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Axilion Smart Mobility Ltd.

Investor Presentation Mar 1, 2021

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INDEPENDENT EQUITY RESEARCH

Axilion Smart Mobility Ltd. 01.03.2021

INITIATION OF COVERAGE

  • Axilion is an artificial intelligence (AI) software company that develops AIbased systems to better manage traffic mobility in cities, thereby reducing their carbon footprint and improving urban traffic safety.
  • Market—2020 was a breakthrough year for cloud-based AI. We anticipate 2021 being the year in which AI systems will be deployed globally, utilizing the new infrastructure built into data centers. This will attract more investments in the coming years.
  • According to Frost & Sullivan, the global AI market is expected to grow to US\$386.1 billion by 2025, at a staggering CAGR of 19.7%. The rapid growth in the volume of data being generated, along with the increasing deployment of cloud-based computing platforms, is fueling AI adoption across various industry verticals, including automotive, healthcare, retail, telecoms, transportation, etc. Axilion is well-placed to address the emerging needs of smart city management systems.
  • Strategy—Axilion is leveraging AI capabilities to reduce the carbon emissions of the transportation sector within cities by charging a city to manage its traffic patterns. Axilion's solution utilizes Microsoft Azure as a strategic partner for its products.

We value Axilion's equity at NIS 1,502 M, based on market benchmarking for AI firms; and its price target to be in the range of NIS 50.1 to NIS 55.4, with a mean of NIS 52.7.

Axilion 01.03.2021

Contents

Investment
Thesis
רת
אינה מוגד
הסימניה
-2שגיאה!
1. Company overview
3-11
2. AI in Traffic Management Market Overview12-23
3. Financial Analysis & Valuation24-29
Appendix 1: Deals Sample 30-40
Appendix 2: About Frost & Sullivan41
Disclaimers, disclosures, and insights for more responsible investment decisions
42

Investment Thesis

Executive Summary

A significant share of global fossil fuel based energy generation goes to the transportation sector. The combustion of fossil fuels, such as gasoline and diesel, releases carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHG), causing adverse environmental impacts, such as global warming and air pollution, that can result in respiratory illness in humans. Climate change due to global warming also has other, far more serious, consequences, such as disrupted monsoons (threatening the global food supply chain) and increased occurrences of natural disasters, such as drought. In 2020, in the United States alone, GHG emissions from the transportation sector accounted for 28% of total U.S. GHG emissions1 , making it the largest contributor to U.S. GHG emissions.

Driven by stringent environmental norms and increasing environmental awareness, industry participants across the globe have begun adopting technology solutions that enable them to adhere to zero-emission protocols. Electrification of the transportation sector is considered to be an important stepping stone towards a sustainable transportation sector; however, the electrification process entails its own cost and infrastructure-related challenges. Another approach towards reducing the carbon footprint of transportation networks is establishing congestion-free road networks and increasing public transportation utilization, as the carbon footprint per person traveling via public transportation is much lower than that per person traveling via private vehicle.

The traditional method of building more flyovers, highways, roads, and underpasses is costly and timeconsuming. An alternative solution, which is derived from the idea of Industry 4.0, or the fourth industrial revolution, is the increased automation of traditional industrial practices using smart and modern technology solutions. This entails developing highly adaptive and AI-powered smart traffic management systems capable of autonomously managing the traffic flow and prioritizing fixed-schedule vehicles (primarily public transportation vehicles). There is an urgent need for a traffic-management system capable of accurately predicting traffic patterns to determine the optimum traffic light sequence. AI and deep reinforcement learning technology are ideal candidates to enable such smart traffic management systems.

1 Source: United States Environmental Protection Agency

Technology for Autonomous Mobility Optimization Saving time and resources, transforming the transportation network without costly infrastructure changes

Deep Reinforcement Learning

Utilizing an AI Mobile Edge Camera, Axilion's technology solution (X Way Suite) is able to capture the roadtraffic network and convert the collected data into actionable insights via X Way Suite's AI cloud services. The idea is to leverage the data collected from AI-based cameras via the proprietary trained neural network to determine the optimum traffic signal schedule across the network.

X Way Suite's advanced algorithms continuously analyze the incoming data from dashboard cameras and, in parallel, simulate the entire city's transportation network via a digital twin, where solutions such as deep reinforcement learning AI technology are used to run multiple tests and determine the most efficient traffic signal schedule for multiple intersections. Data collected from the cameras are streamed through Microsoft Azure's IoT hub, where Azure Edge's encryption technology is utilized for data protection and enhanced cyber security.

In addition to the above, the developed system leverages the fixed route of the public transportation system and onboard cameras to dynamically track the traffic pattern on a real-time basis and to change traffic light signals, prioritizing the movement of public transportation to reduce travel time.

The digitization of public transportation schedules and coordination with traffic signals creates a far more efficient public transportation network, where users can track the entire schedule from mobile apps or screens at bus stops, and plan their travel accordingly. In the long run, faster and more efficient public transportation networks aid in changing commuter preferences toward public transportation over private vehicles, thereby directly reducing the carbon footprint of the transportation network.

We view Axilion as an excellent opportunity for those seeking to invest in sustainable and smart cities and specifically in a primary element of smart cities—traffic flow management.

1. Company Overview

Axilion (TLV: AILN) hereafter "the Company" and/or "Axilion" is a publicly-traded AI software company headquartered in Israel and has offices in Israel, US, UAE, and Europe. The company focuses on developing AIbased software systems to better manage traffic mobility in cities, thereby reducing the carbon footprint and improved safety. In recent years, the company has been successful in implementing as well as in piloting its software solutions across multiple geographies: Israel, France, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the city of Jerusalem, and the United States. In Israel, US, and Europe alone Axilion's solutions have been deployed at more than 1,000 traffic intersections.

The company has received recognition from the Israel Innovation Authority, which supported the collaboration between the Technion Institute of Technology and Axilion for research & development aimed at developing advanced traffic management solutions. The company is considered among the top 200 partners at Microsoft, top 3 in smart cities and ranks 1st with regards to traffic and congestion alleviation. Further, the company raised USD 6 million in Series A funding in 2019 (led by Germany based Sixt SE), followed by a reverse merger with TASE in 2020 end raising USD 10, which was followed by raising USD 19 million via public funding and contributions from major investors such as Phoenix, More Investments, Excellence, Kesem, Alpha, Colibri, and others.

The company has developed an AI-based technology solution that collects and analyses data from multiple cameras across the city to dynamically create smart traffic light schedules, resulting in faster traffic movement, improving road safety, and prioritizing public transport. Further, factors such as autonomous operations, easy deployment, high scalability, and quality of being hardware agnostic (can be easily integrated with any kind of sensor) provide the technology solution a superior edge over other traffic management solutions available in the market.

Traffic congestion across the globe is only increasingly getting more frequent, further, the issue is also exacerbated with the increasing number of private vehicles. Further, the traditional way of how traffic light

operates has not changed since decades, and it still follows scheduled traffic light patterns. The need of the hour is a smart traffic light system that can anticipate incoming traffic flow and change the light's pattern adaptively and smartly

Axilion has come up with an idea that fulfils the need, a smart traffic management system. The developed technology solution uses the information being gathered by traffic monitoring infrastructure (dashboard cameras) to make traffic lights work smarter by anticipating traffic patterns and preventing congestion. Further, additional sensors for traffic related data collection can also be integrated to have a more in-depth and dynamic status of road conditions, providing Axilion with rich data set and higher predictability power enabling it to effectively mitigate traffic congestion issues. The developed solution is highly scalable and can be easily implemented across an entire city's transportation infrastructure, enabling a smart city ecosystem with intelligent traffic management.

Improvement in Traffic flow

Minimum stoppage time at intersections

Prioritizing public transit and smoother traffic flow for an overall reduction in transportation system carbon footprint

Pedestrian safety due to Smart Traffic Management System

The developed technology solution is named as X Way suite of AI Cloud Services (SaaS), further, the suite has three major components: X Way Pulse (data collection via multiple sensors), X Way Twin (Uses real-time data for the creation and continues calibration of a digital twin), and X Way Neural (Optimizes traffic light pattern using AI driven algorithms). In general, wherever the X Way Suite was deployed the results were very promising: shortened travel time by as much as 40%, mitigated over 140,000 tons of CO2 emissions to date and contributed towards the adoption of public transport with increased ridership (up to 400%).

Strategy and Business Model

Established in 2009, Axilion is led by Mr. Oran Dror (CEO, Co-Founder, and Chairman of the Board) who has over 10 years of experience working with Microsoft in senior sales marketing and operational roles. He is also a long time board member with Azrieli Group (TLV:AZRG) Israel's largest real-estate company with \$8B market cap. Other Axilion team members come from leading

conglomerates across the globe: Intel, Alibaba, Amazon, Google, Oracle and Apple amongst others.

The company's vision has primarily been towards leveraging AI capabilities to reduce the carbon emissions of the transportation sector.

Traffic congestion is a challenge that contributes to millions of dollars in lost time and waste fuel across the globe. Further, the issue of traffic congestion is more frequent in urban centres than in rural settings primarily due to a larger number of private vehicles, commercial vehicles, and sometimes also due to heavyweight vehicles. Axilion has developed its X Way Suite specifically to address the challenges faced by urban centres with minimum required investment.

The company deals via Microsoft's existing agreement with government bodies where the Axilion X Way suite is provided as an add-on solution. For every camera installed, Axilion generates about USD 300-600 per month of Azure credit depending upon data requirements. Further, Axilion charges the city for managing the traffic patterns, whereas it takes a share of 50% of the cost incurred to the city for utilizing Microsoft Azure.

The system ensures that vehicles with a fixed route (public transportation, electric trains, trams, and heavyweight cargo vehicles) are prioritized to have a less commute time for public transit riders. Further, other criteria such as road construction, pedestrian activity, and weather conditions are also considered while optimizing the flow of traffic across the whole city.

Additionally, the developed system is hardware agnostic and in the coming years is likely to be integrated with multiple types of sensors, which might be already present in a city's transportation infrastructure (stand-alone pedestrian traffic signals, speed gun detectors, and others) to ensure that at the least all the vehicles with a predefined route faces as fewer red lights as possible. For instance, the X Way Suite has ensured that the Light Rail in Jerusalem always passes through the green light, all the while taking pedestrian safety under consideration. The end result was that the Jerusalem average commute time drastically dropped to 42 minutes from the previous 80 minutes, headway reduced to 6 minutes and the ridership increased by as much as 387.4%.

