30 MACHINE INTELLIGENCE STARTUPS TO WATCH IN ISRAEL

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will be eating the world. Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017, I found it to be the top recurring theme. Some examples: AI will be the new mobile. Investors will ask management what their “AI strategy” is before investing and will be wary of companies that don’t have one (Fred Wilson, USV) Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest…

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AI STARTUPS THAT ANALYZE CUSTOMER REVIEWS

Already, as of 2010, a quarter of Americans (24 percent) had posted product reviews or comments online, and 78 percent of internet users had gone online for product research. But those are ancient stats. Numbers are higher now. More recently, BrightLocal found in 2016 that 91 percent of consumers regularly or occasionally read online reviews, with 47 percent taking sentiment of local-business reviews — the tonality of a review’s text — into account in purchasing…

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HOW FOUR AI STARTUPS HELP BRANDS EXPLOIT CUSTOMER REVIEWS

Already, as of 2010, a quarter of Americans (24%) had posted product reviews or comments online, and 78% of Internet users had gone online for product research. But those are ancient stats. Numbers are higher now. More recently, BrightLocal found in 2016 that 91% of consumers regularly or occasionally read online reviews, with 47% taking sentiment of local-business reviews — the tonality of a review’s text — into account in purchasing decisions. Breaking out the…

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11 EARLY-STAGE ISRAELI B2B SOFTWARE COMPANIES TO WATCH

Israel is one of the key tech markets globally, consistently ranking among the top 10 countries in our semi-annual tech exits report. While the market is known for innovation in cybersecurity and business intelligence, Israeli entrepreneurs are also launching companies in other pockets of tech such as auto tech and industrial IoT. We used CB Insights Mosaic scoring tool, which uses public data and predictive algorithms to measure the overall…

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MEET REVUZE, THE STARTUP BRINGING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO BRAND MANAGEMENT

Revuze is hoping to bring artificial intelligence to brand management.  http://www.pymnts.com/news/merchant-innovation/2016/revuze-startup-artificial-intelligence-brand-management/ Let’s face it, data analysis can be a costly and time-consuming affair and can sometimes take weeks or months of scouring through troves and troves of data from a number of channels, like sales, surveys, customer reviews and social media, to even interpret how consumers might be responding to a certain brand or product. Then, of course, there’s always the…

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REVUZE RAISES $4M SEED FOR BRAND PERFORMANCE DATA-MINING

The venture capital arm of Nielsen Holdings PLC, a company that provides businesses with data about consumers, has led a $4 million seed round in a startup that uses artificial intelligence to gather data on brands’ performance on product and customer satisfaction. Nielsen Innovate invested in Revuze, a company mines unstructured data sources including social-media posts and reviews on e-commerce websites to collect data on a brand’s customer satisfaction. The…

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A QUICK CHAT WITH IDO RAMATI, CO-FOUNDER AND CEO OF REVUZE

In the world of business, companies have huge volumes of unstructured feedback pouring in via call centers, emails, surveys, charts, online comments, blogs and social media. That makes it extremely difficult to gleam any actionable insights. That’s the problem that Revuze is looking to solve. It uses artificial intelligence-powered technology that enables brands to better understand product, brand management and customer satisfaction issues. all while streamlining the Product Experience Management and automatically…

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AI-POWERED REVUZE ENTERS US MARKET TO HELP BRANDS FIGURE OUT WHAT’S BOTHERING CUSTOMERS

Customers have an endless supply of opinions about your products and services, and marketers are eager to boil them down into useful insights. This need has led to a variety of sophisticated tools, including text/sentiment analysis fromLexalytics, “voice of the customer” analysis like Medallia, predictive analysis in Quantifind, contextual analysis from BehaviorMatrix or customer intelligence provider Clarabridge. Now, another platform is entering the US market, with the promise that its…

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REVUZE INTRODUCES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO TRANSFORM BRAND INTELLIGENCE, RAISES $4 MILLION SEED ROUND, OPENS U.S. OPERATIONS

Revuze, the first company to bring Artificial Intelligence (AI) to both brand and product management, is announcing a $4 million seed-funding round led by strategic investors Nielsen, The NPD Group, and TIC Group. Revuze is also entering into business development partnerships to introduce its transformative AI-led technology to its investors’ customers. On the back of this investment, the company is expanding its U.S. operations by opening offices in San Francisco…

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