ortal is looking for her next professional home and would love to be approached about great offers! Then, Mor Hananovitz 🎗 from ParaZero Drone Safety Systems showed off her amazing "lazy engineer" approach to automate as much as possible the EDA process. She analyzed quickly a new dataset, going from not understanding it at all, to generating business-level key points to be taken. Switching to the red track, Michael Levinger from Melio addressed the challenges of problematic prompts and some great real-life "amusing" stories were shown. For example, highly costly chatbots can end their life very quickly after airing, causing real financial and brand damage to their companies. Michael showed some ways to overcome this. After lunch, Shuki Cohen from AI21 Labs and Yoel Zeldes from Google DeepMind took a literal shot (drinking!) and did some great #Python live-coding to implement a form of #RAG: scraping the internet for a baseline dataset, injecting it as part of a prompt to ChatGPT, hoping to get better results than without the data. Follow their #Youtube channel One Shot Learning for great episodes. Moran Reznik from Lusha presented how hyper-parameter tuning can improve #BertTopic, step by step: embedding --> clustering --> dimensionality reduction, and how to explore each step. His #HarryPotter example was fun! I can't wait for his next talk on how he created the simulated data: Hogwarts pupils complaining on different topics, depending on a specific distribution according to their house. Lastly, Yonathan Guttel from Lightricks showed an interesting developed approach for time series data analysis with #ARIMA, using the prediction for each point in time as an additional feature when building the model. Thank you for a great conference, waiting for the next big event in the community: #GenML2024 of #MDLI, by Uri Eliabayev

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Four months into my new journey, and I’m proud to support 💙💚Women in Tech®Israel 💙 💚 curate their annual summit. This year, we’re shining a spotlight on #Femtech - a rapidly growing and disruptive sector projected to reach $117 billion by 2029. Join us at the summit, where you’ll connect with bold innovators, hear from industry leaders, and be inspired by change-makers—all while being surrounded by a supportive network dedicated to empowering #womenintech. So, what’s in it for you? Come discover why health, opportunity, and prosperity aren’t just women’s issues — they’re essential for building a better society and a thriving economy. 👉 Are you in? Stay tuned for the upcoming registration link... 💙 Interested in partnering with us? Email: [email protected] #WomenInTech #WITFemTechSummit2024 #womenintech #womenintechisrael #witIsrael #IsraeliTechDelivers

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Last week Bria was ranked #20 of the most promising startups in Israel, kudos to the team! It is a long journey to build a startup. At 8 years old, I fell in love with mathematics, and at that point, I knew that's what I'd get my PhD in. That passion not only shaped my academic path but also ignited my interest in visual technologies and AI, which led me to pursue a PhD in computer vision. During my studies, I began to realise just how much the future of content would change with AI coming into the mix. Fast-forward to 2020, during COVID and before the Gen AI hype, I combined my understanding of how visuals can be generated with AI and the valuable enterprise experience I gained in my previous role at Trax Retail, to co-establish an AI startup called BRIA. We had one simple goal: To make it easy for any individual and company to generate the exact visuals needed for any use. Our key objective in helping you achieve this is to ensure that we provide you with a transparent, open, and responsible AI platform trained solely on licensed data, no public figures and deep fake, no privacy infringement. And in a world where more than 43% of people don't trust companies to use AI morally, Responsible AI use has never been more important. In building BRIA, we've been able to help businesses all over the world scale their content development process. And what gets me even more excited is that we've been able to partner with different creators to ensure that their creativity is respected, rewarded, and isn't pirated. We trained our own high quality foundation models and built the core tools of Generative AI so everyone can use it. The journey so far has been anything but linear, and I'm eager to continue sharing the innovative features we're developing, discuss the critical importance of Responsible AI, and explore how you can leverage our platform to its fullest potential. Join us as we pave the way for a new era of content creation, where innovation meets integrity.