Products and Technology

As sensors and cameras continue to enhance their data collection capabilities, AI has taken a central role in understanding patterns and enabling data driven decisions to maximize operational efficiency and accuracy. With innumerable successful trials, pilots and growing number of commercial implementations, AI based smart cities and traffic management systems are being seen as an inseparable element of the urban environment. In fact, futuristic algorithms such as RL (reinforcement learning) are also finding adoption in smart traffic management systems, imparting higher autonomy and adaptability to these systems.

Axilion's Deep Learning AI-based traffic management system has been extensively researched and refined by testing in multiple geographies.

In addition, the company has been actively collaborating with research institutes such as Technion, Tel Aviv University, and the Innovation Authority for continuous development in the X Way Suite.

Unlike autonomous vehicles which analyse the data from multiple cost intensive and in-vehicle hardware units such as LIDAR, RADAR, and other processing units, the X Way suite optimizes the traffic flow pattern without physical infrastructure changes and without any expensive hardware installation. Only a dashboard camera (equipped with GPS and a wireless connection) installation is required which allows for real time video analysis. In general, about 40 – 50 operational cameras are required for mid-sized city intersections (about 24 traffic signal arterials).

However, the exact number depends upon the granular level of data required and the desired resolutions. The camera is a proprietary hardware developed by Axilion in conjunction with HW manufacturer, which is retrofitted with Microsoft Azure for seamless operations. In addition to the above, the company is also utilizing existing camera infrastructure already installed in major cities which is expected to further increase the cost effectiveness of the technology solutions in the coming years.

Further, the platform utilizes the digital twin technology in conjunction with AI to reduce traffic-related emissions, prioritize sustainable transportation means, improved pedestrian safety, and an adaptive traffic management system. The result is a smooth traffic flow with minimal need of vehicles decelerating or

accelerating (the acceleration/ deceleration process is generally responsible for roughly half of the overall vehicular CO2 emission), as most of the time vehicles pass through green traffic lights.

Axilion technology decreases average commute times, improves pedestrian safety, reduces air pollution, decreases stoppage times at red lights, drives public transit use, improving quality of life."

Axilion's X Way Suite's key attributes

Deep Reinforcement Learning AI Technology

Real-Time, Adaptive Control

Smart & Scalable Hardware Agnostic Efficient Simulation via Digital Twin

The company has three SaaS service offerings:

1) X Way Pulse

Identification and analysis of the traffic light network and its efficiency by collecting and analysing video footage captured by cameras installed on moving vehicles as well as cameras installed on intersections. X Way

Pulse analyses the information via deep learning networks designed to understand the video for an in-depth understanding of the driving behaviour from the driver's perspective.

In order to effectively manage the large amount of incoming data and to analyse it with foremost efficiency, Axilion has smartly optimized the incoming data flow by reducing both the frame rates as well as image resolution of incoming video feeds making the data collection and analysis process more efficient.

X Way Pulse generates actionable insights for not only traffic intersection points but also for entire routes and transportation networks, enabling granular visibility into network activity and easy identification of root causes behind traffic issues.

2) X Way Twin (Technology under development)

By utilizing all the data gathered by X Way Pulse, X Way Twin creates a digital twin or a digital replica of the entire city's transportation network in the cloud. The digital twin model is then used to run multiple simulations or test multiple "what-if" scenarios for deciding the optimum traffic light schedule with the best possible outcome. The digital twin utilizes the origin-destination matrix or the OD matrix which allows the digital twin to identify where vehicles are going and where they are coming from, to identify heavy load junctions so that most critical traffic intersections can be tweaked for optimization.

Further, the X Way Twin also provides granular insights about the city on a real-time basis by leveraging the data collected by X Way Pulse. Data points such as traffic signal progression (queue length, queue time,

average vehicular speed through intersections), pedestrian density, two-wheeler density, and abstract data points such as pedestrian face mask usage is also available.

3) X Way Neural (Technology under development)

X Way Neural utilizes an AI-driven algorithm for automating the traffic light schedule as per several parameters: traffic volume, vehicle types, road capacity, pedestrian presence, driving patterns, and weather conditions amongst other factors.

X Way Neural is essentially an addition to the X Way Pulse Monitoring system and X Way twin digital modelling system. X Way Neural uses deep reinforcement learning techniques to identify the most optimum traffic light pattern across multiple city intersections to identify the one with the highest average traffic intersection vehicular speed, further the traffic pattern is beforehand tested on the digital twin and the performance is evaluated for proposing a new mobility plan.

X Way Pulse Monitoring system uses proprietary AI video technology to capture safety hotspots and probable traffic issues and performs a root cause analysis. The data is then sent across Microsoft Azure Cloud on a realtime basis, where the incoming data feed is redacted (faces and number plates are blurred) per General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance. X Way Neural constantly alters the digital Twin Model parameter and proposes the most optimum changes required for the best possible outcome.

Further, the system is also equipped with deep reinforcement learning AI, which means the system is continuously improving and is always learning. For instance, for a blocked intersection the suite captures and

understands the issue, recommends an optimized plan, and then analyses the result, until finally a similar situation arises and the suite leverages the previous analysis to generate more valuable suggestions.

Impact of Axilion's X Way Suite in Haifa (A metropolitan city in Israel)

Haifa was one of the first cities to adopt Axilion's X Way Suite, and the city upgraded its Metronit bus rapid transport (BRT) network by adopting Axilion's X Way Suite for 200 traffic lights along the bus route, for continuous and automated optimization of the traffic flow. In a short period, the BRT network witnessed roughly a two-fold increase in ridership (115,000 travellers from a previous 60,000 travellers per day), faster commute (average traveling speed of buses increased from 20 kilometres per hour or kmph to 26 kmph, whereas the average travel time decreased from 73 minutes to 58 minutes), less congestion, and enhanced pedestrian safety.

In addition to the above, there was a drop of 11% in the private vehicle utilization, an estimated annual savings of USD 7 million in operations and maintenance, along with an estimated 140,000 tons of annual CO2 emissions avoided.

Impact of Axilion's X Way Suite in Jerusalem

The tram network in the city of Jerusalem updated its 273 intersection points by Axilion X Way suite for enhanced traffic management.

  • Estimated savings due to reduction in fleet size: USD 600 million annually
  • Estimated reduction in energy requirements of trams: 28%
  • CO2 Savings: 100,000 tons annually (Primarily due to decrease in operational tram fleet size, increase in public transportation utilization, and decrease in private vehicle utilization)
Before After Benefits
Travel time 80 min 42 min 47%
Number of trams required 32 21 34%
Tram frequency (headway) 15 min 5 min 66%
Number of Passengers 40,000 200,000 400%

2. AI in Traffic Management Market Overview

Market Overview:

Artificial Intelligence has a strong potential to overcome the deficiencies in the automotive sector and provide significant benefits in terms of improved productivity and added revenue. AI acts as a crucial technology enabler in transforming every aspect of the automotive value chain starting from research and development to enhancing the car driving experience. In the automotive sector, a

major chunk of the innovations is focused at streamlining the in-vehicle driving experience, whereas just a few are focused at the overall scenario of smart traffic management.

AI has proven to yield better results in understanding the environment, analyzing large amounts of data, drawing insights, and ability to learn from past experiences for better results as compared to any other technology. AI technology developers and automotive manufacturers have been focusing on streamlining the user experience of vehicles integrated with AI. Most of the AI abilities typically focus on enhancing the user safety and comfort level: Integrating AI in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to support functions such as automatic braking, driver drowsiness detection, lane departure warning, and other safety features.

Traffic congestion is a problem faced by both the developing as well as developed economies, where AI powered systems for managing traffic lights is expected to be the most ideal solution due to its massive data handling and analysis capabilities. AI is considered to be a promising technology solution for transport authorities to achieve rapid improvements in relieving traffic congestion, improved travel time, and improved utilization of their assets for enhanced revenue generation, productivity, and lower carbon footprint. Among the prominent players specifically catering towards technology solutions streamlining traffic flow across the city are: Nexar (Israel), Mobileye (Israel), Moovit (Israel), C3 AI (United States), Google WAZE (Israel), NoTraffic (United States). Rapid Flow Technologies LLC (United States), FLIR Systems Inc. (United States), Alibaba Cloud City Brain (China), Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Sweden), and AlndraLabs (India) amongst others.

Global Artificial Intelligence Market:

The global artificial intelligence (AI) market is expected to grow from US\$157.2 billion in 2020 to US\$386.1 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 19.7%. The rapid growth in the volume of data being generated along with the

increasing deployment of cloud-based computing platforms is fueling AI adoption across various industry verticals including automotive, transportation, retail, telecom, healthcare, etc.

Axilion is well placed to address the emerging need of smart traffic management systems. The company's X Way Suite combines data analytics (data gathered via AI based cameras), digital twin, and a deep learning AI technology platform, to achieve a highly autonomous and adaptive traffic management system.

The AI market includes revenue from three technology sub-segments – Software, Hardware, Services. Software is the largest AI technology segment delivering close to 80% of all AI revenue.

Computer Vision:

The global computer vision market is expected to grow from US\$14.1 billion in 2020 to US\$20.2 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 7.5%. The increasing application of computer vision technology in the automotive and transportation industry is one of the key growth drivers. The emergence of self-driving cars equipped with advanced cameras and LiDAR sensors leverages computer vision to have a safe ride.

Axilion's proprietary dashboard cameras are equipped with GPS and wireless, which enables a real-time data transfer. Through Microsoft azure, Axilion uses its video analysis tool for data collection and analysis for an adaptive and autonomous traffic management system.

Global AI Software Market in Transportation:

The global AI software market in transportation industry is expected to grow from US\$2.1 billion in 2020 to US\$4.7 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 17.5%.

Deep learning holds the highest share of around 67% in the global AI transportation market 2020. Deep learning algorithms analyze the hidden patterns effectively in huge volume of data and assist the transportation industry to overcome the traffic issues.

Further, deep learning is a fully automated technique which offers more accuracy when compared with the traditional methods. Computer vision accounts for 19% share of the global AI transportation market and it is primarily used to enable the traffic management system to accurately capture images and analyze them under a wide variety of conditions such as bad weather and lighting, tracking vehicles at high speed and extremely congested traffic jams.

