Introduction
Across many sectors, Israel is emerging as a leader in a variety of applications of artificial intelligence (AI). AI provides the world with access to new and innovative services, and the potential to accelerate their delivery to the consumer. AI for good helps to advance humanity and enables us to reach new frontiers in our daily lives. Israel AI companies are starting to lead the field in solving some of the most critical challenges in our society today.
Why is Israel good for startups?
According to Science Business, the Israeli environment is such that it provides a space for AI companies to emerge. The government has made an effort to develop national strategies that are able to nurture the development of these enterprises. Additionally, external funding is sourced from international companies, enabling more automatic growth regardless of the environment in Israel. Israel continues to thrive, and investments in AI are increasing. Up to 37% of total capital investments in the past year were in AI companies in Israel.
What is special about Israeli AI startups?
With a population steeped in technical know-how and entrepreneurship, Israel has gained a reputation as “the startup nation”.
The local ecosystem is considered one of the world’s leaders, second only to China and the U.S. The AI know-how is driving some 400 startups to make applications ranging from cybersecurity to medical diagnostics and enterprise business intelligence software.
Check out some new and emerging Israeli AI Startups you need to know:
Top artificial intelligence companies and ctartups in Israel
1. AD Knight
AD Knight
Company Overview
AD Knight is a developer of a novel technology intended to detect pedestrians based on personal devices. The company’s technology detects pedestrians and vulnerable road users based on passive connected devices sensing, enabling companies to incorporate solutions in their products to ensure traffic safety and protection of people from accidents in low lit environments.
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Sheva, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Funding: December 1, 2021. A.D Knight has received an R&D grant from the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA), focusing on further developing its novel technology. This grant is a seal of excellence of A.D Knight company and technology
- Field of activity: Improving pedestrians’ safety and traffic control by leveraging mobile phones and connected devices for passive data collection while preserving people’s privacy.
2. Quris
Quris
Company Overview
Quris is an artificial intelligence innovator that is disrupting the drug development process. Quris’ Bio-AI Clinical Prediction Platform better predicts which drug candidates will safely work in humans, avoiding tremendous costs of failed clinical trials.
- Founded Year: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Funding: Seed Funding. Latest round: Jan 11, 2022. Quris raised $19,000,000 / Seed from GlenRock Israel and 2 other investors
- Field of activity: Biotechnology and AI
3. BioEye
BioEye
Company Overview
BioEye has developed a proprietary eye-tracking platform which measures eye movements via a smartphone to assess changes in brain function.It has been known for centuries that testing eye movements and reflexes are an easy way to get a picture of brain function, particularly after an event that could lead to a concussion or traumatic brain injury.
Advances in smartphone technology coupled with BioEye’s sophisticated algorithms allows for these measurements to be quantified accurately and consistently.
Concussion identification and monitoring is just the start of BioEye’s capability, which the company is proudly launching through a partnership with a leading sporting organisation to improve player health.
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Hofit, HaMerkaz, Israel
- Funding: Private
- Field of activity: Analytics, Healthcare
4. Viisights
Viisights
Company Overview
Viisights is a leading innovator of behavioural recognition systems for real-time video intelligence. Viisights’ video understanding technology combines diverse artificial intelligence approaches, in particular machine learning, deep learning and computer vision innovation.
- Founded Year: May 2015
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Funding: Private. viisights raised $10,000,000 / Series A from Firstime Venture Capital and 2 other investors
- Field of activity: Smart Cities, AI
5. Diptera.ai
Diptera.ai
Company Overview
Diptera.ai has pioneered advances in mosquito management. Via applying their Sterile insect technique (SIT) – a highly effective & eco-friendly mosquito control method is now available. Diptera.ai’s professionals study seasonal patterns, then release sterile Asian tiger male mosquitoes weekly during the warm season. Female mosquitoes that mate with the sterile males, lay eggs that do not hatch, as a result, the natural mosquito population is suppressed.
- Founded Year: Mar 22, 2020
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Funding: Seed. Latest: Diptera raised $3,000,000 / Seed from Arc Impact and 6 other investors
- Field of activity: Life Sciences
6. Geneyx
Geneyx
Company Overview
Every patient deserves to be diagnosed and treated with the value of genomics and genetics knowledge. By working with physicians and hospital labs around the world, Geneyx offers a superior NGS data analysis and interpretation platform for WGS, WES, and Gene-Panels to scale clinical solutions to the global healthcare community. The company’s AI-based analysis platform significantly improves the diagnostics process, from the raw genetic data to the final clinical report. Geneyx promotes a world with zero undiagnosed diseases.
- Founded Year: May 1, 2018
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Funding: Seed.Nov 11, 2021 Geneyx raises $10 million seed round for genetic data analysis platform
- Field of activity: Genomics, Big Data
7. MDI Health
MDI Health
Company Overview
MDI Health offers an AI-powered platform that provides unique decision support tools for personalised drug treatments. Every patient is unique, and customising care is key to their optimal health.
