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Machine vision is the newest weapon against crop loss

(May 27, 2019) Taranis, just unveiled a novel weed identification system that combines computer vision, satellite and drone imagery, and AI to tell farmers what kinds of weeds are attacking their crops in real time, empowering the farmers to fight back. read more

TARANIS PARTNERS WITH ADAMA AUSTRALIA, LANDMARK TO BRING PRECISION AGRICULTURE TO AUSTRALIA

(April 17,2019) By combining its crop-monitioring solution with the crop-protection solutions of ADAMA Australia and Landmark, Taranis will add value to the pair’s existing customer bases. read more

Artificial Intelligence Powering Boom in Israel’s Digital Health Sector

(April 16,2019) Israel’s reams of electronic medical records –health data on its population of around 8.9 million people– are proving fruitful for a growing number of digital health startups training algorithms to do things like early detection of diseases and produce more accurate medical diagnoses. read more

Get to Know Ronen Shoval, CEO of Blink

(April 15,2019) MG Meets Ronen Shoval, CEO of Blink, a pioneering mobile-first eSports social network platform. Leveraging the cognitive core of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning, Blink focuses on the world of eSports where the technology unlocks the value of game-play video for all players. read more

Global Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Market 2019 – Industry Report

(April 15,2019) The global healthcare artificial intelligence market is presumed to register 51.9% CAGR during the forecast period (2018-2023) owing to the growing adoption of AI solutions among the healthcare providers read more

Taranis Updates Aerial Imagery Platform for Farming Insights

(Mar 15, 2019) The precision agriculture startup debuts a new centralized platform, providing advanced insights for farmers read more

The Blink community “breaks” hearthstone

(Mar 8, 2019) As the market for e-sports live streaming and social networking grows and diversifies, Blink identified an emerging need to answer the, “What’s next?” read more

Nexa3D and BEGO Unveil the Fastest, Largest, Most Productive Dental 3D Printer at IDS 2019

(Mar 12, 2019) Nexa3D, the maker of ultra-fast stereolithography production-grade 3D printers, in collaboration with BEGO, a leading dental materials provider, unveiled today at IDS 2019 the Varseo XL, the most productive and economical dental lab 3D printer on the market. read more

How To Rank Agtech’s Top 50, According to SVG-THRIVE

(Mar 11,2019) The agtech landscape is littered with disruptors, but when “everyone is either disrupting or being disrupted,” as Jill Lepore wrote in a 2014 New Yorker piece entitled “The Disruption Machine,” how can you tell the difference between hype and a company that could bring about real change? read more

A Boost for Medical Imaging AI in India: India-Israel Innovation Fund (I 4 F) Greenlights New Initiative

(March 13,2019) Zebra Medical Vision, one of the global leaders in AI Imaging software, Israel announced today a new collaboration that will focus on validating and deploying AI based tools at scale across India. read more

The World’s First Multi-Modality AI-Powered Worklist is Now Available to EU Hospitals via Zebra Medical Vision

(Feb 28,2019) Zebra Medical Vision announces two new CE marked registrations for deep learning algorithms. read more

HOW ROBOTICS COMPANIES BECAME LEADERS IN FARMING

(Feb 26,2019)There is great concern about the future of agriculture as climate change, population increase, and other challenges put pressure on farmers. Investing in technology that monitors plant and field conditions, assists with planting and harvesting, or tracks disease is a way of trying to reduce cost and increase efficiency. read more

Israel’s Zebra Medical to deploy its scan-reader tech with health providers

(Feb 26,2019) The kibbutz-based startup says that by 2020 Israel will become the first nation to have the vast majority of its population covered by medical imaging AI read more

15 Minutes With… Sotiris Bantas, CEO Of Centaur Analytics

(Feb 12,2019) With the goal of providing safe, abundant, and affordable food, California-based startup Centaur Analytics seeks to end post-harvest crop losses. read more

Taranis Named to the 2019 CB Insights AI 100 List of Most Innovative Artificial Intelligence Startups

(Feb 6, 2019) CB Insights today named Taranis, a leading precision agriculture intelligence platform, to the third annual AI 100 ranking, read more

10 MOST PROMISING START-UPS

(Dec 13, 2018) Taranis is poised at the starting line in the race for multi-billion-dollar markets. Its product includes photographing fields by drones and airplanes, and automated analysis of the photographs in order to provide highly valuable information to farmers read more

TechSee nabs $16M for its customer support solution built on computer vision and AR

(Dec 11,2018) TechSee is an AI-based video service, which uses computer vision, augmented reality and a customer’s own smartphone camera to provide tech support to customers, either alongside assistance from live agents, or as part of a standalone customer service “bot.” read more

Computer vision: how Israel’s secret soldiers drive its tech success

(Nov 20, 2018) One of his key senior executives at Taranis, Amihay Gornik, developed his expertise working at large aerospace companies, designing imaging parts for military drones. read more

TechSee Announces Record Growth, Expanded Reach and New Strategic Funding to Fuel Further Innovation and Sales Acceleration

(Oct 9, 2018) TechSee, the leader in intelligent visual customer engagement, today announced a record Q2 with over 100% growth QoQ, driven by a number of expansion activities. read more

Salesforce invests in Israeli co TechSee Augmented Vision

(Oct 10, 2018) The strategic investment will harness synergies between Salesforce Einstein AI and TechSee’s cognitive visual engagement platform. read more

There’s never been a better time to be in Additive Manufacturing

(Nov 27,2018) There’s never been a more exciting or better time to be in 3D printing & additive manufacturing. read more

How IoT and AI reduce food waste

(Nov 27,2018) IoT technology attempts to offer solutions that improve the supply chain as it uses a wide variety of sensors, some of them with very high precision measurements and machine learning algorithms for Big Data analysis. One of the companies working in this direction is Centaur Analytics read more

BREAKING: Farmers Business Network Selects 6 Agtech Startups for Innovation Showcase

(Nov 1, 2018) Farmers Business Network (FBN) has selected the six startups, including our very own Centaur Analytics, to take place in its first innovation showcase at its Farmer2Farmer conference in Omaha in December. read more