AI Enabled Smart Traffic Management Market Growth Drivers:

Market Growth Drivers Short
Term
(Less
than 2
years)
Medium
Term
(2 -5
years)
Long
Term
(More
than 5
years)
1 Reducing Traffic Congestion: AI collects traffic information at the intersections
continuously in real-time and analyzes it not only to assess current traffic
conditions but also to predict how much traffic congestion can happen and help
traffic management system with intelligent insights to ease out the clogged
roads efficiently.
2 Improving Road/Driver Safety:
AI technology has the capability to efficiently
analyze the critical driving factors such as vehicle speed, driver behavior and
nearby vehicles movement to alert the drivers with safety insights regularly and
give more reaction time in-case of accidents.
3 Fuel Efficient:
Vehicles stopping at traffic signals creates engine idle for some
time and again accelerating to get back up to speed may leads to wastage of
fuels, adding pollution. The deployment of AI in the traffic management system
synchronizes the timing of traffic
signals wit vehicle movements to considerably
reduce the idle time, offer improve mobility and makes vehicles energy
efficient.
4 Forecasting Accurate Transit Time: For public transport system,
forecasting
accurate transit travel time for
vehicles is very crucial, as it allows the
drivers/passengers to efficiently plan their trips and minimizes the waiting
times. Based on the various traffic data collected such as vehicle speed, traffic
conditions and etc., AI will assist the public transport users with reliable pick up
and drop off times for their routes.

AI Enabled Smart Traffic Management Market Restraints:

Market Restraints Short
Term
(Less
than 2
years)
Medium
Term
(2 -5
years)
Long
Term
(More
than 5
years)
1 Lack of
AI-
Specific Skills:
The end-users in the transportation industry still lack
the talent with appropriate skill sets to bring the best out of AI. It's difficult for
the users to continuously validate and update the AI system in real-time to
incorporate the
changes regularly.
2 Data Privacy Issues:
Data privacy and usage rights are another key barrier for AI
deployment in transport industry. The AI-based transport management system
requires access to huge amount of data that is often sensitive in nature. Hence,
there needs to be a completely secure system to ensure data is fully encrypted.
3 Regulations:
AI to make its way into actual vehicles and in transportation
industry would require a properly defined regulation. AI in transportation
needs higher regulatory standards than many other industry use cases.
Regulations will differ by region and even by country and state, and thus these
conditions need to have a robust regulatory framework in place.
4 Lack of Infrastructure: At a global level, in countries and in general many cities,
the transport industry lacks the technology infrastructure
to support AI
implementation.
The traditional technology infrastructure
is not capable
enough to analyze huge amounts for data that is required for training AI
solution.
High Medium Low
Legend

Carbon Capture Needs Has Created a Carbon Market and Technology has Created Market Opportunity

There is a great demand on global markets to reduce carbon emission/carbon capture solutions. All pathways that limit global warming to 1.5°C project the use of carbon dioxide removal on the order of 100-1000 Gigatons over the 21st century. It is projected that CO2 removal with the right policy support will become the world's biggest market. The climate math propounded by various agencies suggests a need for 10-20 Gt CO2 per year. At an average cost of US\$50-100/ton for capture and removal, that creates an industry at least thrice as large as the current size of the Oil and Gas industry.

Tackling the carbon challenge is complex. The world emits an average of 52 Gt CO2e/yr. However, the cost of capturing that carbon is enormous

    1. Currently, there are no known solutions to capture carbon at any cost above 38 Gt CO2e/yr
    1. The cost of abatement rises quickly at larger volumes to over \$1000 Gt CO2e/yr. Whereas, ideally, the cost of carbon abatement should be below \$100 per ton to make economic viability
    1. The world is already on its way to 80 Gt CO2e/yr
    1. None of the carbon technologies currently addresses legacy CO2 removal, which is 95% of the problem.

To achieve the hypothetical net-zero, viz. to remove almost the entirety of 50+ Gt CO2 of annual emissions, the world has to spend at least \$85 trillion annually (i.e., ~6% of the world GDP). If the world achieves a sub \$50/t cost of carbon capture, the world will still ~2.5% of its GDP but makes the entire process more viable.

As discussed earlier, Axilion's solutions help to reduce carbon emissions significantly. In our view, the company could receive a premium for its services due to its carbon-reducing effect.

AI in Traffic Management: Competitive Landscape

Axilion's X way suit's key differentiator is its unique data collection methodology (dashboard cameras equipped with GPS and wireless connection), simulation capability of real-time traffic via a digital twin, and deep reinforcement learning technology.

Company Product Description/Technology Profile Potential
Impact on
Improving
Traffic Mobility
Mobileye (Israel)
Mobileye is an Intel owned company and was
established
to
provide
technology
solutions
enabling
a
safer
and
congestion-free
transportation system. The company employs
more than 1,700 employees and has developed a
diverse range of software solutions that run on a
proprietary computer
chip, EyeQ.
The company has developed vision technology
for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)
and autonomous driving. The system is highly
compatible with all sorts of on-vehicle sensors:
surround cameras, radars, and LIDARS.
Moovit (Israel) The company has developed a technology suite,
Moovit
is
an
Intel
owned
company
which
develops software solutions for urban mobility,
the technology solutions largely focus around
real-time trip planning and mobile payment
facilities.
Mobility-as-a-Service
(MaaS)
solution,
for
enhanced urban mobility. The technology largely
caters
the
requirement
of
public
transit
authorities for streamlined functioning. The suite
includes facilities such as mobility apps, mobile
payment for transit apps, and mobility analytics
tools.
C3 AI (United States)
C3.ai is an AI software developing company
primarily engaged in digitizing the industrial
value chain by equipping it with predictive
maintenance,
fraud
detection,
and
supply
network optimization tools amongst others.
The company has developed AI driven technology
solutions which can be used for vehicle path
optimization and urban analytics.
The
company
has
developed
a
Intelligent
Dynniq Mobility (Netherlands)
The company develops technology solution to
aid in managing the flow of energy and mobility
in our society
Transport Systems (Peek Traffic), which utilizes
IoT,
sensors,
and
analytics
to
develop
an
adaptive,
cloud-connected,
and
modular
technology solution for traffic management.
Bestmile (United States)
Bestmile is a technology services provider for
public
and
private
mobility
providers.
The
company is primarily focused at AI solutions
enabling optimized trip planning.
The company provides its solution under the
technology suite of Bestmile Fleet Orchestration
Platform, which analyzes all the variables like
vehicle
capacity,
battery
level,
demand
on
network and many other factors to suggest most
optimum fleet schedule.
Rapid Flow Technologies LLC (United States)
Rapid
Flow
Technologies
LLC
is
a
startup
company spun out of Carnegie Mellon University;
the company was formed to commercialize the
technology
solution
Surtrac
(Scalable
Urban
Traffic Control) adaptive traffic signal control
technology developed at the Robotics Institute at
Carnegie
Mellon.
The company's technology solutions have been
Installed at more than 50 intersections across
Pittsburgh, US. The system has successfully
reduced average travel time by as much as 26%,
intersection stoppage time by 41%, and also
curbed vehicular emissions by 21% due to
increased mobility (Reduced requirement of
frequent acceleration and deacceleration).
The idea is to use data from installed fix cameras
ad use robotics and artificial intelligence for real
time traffic optimization and communication.
FLIR Systems Inc. (United States)
The company develops technology solutions
enhancing the perception and awareness of
equipment.
The
product
offerings
of
the
company
include
sensing
solutions:
thermal
imaging, visible-light imaging, threat detection
systems, and analytics software suits.
FLIR Systems Inc. announced the launch of two
new cameras FLIR ThermCam AI (with thermal
imaging capability) and FLIR TrafiCam AI, both the
cameras are equipped with artificial intelligence
to
optimize
the
traffic
flow
across
city
intersections. The cameras when connected with
FLIR's cloud platform (FLIR Analytics) can be used
for
predicting
traffic
patterns,
prevent
congestions, and identify potential accidents.
Hence, resulting in creating a smoother traffic
flow and safer roads for pedestrians and cyclists.
Alibaba Cloud (China)
The company provides secure cloud computing
and data processing capabilities as a part of its
technology
offering. The company provides its
services
to
several
enterprises
across
200
countries and regions.
One of the most prominent traffic management
technology
solutions,
City
Brain,
has
been
deployed in major Asian urban centers, with
deployment in more than 23 Chinese cities and in
countries such as Malaysia.
The concept utilized by the technology involves
leveraging data from cameras installed at traffic
intersections and then analyzing the data for
managing multiple traffic signals with the aim of
preventing gridlock.
NoTraffic (United States)
The company provides stationary sensors
and
The company's technology solution for efficient
traffic management includes plug & play AI
sensor installation and real-time data upload on
cloud computing options enabling digitization of
road infrastructure allowing a seamless traffic
management capability.
the cloud for autonomous and data driven traffic
light management
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Sweden)
The company is primarily engaged in developing
and
marketing
communication
technology
solutions.
Further,
the
company
caters
to
customers across 180 different nations spanning
across the globe.
In its product suite of Connected Urban Transport
solutions, the company provides Advanced Traffic
Management
System
(ATMS)
for
automated
system
monitoring,
management,
and
maintenance between cities as well as counties.
Real time data from traffic sensors and cameras is
aggregated and analyzed for smart management
of traffic lights at intersections
AlndraLabs (India)
The company is one of the prominent artificial
intelligence
related
technology
solution
providers in India. The company specializes in
developing products capable of analyzing digital
video and images via its visual analytics platform.
The company has
developed Aindra-Intellivision,
a
visual
analytics
platform,
which
has
the
potential of transforming any traffic monitoring
camera
into
a
smart
device.
The
Aindra
intellivision monitors digital video input and to
detect incidents and collect real time data for
assisting decisions.
Hikvision (China)
The company develops and markets video
surveillance equipment for both public and
military applications.
Hikvision
has
developed
a
traffic
flow
optimization system, which leverages data from
cameras and sensors installed at intersections.
The system adjusts the traffic light ensuring a
constant flow oof traffic from all directions.
South Ural State University (SUSU) (Russia)
South Ural State University (SUSU) is a Russian
public
research
institute.
Since,
2010,
the
university has held the status of a national
research university.
Researchers at the university have developed a
unique Artificial Intelligence Monitoring System
(AIMS) which uses data from HD CCTV cameras
installed at fixed location for traffic analysis and
has the potential to aid in enabling smart traffic
management systems.
Low Technology
readiness level
High Medium Low
Legend

Comparative Analysis of AI enabled traffic management solutions

Company Axilion (Israel) Rapid Flow
Technologies LLC
(United States)
C3 AI (United
States)
Alibaba Cloud
(China)
Hikvision (China)
Automation
Avg. time saved Up to 40% Up to 25% - Improved
mobility
Improved
mobility
Preference for
Public
Transportation
- - - -
Impact on
Overall
Transportation
System's carbon
footprint
Highest Medium Medium Medium Medium
Setup effort Minimal setup
with no
requirement of
field installation
Requires on-field
Equipment
Installation:
Cameras and
controller units
Data collection infrastructure
required
Hardware
Agnostic
Can be connected
with existing traffic
detection system
and may require
additional
hardware
installation in the
traffic control
cabinet
Installation of
intelligent traffic
cameras
required
AI data-driven
predictive
insights
-
Scalability High High High Medium
Medium

Integrated real
time traffic
simulation
-
Continuous time
plan
optimization
On demand

The proprietary dashboard cameras, developed by Axilion, collects data from the driver's perspective and captures optimized number of frames per second for quick and efficient data analysis. Further, dashboard cameras provide more rich data than fixed intersection cameras and hence a limited number of cameras are required to monitor multiple traffic intersections. The limited requirement of dashboard cameras is highly cost effective, further, deep reinforcement learning technology enables generation of optimum signal traffic plans, ideal for each intersection. The deep learning model also ensures that the traffic management system becomes smarter with time by learning from every new data point. Further, by giving a selective preference to public transportation systems and ensuring a smooth traffic flow across all the intersections, the overall carbon footprint is significantly reduced over time. As more people begin using public transportation and less private vehicles travel on roads, the carbon footprint of urban mobility is further reduced.

