Yeshiva University’s Innovation Lab accelerator has more than doubled the number participating in its latest cohort, with a number of AI-driven technologies among those selected.

Yeshiva University has joined forces with Hebrew University of Jersualem’s tech transfer office Yissum for the second batch of the YU Innovation Lab accelerator, according to NoCamels.
YU Innovation Lab also works alongside entrepreneur skills development services provider Gvahim Entrepreneurship Center as well as Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s interdisciplinary entrepreneurship centre Yazamut 360° and student-run venture fund Cactus Capital.
The three-month program aims to support entrepreneurs who have recently immigrated to Israel to further their business and career ambitions.
The second cohort features 11 startups, up from five in the inaugural Innovation Lab.  Six participants come from Gvahim Entrepreneurship Center, with another two featuring in Cactus Capital’s existing portfolio.
The participants were named as:

  • Caring Eye, developers of a safety monitor device for children using rear-facing child-seats in cars.
  • HeroKi, which is working on wearable technologies to aid patients recovering after a kidney transplant.
  • Leelo, developers of an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven tool for enterprise employees practising conversations in a foreign language.
  • Letos, which hopes to commercialise sensors for evaluating spontaneous physiological reactions in real-time.
  • Libra@Home, which is working on neuro-rehabilitation treatments based on portable virtual reality applications.
  • MoneyCompass, an AI-equipped personal debt management app developer targeting customers with student loans in the US.
  • PointMe, a platform for offline-to-online sales conversion in the advertising, retail and location services marketing spaces.
  • ReWhiz, which offers data analytics technology integrating information from various cloud-based and software-as-a-service subscriptions within a single centralised dashboard.
  • Sightbit, a company focused on preventing people from drowning using advances in AI and image recognition.
  • Truvi, the developers of an AI-powered decision support system for disaster response and preparedness planning.
  • WeTreat, which offers a software platform connecting patients with therapists specialised in complementary or alternative medicines.