Ori Kirshner

illumex empowers enterprises to confidently deploy AI agents that deliver reliable, explainable, and compliant decisions at scale. Its Generative Semantic Fabric (GSF) platform transforms an enterprise’s organizational corpus of knowledge into AI-ready, business context embedded into semantic ontologies. These ontologies, which serve as a basis for data management, analytics, and agentic workflows, orchestrate AI agents to collaborate around shared context (via MCP) and interpret prompts with precision – eliminating hallucinations, ensuring compliance, and reducing TCO by up to 80%. Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Agentic AI for Data Management and Tech Pioneer in AI Governance by World Economic Forum, illumex is setting the new standard for unified governed semantic data infrastructure in the age of agentic AI. illumex was founded by Inna Tokarev Sela, former Senior Director of Machine Learning at SAP, who brings two decades of experience leading large-scale initiatives to leverage data and AI.

Volumez is a Cloud Volume Orchestrator on a mission to drive cost, complexity, and risk out of modern cloud data infrastructure. Volumez turns public and private clouds into one easily managed data infrastructure by abstracting the complexity of data path orchestration while optimizing resource utilization.

The first and only solution that combines data security posture management (DSPM) with real-time data detection and response (DDR) – a full-encompassing solution that helps discover, classify, protect, and govern your cloud data. Recent Awards –Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM) 2023 Global InfoSec Awards 🏆Most Comprehensive Cloud Security Solution 🏆Most Comprehensive Data Security Solution 🏆Most Comprehensive Cybersecurity Startup –2023 Globee® Cybersecurity Award 🥇Gold for Data Security 🥈Silver for Most Innovative Security Company of the Year – Security Cloud/SaaS. –2023 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards 🥇Data Security Posture Management 🥇Cloud Native Data Security 🥈Best Cybersecurity Startup –The Cloud Awards 🏆Security Innovation of the Year (Enterprise) Dig’s comprehensive solution gives you instant visibility into your data risk in real-time. With access to context for each of your data assets, Dig helps you locate, classify and prioritize your Cloud data estate to ensure your data is protected. Learn more about our platform: https://www.dig.security/product Check out our Buyer’s Guide: https://www.dig.security/pages/dspm-buyers-guide Dig by Industry Finance: https://www.dig.security/solution-financial-services Healthcare: https://www.dig.security/solution-healthcare Tech: https://www.dig.security/solution-tech Dig by Cloud AWS: https://www.dig.security/aws Azure: https://www.dig.security/dig-for-azure Get a free risk assessment here: https://www.dig.security/pages/data-risk-assessment

NeuReality, a Series A venture-backed AI startup, is revolutionizing AI Inferencing for data centers worldwide. Our mission to make AI accessible and ubiquitous by lowering the cost and complexity barriers that keep >60% of businesses and governments out of the market. We aim to change that by making AI more profitable, sustainable and simple to start and scale your own AI innovations and business operations. Founded by seasoned engineers in 2019, weve reimagined purpose-built AI inference architecture powered by a revolutionary NR1 Chip that complements any GPU. NR1 is the first true AI-CPU built for inference workloads at scale, combining 6x the processing capability of an x86 CPU along with networking, video and audio decoders/encoder and orchestration capabilities into a single chip, NR1 pairs with any AI Accelerator or GPU to maximize utilization from <50% utilization with legacy CPUs to near100% utilization. The result? Less silicon waste, 6.5x AI token output for the same money and power envelope, redefined price/performance and up to 15x greater energy efficiency. . Get your hands on itough a choice of NR1 Inference Module to integrate with any AI Accelerator or a ready-to-go NR1 Inference Appliance for Enterprise and Cloud Service Providers. Its comes with full-stack Software, APIs and pre-loaded Generative and Agentic AI models. It is up and running in <30 minutes, tripling your time to value. NeuReality empowers Cloud Service Providers and Enterprise Customers across financial services, healthcare, life sciences and government to significantly boost AI Inferencing system performance for large-scale AI pipelines. From general purpose NLP, ASR and Recommendation Systems to future Generative AI and Large Language Model deployments, NeuReality makes complex AI deployments easy. As the demand for affordable and sustainable AI skyrockets, NeuReality provides the smart silicon-to-software AI Inference Solution to maximize your expensive GPU investments.