Recent Developments in AI-enabled Smart Traffic Management Solutions Sector

  • In 2020, Hikvision (China) entered into an agreement with Xi'an's transportation authority for the deployment of intelligent traffic management infrastructure. Hikvision is a prominent IoT services provider and would be providing the city with Checkpoint Capture Cameras, Intersection Violation Capture Units, along with AI-powered analytical tools for enabling the smart traffic management infrastructure.
  • In 2020, the AI company NoTraffic entered into an agreement with the transportation authority of City of Phoenix (United States) for upgrades in some of the city's traffic lights for their transformation into data driven and AI powered traffic lights.
  • In 2019, Fujitsu completed the demonstration of its AI-powered traffic management technology by successfully piloting its cameras and analytics platform in Nagnao (Japan). The result of the demonstration was that the system can detect vehicles even in harsh weathers and smartly optimize traffic lights. The test was supervised by the Kanto Regional Development Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

  • In 2019, The UK government announced its plan of sharing data on road congestion, repairs, and any other scheduled disruption to the country's transportation network along with a research funding of USD 368 million to drive innovations in data driven traffic management decisions for a smoother city-wide mobility.

  • In 2019, the government of Maharashtra (India) initiated the process of upgrading traffic intersection with an Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS), which leverages AI to analyze traffic data and monitor traffic violations.
  • In 2017, the Japan's transportation ministry began the initiative of installing cameras at important city junctions for data collection. The ministry plans to drive the development of data driven AI solutions capable of analyzing the collected data and help in managing traffic lights for most efficient urban mobility.

3. Financial Analysis & Valuation

Valuation Method & Approach

Valuation of a start-up company in its early stages can be challenging due to limited cash flow (if any) and uncertainty regarding the future. As part of a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), the accepted method used in financial valuations, there are several modifications to a start-up company's valuation. In general, there are four primary methods within the DCF method:

    1. Real options this valuation method is designated for pre-clinical and early-stage clinical programs/companies where the assessment is binary during the initial phases and based upon scientific-regulatory assessment only (binomial model with certain adjustments).
    1. Pipeline assessment a valuation method used for early-stage companies before the market stage where time-to-market may be a few years for full operations. The company's value is the total discounted cash flow for its products/signed agreements plus unallocated costs and its technology platform assessment.
    1. DCF valuation this method applies to companies with products that have a positive cash flow from operations.
    1. Market benchmark this method is based on recent deals (M&A and/or fundraising) within the company's domain and market multiples.

Axilion is a publicly held firm, thus a late-stage firm from a financial aspect, however early-mid stage in its time-to-market. Our valuation is based on a market benchmark approach.

Financial Overview - Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

ML is a subfield of Al that aims to give computers the ability to learn iteratively, improve predictive models, and find insights from data without being explicitly programmed. In practice, Al & ML is a subfield of data science that can extract predictions from complex datasets.

The pandemic is pushing digital technology initiatives to the top of enterprise priority lists, and Al & ML is a primary beneficiary of increased investment. We believe that Al is disproportionately benefiting from this focus since Al enables both the creation of new services and new technology resources management.

We believe the commercial Al & ML market is in the first ten years of a long-term shift in societal decision making, leveraging scientific progress made over the past century via improved computing power and enhanced datasets. As a result, we are just seeing the early growing pains of the technology in practical applications and barely gaining a glimpse into the technology's potential to replicate human intelligence.

We estimate ML vertical alone to be a \$67.1 billion market as of 2020, forecasting it to grow at a 22.3% CAGR into a \$131.5 billion market in 2023.

The Al field is in the pilot stages of creating a new class of companies with different characteristics than the SaaS businesses that have defined tech giants' current era. We believe that the industry is in the first ten years of a 40-year era that can redefine multiple industries and product categories. This has coincided with a golden era of SaaS computing, though we believe the two technologies are computationally and functionally distinct. Investors have conflated the two and encouraged Al developers to commercialize their findings early, resulting in some market failures.

Al & ML has been a lucrative space for VC investors over the past seven years, belying the confusion in the market. Previous PitchBook research found that Al & ML has had outstanding financial returns for VC investors for companies funded between 2013 and 2018, with all series achieving an adjusted annualized return of at least 35.6%. These returns far surpass those for the technology industry more broadly, for which no series earned over a 13.5% adjusted annualized return.

Global Venture Capital Activity

Q3 2020 deal value remained strong for Al & ML with \$10.4 billion invested across 770 deals—nearly half of the deal value derived from mega-deals in late-stage unicorns in the US and China, primarily driven by large institutional investors including BlackRock, Baillie Gifford, SoftBank, and Coatue Management.

Exit activity showed that public markets might be the best route for Al startups to maximize their value going forward. The trend of AI-integrated IPOs continued, with nine companies across segments taking advantage of an open IPO window, highlighted by Palantir's long-awaited debut. Palantir has made autoML a feature of its data integration platform. Cambricon Technologies pushed Al chip startups' valuation ceiling higher, achieving a \$3.3 billion pre-money valuation in its IPO on the Shanghai Stock Exchange only four years after being founded. M & M&A continued to be slow in deal count and deal value, with no acquisition disclosing a value of more than \$14 million. Apple and Microsoft remained active in M&A in Q3, demonstrating that exit opportunities for leading startups remain robust in a recessionary environment. Apple acquired an Alintegrated podcast startup, Scout.FM, and Microsoft acquired AlaaS startup Orions Systems, both likely for low deal values.

We also see a tremendous surge in the Far East with China's venture capital ecosystem. In China alone we found 14 "unicorns" startups with a valuation of \$1 billion or more - worth \$40.5 billion in total.

Source: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/09/the-top-5 chinese-ai-companies/

We will now dive in into horizontal platforms and will view use cases relative to Axilion positioning within the market.

Horizontal Platforms

Horizontal platforms empower end-users to build and deploy Al & ML algorithms across a variety of use cases. These platforms directly apply scientific advances in Al & ML research to commercial applications. Companies in this segment have differentiated Al & ML approaches and are built with Al & ML from the ground up (also referred to as Al-first). Furthermore, some horizontal platforms improve Al & ML algorithms but do not use Al & ML themselves.

Computer vision: The use of Al & ML to analyze visual data and make meaningful predictions about both the physical world and digital images. The technology can be used across use cases to label and make predictions about visual data. Key technologies utilizing computer vision across various verticals include: AI-enabled augmented reality, computer vision as a service, facial recognition, geospatial analysis, and visual data labeling software.

Al automation platforms: Software and services that enable enterprises across all verticals to leverage Al to automate critical business processes via predictive analytics. Categories include AI-first applications of the following products: Al for IT operations (AlOps), business intelligence, contract lifecycle management automation, database management, decision intelligence, and intelligent process automation.

Vertical Applications

Vertical applications in Al & ML address specific problems within industries and are not always AI-first. Many startups in this category design a solution to an industry problem using software and integrate Al & ML to optimize some part of their product. These solutions typically differentiate based on the quality of the dataset used to train the industry-specific model and the industry expertise of the data scientists in identifying decision-making areas that can be enhanced by Al & ML models. As a result, many of these startups help automate specific functions within their industry but have limited ability to cross-apply their Al & ML to other industries. Sub segments, for example, are financial services, healthcare, transportation, and more.

Market size - Vertical applications

We estimate the vertical applications market to reach \$39.7 billion in 2020, with a 23.5% CAGR out to 2023, resulting in a \$74.8 billion market. The segment is heavily weighted toward enterprise IT applications, a \$17.8 billion market, led by customer service automations in ecommerce and enterprise sales, growing to a \$33.9 billion market by 2023 at a 24.0% CAGR. This estimate includes \$2 billion to \$4 billion markets in sales & marketing automation, information security automation, and fraud prevention. We estimate industrial Al to be the second-biggest category at \$8.3 billion, focused primarily on manufacturing automation and predictive maintenance. This category may grow more slowly than the market overall at a 20.0% CAGR due to the challenge of integrating new analytics with legacy controls systems.

Valuation Summary

We based our valuation on a top-down, market benchmark analysis. Observing Axilion market positioning we identified 89 similar companies in terms of activity (AI & ML) and growth stage and excluded outliers from our sample. The average post-money valuation for these similar deals is \$453.7M (See appendix 1 for the full data set). Below we present a sample of the 10 top AI deals:

Company
Name
Description Deal Date Deal Type Pre
money
Valuation
(million,
USD)
Post
Valuation
(million,
USD)
Country
Pony.ai Developer of an autonomous driving technology intended to
facilitate manufacturing of automated vehicles.
07-Feb-2021 Later Stage
VC
4,933 5,300 United
States
C3.ai C3.ai Inc is an enterprise artificial intelligence company. 09-Dec-2020 IPO 3,375 4,026 United
States
Luminar Luminar Technologies Inc is an autonomous vehicle sensor
and software company.
02-Dec-2020 Reverse
Merger
2,994 3,400 United
States
SentinelOne Developer of automated cybersecurity software designed to
protect devices and servers against malware and threats.
11-Nov-2020 Later Stage
VC
2,733 3,000 United
States
Verafin Developer of cloud-based fraud detection and anti-money
laundering software.
11-Feb-2021 Merger/
Acquisition
2,750 Canada
Sumo Logic Sumo Logic Inc is a software company. 17-Sep-2020 IPO 1,846 2,171 United
States
Farmer's
Business
Network
Farmers Business Network is a provider of a farmer-to
farmer agronomic information network.
03-Aug-2020 Later Stage
VC
1,600 1,800 United
States
Lookout Developer of cloud-based security software designed to
detect mobile threats and improve mobile security.
01-Mar-2020 Later Stage
VC
1,701 1,751 United
States
Harness Developer of a delivery-as-a-service platform created to
simplify the software delivery process.
06-Jan-2021 Later Stage
VC
1,615 1,700 United
States
Verkada Manufacturer of enterprise security cameras designed to
offer enterprise physical security services.
29-Jan-2020 Later Stage
VC
1,520 1,600 United
States

We also view AI and Mobility tech firms since 2020 and found that the median post money valuation is \$526.2M, as we present below some of the companies2 :

Technology Services Post Valuation (Median): \$526.20M
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Based on the aforementioned data and analysis, we evaluate the company's equity value at \$453.7M.

