Israel Trade & Economic Office http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago U.S. Midwest Region Tue, 14 May 2013 19:10:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Israeli water management tech wins top award http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/05/14/israeli-water-management-tech-wins-top-award/ http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/05/14/israeli-water-management-tech-wins-top-award/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 19:10:37 +0000 daniel http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/?p=1198

Israeli water management tech wins top award

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F110910CL19-635x357WhiteWater Technologies, an Israeli company that produces a system for network water management, has been named as a New Energy Pioneer for 2013 by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, one of 10 chosen from around the world. The company was honored for its BlueBox Intelligent Water Analytics System, which collects, validates, and synchronizes continuous data from online water quality sensors, network diagnostic sensors, valves and control systems. It enables early detection of highly sensitive water quality abnormalities and insights on network events in the distribution system.  Israel is renowned for its innovative water technologies, from drip irrigation to developing techniques that allows farmers to plant crops in arid land. To read more about WhiteWater Technologies and their achievements, click here. For more information on Israel and its technologies and achievements in water, you can attend WATEC 2013 exhibition (October 22-24, 2013), which will feature compelling solutions and proven, practical applications in areas such as water and energy efficiency, water quality, desalination, and water supply.  To learn more in detail about WATEC 2013, contact Ron Dulin.

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F110910CL19-635x357WhiteWater Technologies, an Israeli company that produces a system for network water management, has been named as a New Energy Pioneer for 2013 by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, one of 10 chosen from around the world. The company was honored for its BlueBox Intelligent Water Analytics System, which collects, validates, and synchronizes continuous data from online water quality sensors, network diagnostic sensors, valves and control systems. It enables early detection of highly sensitive water quality abnormalities and insights on network events in the distribution system.  Israel is renowned for its innovative water technologies, from drip irrigation to developing techniques that allows farmers to plant crops in arid land. To read more about WhiteWater Technologies and their achievements, click here. For more information on Israel and its technologies and achievements in water, you can attend WATEC 2013 exhibition (October 22-24, 2013), which will feature compelling solutions and proven, practical applications in areas such as water and energy efficiency, water quality, desalination, and water supply.  To learn more in detail about WATEC 2013, contact Ron Dulin.

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]]> http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/05/14/israeli-water-management-tech-wins-top-award/feed/ 0 Israeli Companies to Showcase Products at the Summer Fancy Food Show 2013 in NYC http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/05/13/israeli-companies-to-showcase-products-at-the-summer-fancy-food-show-2013-in-nyc/ http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/05/13/israeli-companies-to-showcase-products-at-the-summer-fancy-food-show-2013-in-nyc/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 04:02:57 +0000 daniel http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/?p=1182

Israeli Companies to Showcase Products at the Summer Fancy Food Show 2013 in NYC

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17631_Fancy-food-show_newyork_1309898565A group of Israeli companies will be showcasing their new food products at the 59th Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City. The Fancy Food Show, which is North America's largest specialty food and beverage event, will be held at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City from June 30 - July 2, 2013. You will not only discover 180,000 products including confections, cheese, coffee, snacks, spices, ethnic, natural, organic and more, but also connect with 2,400 exhibitors from 80 countries & regions. To learn more about Summer Fancy Food Show in NYC this June, click here. For more information about Israeli food companies and their new food products, as well as their involvement in this event, contact Ron Dulin.

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17631_Fancy-food-show_newyork_1309898565A group of Israeli companies will be showcasing their new food products at the 59th Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City. The Fancy Food Show, which is North America's largest specialty food and beverage event, will be held at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City from June 30 - July 2, 2013. You will not only discover 180,000 products including confections, cheese, coffee, snacks, spices, ethnic, natural, organic and more, but also connect with 2,400 exhibitors from 80 countries & regions. To learn more about Summer Fancy Food Show in NYC this June, click here. For more information about Israeli food companies and their new food products, as well as their involvement in this event, contact Ron Dulin.

