Michael Laor

Mellanox Technologies, Inc. supplies end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand intelligent interconnect solutions and services for servers, storage, and hyper-converged infrastructure. It offers solutions such as network and multicore processors, network adapters, switches, cables, and software and silicon. The company was founded by Roni Ahuri, Shai Cohen, Michael T. Kagan, and Eyal Waldman in May 1999 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Mellanox Technologies TLV Ltd. designs and develops server and storage switching and software solution. It also provides cluster computing. The company was founded by Amir Prescher on April 9, 1997 and is headquartered in Raanana, Israel.

Nexus Telecommunications Systems Ltd provides two-way paging and automatic vehicle location services. The private company is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. and has subsidiaries in Israel.

Part of ViaSat, Inc., Datacom, Inc. provides voice and data communications, including Internet access. The company is based in Lafayette, LA. Datacom was acquired by Stratos Global Corp., part of ViaSat, Inc. from April 15, 2009 on October 25, 2000 for $65 million.

Part of Quanta Services, Inc., Telecom, Inc. is a company that provides design, engineering, and building services in the telecommunications industry. The company is based in Kirkland, WA. The company was founded by Wayne Miller. Telecom was acquired by Quanta Services, Inc. on August 25, 1998.

Part of Cisco Systems, Inc., Pentacom Ltd. is an Israeli company that provides products implementing spatial reuse protocol which improves the manageability of IP-based metropolitan networks. The company is based in Herzliya, Israel. The company was founded by Benny Schnaider, Eldad Bar-Eli, Giora Yaron, Yuval Shahar.

Tel-Aviv University operates as a university in Israel. Its faculties include arts, engineering, science, humanities, law, life science, management, medicine, and social science. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Ramat Aviv, Israel.

PacketLight Networks Ltd. provides optical transport systems. The firm offers 100G to 200G, SUB 100G, DWDM encryption and infrastructure products. The firm offers encryption solutions. The company was founded by Yaki Luzon, Meir Kollmann, Simo Dahan, Yuval Porat, Michael Mesh and Hagay Katz in 2000 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Part of Ernst & Young Global Ltd., Ernst & Young (Israel) Ltd. is an Israeli company that provides accounting services. The company is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Sony Semiconductor Israel Ltd. designs and develops single-mode 4G semiconductors. Its products include LTE for loT, broadband LTE, and supercharged LTE. The company was founded by Oded Melamed, Yigal Bitran and Eran Eshed in 2005 and is headquartered in Hod HaSharon, Israel.

Color Chip (Israel) Ltd. designs and manufactures optical sub-systems and components. It develops application specific photonic integrated circuits. The firm delivers optical high-speed transceivers to the datacom/telecom markets and passive optical splitters to the FTTx markets. The company was founded by Shimon Eckhouse, Moshe Price and Shlomo Ruschin in January 2001 and is headquartered in Yokneam, Israel.

HumanEyes Technologies Ltd. engages in the provision of solutions for 3-dimensional (3D) and animated content creation, display and processing, and lenticular printing. It offers virtual reality and graphic arts solutions. The company was founded by Gideon Y. Ben-Zvi and Shmuel Peleg in 2000 and is headquartered in Neve Ilan, Israel.

Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions provides technical planning and development services. The private company is based in Washington. The CEO of the American company is Susan M. Miller.

Siklu Communication Ltd. engages in the development of E and V band radios. Its products include the EtherHaul Hundred series, EtherHaul Kilo series, MultiHaul PtMP series, and SmartHaul network software tools. The company was founded by Izik Kirshenbaum, Yigal Leiba, Baruch Schwarz, Elad Dayan, and Yossi Kofman in 2008 and is headquartered in Petach Tikva, Israel.

Broadcom Broadband Access Ltd. provides networking and embedded fiber access processors serving broadband telecommunication operators’ fiber access fixed and mobile networks and connected digital homes. The company was founded by Ran Dror, David Levi, Haim Ben Amram, Didi Ivancovsky and Raanan Ivry in 2000, and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.

Silk Technologies, Inc. provides enterprise-class all-flash storage arrays. It provides solid-state storage solutions for database, data mining and warehousing, business intelligence, operational business intelligence, customer relationship management, and Web applications. The company was founded by Ofir Dubovi and Moshe Selfinin in 2008 and is headquartered in Newton, MA.

Start.io Inc. engages in the development of a mobile advertising platform. The firm provides SODA a social data platform application where partners can craft a detailed picture of users in order to optimize and execute mobile strategies. The company was founded by Ran Avidan and Gil Dudkiewiz in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The InfiniBand Trade Association was founded in 1999 and is responsible for maintaining and advancing the InfiniBand architecture specification. The non-profit company is based in Beaverton, OR. This specification defines hardware transport protocols that support reliable messaging and memory manipulation semantics without software intervention in the data movement path. The association's members include Akhetonics and AlphaWave Semi.

Anova Data, Inc. engages in the provision of data analytics solutions.t focuses on a portfolio of products which capture, orchestrate, and analyze data. It offers customer care, marketing, monetization, and network analytics; content aware edge, data aggregation function, and policy and personalization engine; and content aware probe. The company was founded by Chip Boyle and Surya Kumar Kovvali and is headquartered in Westford, MA.

Iguazio Ltd. develops storage and data management for data applications. The company was founded by Asaf Somekh, Orit Nissan-Messing, Yaron Segev and Yaron Haviv in 2014 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.

Scale-Up GP Inc (Scale-Up GP) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Alex Lazovsky. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

CIRTech RN LP is a venture capital fund providing financing for later and growth stage capital requirements. The fund targets companies located in Israel, Russia and China operating in the fields of nanotechnologies, data storage and processing, software development and innovative materials and technologies.

First DAG Ltd. engages in the provision of digital payment solutions. Its products include open source applications to connect systems and merchants to the digital payment ecosystem. The company was founded by Ran Goldshtein in 2017 and is headquartered in Ramat Gan, Israel.

D-Fend Solutions AD Ltd is a leading provider of counter-drone takeover technology that enables full control, safety, and continuity during rogue drone incidents across complex and sensitive environments. D-Fend Solutions is based in Raanana, Israel, and was founded in 2017 by Yaniv Benbenisti, Zohar Halachmi, and Assaf Monsa. The Israeli company's flagship offering, EnforceAir, focuses on the most dangerous drone threats in military, public safety, airport, prison, major event, and critical infrastructure environments. The company's technology has been chosen and deployed by multiple high-tier government agencies, including military, federal law enforcement, and homeland security bodies, as well as major international airports. Zohar Halachmi has been the CEO since 2017.

West Coast Equity Partners LLC (West Coast Equity Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2020 by Alex Lazovsky. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

NovaNet, Inc. operates as a national preferred provider organization (PPO) that delivers network coverage. Its products and services include group health, workers compensation, dental and dental wrap. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Norcross, GA.