We estimate Axilion's price target to be in the range of NIS 50.08 and NIS 55.35, with a mean of NIS 52.72.

Based on the aforementioned data and analysis, we evaluate the company's equity value at \$453.7M. We estimate Axilion's price target to be in the range of NIS 50.08 and NIS 55.35, with a mean of NIS 52.72.

2 Source: Pitchbook (showing 38 of 468 companies).

Appendix 1: Deals Sample

Company
Name
Description Deal Date Deal Type 1 Compan
y Pre
money
Valuatio
n
(million,
USD)
Compan
y Post
Valuatio
n
(million,
USD)
Compan
y
Country
Pony.ai Developer of an autonomous driving technology intended
to facilitate manufacturing of automated vehicles. The
company's technology leverages artificial intelligence and
algorithms to accurately perceive the vehicle's
surroundings in order to predict the surrounding driver's
actions and maneuver the vehicle accordingly, enabling
vehicle companies to improve their car functionality and
safety in an efficient manner.
07-Feb-2021 Later Stage VC 4,933 5,300 United
States
C3.ai C3.ai Inc is an enterprise artificial intelligence company.
The company provides software-as-a-service applications
that enable customers to rapidly develop, deploy, and
operate large-scale Enterprise AI applications across any
infrastructure. It provides solutions under three divisions
namely, The C3 AI Suite, is a comprehensive application
development and runtime environment that is designed to
allow customers to rapidly design, develop, and deploy
Enterprise AI applications of any type; C3 AI Applications,
include a large and growing family of industry-specific and
application-specific turnkey AI solutions that can be
immediately installed and deployed; and C3.ai Ex
Machina, analytics for applying data science to every-day
business decisions.
09-Dec-2020 IPO 3,375 4,026 United
States
Luminar Luminar Technologies Inc is an autonomous vehicle
sensor and software company with the vision to make
autonomy safe and ubiquitous by delivering the lidar and
associated software that meets the industry's stringent
performance, safety, and economic requirements.
02-Dec-2020 Reverse Merger 2,994 3,400 United
States
SentinelOne Developer of an automated cybersecurity software
designed to protect devices and servers against malware
and threats. The company's cloud-based software helps
in delivering autonomous security for the endpoint, data
centre and cloud environments to help organizations
secure their assets with speed and simplicity, unifies the
detection, prevention and remediation of threats initiated
by nation-states and organized crime in a single platform
powered by artificial intelligence, enabling organizations
to detect malicious behaviour across multiple vectors,
rapidly eliminate threats with a fully-automated integrated
response and adapt their defences against the advanced
cyber attacks.
11-Nov-2020 Later Stage VC 2,733 3,000 United
States
Verafin Developer of cloud-based fraud detection and anti-money
laundering software designed to identify entities that may
be involved in money laundering or terrorist financing
activities. The company offers compliance automation
tools such as big data intelligence, visual storytelling,
collaborative investigations, artificial intelligence, machine
learning for cross-institutional, multi-channel analysis to
detect deposit, check, card and wire frauds, funnel
accounts, human trafficking, unusual tax refund, and
other unethical activities, along with vendor management,
enterprise reporting, case management, watch list
scanning, and other related services, enabling banks and
credit unions to scan customers and transactions prior to
initiating contracts.
11-Feb-2021 Merger/Acquisiti
on
2,750 Canada
Sumo Logic Sumo Logic Inc is a software company. The company
develops software, which enables organizations of all
sizes to address the challenges and opportunities
presented by digital transformation, modern applications,
and cloud computing. The software platform enables
organizations to automate the collection, ingestion, and
analysis of application, infrastructure, security, and IoT
data. The solutions provided are Operations Intelligence,
17-Sep-2020 IPO 1,846 2,171 United
States
Security Intelligence, and Business Intelligence.
Farmer's
Business
Network
Farmers Business Network is a provider of a farmer
-to
-
farmer agronomic information network designed to help
farmers in the management of their data and gain insights
from each other. The company's platform predominantly
collects data extracted from farm equipment, as well as
from manually recorded data from farmers to offer
insights in areas such as seed selection, compare
productivity and benchmark field performance over time,
enabling users to make informed decisions.
03
-Aug
-2020
Later Stage VC 1,600 1,800 United
States
Lookout Developer of cloud
-based security software designed to
detect mobile threats and improve mobile security. The
company's platform protects mobile phones from viruses,
malware, spyware and has the ability to backup and
restore data and tools to help locate lost or stolen phones
by using machine intelligence, enabling users to secure
their personal information and data that are stored in
mobile devices from serious cyber
-attacks.
01
-Mar
-2020
Later Stage VC 1,701 1,751 United
States
Harness Developer of a delivery
-as
-
a
-service platform created to
simplify the software delivery process. The company's
platform utilizes machine learning and offers real
-time
delivery analytics, live notifications, continuous
verifications, workflow wizards, and a pipeline builder,
thereby enabling software engineers to save time by
automating the scripting process.
06
-Jan
-2021
Later Stage VC 1,615 1,700 United
States
Verkada Manufacturer of enterprise security cameras designed to
offer enterprise physical security services. The company's
platform offers cameras that combine cutting
-edge
camera technology with intelligent, web
-based software
all in a secure, user
-friendly system, as well as eliminate
the need for outdated equipment such as network video
recorders, enabling users to get updated and expanded
cameras that offer the protection of full encryption with no
special configurations required.
29
-Jan
-2020
Later Stage VC 1,520 1,600 United
States
Zenoti Developer of cloud
-based enterprise software designed to
empower the beauty and wellness industry. The
company's software uses artificial intelligence, predictive
analytics and communication tools to manage reporting
and analytics, inventory management, marketing and
employee management, enabling businesses to eliminate
long front desk lines, omnichannel booking and
contactless payments for seamless check
-outs.
Developer of a cloud
-built platform intended to connect
15
-Dec
-2020
Later Stage VC 1,110 1,264 United
States
Tekion digital experiences to automotive retail. The company's
platform provided brings the entire consumer, Dealer, and
OEM ecosystem together by connecting every part of the
automotive retail journey, enabling car dealers to seek a
better way to do business while providing customer
experiences and increasing efficiency, revenue, and
retention.
21
-Oct
-2020
Later Stage VC 875 1,000 United
States
Asapp Developer of a machine learning software designed to
make customer experiences more productive. The
company's software augments and automates human
work while focusing on complex and data
-rich problems,
enabling individuals and organizations to realize their full
potential and increase efficiency.
01
-May
-2020
Later Stage VC 650 835 United
States
Neo4j Developer of an open
-source graph database designed to
help companies build intelligent applications. The
company's database leverages data as first
-class entities
and helps to understand connections, influences, and
relationships in data through machine learning and
artificial intelligence that can adapt to changing business
needs, enabling clients to get support in fraud detection,
real
-time recommendations, and master data.
30
-Sep
-2020
Later Stage VC 710 740 United
States
Transwarp
(Big Data)
Developer of big data software technologies for
enterprises. The company's cloud
-based platform offers
an integrated, one
-stop data processing and cloud
operating system to explore the applications of big data
infrastructure in enterprises, enabling enterprises to store,
manage and analyze data.
01
-Dec
-2020
Later Stage VC 650 696 China
Tansun Tansun Technology Co Ltd is engaged in independent
research and development of core technologies and
24
-Aug
-2020
IPO 516 688 China
products, focusing on customer assets (credit, transaction
banking and supply chain finance), risk management,
core business systems. The company is focused on
providing long
-term IT solutions and services for financial
industry customers, including central banks, political
banks, state
-owned banks, joint
-stock banks, local
commercial banks, and non
-banking financial institutions.
Its services include consulting and testing services.
WorkTrans Developer of a human resource management software
designed to offer diversified attendance, mobile
scheduling and unified management. The company's
software helps in generating fast payroll, roster,
recruitment and training around attendance, enabling
companies to improve recruiting efficiency.
08
-Jan
-2021
Later Stage VC 550 669 China
Brain Corp Developer of artificial intelligence
-based software
designed to help create autonomous machines that can
navigate safely and efficiently in public indoor spaces like
retail stores, airports, hospitals, and more. The company's
technology utilizes a cloud
-connected operating system
for commercial autonomous robots that can power robots
in environments such as malls, airports, universities and
big box stores, enabling robots to navigate autonomously,
avoid obstacles, adapt to changing environments,
manage data, generate reports and seamlessly interact
with end
-users and other robots.
27
-Apr
-2020
Later Stage VC 500 536 United
States
Emailage Developer of a SaaS fraud prevention and identity
verification technology designed to make transactions
easy and secure. The company's technology uses
machine learning and proprietary algorithms in order to
provide real
-time alerts of risky transactions and delivers
a risk score, enabling companies to realize significant
savings from identifying and stopping fraudulent
19
-Mar
-2020
Merger/Acquisiti
on
480 United
States
Socure transactions and improve customer experience.
Developer of a digital identity authentication platform
designed to mitigate identity fraud risks for financial
institutions. The company's platform is based on artificial
intelligence and machine learning that integrates
predictive analysis with digital, offline and social identity
data to determine the authenticity of user identity and
deliver fraud risk prediction, enabling organizations to
reduce fraud rates, increase acceptance rates as well as
lower compliance and manual review costs.
25
-Aug
-2020
Later Stage VC 340 375 United
States
Tungee Provider of an enterprise sales forecasting platform
designed to offer sales analyses and solutions. The
company develops a sales forecasting SaaS platform
based on big data and artificial intelligence to provide
enterprises with intelligent sales solutions including leads
