Time Magazine Names 9 Israeli Startups Among ‘Best Inventions of 2024’ List

Time Magazine released its list of the “Best Inventions of 2024,” which includes nine Israeli startups. Startup Nation Israel continues to impress the world with its innovations and cutting-edge technologies.

The nine Israeli firms on the Time Magazine list include Aporia, BeeHero, D-ID, InnerPlant, Laguna Health, Nanox, OrCam and UVeye,

Aporia is an Israeli startup that offers an artificial intelligence AI observability platform that lets developers monitor their AI tech and keep it safe.

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Aporia declares that it empowers data scientists to take control of their machine learning models’ performance in production. “With a robust, friendly monitor builder,” says the company, “the Aporia platform allows them to quickly create, update and maintain ML monitors that track and detect various types of performance issues and data drift. When an issue occurs, Aporia reports it on various channels and provides context for further investigation.”

A machine learning model, as explained by Microsoft, is a file that has been trained to recognize certain types of patterns. You train a model over a set of data, providing it an algorithm that it can use to reason over and learn from those data. Once the model has been trained a user can use it to reason over data that it hasn’t seen before, and make predictions about that data.

Aporia boasts that it is the first company to offer deep customization capabilities for model monitoring with full support for public cloud and managed-on-prem, allowing data science teams to build the exact monitors they need for their use cases. Aporia is used by multi-billion dollar companies for monitoring billions of daily predictions and maintaining data integrity. Founded in 2020, Aporia is backed by TLV Partners and Vertex Ventures.

Founded by Yoni Shtein and Yael Adam, Laguna Health is a recovery assurance company that leverages digital care and behavioral therapists to reduce readmissions and shorten recovery time. The company declares that it can guarantee successful post-hospitalization recovery by combining data, digital care tools, and proven behavioral health interventions to radically reduce negative outcomes. From employers to health plans to health systems, the entire health care ecosystem now has the ability to ensure every patient recovers with confidence.

Laguna Health boasts that its recovery platform is the first to fuse data, digital care tools, and proven behavioral health interventions to radically reduce negative outcomes. These include lost productivity, mental health issues, substance use disorder or misuse, and the $80 billion or more which the firm says is spent annually on readmissions. With Laguna, it declares, all the “key stakeholders in the health care ecosystem—including employers, health plans, and health systems—have the ability to ensure every patient recovers with confidence.”

Founded in 2016 by CEO Amir Hever and his brother Ohad, UVeye offers automated vehicle inspection systems based on advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies for both the automotive and homeland security industries. UVeye systems are increasing the speed and quality of inspection processes on assembly lines, as well as at new- and used-car dealerships, used-car auction houses and major vehicle fleets, as well as security checkpoints around the world.

“UVeye’s goal is to both revolutionize and standardize how the auto industry detects vehicle damage and mechanical issues,” said Amir Hever, the company’s CEO and co-founder. “Our patent-protected technology provides automakers, dealers, and fleet operators with unmatched solutions for quickly and accurately identifying vehicle problems while setting new quality standards for the industry.”

Founded in 2010 by founders of Mobileye Prof. Amnon Shashua and Mr. Ziv Aviram, OrCam produces new technology for the blind and other people with visual deficiencies. Its MyEye is wearable technology for people who are blind or visually impaired. It is a voice-activated device that provides increased independence by communicating visual information, audibly. With OrCam MyEye, you can read text, recognize faces, and identify products.

Its OrCam Read is a handheld AI Reader made for people with the full spectrum of reading difficulties, including dyslexia. It lets the user read full pages of text at the push of a button.

BeeHero was founded by a team of veteran beekeepers, serial entrepreneurs, renowned biologists, and data scientists to ensure that everyone wins: farmers, beekeepers, and nature. The company explains that 70% of crops worldwide rely on bees, whose increasing mortality rate, coupled with colony collapse disorder, puts financial strain on farmers and beekeepers. This makes it harder to feed an exponentially growing global population.

“Our platform is a crucial tool farmers can rely on to improve their crop yields,” said BeeHero CEO Omer Davidi.

Founded in 2018 by Shely Aronov, InnerPlant achieves its extraordinary data flow by exploiting plants’ inherent defenses. To protect themselves from external pressures, plants have evolved sophisticated defense mechanisms. InnerPlant capitalizes on these signals by augmenting plants’ capacities with a safe protein that has been extensively tested for human use. When plants are thirsty, deficient in nutrients, or attacked by pests or fungi, they create a variety of visual signals that can be detected in daylight using ordinary optical filters on devices ranging from an iPhone or tractor to a satellite.

Farmers regularly lose up to 20% of their harvests to diseases that could have been managed earlier and with more targeted, plant-specific interventions. InnerPlant’s approach of gathering data directly from plants and processing it with complex algorithms provides plant-by-plant status that is impossible to obtain with external sensors.

D-ID is a world leader in AI-driven generative technology whose work has already created more than 100 million videos. Its technology has been used in several social impact drives including a campaign which saw D-ID bring five diverse Israeli women, who tragically lost their lives to domestic violence, “back to life” by animating and dubbing their still photos using D-ID’s Speaking Portrait technology. The company’s technology has also been used for a French AIDS awareness campaign and a Missing Persons billboard campaign in the UK.

Founded by the serial entrepreneur Ran Poliakine, Nanox is an Israeli corporation developing a commercial-grade digital X-ray source designed to be used in real-world medical imaging applications. Nanox believes that its novel technology could significantly reduce the costs of medical imaging systems, and plans to seek collaborations with world-leading healthcare organizations and companies to provide affordable early detection imaging services for all.