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]]> http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/05/13/israeli-companies-to-showcase-products-at-the-summer-fancy-food-show-2013-in-nyc/feed/ 0 Israeli Company Tracks Your Online Behavior To Protect Your Privacy http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/05/07/israeli-company-tracks-your-online-behavior-to-protect-your-privacy/ http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/05/07/israeli-company-tracks-your-online-behavior-to-protect-your-privacy/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 17:07:46 +0000 daniel http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/?p=1161

Israeli Company Tracks Your Online Behavior To Protect Your Privacy

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biocatch-460x250There has been an increasing concern as to whether password-protection really protects our privacy.  While many online companies, such as Facebook and Google, have introduced steps such as two-step verification to protect our personal information, these are still easy to bypass for experienced hackers.  Although some companies have introduced biometrics such as face recognition and fingerprint identification as means of protecting items such as laptops, there’s no such solution for services accessed online. Thus, Israeli company BioCatch just might have a simple, yet secure solution.  BioCatch's technology tracks our online behavior and analyzes it to see if it really is us or someone pretending to be us.  It uses the idea that each person interacts with a computer slightly differently, whether it is the way we move our mouse pointer or the tiny differences in our reaction speed. To read more about BioCatch and it's features, click here. For more information about Israeli innovations, contact Daniel Blumenthal.

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biocatch-460x250There has been an increasing concern as to whether password-protection really protects our privacy.  While many online companies, such as Facebook and Google, have introduced steps such as two-step verification to protect our personal information, these are still easy to bypass for experienced hackers.  Although some companies have introduced biometrics such as face recognition and fingerprint identification as means of protecting items such as laptops, there’s no such solution for services accessed online. Thus, Israeli company BioCatch just might have a simple, yet secure solution.  BioCatch's technology tracks our online behavior and analyzes it to see if it really is us or someone pretending to be us.  It uses the idea that each person interacts with a computer slightly differently, whether it is the way we move our mouse pointer or the tiny differences in our reaction speed. To read more about BioCatch and it's features, click here. For more information about Israeli innovations, contact Daniel Blumenthal.

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]]> http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/05/07/israeli-company-tracks-your-online-behavior-to-protect-your-privacy/feed/ 0 Appreciate Will Help You Find The Droid (App) You Were Looking For http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/05/02/appreciate-will-help-you-find-the-droid-app-you-were-looking-for/ http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/05/02/appreciate-will-help-you-find-the-droid-app-you-were-looking-for/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 16:50:49 +0000 daniel http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/?p=1150

Appreciate Will Help You Find The Droid (App) You Were Looking For

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appreciate-460x250An Israeli app discovery service, Appreciate, was launched recently on the Android app store to help users find the better-quality apps.  The company was founded two years ago by CEO Amir Maor and CTO Yaron Segalov, both who have previous experience in the mobile industry and with big data.

Appreciate provides an unique way of determining app quality.  Appreciate not only understands which apps are quality apps – a metric it understands by analyzing a variety of specific signals – it also matches those apps to a user’s unique personal tastes.  Instead of determining an app's quality based on ratings or reviews, its looks for other indicators – like whether or not users have installed the app then rapidly uninstalled it, for example – a sure signal that it may have left something to be desired.

To read more about Appreciate and its features, click here. For more information about Israeli innovations, contact Daniel Blumenthal.

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appreciate-460x250An Israeli app discovery service, Appreciate, was launched recently on the Android app store to help users find the better-quality apps.  The company was founded two years ago by CEO Amir Maor and CTO Yaron Segalov, both who have previous experience in the mobile industry and with big data.

Appreciate provides an unique way of determining app quality.  Appreciate not only understands which apps are quality apps – a metric it understands by analyzing a variety of specific signals – it also matches those apps to a user’s unique personal tastes.  Instead of determining an app's quality based on ratings or reviews, its looks for other indicators – like whether or not users have installed the app then rapidly uninstalled it, for example – a sure signal that it may have left something to be desired.

To read more about Appreciate and its features, click here. For more information about Israeli innovations, contact Daniel Blumenthal.

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]]> http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/05/02/appreciate-will-help-you-find-the-droid-app-you-were-looking-for/feed/ 0 Project Ray Builds A New Kind Of Smartphone For The Blind http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/05/02/project-ray-builds-a-new-kind-of-smartphone-for-the-blind/ http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/05/02/project-ray-builds-a-new-kind-of-smartphone-for-the-blind/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 16:37:52 +0000 daniel http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/?p=1137

Project Ray Builds A New Kind Of Smartphone For The Blind

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PhoneMainPic1A new kind of smartphone for the blind people has been developed as a way to bridge the digital divide and raise the bar in accessibility for the blind and visually impaired.  Boaz Zilberman, the founder of the Israeli startup company Project Ray, created a Android operating system designed for the blind.  The phones were specially designed around a touch system that every blind person knows - the 12-key number pad. Every screen has the apps and commands arranged in a square. The phone reads the command when users simply move their fingers and executes the command when they lift the finger off. The first unlocked phones were recently released for the Israeli and European markets. In June, they'll be arriving in the U.S., available either unlocked or as part of a contract. To read more about Project Ray and its features, click here. For more information about Israeli innovations, contact Daniel Blumenthal.    