- Founded Year: Jan 2019
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Funding: Jun 29, 2021. MDI Health raised $6,000,000 / Seed from Arc Impact and 4 other investors
- Field of activity: Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare
8. Zzapp Malaria
Zzapp Malaria
Company Overview
Zzapp creates malaria elimination strategies powered by artificial intelligence, and delivers them directly to the field through a dedicated mobile app. Management of mosquitoes is key to the health of millions around the globe.
- Founded Year: Jun 1, 2016
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Funding: Private
- Field of activity: Software
9. Sweetch
Sweetch
Company Overview
Sweetch is dedicated to outsmarting chronic patient conditions. Sweetch is the trusted voice that engages every individual to improve their health outcomes with the right message in the right tone, time and context, every step of their unique health journey.
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Funding: Private. $35.5M acquired
- Field of activity: Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare
10. Ann
Ann
Technology moves fast, disrupts markets, and improves the world. However, educational institutes are still using outdated learning tools, causing ineffectiveness and preventing students from reaching their full potential. Ann’s platform optimizes learning by using the power of AI and the irreplaceable value of educators. Instead of actual books, students learn the same content online, letting the computer study their characteristics such as mental state and level of expertise to create an effective personalized experience. Now, the educator has the time to enhance personal development, collaboration skills, and mentoring approach.
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
- Field of activity: Edtech, AI, Education, Personalized learning, e-teaching, and Machine learning
11. AdVerifai
AdVerif.ai
Company Overview
AdVerif.ai is an artificial intelligence company providing content verification solutions for advertisers, publishers and ad networks. The platform ensures that accurate information is being dispensed to the viewers of its online platforms.
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Funding: Private
- Field of activity: Advertising, AI
12. FlaskData
flaskdata
Company Overview
Flask Data provides life science R&D teams with same-day clinical data and patient safety solutions. The Flaskdata.io cloud API platform unifies data collection apps for patients, researchers, site coordinators, connected devices, and drugs. Data management and safety monitoring solutions help the customer reduce risk to clinical data, patient safety, and protocol compliance. The Flaskdata.io platform is automated, scalable, and adaptive to the needs of client clinical trials.
- Founded Year: Jan 1, 2014
- Location: Modi’in, HaMerkaz, Israel
- Funding: Private
- Field of activity: Clinical Trials
13. OKO
OKO
OKO is a new player in the world of crop insurance. The company is using new technologies in satellite imagery and weather forecasting to simplify and automate claim management, and thus creating low-cost crop insurance for smallholder farms. OKO’s team combines expertise in micro-insurance, distribution in emerging markets, and risk management.
Company Overview
- Founded Year: Apr 18, 2018
- Location: Bamako, Bamako, Mali
- Funding: OKO raised $12,000 / Grant from Ecobank
- Field of activity: AgTech
14. Predictix
Predictix
Company Overview
PREDICTIX is a novel artificial-intelligence-driven clinical decision support tool for mental health to help psychiatrists and GPs improve prescribing success and care, while saving time and reducing costs.Driven by machine-learning algorithms and deep scientific research, PREDICTIX provides unmatched prescribing performance immediately at the point of care.
- Founded Year: 2019
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Funding: Grant Funding. $5.1 million total funding
- Field of activity: Health Diagnostics
15. Medorion
Medorion
Company Overview
MedOrion is a pioneer in Health Behaviour Management. The company operates by enabling health plans to positively transform health outcomes through individual behavioural insights embedded in every member interaction with the software.
- Founded Year: Jan 2017
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Funding: Venture Funding – $8.8 million
- Field of activity:Healthcare, SaaS
16. GrayMatters Health
GrayMatters Health
Company Overview
GrayMatters Health is going beyond symptoms via treating mental disorders by using data originating in deep brain regions and machine learning. The company’s Prism system is used by mental health professionals to enhance standard of care clinical outcome. Using fMRI data of specific deep brain regions and the proprietary EEG-fMRI machine learning model, Prism delivers EEG neurofeedback to train patients to gain control over biomarkers associated with their mental disorder.
- Founded Year: Oct 2018
- Location: Haifa, Hefa, Israel
- Funding: Series A – Jan 11, 2022. GrayMatters Health raised $10,000,000 / Series A from Ostuka Medical Devices, Japan
- Field of activity: Healthcare, Medical Innovation
17. SafeUP
SafeUP
Safeup is a mobile platform that enables women to feel safe as they travel. The app provides a 24/7 vision of the community, so that critical sites are in clear view.
Company Overview
- Founded Year: Sep 1, 2019
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Funding: Non-equity Assistance $715K
- Field of activity: Smart Cities
18. Myndlift
Myndlift
Company Overview
Myndlift offers digital, comprehensive mental care and empowers clinicians worldwide. Mental care just got an upgrade via access to evidence-based digital tools to proactively manage wellbeing.