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Know that feature on LinkedIn for each job "Is this a good fit"? That analysis is based on one's profile, which may often lack a person's full 360-degree background. Proud to integrate Bullseye AI profound job fit analysis into HaMaagal - The Israeli/Jewish Circle job board! 💼 It's based on the full understanding of one's professional background - not just the resume! 💼 It's interactive and explains the strengths and gaps against each job description 💼 Helps you understand which roles to apply for but also which roles NOT to apply for 💼 It's generating a customized resume from scratch for each role. Yes, you read it right! 😃 Go check it out! Marina Shapira (PhD)

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This week we had a joint event for Startup CFOs at Microsoft for Startups with LeumiTech – for the top Startups in Israel. I had the pleasure of discussing the AI platforms and CoPilots in service of the CFO with Ori Husyt and Shay Dan ,Bank Leumi בנק לאומי’s CTO It was also great to discuss the most pressing topics on startups minds, with Idit Muallem-Yedid, Aaron Rinberg Arik Kleinstein, Ariel Assaraf, Liraz Elyas and Arad Ben sason: - The CFO’s role in navigating the balance between growth and profitability. - The importance of analyzing KPIs religiously even when exceeding expectations. - The value in maintaining close relationships with investors between rounds. - Debt as a tool and the right conditions for its use. - Long-term predictions and scenarios. - And so much more. This is yet another great example of our impact to the market – Platform ❤️ Industry ❤️ StartUps. Isar Elishakov Tamir Obergot Maya Eisen Zafrir Keren Dahan Heller Noa Kariv Maya Sela Ori Husyt Nir Alfandary Yasmin Shahar Eldar Chiproot Tal Weinblum Raz Bachar

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How My Competitor’s $2M Raise Proved Me Right 2 years ago, I envisioned an AI-powered product sourcing agent to empower small and medium-sized retailers — those without large teams or deep cross-domain expertise — to reduce sourcing time, mitigate risks and stay ahead of market trends. After relocating to Israel, I took the plunge: assembled a team of ambitious immigrant talent, conducted in-depth market research and 30+ customer interviews, left my job, and invested my own $7K to bring this vision to life. We've worked tirelessly, and just a month before our beta launch, I discovered a competing startup, founded by former Amazon, Google and Stripe employees, that launched on September 13 after raising $2M in a pre-seed round from XYZ Venture Capital, Propel Ventures and Go Global Ventures. No significant traction, no real product — just a raw beta and social media posts filled with Midjourney-generated images. Instead of viewing this as a setback, it validated my vision. The fact that 2 similar projects emerged simultaneously proves there's a growing demand for solutions like ours. If large-scale teams are also pursuing this, it confirms that the market is ripe for transformation, and I’m proud to have been thinking in the same direction. For months, I battled impostor syndrome (not anymore), but this proves that innovative thinking isn't exclusive to industry giants. I arrived at the same solution independently, driven by data, passion and conviction, and ahead of the global AI hype. I may not have the corporate pedigree or deep pockets, but I do have something equally powerful: an amazing team, long-term vision, entrepreneurial resilience and unwavering support from my wife. I believe our product will inject fresh competition into the market, benefiting everyone. Now, I’m looking for partners to help accelerate this momentum with venture investment, connections, expertise and advice. If this resonates with you, please, like, share, repost, comment or tag anyone in your network who might add value to this exciting journey!

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"Don't be afraid to make any mistakes. Don't get in love with your product, get in love with the solution." In a recent episode of Tech Salescraft, Elad Ben-Israel, Co-Founder and CEO of Wing, delves into the challenging yet rewarding path of navigating the startup landscape. With extensive experience in tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon, Elad shares his insights on the importance of innovative sales strategies and the evolving role of a CEO in a tech startup. Explore our latest blog for a detailed look at how Elad’s journey and Wing’s approach to building impactful tech solutions highlight the significance of passion, leadership, and community in driving startup success.👇 https://lnkd.in/ez37nbQ7 #StartupStories #TechSalesRecruitment #TechSalescraft #TechSalesBlog

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🎉 The wait is over! Our first full #Data & #Analytics videocast episode is now LIVE! 🎥 We're thrilled to present the complete session between Amit Barkai עמית ברקאי - CEO of iprosis, and the brilliant Yaniv Ben-Noon - יניב בן נון. In this inaugural episode, Amit and Yaniv take you on an exhilarating journey through the world of data and analytics. Starting from the fundamentals and rapidly progressing to advanced concepts, this episode offers valuable insights for both newcomers and seasoned professionals in the field. 🔍 What you'll discover: * The true essence of data and analytics * Expert perspectives on industry trends * Practical applications and real-world examples * Thought-provoking discussions on the future of data Don't miss this opportunity to expand your knowledge and gain fresh insights from two of the industry's leading minds. Watch now >>>> Find the link in the comments below 👇 We'd love to hear your thoughts! What topics would you like us to explore in future episodes? #iprosis #BI #data #analytics #podcast

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