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Yael Tamar In talks with Pramod Dhakal in Hitechies Podcast

Yael Tamar, CMO, and Partner at SolidBlock, a new fundraising vehicle, offering a compliant global platform for the issuance and trade of digital securities backed by real estate & other assets. Yael is a financial strategist, speaker, advisor, and mentor with over a decade of experience. Yael is a regional co-chair at FIBREE, the Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise.

SolidBlock is an end-to-end platform that helps real estate developers and fund managers raise funds through offering digital securities to investors. Its platform is used across a variety of fields such as finance, real estate, tokenization, fintech, and digital securities. The company is best known for its role in the world’s first successful commercial property tokenization, raising $18M for the St. Regis Resort in Aspen, Colorado



Yuval Wirzberger founded the company in 2018 and was soon joined by Yael Tamar as CMO and partner. Their goal: to simplify and democratize access to real estate projects. SolidBlock’s solution offers much-needed access to lucrative investment opportunities to smaller retail investors. Access to prime real estate investment has traditionally been open only to accredited investors who have significant capital at their disposal. 


Yuval and Yael’s knowledge and experience with blockchain helped them pioneer a way to use this technology to create a more efficient, transparent, and liquid real estate market. This technology offers universal access to high-quality property investments at the initial stage (security issuance), throughout the growth stages of the project – and later on, when it becomes a yielding asset (securities trading).


SolidBlock’s values center on mainstreaming tokenization by creating high-quality projects; constantly evangelizing across various media platforms; being authentic and approachable; forging industry alliances and meaningful partnerships; and creating a business-friendly future through regulatory and legislative lobbying.

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About AEYE Health:

AEYE Health is a digital health company focused on automated, AI-based diagnostic screening solutions for retinal imaging. Its system is designed to enable clinicians to detect a variety of medical conditions, prevent blindness, and save lives. AEYE Health collaborates with advanced academic medical centers in the United States and its solution is already in use in primary care clinics to help improve patient outcomes.

About Zack Dvey-Aharon, Ph.D., CEO and Co-Founder of AEYE Health

Zack started working on data analytics when he was 12 years old. Later, when he was doing his Ph.D. in machine learning at Tel Aviv University, he developed a fascination with machine learning and the way it can advance healthcare. When he researched heart data (phonocardiograms) and brain data (EEG and fMRI), he realized that if the brain and the heart are the engines of the body, then the eyes are its mirror. With this realization, he began exploring healthcare of the eyes, and discovered the world of retinal screening. In 2018, he turned to his friend Danny Margalit, former founder of one of Israel’s largest tech companies, who was immediately intrigued by the system Zack started developing. They joined forces and established what later became AEYE Health.

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As the CEO of Springbuk, Rod Reasen imagines a world where every health care decision is backed and guided by data. He co-founded Springbuk in 2015 with a vision to empower self-funded employers and their benefits advisors to prevent disease with data. 

Through Rod’s leadership, Springbuk was developed as a benefit analytics platform that applies the latest technology and data science methodologies to provide deep analytic insights that facilitate data-informed decisions to help employers optimize their employee health benefit investments. 

By combining data analytics with data science, Springbuk utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to help employers identify and predict employees at risk of certain diseases using a database of over 233 million unique claims. 

Before launching Springbuk, Rod founded a benefits and wellness consulting firm into one of the largest in the Midwest, and he launched the nationally recognized Healthiest Employers award program designed to recognize America’s top 100 healthiest workplaces.

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Richard red from decred.org talks to pramod dhakal in Hitechies Podcast

Richard Red is a pseudonymous character with an interest in human technological and social development. Richard enjoyed some time working as a researcher within various social science departments before changing pace to live and work on the crypto commons in early 2019.

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Sidney Collin is the inventor of the NexStride, and is the co-founder and CEO of De Oro Devices.  De Oro Devices is a VC-backed biomedical device start-up whose mission is to develop products to improve mobility, independence, and quality of life for those who suffer from mobility disorders  and the aging population. NexStride is a small, portable device that uses research-backed sensory cues to help people with Parkinson’s overcome freezing of gait and be able to walk smoothly.

Sidney started the company while studying Biomedical Engineering at Cal Poly. She has an
academic research background in computational neuroscience, with a recent research paper
published in the Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology. In addition, she has experience working in R&D at a past medical device startup during their product launch. Sidney was awarded Cal Poly’s  2019 Outstanding Woman in Engineering award, Outstanding Student Award, and Lisa Hufford  Scholarship Award. She was also recognized as one of the most influential women at Cal Poly by  the Wire in their 30 under 30 list, and as an accomplished young business leader in the Pacific Coast Business Times 40 under 40 list.

De Oro Devices’ mission is to improve mobility, independence, and quality of life. The  first product, NexStride, uses visual and auditory cues to help people with Parkinson’s overcome freezing of gait to regain mobility and independence.

Freezing of gait is one of the most common and most debilitating symptoms of Parkinson's, defined as a sudden onset of immobility.  Research shows that external sensory cues can be used to reconnect the brain and body, bypassing the damaged neural circuits, to overcome freezing of gait. They  took the most effective visual and audio cues and combined them into one small, versatile device that attaches to any cane or walker. The visual cue is a green laser line and the auditory cue is a metronome, customizable to the person's walking speed. These cues have been scientifically shown to be effective in reducing the duration of freezing episodes, frequency of episodes, and frequency of falls. 
The NexStride is a simple and effective way to regain independence and mobility. 

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In this podcast we have Are Traasdahl who is the CEO of Crisp.

