News: Israel High Tech- Red Herring named the nine Israeli startups to be presented at the IVA annual tech event
Rubrique: Hi-tech & innovation
Publié le 20 juin 2006 à 08:59
The companies were chosen based on vision, technological achievement, and market leadership.
In the software category, the winners were Itemfield which developed a technology to different systems to exchange data; BeInSync, which made software to enable data synchronization between multiple PCs and sharing data; and target=”_blank”Zend Technologies, which makes a development and infrastructure tool based on PHP programming language, for application developers. Zend had been a candidate for acquisition by Oracle, and has strategic agreements in place with IBM.
In the communications category, the winners are Amimon, a fabless semiconductors company that developed a wireless standard for short-range communications, allowing the transmission of uncompressed video at a pace of 1.5 gigabits per second; Axerra, which developed communications solutions to transmit a range of services, mainly 3G, over switching networks; and Cryptoflash inventor Discretix which develops security technology based on hardware for the growing smart-phone and smart-card market.
In the life sciences category one of the winners is Brainsgate, a medical device company developing an electronic device that transmits electrical pulses to expand blood vessels in the brain in order to bypass the blood-brain barrier; Deep Breeze, which is developing the VRI - Vibration Response Imaging. It creates pulmonary images by capturing the vibration response energy generated by the lungs, the company explains.
Then there is Mazor Surgical Technologies, developer of a miniaturized robotic surgery technology to operate with exquisite accuracy on the spine.
