Intel Ignite Selects 10 Startups For 6th Tel Aviv Cohort

Intel’s growth accelerator program Intel Ignite, announced the 10 startups Tuesday chosen to participate in its sixth Tel Aviv cohort. 

The program had more than 220 applicants, with 10 chosen to move on to the next round as part of the sixth cohort.

The selected startups work in various tech verticals pursuing innovation in AI, digital health, robotics, sensors, hardware, developer tools, and cyber security.

Programs will consist of a variety of fields including founders’ dynamics, go-to-market strategy, marketing and sales, product development and management, and recruitment, among others. 

Founded in 2019, Intel Ignite is a global corporate startup program for early-stage startups designed to manifest innovative ideas into tangible industry-disrupting technologies. The accelerator program has supported 48 startups in Israel thus far as well as 20 in Europe, which have since collectively raised nearly $700 million in funding to date.  

Earlier this month, Intel announced the acquisition of Granulate, an Israeli AI workload optimization firm, for $650 million. Granulate was part of Intel’s first Israeli cohort.

The 10 selected startups, which have cumulatively raised $5 million, are: 

redefine.dev; which solves continuous integration (CI) bottlenecks with continuous pipeline optimization and predictive test selection.

Verobotics; which designs robotic solutions for facade upkeep, monitoring, and maintenance for small residential buildings and skyscrapers. 

Xyte; which developed an end-to-end platform that grants companies the ability to connect their hardware to the cloud. Similar to software-as-a-service (SaaS), this enables companies to provide their hardware-as-a-service (HaaS). 

Senser; which is a data-driven service experience.

Predicta Med; which is the first AI deep learning platform designed to detect autoimmune diseases at their earliest stages.  

Kahoona; which is a disruptive first-party data generation and activation platform for the open web that empowers businesses to leverage audience data without compromising user privacy or performance.

Volumez; which a startup building the first-of-its-kind global data management platform to simplify data storage across private, public, or hybrid clouds.

PxE – which enables machines to understand the world

Dual Bird Technologies; which is a startup currently in stealth mode that accelerates data analytics. 

Oligo Security; which is also currently in stealth mode.

“It is an exciting time for us at Intel Ignite due to the great success in the collaboration between our fresh, innovative startups and Intel during the last year,” said Ranny Nachmias, managing director of Intel Ignite Israel. “Lately, we have won the title of ‘Acceleration program for 2021’ which is a great proof of confidence in the program. The sixth Israeli cohort, starting next week, drew an impressive number of applicants from various verticals in the industry,” he continues, “I am thrilled to see how the startups in the upcoming batch flourish along with the program and the unique personal professional connections created between the founders, experts, and mentors.”  

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