In this conversation:

• Motivation behind his startup CRISP.
• The impact of emailing within workspace and Why you shouldn’t be emailing ?
• What solutions will simplify your operations during pandemic ?
• How traditional organizations should work towards the digital transformation
• Transparency on information drives motivation.
• Cross functional teams to limit dependencies across teams.

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Tasso Roumeliotis is currently the CEO & Co-Founder of Numa.Before NumberAI, Tasso founded Location Labs and was an early pioneer in mobile and location-based  technology. He built it to 200+ people and eventually sold Location Labs for $220M with only $19M of  primary capital invested. Location Labs was profitable for seven consecutive years and was an INC 500  company. He was also an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist Award winner.  

Before Location Labs, Tasso worked as Vice President for Claridge Investments (Bronfman Family Office)  and as an associate in the merchant banking group of Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette. Tasso started his  career at Bain & Co where he was the highest ranked associate in his class. He has an MBA from Harvard  Business School and a B.Comm from McGill University in Montreal.

What is Numa ?

Numa is an AI-powered virtual assistant and concierge platform created to make
consumers lives easier while helping small and medium-size businesses—
Mainstreet USA—thrive in an era where text messaging has become a preferred
and more convenient way to communicate. Making a business number textable,
Numa handles and responds to every voicemail, text, Facebook message and more with its AI-based platform that is always learning from employee- customer interactions and adjusting its answers automatically in a voice uniquely tailored to each business.


In the U.S., more than 29 million small and medium-size businesses juggle
hundreds of millions of calls from customers and clients. Yet, failing to
respond to a voicemail, or worse, leaving calls unanswered affects the bottom line. Launched in 2016, Numa was created to make consumers lives easier and Mainstreet USA businesses more responsive and profitable. Leveraging AI, Numa’s business messaging platform offers 24/7 text answering and virtual receptionist services to businesses, even when they are closed. By connecting to existing phone systems, businesses can be online in just a few minutes. Here’s how it works:

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Andrew Jayakody who is a VP of customer success at Beam Health talks to Pramod Dhakal in Hitechies Podcast .

Beam Health:

Beam Health is one of the world's newest and fastest-advancing telehealth platforms, Beam Health gives clinics the technology and services to move faster and deliver excellent care - virtually. Easy for doctors and patients to use, Beam requires no training and can be implemented in 90 seconds or less. This prevents no-shows by providing quick and easy access to medical care. With Beam, there is no need for patients to forego appointments or put off health concerns, even in the midst of a pandemic. This is not only vital in maintaining the health of our nation, but in keeping our doctors on the front lines safe.

COVID-19 has solidified virtual care as a hallmark feature to be utilized in all medical practices moving forward, even post-pandemic. Beam Health's CEO and co-founder, Sas Ponnapalli and COO and co-founder Ranga Jayawardena anticipated the trend towards virtual care far before COVID-19 and sought to empower medical practices with the tools needed to compete with telehealth tech companies like Teladoc. Beam combines telehealth with co-pay collection, rapid deployment where clinics can create an account and launch in 90 seconds, patient marketing, a custom Beam waiting room to educate and promote services to patients as they wait for your providers, custom EHR integrations, custom admin accounts so office managers/staff can chat directly with patients, screenshare capabilities, and group sessions.

With Sas as a technology forward CEO, Beam has not outsourced a single line of code and was built 100 percent in-house, in the U.S. Beam takes data privacy, HIPAA-Compliance and network security extremely seriously.

Beam is ultimately built to upgrade medical practices and empower patients and aims to bring telehealth to the masses. 

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In this episode of the Hitechies Podcast Pramod Dhakal(Hitechies) Talks to Sagi Eliyahu who is the cofounder at Tonkean

Experience in numerous engineering and leadership roles at IDF-8200, startup and enterprise companies. Proven track record of successfully building and managing R&D teams, from a handful to dozens of employees across multiple locations and time zones, and developing innovative technology solutions from ideation to mass adoption.

Right now is a crucial time for us to decide what should and shouldn't be automated. Tonkean's co-founder Sagi Eliyahu believes that we should answer that question by focusing on helping people instead of only caring about efficiency gains. 

Tonkean is the operating system for business operations, a no-code platform that enables operations teams and IT to rapidly increase efficiency of their processes while minimizing change management. Business operations teams are using Tonkean to improve key cross-functional operational metrics like revenue velocity, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency.

Tonkean allows ops teams to rapidly deploy solutions that orchestrate dynamic, human-centric processes without introducing new tools or interfaces. With 1000+ connectors to existing enterprise systems, like CRM, HRIS, ERP and ticketing systems, and to communication tools like email, MS Teams and Slack, Tonkean manages, monitors, and accelerates business operations without forcing people to change their behavior.

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Birdie is the AI-based Insights-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform that helps CPG brands extract actionable consumer insights from unstructured data to predict category trends, anticipate product crises, and discover promotional opportunities in key retail channels in real time. Developed in collaboration with industry-leading veterans of the CPG and AI technology worlds, Birdie offers brands a powerful new system of intelligence that puts valuable, but previously neglected, data to use. Today, Birdie works with some of the world’s leading brands like Samsung, P&G, Whirlpool.

Birdie, the technology company that is revolutionizing how CPG brands do market research, today announced it has raised $1.6 million in a seed funding round led by ASTELLA, a Brazilian-based venture firm. The company plans to use the new funding to support Birdie’s expansion in the US, where the company plans to grow its sales and marketing teams, and accelerate the development of new features related to integration with other data sources.

Birdie helps consumer brands get granular Consumer Insights from e-commerce reviews and other relevant sources such as Reddit and CNET, just to name a few. Our solution interprets millions of consumer conversations in real-time, allowing our clients to understand key product attributes consumers like and dislike, anticipate trends and crises, and discover untapped opportunities to grow market share.

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