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Ventures |
Venture Capital
Amrav has vast experience in promoting young innovative companies, taking them from the early stages to exit, as well as through first and second market rounds. Currently Amrav is actively invested in start-ups in the high-tech arena through direct participation and management of emerging industry leaders, including B- Obvious (a provider of IP traffic optimization solutions), Parking Kit (which developed an algorithm that optimizes the usage of a given space) and Integralis (which developed software for the early identification of sepsis in premature babies). To date Amrav shareholders have secured and invested venture capital in some 15 start-up companies in the areas of software design, Internet maximization, fiber optics and medical devices.
Amrav is heavily invested in developing and supporting new business ideas that employ technologies to improve and expand energy production as well as the energy consumer experience. The primary vehicle for this is the utilization of a business accelerator and incubator model. Business accelerators and incubators provide entrepreneurs with the professional guidance and resources they require to develop their ideas efficiently and intelligently in order to eventually bring them to the marketplace.
The multi-trillion dollar energy sector is on the cusp of dramatic gains fueled by the “Internet-of-things,” cloud computing and the proliferation of mobile apps. Smart energy solutions – including an enhanced smart grid, energy efficiency, energy cyber security and smart transportation – will deliver greater availability, efficiency, resiliency and sustainability to the global energy ecosystem.
Parking Kit
Amrav has chosen to lead an innovative company called Parking Kit, which developed an algorithm that optimizes the usage of a given space. This innovative solution is used for automatic parking and storage applications. Parking Kit offers residential properties, businesses and municipalities creative solutions for a chronic lack of vehicle parking spaces. Parking Kit provides a means to increase parking volume while not increasing a lot’s footprint by implementing technology-based remedies for the challenges of traditional parking structures. These solutions include a model for parking in non-standard spaces, as well as ways to permit significantly increased vehicle volume, faster vehicle delivery times, reduced electricity consumption, reduced environmental impact and competitive cost.
Technological Incubator
An example of Amrav’s Investment in this area is the planned technological incubator of Israeli companies specializing in smart energy applications and usage: e.g. smart grid, smart metering, demand-side management, energy efficiency, renewable energies. The incubator selects innovative entrepreneurs, connecting them to global energy leaders for customer validation and to qualified investors for early stage finding.
Amrav will participate in the next tender of The Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Economics for the selection of concession-owners to establish and operate technology incubators.