Startup Camel: The startup nation, unveiled show

Startup Camel: The startup nation, unveiled

Summary: In 2014 alone, Israeli startups generated nearly $15 billion in exits and IPOs. Startup Camel podcast reveals the inside stories behind the sizzling start-up scene of Israel - an 8-million-people-nation with more start-up companies and innovation than anywhere outside Silicon Valley. Every episode features an insightful interview with a founder of a successful Israeli startup and tells the story of how to build a great company from scratch. Learn entrepreneurship from those who have made it.

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 EP 24: Moti Cohen / Qmerce | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:57

Moti is an entrepreneur from an early age. He started his first venture when he was only 16 years old, by forming a “comedy club” in his hometown in Israel. As many other Israeli entrepreneurs, he gained a lot of his skills while he was serving in the Israeli intelligence core. Later, he developed... READ MORE

 EP 23: Daniel Sarfati / Applango | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:52

Daniel Tsarfati wanted to build a startup company, so he started by interviewing friends and professionals from different industries looking for a problem needed to be solved. Soon enough, he came across a friend who told him that he does not have any way to measure… READ MORE

 EP 22: Boaz Zilberman / Project RAY | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 31:47

Boaz Zilberman, one of the pioneers of voice over IP technology in Israel, decided to bring smartphones to the fingertips of a new target audience - the visually impaired. He has opened the gates to a plethora of opportunities by catering to blind people. READ MORE

 EP 21: Offir Gutelzon / Keepy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:25

Offir Gutelzon is one of the founders of the Israeli startup Pic Scout, which was acquired by the stock photography giant - Getty images. After the exit, Offir moved to New York city to take up an executive job at Getty Image. Not too long after, did the entrepreneurial bug bite him again to spearhead a new, exciting project - Keepy. READ MORE

 EP 20: Dr. Shani Keysar / Sol Chip | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:11

The journey of Dr. Shani Keysar, founder and CEO of Sol Chip, started unexpectedly several years ago. Shani, who was then working in the chip industry, had for some time the desire to promote the usage of solar energy in Israel. One day, while driving one of her daughters home, her daughter asked her... READ MORE

 EP 19: Yael Givon / Stevie | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:32

Since moving away from the big city, Yael Givon and her husband Gil found themselves driving a lot more than before; consequently tuning in to the radio more often, they found it to be rather boring. This is when they had their eureka moment... READ MORE

 EP 18: Yaniv Vardi / Panoramic Power | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:46

Yaniv is the CEO of Panoramic Power - which is trying to change the world of energy consumption data. They provide device level energy management, or if you want to put it in simpler words, they bring data about energy consumption directly from the appliances, making it easier for their customers to make educated decisions regarding the way they manage their energy consumption.

 EP 17: Gil Blumenfeld / Zazoo | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 45:45

Gil Blumenfeld is a co-founder and the CEO at Zazoo - a technology that enhances the experience of watching music video clips online. This is done by overlaying a contextual content layer above the video, such as the song's lyrics, a direct way to purchase show tickets, information about the artist and so on.

 EP 16: Uri Marchand / Overwolf | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 34:10

Overwolf are also providing a platform for people who wants to build applications to help gamers interact with the world while they are playing computer games. With Overwolf, gamers can easily do this, by simply using one of the apps that different developers built using the Overwolf platform.

 EP 15: Joey Simhon / Everything.Me | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 46:00

Joey Simhon and everything.me built a launcher for Android devices with contextual capabilities. It learns your tendencies, predicts your upcoming needs and arranges itself accordingly, so each time you use your phone you get a new personally customized experience. Quite magical.

 EP 14: Yuval Brener / Carambola | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 32:52

Yuval Brener, co-founder and CEO at Carambola, set out to change the way we all experience video clips. Carambola developed a layer of interactive content that overlays the video clip, through which they're able to deliver a multitude of data and experiences, such as recipes, lyrics, purchase information and many other kinds of promotions.

 EP 13: Omri Morgenshtern / Qlika | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:09

Omri Morgenshtern is transforming the world of online marketing, as we know it! Together with his two partners, all graduates of the Israeli Army’s top technology unit, they founded Qlika – an automated marketing management platform that aspires to do for online-marketing what Google did to search.

 EP 12: Zahi Boussiba / Appsee | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:06

While developing an analysis tool for their social shopping application, Zahi and his team found that they were much more excited about developing the analysis tool than the app itself. This is how they came up with Appsee(formerly known as UserVOD) – an app that helps developers learn about their users and cater to their needs better.

 EP 11: Omri Shor / MediSafe | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:29

If you take medication on a daily basis, you must know the pain of keeping track which pill should be taken and when. This week we interviewed Omri Shor, co-founder and CEO at MediSafe - A first-of-its-kind cloud-synced mobile medication management application.

 EP 10: Olivier Amar / MyPermissions | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:16

Can you remember all the apps that you have ever installed on your mobile? Or maybe just the ones that you have used on Facebook? Surprise! You have (at least) dozens of installed applications, and they all possess access to your personal information. Creepy, isn't it? That's exactly what MyPermissions set out to solve. READ MORE

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