Startup Stories from the Startup Nation‪™‬ Yigal Marcus

This is Part II of our interview with Ofir Ehrlich, the co-Founder and VP of R&D of CloudEndure.  
In this episode, we learn of how CloudEndure adapted its offering after hearing valuable insight from their customers.  And we also learn about how they caught the attention of Amazon, who eventually bought them for a considerable sum of money.

In this inaugural episode of Season 2, we interview the co-founder of CloudEndure, Ofir Ehrlich. With the massive growth of cloud-computing, CloudEndure has enabled major conglomerates to embrace the cloud by managing the riskiest stage of the process: the technical transition to the cloud. They then built a company that offered a host of additional services to their clients.
While they were undergoing significant growth, they attracted the attention of Amazon, the largest cloud computing company in the world.  Amazon World Services eventually bought CloudEndure for an undisclosed, but significant, amount of money.
But Ofir's story didn't begin there.  In Part I of this episode, Ofir discusses the prior successes he had that enabled him to smartly build CloudEndure.  He discusses the lessons he learned along the way, and the instrumental importance of his successes - and failures.  

In this episode, we meet Eyal Lewinson, the Co-Founder and CEO of Iridize. Iridize was acquired by Oracle to accelerate its expansion into the lucrative business of employee training.
Eyal's story is different.  It is a story of persistence and perseverance - after he could not raise professional investor capital.  In this episode, learn how he succeeded by sheer commitment to his vision, and the lessons he learned along the way.    
 
 

In this episode, we meet Dov Maisel, the Co-Founder of United Hatzalah.  United Hatzalah is a non-profit startup that has fundamentally reengineered how emergency medical services are delivered.  Long before the smartphone and Uber, United Hatzalah developed a unique technology which used GPS location-based technology to immediately match life-rescuers with victims that are in close proximity to them, enabling rapid delivery of emergency care.  
Today, United Hatzalah has thousands of nationwide volunteers, and empowers rescuers to arrive on the scene of a medical emergency in 90 seconds or less.  United Hatzalah is also exporting its life-saving technology to countries around the world.

In Part 2 of this episode, we resume our interview with Naty Barak, the Chief Sustainability Officer of Netafim.  Netafim is a leader in providing Drip Irrigation solutions to countries around the world.  Today, Netafim employs more than 4,000 people and actively conducts business in 110 countries (and growing).  They were recently valued at $1.8 billion after being partially sold to Mexichem.
In Part 2, we learn how the founders grew Netafim into a global brand, how politics may have had an impact on his growth rate, how their technology evolved and improved over time, and what the future holds for their industry.  We also discuss Kibbutz life, and the impact of Netafim on Kibbutz Chatzerim, located in the arid Negev desert.

In Part I of this episode, we meet Naty Barak, the Chief Sustainability Officer of Netafim.  Netafim is a leader in providing Drip Irrigation solutions to countries around the world.  Today, Netafim employs more than 4,000 people and actively conducts business in 110 countries (and growing).  They were recently valued at $1.8 billion after being partially sold to Mexichem.
Netafim is the story of a startup that was launched by a Kibbutz, and which ultimately became a wild success, while improving the lives of millions of people around the world.  This is how it all started.