Gal Golan

ClearForest, a Thomson Reuters company, provides text-driven business intelligence solutions that supply the analytical bridge between two previously disconnected worlds of information--unstructured text and enterprise data. Their award-winning solutions offer manufacturers, publishers, federal, chemical & financial service organizations critical links to situational context buried in text for use in Business Intelligence [BI] systems. Adding this situational context to enterprise data systems empowers organizations to: uncover hidden relationships, evaluate events, discover unforeseen patterns and facilitate problem identification for rapid resolution. Applying this intelligence enables organizations to avoid loss of profit margins due to preventable write-offs, customer churn, legal settlements, warranty claims or inefficient product development cycles. In short, they enable Global 5000 companies to make better business decisions by turning large volumes of contextually-based information into proactive business intelligence.

Saban Ventures LLC (Saban Ventures) is a venture capital firm, subsidiary of Saban Capital Group, Inc., founded in 2008. The firm is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Nielsen Innovate Ltd. (Nielsen Innovate) is a venture capital subsidiary of AGB Nielsen Media Research BV founded in 2008. The firm is headquartered in Caesarea, Israel.

Origami Logic, Inc. engages in the operation of a visual data analytics platform that offers self-service analytics specifically geared for marketers by applying visualization, big data analytics, and data science technologies. Its solutions include CMO dashboard, cross-channel measurement, social performance, and video performance measurement. The firm serves the banking, consumer packaged goods, and media sectors. The company was founded by Alon Amit, Ofer Shaked and Opher Kahane in 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Beach Bum Ltd. develops online social games. The company was founded by Uri Shahak and Gigi Levy-Weiss in 2015 and is headquartered in Raanana, Israel.

Applicaster Inc. provides white label broadcast solutions for cross-screen television (TV) experiences. The company’s solutions include live and on demand TV, second screen, synchronized and social TV experiences, digital formats, and engaging TV applications. Its app-building platform Zapp delivers beautiful apps for every kind of audience and business model - all based on a common core SDK. The firm provides Applicaster, a cloud platform that includes online content management system for managing video ingestion, synchronized interactions, social TV, second screen, users and access permissions, monetization opportunities, UI and UX, notification and messaging. The company was founded by Jonathan Laor and Neer Friedman in 2009 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Snappy App, Inc. develops mobile application for enabling users to send gifts. The company was founded by Dvir Con and Hani Goldstein and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Lin Health, Inc. is a company that offers an online chronic pain recovery program designed to diagnose and treat chronic pain. The company is based in Denver, CO and was founded by Yehuda Kogan and Hirsch Abigail. The company provides one-on-one coaching and continuous support to help people living with chronic pain get back to the life they want to live. Yehuda Kogan has been the CEO since incorporation.

Flo Live Ltd. provides domain specific Internet of Things applications. The firm’s services include core network, global connectivity, loT billing, remote provisioning and identity management. It operates through the following segments: mobile network operators, IoT service providers, chipset and device manufacturers and IoT platforms. The company was founded by Bpris Shagalov, Won-Suck Song, Percy Eduardo Grundy Castanos and James Crossley, Daniel Goldberg, Rony Ahron Cohen on December 29, 2015 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

PlayBuzz Ltd. develops quiz making platform for publishers and brands. It enables publishers, bloggers, marketers, and brands to connect with audiences in a meaningful and share-worthy way, through interactive storytelling in snackable formats such as quizzes, lists, surveys, and ranking. The company was founded by Shaul Olmert, Yaron Buznach, and Tom Pachys in 2012 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Sosa Holdings Ltd. is an Israeli company that specializes in scouting and validating startups for corporations and governments. The private company is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company finds the technologies needed to solve use cases and build new products. Sosa Holdings was founded in 2011 by Tal Barnoach, Rami Beracha, Barak Pridor, Nechemia Jacob Peres, Jonathan Harold Saacks. The CEO is Uzi Scheffer.

Leadspace, Inc. develops an internet search engine based on semantic technologies. It offers audience management platform that enables users to search, save and organize, retrieve and use, and share the information. The company was founded by Amnon Mishor and Yaron Karasik in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Upfront Digital Media provides audience marketplace solutions. The company was founded by Ran Cohen, Yiftah Frechter and Yoav Arnstein in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Tel-Aviv University operates as a university in Israel. Its faculties include arts, engineering, science, humanities, law, life science, management, medicine, and social science. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Ramat Aviv, Israel.