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PhoneMainPic1A new kind of smartphone for the blind people has been developed as a way to bridge the digital divide and raise the bar in accessibility for the blind and visually impaired.  Boaz Zilberman, the founder of the Israeli startup company Project Ray, created a Android operating system designed for the blind.  The phones were specially designed around a touch system that every blind person knows - the 12-key number pad. Every screen has the apps and commands arranged in a square. The phone reads the command when users simply move their fingers and executes the command when they lift the finger off. The first unlocked phones were recently released for the Israeli and European markets. In June, they'll be arriving in the U.S., available either unlocked or as part of a contract. To read more about Project Ray and its features, click here. For more information about Israeli innovations, contact Daniel Blumenthal.    

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]]> http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/05/02/project-ray-builds-a-new-kind-of-smartphone-for-the-blind/feed/ 0 Harman Buys Israeli Road Safety App Developer iOnRoad http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/04/16/harman-buys-israeli-road-safety-app-developer-ionroad/ http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/04/16/harman-buys-israeli-road-safety-app-developer-ionroad/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:28:12 +0000 daniel http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/?p=1122

Harman Buys Israeli Road Safety App Developer iOnRoad

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ionroadRoad safety app developer iOnRoad Technologies Ltd. has been acquired by Harman International Industries, one of the world's largest vehicle media and navigation systems companies.  Although the size of the deal was not revealed, it was reportedly for a few million dollars.  iOnRoad, which was founded in 2011, has developed an app which uses the forward camera of a driver's smartphone and augmented reality technology to detect vehicles that are too close to the car, and warn the driver of the danger. The app can also identify the road's boundaries to prevent the driver from leaving the road. To read more about iOnRoad and the acquisition, click here. For more information about Israeli automotive innovations, please refer to the Michigan-Israel Automotive Event the Government of Israel Mission to the Midwest organized in June of 2012.   During the five day delegation, Israeli companies had the opportunity to present their innovative solutions to more than 15 of the world's leading automotive firms.  To learn more about the delegation and for other information about the Israel automotive industry, contact Ari Rokni.

 

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ionroadRoad safety app developer iOnRoad Technologies Ltd. has been acquired by Harman International Industries, one of the world's largest vehicle media and navigation systems companies.  Although the size of the deal was not revealed, it was reportedly for a few million dollars.  iOnRoad, which was founded in 2011, has developed an app which uses the forward camera of a driver's smartphone and augmented reality technology to detect vehicles that are too close to the car, and warn the driver of the danger. The app can also identify the road's boundaries to prevent the driver from leaving the road. To read more about iOnRoad and the acquisition, click here. For more information about Israeli automotive innovations, please refer to the Michigan-Israel Automotive Event the Government of Israel Mission to the Midwest organized in June of 2012.   During the five day delegation, Israeli companies had the opportunity to present their innovative solutions to more than 15 of the world's leading automotive firms.  To learn more about the delegation and for other information about the Israel automotive industry, contact Ari Rokni.

 

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]]> http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/04/16/harman-buys-israeli-road-safety-app-developer-ionroad/feed/ 0 International Technology Partnership between UChicago and BGU to Focus on Water Problems http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/04/16/international-technology-partnership-to-focus-on-water-problems/ http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/04/16/international-technology-partnership-to-focus-on-water-problems/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:05:03 +0000 daniel http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/?p=1098

International Technology Partnership between UChicago and BGU to Focus on Water Problems

The University of Chicago and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), which was founded by an Israeli government mandate to lead the development of the Negev desert, signed an agreement to begin exploring a research

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The University of Chicago and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), which was founded by an Israeli government mandate to lead the development of the Negev desert, signed an agreement to begin exploring a research partnership that would create new water production and purification technologies for deployment in regions of the globe where fresh water resources are scarce.  BGU has been at the forefront of advanced basic and applied water-related research and has developed numerous innovative technologies in the field. UChicago and BGU researchers will meet in Be’er Sheva to begin discussing interdisciplinary, collaborative water-related research projects.

