Eran Shir

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Eran Shir is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He is currently the Co-founder and CEO of Nexar, which develops an AI Driving App for Road Safety and Event Recording. Prior to that, Mr. Shir was an entrepreneur in Residence in Aleph VC, focusing on fields like IoT, big data, cryptocurrencies, marketplaces, and networks. Before Aleph, he ran the global Creative Innovation Center for Yahoo!, where he was responsible for Yahoo!'s ad creative technologies strategy and portfolio, as well as the development of its next-generation ad creative personalization platform. He has joined Yahoo! in October 2010 when Yahoo! acquired Dapper, a dynamic ads and semantic web startup, he has co-founded earlier, in 2007. Earlier in his career, he was a physicist, an Internet researcher, and the founder of the DIMES Internet research project, and of Cogniview, a machine learning startup. Mr. Shir holds an MA and a BA in Theoretical Physics from the Technion and a Ph.D. from TAU. In the last 25 years, he is serving as a board member at the Israel Center for Excellence through Education, a renowned national non-profit organization in Israel that focuses on finding and cultivating young excellent students to fulfill their full potential.

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May 29, 2018 · om.co

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[Podcast] Eran Shir, Founder of DashCam Maker Nexar

The article features an interview with Eran Shir, the Founder and CEO of Nexar, discussing the companys connected dash cam and its impact on safe driving. The article highlights the importance of computer vision and its potential benefits, as well as the risks associated with it. Nexar is part of the True Ventures portfolio of startups.

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Sep 26, 2017 · www.datainnovation.org

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5 Q's for Eran Shir, Founder of Nexar

Eran Shir, founder of Nexar, an AI dashcam company, discussed how artificial intelligence can enhance dashcam applications by introducing perception. This allows the system to understand what’s happening inside and outside a car, providing early collision warnings, detecting free parking spots or road hazards, and coaching the driver. Nexar is also developing a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) network that shares real-time information between vehicles, which can prevent up to 80% of collisions. The company has already partnered with several insurance companies worldwide.

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