StoreDot is the pioneer and leader of extreme fast charging (XFC) batteries that overcome the critical barriers to mainstream EV adoption – range and charging anxiety. The company has revolutionized the conventional Li-ion battery by designing and synthesizing proprietary organic and inorganic compounds, optimized by Artificial Intelligence algorithms, making it possible to charge an EV in as little as five minutes – the same time it takes to refuel a conventional combustion engine car. Through its 100inX product roadmap, StoreDots battery technology is designed for best driver experience, offering ‘Range On DemandTM’: 100 miles charged in 5 minutes (2024), 100 miles charged in 3 minutes by 2028, and extreme energy density solution enabling 100 miles to be charged in 2 minutes by 2032. StoreDots strategic investors and partners include Daimler, BP, VinFast, Volvo, Polestar, Ola Electric, Samsung, TDK and the manufacturing partner EVE Energy. In 2022, the company achieved a world first by demonstrating a live extreme fast charging of an EV battery cell. In April 2024 StoreDot and Polestar showcased the worlds first 10-minute electric car charge with si-dominant cells.

TriEye is the pioneer of mass-market, CMOS-based Short-Wave Infrared (SWIR) sensing solutions. Based on advanced academic research, TriEye’s breakthrough and proprietary technology enables cost-effective, high-resolution image data and depth perception in all weather and lighting conditions. Founded in 2017, the company’s cutting-edge technology allows perception systems to operate and deliver reliable image data and actionable information, while reducing expenditure by up to 1,000x the existing industry rates. Follow us on Twitter > @TriEye_tech

Grove Ventures is a leading early-stage fund, backing bold founders building in Enterprise SaaS, AI, Deeptech, Healthtech and other, turning ideas into category defining companies.

DriveNets is a leader in high-scale networking software for AI infrastructure and service providers. The company pioneered a disaggregated networking architecture that transforms the economics of large-scale networks while maximizing performance, utilization, and operational efficiency. DriveNets-powered networks are deployed by global leaders, including AT&T and Comcast, supporting more than 30% of total U.S. internet traffic. DriveNets AI Fabric delivers full-stack networking for AI infrastructures, providing the highest-performance, Ethernet-based alternative to InfiniBand. The solution is deployed by hyperscalers, NeoClouds, and enterprises worldwide. Founded by Ido Susan and Hillel Kobrinsky, two successful telco entrepreneurs, DriveNets Network Cloud is the leading open disaggregated networking solution based on cloud-native software running over standard white boxes. Over three funding rounds, DriveNets raised $587 million. Its solutions are used by tens of service providers globally and are in proof-of-concept and lab trials at dozens of operators and hyperscalers, consistently ranking #1 in trials for breadth of capabilities and solution quality. AT&T, the largest backbone in the US, deployed DriveNets Network Cloud across its core network, and DriveNets is currently transporting more than 52% of AT&T’s core network traffic. DriveNets is engaged with over 100 Tier-1 operators and cloud-providers on large projects in North America, Asia and Europe.

Wiliot powers your supply chain with continuous, scan-free visibility into item location and condition. The Wiliot Physical AI platform processes signals from battery-free Bluetooth sensors (IoT Pixels) using purpose-built AI and ML models. This enables real-time automated condition monitoring, inventory intelligence, and workflow optimization. Whether you have AI in place or are just starting, Wiliot delivers continuous, AI-ready data that drives ROI today and scales into advanced AI tomorrow. Trusted by leading global retailers and logistics companies, Wiliot’s platform processes billions of sensing events across millions of products every month. It integrates seamlessly into existing enterprise systems, enabling businesses to automate workflows, respond to issues instantly, and reduce waste—ensuring products arrive when and where they should, in perfect condition.

Corephotonics is the pioneer and worldwide market leader of dual camera technologies for mobile devices. Corephotonics’ primary mission is to perfect the mobile camera photography experience and to provide superior image quality by combining our novel optics, mechanics and computational photography technologies. From design concept to mass production with Corephotonics: Corephotonics’ comprehensive technologies excel in addressing some of the most challenging deficits of existing smartphone cameras. We develop and deliver end-to-end multi-aperture solutions supporting the most professional photography capabilities, such as optical zoom, superb low-light performance, Bokeh and depth features, and optical image stabilization, all in an incredibly slim form factor. We partner with manufacturers at early design stages, matching each manufacturers unique design and imaging requirements, and providing continuous support through commercialization and mass production.