mining, business opportunity engagement, customer
relationship management and order analysis, enabling
businesses to reduce sales cost and improve sales
performance.
01
-Dec
-2020
Later Stage VC 281 334 China
Gorgias Provider of multi
-channel helpdesk services designed for
e
-commerce to manage all customer support in one
application. The company's help desk software combines
machine learning and integrations with the tools to
automatically suggest how to solve support request as
well as creates templates and shortcuts to auto
-expand
small snippet of text into a polite support answer, offering
customer support agents with an artificial intelligence
-
powered help desk that makes them efficient at
answering customer support requests.
10
-Dec
-2020
Later Stage VC 300 325 United
States
STATSports Developer of athletic performance monitoring technology
designed for elite sports organizations. The company's
product is the most accurate wearable in the world, with
over 90 peer reviewed publications, and utilises AI and
real
-time machine learning to collect over five million data
points per typical session, endorsed professionally and
privately by some of the world's most influential teams
and sports stars, and brings the highest resolution of data
to the consumer market, allowing fans to authentically
compare their athletic performance against their favourite
athletes.
14
-Jun
-2020
Later Stage VC 317 320 United
Kingdom
Featurespa
ce
Developer of an adaptive behavioral analytics platform
designed to bring new insights through new ways of
treating data. The company's platform monitors all
customer data in real
-time to spot anomalies and block
new fraud attacks as they occur and recognizes genuine
customers without blocking their activity, enabling
organizations to reduce their fraud costs, keep their
customers happy and increase their revenues.
13
-May
-2020
Later Stage VC 228 265 United
Kingdom
Xnor.ai Developer of machine learning software models designed
to work with applications for retail analytics, drones,
automotive, industrial automation and smart cameras.
The company's software is able to deliver very high
performance, low power machine learning models
suitable for sophisticated analytics on resource
-
constrained edge devices, as well as delivering fast and
scalable algorithms with no cloud and internet
connectivity required, enabling users to achieve deep
learning, machine vision, and speech recognition to be
done directly on devices.
08
-Jan
-2020
Merger/Acquisiti
on
200 United
States
JSonar Developer of a security data platform intended to offer
efficient data
-centric audits and protection. The
company's platform offers source tools which are fast to
deploy, easy to use, fully functional from the start with
built
-in machine learning, AI and keeps data in a live,
usable form according to retention needs, enabling
businesses to meet their security and compliance needs
in a single low
-cost platform.
09
-Jun
-2020
Later Stage VC 150 200 United
States
Ocrolus Developer of a human
-in
-the
-loop fintech infrastructure
platform intended to automate back
-office tasks with
precision. The company's platform uses artificial
intelligence and crowdsourcing to automate financial
review processes, analyze documents with accuracy and
speed, delivering highly accurate data verification,
enhanced fraud detection and cash
-flow analytics to
lenders, enabling financial services companies to make
high
-quality decisions, in an automated and efficient way,
with trusted data.
12
-Nov
-2020
Later Stage VC 187 200 United
States
Awake
Security
Developer of a network security and analytics platform
designed to improve security team productivity. The
company's platform uses machine learning and data
science to automate analysis of both insider and external
attacker behaviors, and provides autonomous triage and
response with full forensics across traditional, IoT, and
cloud networks, enabling enterprises to quickly find and
remediate the threats that would otherwise go undetected
by traditional security solutions.
15
-Apr
-2020
Later Stage VC 150 186 United
States
Seal
Software
Provider of contract discovery, data extraction and
analytics software designed to help companies manage
their contract portfolios. The company's software
leverages machine learning and natural language
processing that works like a search engine where users
can ask various questions about their contracts, like start
dates, renewals, payment terms, liability, pricing,
incentives and others to get answers for them, enabling
companies to understand exactly where their contracts
are and what is buried within them, maximizing revenue
opportunities, mitigating risk and reducing expenses.
01
-May
-2020
Merger/Acquisiti
on
185 United
States
FogHorn Developer of an edge intelligence software designed to
deliver the power of real
-time industrial
-grade analytics to
resource
-constrained edge devices. The company's
software augments edge computing with machine
learning to bring intelligence to industrial IoT which works
with mainstream IoT platforms in the public cloud and can
be easily integrated with AWS and Azure, thereby
enabling businesses to make profitable analytics
-based
decisions.
25
-Feb
-2020
Later Stage VC 150 175 United
States
Anodot Developer of automated anomaly detection system
designed to detect and turn outliers in time series data
into valuable business insights. The company's platform
uses automated machine learning algorithms to
continuously analyze all business data and alert the
businesses in real time whenever an incident occurs,
16
-Apr
-2020
Later Stage VC 136 171 United
States
enabling clients to reduce detection time, consequently
safeguarding revenue, minimizing operational costs, and
improving customer experience.
BroadbandT
V
BBTV Holdings Inc is a media and technology company.
The company provides end
-to
-end management,
distribution, and monetization of content. Revenue is
generated from direct Ad sales, advertising, content
management, and mobile gaming apps.
28
-Oct
-2020
IPO 40 171 Canada
Eigen
Technologie
s
Developer of a natural language processing technology
designed to read complex documents. The company's
technology leverages machine learning to analyze and
mine documents and contracts, automating the extraction
of unstructured qualitative data, enabling individuals and
organizations to make the right decisions by unlocking the
value of their qualitative data.
13
-Mar
-2020
Later Stage VC 128 170 United
Kingdom
Aktana Developer of a decision support platform designed to
synthesize and prioritize data to provide commercial
teams relevant insights and suggested actions within their
workflows. The company's platform harnesses machine
learning algorithms, analyzes market data, channel
activity, and HCP preference in real
-time, enabling
pharmaceutical companies to increase revenue, capitalize
on data investments and drive channel productivity and
results.
16
-Oct
-2020
Later Stage VC 140 155 United
States
Chorus Developer of a conversation intelligence platform
designed to identify and help teams replicate the
performance of top
-performing reps by analyzing their
sales meetings. The company's platform transcribes and
analyzes business conversations in real
-time, listens to
sales calls, and leverages proprietary natural language
processing (NLP) algorithms to glean insights from
recorded calls, enabling clients to focus on business and
close more deals in a short span of time.
28
-Jul
-2020
Later Stage VC 120 153 United
States
Onna Developer of a data integration platform intended to
connect to emerging apps. The company's platform
integrates corporate legal departments and disparate data
sources into a central platform and uses a self
-learning
neural network to collect, preserve and search scattered
data silos in one single repository, thereby enabling
organizations to better centralize their data in one single
repository.
17
-Jun
-2020
Later Stage VC 80 107 United
States
Saltlux Saltlux Inc is engaged in the business of machine
learning and natural language processing. The solutions
provided are customer voice analysis, opinion mining,
social network analysis, intelligent audit, and other
services.
23
-Jul
-2020
IPO 89 105 South
Korea
Evergage Developer of a real
-time personalization platform
designed to deliver the most relevant, individualized
marketing experience. The company's platform combines
in
-depth behavioral analytics and customer data with
advanced machine learning and provides companies with
a detailed and real
-time insight of how their customers
use their products, enabling marketers to understand and
interact with each person that visits their website, one at a
time, thereby increasing customer engagement and
conversions.
03
-Feb
-2020
Merger/Acquisiti
on
100 United
States
Clara
Analytics
Developer of AI and ML
-based software designed to
provide accurate analytics for insurance companies. The
company's platforms identify the best providers and
attorneys to use and help them pursue the most cost
-
effective settlement strategy to reduce costs across their
claims operations and provide alerts and insights on day
one, enabling them to quickly spot potentially costly
claims and take action before they escalate.
21
-May
-2020
Later Stage VC 75 100 United
States
SafeGuard
Cyber
Developer of an end
-to
-end collaboration security
platform designed to manage the full life cycle of digital
risk protection. The company's platform detects, analyzes,
defends and prevents cybersecurity attacks while
automating governance and compliance and delivers
massive
-scale threat analytics that leverages machine
learning to notify clients, enabling clients to take action
against risks and threats across digital channels in real
-
18
-Dec
-2020
Later Stage VC 75 96 United
States
time.
Revuze Developer of a cloud
-based business software designed
to offer an all
-automated customer opinions analyzer. The
company's software is built around a self
-learning artificial
intelligence and therefore unconstrained by human
imagination, so it can go deeper than any existing product
and provide data
-driven insights, enabling clients to get
customer loyalty reports such as Net Promoter Score
(NPS) and measuring their consumer satisfaction (CSAT)
as well as that of their rivals in a hassle
-free manner.
Developer of a supply chain risk management software
06
-Mar
-2020
Later Stage VC 89 94 United
States
Riskmethod
s
designed to identify, assess and mitigate supply chain
risk. The company's software leverages AI algorithms to
automate and accelerate threat detection for risk
awareness, reacts fast and manages risk proactively to
avoid supply interruption, enforce compliance and protect
the corporate image, enabling organizations to identify
and evaluate challenges within the supply chain and to
initiate appropriate countermeasures.
19
-Feb
-2020
Later Stage VC 79 88 German
y
FarEye Developer of a cloud
-based mobile field workforce
management platform designed to offer GPS based
vehicle tracking and security system. The company's
platform is customizable and can seamlessly integrate
into the existing workflow of the organization to schedule
jobs, track execution and evaluate the performance, all in
real
-time, enabling logistics, insurance, pathology and
