Every January, Gartner analysts nominate vendors that have the potential to transform their markets, regardless of their level of funding or the size of the company. Vendors aren’t able to apply and don’t know they are even being considered, as Gartner treats it as a purely internal process. What’s in it for the winners? they stand up from their peers and join a prestigious club, whose previous winners in Israel predicted the success of Mobileye and Waze among others.
The criteria – according to of a Cool Vendor is a small company offering a technology or service that is:
- Innovative — Enables users to do things they couldn’t do before;
- Impactful — Has or will have a business impact, not just technology for its own sake;
- Intriguing — Has caught Gartner’s interest during the past six months.
The Cool Vendors report started in 2004 and has been awarded to 3,100 companies to date. This year, Gartner decided to publish the report in two instances, one in June and one in Dec. In the current batch, 269 startups were mentioned, including 133 from the US, 31 from Israel (12% – second only to the US), 20 from the UK, 10 from China and Canada.
The Israeli Cool Vendors 2018 list:
Cyber Security – 13 out of the 31 startups
Cymulate (automated pen testing), Snyk (monitor open source vulnerabilities), Luminate Security (secure access to hybrid cloud), Alcide (data centre and cloud security), BigID (privacy risk management), InnoSec (cyber risk management), Demisto (automated security operations), Logz.io (real time predictive logs analytics), Diskin Advanced Technologies (offensive defence against cyber attacks), Siga (industrial IOT security), Guardicore (network security for data centres), CyberWrite (insure-tech for cyber), D-ID (security biometrics)
Automotive/ Mobility –
Otonomo (connected car data marketplace), Phantom Auto (remote control support of autonomous vehicles), Moovit (real time app for public transit), Karamba (cyber security for connected vehicles)
Digital Commerce, AI, Retail –
Syte.ai (visual search and auto image tagging Disclaimer: I’m an investor via Remagine Ventures), Twiggle (real time commerce search), Namogoo (blocks unauthorised ads), Pepperi (configurable B2B sales platform), Unbotify (flag and block bots in real time),
IOT and Enterprise
Vayyar (RF based 3D imaging), 3D Signals (acoustics monitoring for predictive maintenance), Neura (behaviour based alerts), Sedona Systems (network operations), Presenso (industrial predictive analytics)
The list first appeared on The Marker (Hebrew only, requires subscription).
I'm a former general partner at google ventures, head of Google for Entrepreneurs in Europe and founding head of Campus London, Google's first physical hub for startups.
I'm also the founder of Techbikers, a non-profit bringing together the startup ecosystem on cycling challenges in support of Room to Read. Since inception in 2012 we've built 11 schools and 50 libraries in the developing world.
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