Celeno offers advanced Wi-Fi chipsets, edge software and cloud technology to deliver smart, innovative Wi-Fi connectivity and Wi-Fi Doppler Imaging technology into the realm of high-performance home networks, smart buildings, enterprise and industrial solutions. Celenos field-proven chips and software technologies have been successfully integrated into numerous OEM Wi-Fi devices and have been deployed in tens of millions of homes around the world. Celeno is headquartered in Raanana, Israel, with a global presence and offices in the US, EMEA and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit www.celeno.com.

Elastifile helps organizations adapt and accelerate their business in the cloud era. Powered by a dynamically scalable, enterprise-grade distributed file system with intelligent object tiering, Elastifile’s cross-cloud data fabric solves the data-centric compatibility, scalability, and mobility challenges inhibiting cloud adoption and expansion. With Elastifile, organizations can seamlessly leverage cloud resources to optimize critical workflows, with no application refactoring required...thereby modernizing their infrastructure and achieving their crucial IT agility and efficiency goals. Elastifile is based in Santa Clara, California and Herzliya, Israel, with global Sales and Marketing offices in North America and Europe, and R&D in Israel. Founded in 2013, Elastifile is backed by Battery Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, CE Ventures, and seven strategic investors from the cloud, data center, and storage industries, including Dell EMC, Cisco, and Western Digital.

Triventures is a venture capital fund that invests in disruptive medical device and digital health companies that impact the quality and cost of healthcare. The fund is based in Israel and Silicon Valley and has strong partnerships with healthech companies, healthcare providers and consumer electronics companies which enable it to contribute significant value to its portfolio companies when commercially integrating into markets.

ScyllaDB is the database for data-intensive apps that require high performance and low latency. It enables teams to harness the ever-increasing computing power of modern infrastructures--eliminating barriers to scale as data grows. Unlike any other database, ScyllaDB is built with deep architectural advancements that enable exceptional end-user experiences at radically lower costs. Over 300 game-changing companies like Disney+ Hotstar, Expedia, FireEye, Discord, Crypto.com, Zillow, Starbucks, Comcast, and Samsung use ScyllaDB for their toughest database challenges. ScyllaDB is available as free open source software, a fully-supported enterprise product, and a fully managed service on multiple cloud providers. For more information: ScyllaDB.com

EMC XtremIO develops a new class of storage solution based on groundbreaking innovation in primary storage design. Leveraging Solid State Drive (SSD) technology, we re-architect storage to deliver unprecedented value in performance, economics, operations, and data management efficiencies, addressing major pain points in high growth Enterprise IT markets. The company product was launched in November 2013, and immediately became the leader in its market segment. In 2014 Gartner and IDC ranked XtremIO the #1 All-Flash Array with 34% market share (more than #2 and #3 combined) and 3-digit YoY growth.This position was recently reinforced in IDCs and Gartners 2015 ranking. XtremIO booked and deployed $1B in product in just 18 months since its launch, making it one of the fastest growing products in the history of Storage and IT infrastructure, currently powering over 60 of the Fortune 100 companies and over 2,000 customers in total. XtremIO presents product and technology differentiation based on its scale-out architecture that was purposely designed for Flash media. XtremIO is enabling corporations to run their data centers more efficiently, realize massive performance gains in their critical business applications, and create applications faster and with higher quality. The All-Flash Array market is the fastest growing and most exciting segment of the $25B+ enterprise storage business, and XtremIO is the undisputed leader in this market segment. XtremIO R&D is located in Herzliya, with its Sales & Marketing office in San Jose, CA.