retail industries to monitor and track field activities.
21
-Aug
-2020
Later Stage VC 41 79 India
Casetext Developer of a legal research platform designed to make
the law more accessible and understandable. The
company's platform automates key legal research tasks
by leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning
technologies to analyze litigation documents and uses
that information to algorithmically query the law, enabling
attorneys and law firms to provide litigation services in a
better manner.
13
-Mar
-2020
Later Stage VC 70 78 United
States
Hiretual Developer of an artificial intelligence
-based recruiting
software designed to increase team collaboration,
pipeline management and improve intelligent
engagement. The company's software sources
candidates from over 30 platforms featuring more than
700M professional profiles, enabling recruiters to prioritize
the best candidates, save time with instant contact details
and find the right people faster.
08
-Jun
-2020
Later Stage VC 60 73 United
States
Alfi Operator of an artificial intelligence and machine learning
company intended to improve the accurate delivery of
personalized content in a measurable way. The
company's software utilizes computer vision powered by
proprietary developed machine learning algorithms to
sense human behaviour and performs with high levels of
visualization accuracy of real
-time metrics providing
insights into age, gender, ethnicity, emotion, object
classification and retina motion interaction, enabling
customers to capture big data and delivering data
analytical reporting.
18
-Jan
-2021
IPO 55 73 United
States
PSL
Software
Developer of Softwares in Medellin, Colombia. The
company offers agile software development, nearshore IT
outsourcing, test automation, cloud architecture designs
and implementation a software reengineering, thus
helping in solving tough engineering challenges in areas
like machine learning, automation and performance.
17
-Jun
-2020
Merger/Acquisiti
on
71 Colombi
a
Element
Analytics
Developer of an industrial analytics software designed to
make industrial data easy to use and turn it into insights.
The company's software process manages and integrates
large volumes of data from a wide variety of sources
including sensors and engineering and operational
systems, enabling industrial organizations to surface
reliability, productivity, and sustainability insights for
operations.
26
-Jun
-2020
Later Stage VC 50 68 United
States
Symbio Developer of robotics technology intended to make
industrial robots more capable and easier to use. The
company's technology utilizes artificial intelligence to
transform hyper
-specific industrial robots into powerful,
28
-Sep
-2020
Later Stage VC 55 67 United
States
general tools that anyone can use and also help industrial
robots manufacture everything from smartphones to car
engines by integrating algorithms into a robust control
architecture, enabling manufacturing companies to
improve their production through automation of tasks
throughout powertrain and general assembly operations.
Stellar
Cyber
Developer of a unified security analytics platform intended
to provide a breach detection tool required for data
protection. The company's platform helps organizations to
automatically detect and thwart attacks on their critical
data systems before damage is done or data is lost and
deploys easily in any computing and network
environment, enabling enterprises and service providers
to manage detection and response services efficiently.
21
-Jul
-2020
Later Stage VC 57 65 United
States
Netomi Developer of artificial intelligence (AI)
-based customer
service platform designed to unlock the power of one
-to
-
one relationships across the entire customer journey. The
company's platform helps businesses to activate, manage
and train AI to automatically resolve tickets, enabling
businesses to contextually engage and build relationships
with their customers by analyzing trending topics,
conversation sentiment and other factors.
07
-Jul
-2020
Later Stage VC 52 64 United
States
Wise
Systems
Developer of an automated dispatching and routing
software designed to simplify delivery route planning. The
company's software uses machine learning to
automatically schedule, monitor and adjusts routes in
real
-time, considering multiple variables and constraints,
enabling fleet managers to optimize transportation
operations and make deliveries efficient at decreased
costs.
04
-Jun
-2020
Later Stage VC 45 60 United
States
Neurala Developer of deep learning neural network software
designed to make drones smarter. The company's
software focuses on building artificial intelligence and
computer vision technologies for robots, drones, toys and
smart devices, enabling enterprises to solve visual
inspection challenges using the power of AI to increase
productivity, raise quality and lower costs.
24
-Jun
-2020
Later Stage VC 52 57 United
States
Edited Developer of a real
-time analytics platform designed to
help retailers improve their decision making. The
company's platform offers data tracking of pricing,
assortment, and deep product metrics for apparel
professionals in merchandising, buying, trading, and
strategy, enabling brands to understand their markets
better and trade more efficiently.
15
-Apr
-2020
Later Stage VC 34 56 United
Kingdom
ThoughtTra
ce
Provider of a SaaS platform intended to extract valuable
insights from unstructured data buried in large volumes of
complex contractual documents. The company's platform
uses a combination of artificial intelligence and machine
learning algorithms to help enterprises review and
validate critical information in existing contracts and legal
documents, enabling clients with the ability to apply
context to content, replace ambiguity with clarity, and
provide understanding even in the absence of structure.
20
-May
-2020
Later Stage VC 45 55 United
States
Artomatix Developer of a creative artificial intelligence platform
designed to create realistic and immersive worlds by
generating 3D content. The company's platform uses
artificial intelligence to radically enhance textures and
backgrounds in 3D gamespace by scan
-based design
and photogrammetry, enabling experts and enthusiasts
alike to focus on creativity, while automating the tedious
aspects of 3D content creation.
11
-Mar
-2020
Merger/Acquisiti
on
54 Irelan
d
Indico Data Developer of a process automation platform intended to
accelerate document
-based workflows. The company's
platform leverages deep learning and artificial intelligence
to offer contract analysis, regulatory compliance, audit,
and reporting, customer support automation, claim
analysis, and contract process automation, enabling
businesses to improve the efficiency of labor
-intensive
workflows and automatically extract meaningful insight
from unstructured data at scale.
14
-Dec
-2020
Later Stage V
C
30 52 United
States
Gridspace Developer of a communication software designed to
monitor and extract meaningful details from business
10
-Jul
-2020
Later Stage VC 40 47 United
States
conversations. The company's software combines new
techniques in the fields of speech recognition, natural
language processing and artificial intelligence by turning
conversational interactions into structured business data,
enabling businesses to become more aware, customer
-
friendly, profitable and secure.
Smartvid.io Developer of a cloud
-based video management platform
designed to significantly reduce jobsite risk with the power
of human and artificial intelligence. The company's
platform uses machine learning to develop software that
analyzes all images and videos in each project and
matches them to a set of construction
-specific tags,
enabling clients to solve the management, collaboration,
search and analysis challenges associated with industrial
videos and photos.
Atlas ML Developer of an online platform created to advance open
source deep learning. The company's platform offers
community and toolkit to solve workflow problems for
machine learning, enabling developers to create a free
and open resource with machine learning papers, code
and evaluation tables.
ZineOne Provider of cloud
-based marketing technology designed
to provide real
-time brand
-to
-user interactions across all
digital channels. The company's technology provides a
real
-time engagement platform for different verticals to
match and correlate customer interaction patterns in real
-
time to initiate preferred actions based on machine
learning, enabling customers with contextual interactions
without changing a line of code in their applications.
Securonix Provider of a cloud
-based big data security insights
platform designed to transform security management with
risk intelligence. The company's security intelligence
platform uses Hadoop and machine learning technology
to consume, enrich and investigate and provide insights
on massive volumes of data in real
-time, enabling clients
to detect and prioritize insider threat, cyber threat, cloud
and fraud attacks automatically and in a precise manner.
ZenCity Developer of an AI
-powered data analytics tool intended
to provide local governments with data
-driven insights
about their communities' needs and priorities. The
company's platform analyzes millions of pieces of
anonymized, aggregated feedback from varied sources
like social media, local broadcast media and government
customer service channels to offer actionable insights
based on trending topics in citizens' conversations,
enabling government agencies to prioritize resources,
shape policies, track performance and connect with their
communities.
Rezatec Developer of a geospatial data analytics platform
designed to monitor and detect environmental changes.
The company's platform uses proprietary algorithms and
advanced machine learning techniques to deliver
actionable insights as Data
-as
-
a
-Service landscape
intelligence via an online decision support portal to help
drive the smart management of land
-based assets,
enabling cities to become more resilient to environmental
and social changes.
FarmX Developer of a crop management platform intended to
save resources and increase the health and wellness of
plants and animals using the power of data. The
company's platform uses monitors to identify critical soil,
plant, and environmental variables with its proprietary
farm
-map soil data that is transferred to the FarmMap
cloud, enabling farmers to get real
-time analytics based
on state
-of
-the
-art machine learning processes.
Edgewise
Networks
Developer of a micro
-segmentation platform intended to
eliminate network attack surface inside cloud or data
center infrastructures. The company's platform leverages
machine learning to Instantly micro
-segment network
environments with one click and automatically keeping
business applications protected and operational with no
network changes required, enabling clients to implement
09
-Dec
-2020
Later Stage VC 39 44 United
States
01
-Feb
-2020
Merger/Acquisiti
on
40 United
Kingdom
08
-Oct
-2020
Later Stage VC 30 40 United
States
04
-Feb
-2020
Later Stage VC 28 40 United
States
06
-Aug
-2020
Later Stage VC 26 40 Israel
06
-Feb
-2020
Later Stage VC 27 33 United
Kingdom
21
-Apr
-2020
Later Stage VC 22 31 United
States
28
-May
-2020
Merger/Acquisiti
on
31 United
States