To read more about the international partnership between UChicago and BGU, click here

full_30e706be0423dfad8d53192d3062a436For more information on Israel and its technologies and achievements in water, WATEC 2013 exhibition (October 22-24, 2013) will showcase Israeli technologies and achievements in water, environment and energy industry fields.  The exhibition will feature compelling solutions and proven, practical applications in areas such as water and energy efficiency, water quality, desalination, and water supply.  To learn more in detail about WATEC 2013, contact Ron Dulin.

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New App ‘Takes’ Converts Photos Into Videos

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takes-460x250Unlike other apps that just turn your photos into a music-backdropped slideshow, new Israeli startup app Takes turns photos into moving images by using motion-sensing technology built into smartphones to fill in the gaps between photos.  Moreover, the app not only has a range of royalty-free soundtracks you can add to your videos, but also enables you to add music from your own music library, but doing this will disable sharing features in order to avoid copyright infringement.  One of Takes' aims is to allow people to create videos of extended moments and portray them using the app's unique output. To read more about Takes and its features, click here.  For more information about Israeli innovations, contact Daniel Blumenthal.

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takes-460x250Unlike other apps that just turn your photos into a music-backdropped slideshow, new Israeli startup app Takes turns photos into moving images by using motion-sensing technology built into smartphones to fill in the gaps between photos.  Moreover, the app not only has a range of royalty-free soundtracks you can add to your videos, but also enables you to add music from your own music library, but doing this will disable sharing features in order to avoid copyright infringement.  One of Takes' aims is to allow people to create videos of extended moments and portray them using the app's unique output. To read more about Takes and its features, click here.  For more information about Israeli innovations, contact Daniel Blumenthal.

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]]> http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/04/01/new-app-takes-converts-your-photos-into-videos/feed/ 0 Trendlines Agritech Roadshow Comes to Detroit and St. Louis http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/03/19/trendlines-agritech-roadshow-comes-to-detroit-and-st-louis/ http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/03/19/trendlines-agritech-roadshow-comes-to-detroit-and-st-louis/#comments Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:31:03 +0000 daniel http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/?p=1068

Trendlines Agritech Roadshow Comes to Detroit and St. Louis

As a leader in starting and funding early-stage companies from Israel, the Trendlines Group periodically organizes investor events in the United States and will be coming to Detroit and St. Louis in April, 2013.  This

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As a leader in starting and funding early-stage companies from Israel, the Trendlines Group periodically organizes investor events in the United States and will be coming to Detroit and St. Louis in April, 2013.  This roadshow is to provide angel investors, VCs, and industry experts the opportunity to learn about the exciting agriculture technologies coming out of our portfolio companies and to meet the entrepreneurs behind them.

Dates & Cities
April 22: New York City Register for the NYC event.
April 23: Detroit metro area
April 24: Denver
April 25: St. Louis
April 26: Memphis

Presenting Companies:
Catalyst Agtech, EdenShield, MiRobot, Organis, SolChip.

To learn about the Israeli companies, click here.

For more information about the roadshow and to attend, click here.

 

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]]> http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/03/19/trendlines-agritech-roadshow-comes-to-detroit-and-st-louis/feed/ 0 Google Opens Campus Tel Aviv for Startups http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/03/08/google-opens-campus-tel-aviv-for-startups/ http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/2013/03/08/google-opens-campus-tel-aviv-for-startups/#comments Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:49:23 +0000 daniel http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/?p=1056

Google Opens Campus Tel Aviv for Startups

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campus-tlvGoogle currently has an office in Tel Aviv, a R&D center in Haifa and now is opening Campus Tel Aviv for Israeli technology startups. Campus TLV part of the Google for Entrepreneurs program to foster global entrepreneurship and innovation and will offer entrepreneurs access to Google's expertise and devices. Part of the program for startups coming to work at the Campus TLV is a two-week Launchpad pre-accelerator program for very early-stage startups that come through Campus TLV partner incubators, developer hubs and academic institutions. To learn more about Campus TLV, click here. For more information on collaborations between US and Israel, contact Daniel Blumenthal.  

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campus-tlvGoogle currently has an office in Tel Aviv, a R&D center in Haifa and now is opening Campus Tel Aviv for Israeli technology startups. Campus TLV part of the Google for Entrepreneurs program to foster global entrepreneurship and innovation and will offer entrepreneurs access to Google's expertise and devices. Part of the program for startups coming to work at the Campus TLV is a two-week Launchpad pre-accelerator program for very early-stage startups that come through Campus TLV partner incubators, developer hubs and academic institutions. To learn more about Campus TLV, click here. For more information on collaborations between US and Israel, contact Daniel Blumenthal.  

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