Samsung Venture Investment Corporation (SVIC) is headquartered in Seoul and has a strong presence in the world’s innovation hubs across the United States, Europe, Israel, India, China, and Japan. SVIC backs emerging technology startup founders, whom we believe will pioneer and shape the future. Samsung Ventures represents investments in the US/Canada, Europe, Israel, India, China, and Japan. Startups located in the areas listed here can reach us at sv.a@samsung.com ■ AUM: $2.5B+ ■ Investment Pace: $200M deployed annually For more information, please check out our website. https://www.samsungventure.co.kr/english_portfolio.do

illumex empowers enterprises to confidently deploy AI agents that deliver reliable, explainable, and compliant decisions at scale. Its Generative Semantic Fabric (GSF) platform transforms an enterprise’s organizational corpus of knowledge into AI-ready, business context embedded into semantic ontologies. These ontologies, which serve as a basis for data management, analytics, and agentic workflows, orchestrate AI agents to collaborate around shared context (via MCP) and interpret prompts with precision – eliminating hallucinations, ensuring compliance, and reducing TCO by up to 80%. Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Agentic AI for Data Management and Tech Pioneer in AI Governance by World Economic Forum, illumex is setting the new standard for unified governed semantic data infrastructure in the age of agentic AI. illumex was founded by Inna Tokarev Sela, former Senior Director of Machine Learning at SAP, who brings two decades of experience leading large-scale initiatives to leverage data and AI.

Volumez is a Cloud Volume Orchestrator on a mission to drive cost, complexity, and risk out of modern cloud data infrastructure. Volumez turns public and private clouds into one easily managed data infrastructure by abstracting the complexity of data path orchestration while optimizing resource utilization.

The first and only solution that combines data security posture management (DSPM) with real-time data detection and response (DDR) – a full-encompassing solution that helps discover, classify, protect, and govern your cloud data. Recent Awards –Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM) 2023 Global InfoSec Awards 🏆Most Comprehensive Cloud Security Solution 🏆Most Comprehensive Data Security Solution 🏆Most Comprehensive Cybersecurity Startup –2023 Globee® Cybersecurity Award 🥇Gold for Data Security 🥈Silver for Most Innovative Security Company of the Year – Security Cloud/SaaS. –2023 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards 🥇Data Security Posture Management 🥇Cloud Native Data Security 🥈Best Cybersecurity Startup –The Cloud Awards 🏆Security Innovation of the Year (Enterprise) Dig’s comprehensive solution gives you instant visibility into your data risk in real-time. With access to context for each of your data assets, Dig helps you locate, classify and prioritize your Cloud data estate to ensure your data is protected. Learn more about our platform: https://www.dig.security/product Check out our Buyer’s Guide: https://www.dig.security/pages/dspm-buyers-guide Dig by Industry Finance: https://www.dig.security/solution-financial-services Healthcare: https://www.dig.security/solution-healthcare Tech: https://www.dig.security/solution-tech Dig by Cloud AWS: https://www.dig.security/aws Azure: https://www.dig.security/dig-for-azure Get a free risk assessment here: https://www.dig.security/pages/data-risk-assessment

NeuReality, a Series A venture-backed AI startup, is revolutionizing AI Inferencing for data centers worldwide. Our mission to make AI accessible and ubiquitous by lowering the cost and complexity barriers that keep >60% of businesses and governments out of the market. We aim to change that by making AI more profitable, sustainable and simple to start and scale your own AI innovations and business operations. Founded by seasoned engineers in 2019, weve reimagined purpose-built AI inference architecture powered by a revolutionary NR1 Chip that complements any GPU. NR1 is the first true AI-CPU built for inference workloads at scale, combining 6x the processing capability of an x86 CPU along with networking, video and audio decoders/encoder and orchestration capabilities into a single chip, NR1 pairs with any AI Accelerator or GPU to maximize utilization from <50% utilization with legacy CPUs to near100% utilization. The result? Less silicon waste, 6.5x AI token output for the same money and power envelope, redefined price/performance and up to 15x greater energy efficiency. . Get your hands on itough a choice of NR1 Inference Module to integrate with any AI Accelerator or a ready-to-go NR1 Inference Appliance for Enterprise and Cloud Service Providers. Its comes with full-stack Software, APIs and pre-loaded Generative and Agentic AI models. It is up and running in <30 minutes, tripling your time to value. NeuReality empowers Cloud Service Providers and Enterprise Customers across financial services, healthcare, life sciences and government to significantly boost AI Inferencing system performance for large-scale AI pipelines. From general purpose NLP, ASR and Recommendation Systems to future Generative AI and Large Language Model deployments, NeuReality makes complex AI deployments easy. As the demand for affordable and sustainable AI skyrockets, NeuReality provides the smart silicon-to-software AI Inference Solution to maximize your expensive GPU investments.