Kingdom

Kingdom

and manage security even if there is a failure of firewall
protection.
Globacap Developer of a digital capital raising platform intended to
automate and significantly streamline post
-trade
processes. The company's technology enables all legal
requirements involved in title transfer to be fulfilled
automatically and institutional service providers, such as
custodians and registrars, to have their balances and
records reconciled continuously in real
-time without any
human involvement, enabling companies to reduce
liquidity risk in private assets.
14
-Jan
-2021
Corporate 21 30 United
Kingdom
Growers Provider of digital agriculture tools intended to help
farmers make quick and tactical decisions that drive profit
on every acre. The company's tools use farm evaluation
and planning to offer soil management, variable rate
planting and hardware calibration services, enabling
farmers to reduce input costs, maximize yields, simplify
decision making and improve farming performance.
19
-Feb
-2020
Merger/Acquisiti
on
28 United
States
PopCom Developer of automated retail technology software and
hardware intended to provide deep consumer data and
insights and engagement for vending machines and kiosk
operators. The company's technology leverages facial
recognition, machine learning, blockchain and smart
contracts to augment and power machine
-driven
transactions for consumer products of all types including
government
-regulated products, enabling consumers to
purchase items in a secure way.
30
-Jun
-2020
Equity
Crowdfunding
25 26 United
States
Radicalbit Provider of a digital dataops platform intended for
streaming data integration and real
-time advanced
analytics. The company's platform facilitates the
development, deployment and the management of event
stream processing applications, leveraging streaming and
event
-driven based technologies, machine learning,
enabling users to securely manage the end
-to
-end data
lifecycle putting models into production in seconds and
facilitating data analysis with less costs, time and efforts.
24
-Sep
-2020
Equity
Crowdfunding
24 25 Italy
ZERØ Developer of AI
-powered solutions engineered to help law
firms achieve operational excellence. The company's
platform automates and streamlines onerous
administrative tasks such as email management and
mobile time capture to minimize revenue leakage,
increase email compliance, enabling lawyers to
seamlessly manage their inbox content, be more
productive and generate more revenue.
01
-Jan
-2020
Later Stage VC 15 23 United
States
Aqua Digital
Rising
Developer of a next
-generation alternative
-asset and
analytics investment platform intended to invest in sports
stars, business leaders, celebrities, and influencers. The
company's software uses AI, mathematics, analytics,
algorithms, and a proprietary real
-time pricing engine to
capture and analyze data from hundreds of global
sources enabling customers to create tradable indices
and put a price on human success.
19
-Oct
-
2020
Equity
Crowdfunding
22 23 United
Kingdom
Curalate Provider of visual analytics and marketing platform
designed to connect people to pictures and products. The
company's platform offers an image recognition algorithm
software that can be applied to social media
conversations to find people communicating about brands
in pictures instead of just text, enabling people to
communicate across social communities, digital channels,
mobile applications, and websites.
08
-Jul
-2020
Buyout/LBO 22 United
States
Voltaiq Developer of an analytics platform designed to drive
innovation and improve the devices that power electrified
world. The company's battery analytics platform ensures
the safety of new products and accelerates the
transformational shift in how one uses a device, power
the vehicle and balances the electric grid, enabling
companies that manufacture or use batteries to increase
productivity, drive innovation, and improve performance
and reliability.
07
-Apr
-2020
Later Stage VC 20 21 United
States
Resonance
AI
Developer of an AI platform for video intended to answer
the fundamental questions of why audiences connect,
react and engage. The company's innovative software
31
-Aug
-2020
Later Stage VC 18 20 United
States
analyzes the creative essence of videos and can be
tailored for any video content like TV shows, trailers, local
newscasts, consumer and retail ads, allowing companies
to see direct connections between their content and
viewer behaviors and provide actionable insights that help
increase viewing, subscriptions and purchases.
Clustree Developer of human resource management software
designed to turn data into evidence
-based
recommendations. The company's human resource
management software provides services like talent
management, data management and internal mobility
strategies by using big data analysis and job sourcing,
enabling companies to make better human capital
decisions through machine learning.
24
-Jan
-2020
Merger/Acquisiti
on
19 France
DeepDraw Developer of software designed to provide a full set of
product digitization and intelligent technical support
services. The company's platform focuses on the
integration and application of multiple fields such as
artificial intelligence, fashion big data, aesthetic
quantification in the pan
-fashion industry, providing global
fashion brands with product digitizing services and
management of digital assets in the process of digitization
of products.
13
-Jan
-2021
Merger/Acquisiti
on
18 China
CrowdSmar
t
Developer of a collective intelligence software platform
designed to improve the accuracy of predicting
investment success while reducing ingrained bias. The
company's platform helps to screen potential investments,
assembles a strong collective and transparent exchange
of information between experts, investors and issuers,
enabling startups to improve investment accuracy and
decisions with prediction science.
08
-Sep
-2020
Later Stage VC 10 17 United
States
TrafficCast Developer of travel
-time forecasting software designed to
provide time forecasting and traffic information. The
company's software offers digital traffic data, with
software and predictive models to produce route
-specific,
real
-time traffic information and travel
-time forecasts for
traffic
-information markets, enabling users to manage
travel times, road speeds and route choice behaviors.
07
-Dec
-2020
Merger/Acquisiti
on
17 United
States
Vidado Developer of an AI based data capture platform designed
to turn paper information into digital data. The company's
platform uses cloud
-native technology with crowd
-guided
machine learning to extract structured information from
different sources like paper documents, scans, faxes,
emails, call centers and web forms that can be analyzed
and scaled, enabling enterprises to eliminate the need for
ineffective manual data entry processes.
24
-Mar
-2020
Merger/Acquisiti
on
15 United
States
Cybertonica Developer of a cloud
-based fraud prevention software
designed to help in global digital payments' fraud
prevention system. The company's software uses
machine learning and artificial intelligence to reduce
basket drop
-off and increase conversion for all channels
of e
-payments and transaction platforms as well as
provides frictionless onboarding, checkout and secure
payments processing, enabling payment service
providers and fintech sectors to decrease the number of
fraud transactions and chargebacks and to create
frictionless authentication, smooth user journeys and
increase profitability.
08
-Jan
-2020
Later Stage VC 12 14 United
Kingdom
Big Data
Platform
Developer of big data processing, artificial intelligence
and machine learning technologies aiming to offer
specialized technological solutions to client businesses.
30
-Mar
-2020
Joint Venture 14 Russia
Tangent
Works
Provider of prediction services designed to bridge
academic research in the field of machine learning to
solve challenges in the industry. The company's model
uses machine learning and offers insights about the
dynamics hidden in the data and allows machine learning
solutions to be executed directly on a device, enabling
businesses to generate accurate predictive models for
time series analysis in seconds.
16
-Apr
-2020
Later Stage VC 11 13 Belgium
GenesisAI Developer of a blockchain
-based decentralized
marketplace intended to assist in the development of AI
products and services. The company's marketplace
22
-Jun
-2020
Equity
Crowdfunding
11 12 United
States
connects companies in need of AI services, data and
models with companies interested in monetizing their AI
tech, enabling companies to communicate with each
other, exchange data and trade services easily.It focuses
on the asset management space and healthcare sector.
CarServ Provider of an online machine learning-based platform
intended for the automotive repair industry to manage
their businesses easily. The company's platform uses
SaaS and includes shop management, customer
communication and marketing, enabling businesses to
better communicate with their customers and provide
repair facilities as well as a consistent and high-quality
experience at an affordable price.
Developer of white-label software intended to add voice
and intelligence to technology products. The company's
platform incorporates voice systems with the ability to
understand users and to converse with them naturally,
enabling companies to develop voice-enabled interfaces
for cars, robots, mobile phones and consumer products.
SapientX
MedUX Developer of an online measuring software intended to
measure user experience and service quality on
telecommunication networks. The company's software
offers drive testing and residential monitoring through
machine learning, artificial intelligence and customer
experience metrics in real time without any integration,
enabling telecommunication operators to improve user
experience and increase customer loyalty.
Rais Developer of a data analytics platform designed to unite,
analyze and enrich customer data. The company's
predictive software platform de-duplicates data and
deploys it to the customer engagement channel, helping
clients to improve customer retention by generating more
repeat business across marketing channels and to
understand customer behavior and marketing
performance.
Emergeiq Provider of an artificial intelligence based platform
intended to omit in-house Data Science or dashboards.
The company's platform runs solution giving analytics &
artificial intelligence for businesses, then sends back the
resulting insights via their existing mobile apps and
desktop tools or other reporting channels, enabling small
businesses to avail data support who cannot afford in
house data scientists and software.
27-Oct-2020 Later Stage VC 10 11 United
States
24-Jun-2020 Equity
Crowdfunding
7 8 United
States
18-Nov-2020 Debt
Refinancing
7 Spain
26-Jan-2020 Equity
Crowdfunding
3 3 United
Kingdom
01-Jan-2021 Equity
Crowdfunding
1 1 United
Kingdom

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Frost & Sullivan makes no warranty nor representation, expressed or implied, as to the completeness and accuracy of the Report at the time of any investment decision, and no liability shall attach thereto, considering the following among other reasons: The Report may not include the most updated and relevant information from all relevant sources, including later Reports, if any, at the time of the investment decision, so any investment decision shall consider these; The Analysis considers data, information and assessments provided by the company and from sources that were published by third parties (however, even reliable sources contain unknown errors from time to time); the methodology focused on major known products, activities and target markets of the Company that may have a significant impact on its performance as per our discretion, but it may ignore other elements; the Company was not allowed to share any insider information; any investment decision must be based on a clear understanding of the technologies, products, business environments, and any other drivers and restraints of the company's performance, regardless if such information is mentioned in the Report or not; an investment decision shall consider any relevant updated information, such as the company's website and reports on Magna; information and assessments contained in the Report are obtained from sources believed by us to be reliable (however, any source may contain unknown errors. All expressions of opinions, forecasts or estimates reflect the judgment at the time of writing, based on the Company's latest financial report, and some additional information (they are subject to change without any notice). You shall consider the entire analysis contained in the Reports. No specific part of a Report, including any summary that is provided for convenience only, shall serve per se as a basis for any investment decision. In case you perceive a contradiction between any parts of the Report, you shall avoid any investment decision before such contradiction is resolved. Frost and Sullivan only produces research that falls under the non-monetary minor benefit group in MiFID II. As we do not seek payment from the asset management community and do not have any execution function, you are able to continue receiving our research under the new MiFiD II regime. This applies to all forms of transmission, including email, website and financial platforms such as Bloomberg and Thomson.

Risks, valuation, and projections: Any stock price or equity value referred to in The Report may fluctuate. Past performance is not indicative of future performance, future returns are not guaranteed, and a loss of original capital may occur. Nothing contained in the Report is or should be relied on as, a promise or representation as to the future. The projected financial information is prepared expressly for use herein and is based upon the stated assumptions and Frost & Sullivan's analysis of information available at the time that this Report was prepared. There is no representation, warranty, or other assurance that any of the projections will be realized. The Report contains forward-looking statements, such as "anticipate", "continue", "estimate", "expect", "may", "will", "project", "should", "believe" and similar expressions. Undue reliance should not be placed on the forward-looking statements because there is no assurance that they will prove to be correct. Since forwardlooking statements address future events and conditions, they involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking information or statements contain information that is based on assumptions, forecasts of future results, estimates of amounts not yet determinable, and therefore involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results to be materially different from current projections. Macro level factors that are not directly analyzed in the Report, such as interest rates and exchange rates, any events related to the eco-system, clients, suppliers, competitors, regulators, and others may fluctuate at any time. An investment decision must consider the Risks described in the Report and any other relevant Reports, if any, including the latest financial reports of the company. R&D activities shall be considered as high risk, even if such risks are not specifically discussed in the Report. Any investment decision shall consider the impact of negative and even worst case scenarios. Any relevant forward-looking statements as defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (as amended) are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. TASE Analysis Scheme: The Report is authored by Frost & Sullivan Research & Consulting Ltd. within the framework of the Analysis Scheme of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange ("TASE") regarding the provision of analysis services on companies that participate in the analysis scheme (see details:

www.tase.co.il/LPages/TechAnalysis/Tase_Analysis_Site/index.html, www.tase.co.il/LPages/InvestorRelations/english/tase-analysis-program.html), an agreement that the company has signed with TASE ("The Agreement") and the regulation and supervision of the Israel Security Authority (ISA). FSRC and its lead analyst are licensed by the ISA as investment advisors. Accordingly, the following implications and disclosure requirements shall apply. The agreement with the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange Ltd. regarding participation in the scheme for research analysis of public companies does not and shall not constitute an agreement on the part of the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange Ltd. or the Israel Securities Authority to the content of the Equity Research Notes or to the recommendations contained therein. As per the Agreement and/or ISA regulations: A summary of the Report shall also be published in Hebrew. In the event of any contradiction, inconsistency, discrepancy, ambiguity or variance between the English Report and the Hebrew summary of said Report, the English version shall prevail. The Report shall include a description of the Participant and its business activities, which shall inter alia relate to matters such as: shareholders; management; products; relevant intellectual property; the business environment in which the Participant operates; the Participant's standing in such an environment including current and forecasted trends; a description of past and current financial positions of the Participant; and a forecast regarding future developments and any other matter which in the professional view of Frost & Sullivan (as defined below) should be addressed in a research Report (of the nature published) and which may affect the decision of a reasonable investor contemplating an investment in the Participant's securities. An equity research abstract shall accompany each Equity Research Report, describing the main points addressed. A thorough analysis and discussion will be included in Reports where the investment case has materially changed. Short update notes, in which the investment case has not materially changed, will include a summary valuation discussion. Subject to the agreement, Frost & Sullivan Research & Consulting Ltd. is entitled to an annual fee to be paid directly by the TASE. Each participant shall pay fees for its participation in the Scheme directly to the TASE. The named lead analyst and analysts responsible for this Report certify that the views expressed in the Report accurately reflect their personal views about the Company and its securities and that no part of their compensation was, is, or will be directly or indirectly related to the specific recommendation or view contained in the Report. Neither said analysts nor Frost & Sullivan trade or directly own any securities in the company. The lead analyst has a limited investment advisor license for analysis only.

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