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Eran Shir is the co-founder and CEO of Nexar which makes every car smart and is building the world’s safe driving network. The company has raised $100 million from top tier investors like True Ventures, Slow Ventures, Samsung NEXT, Expansion Venture Capital, Mosaic Ventures, Aleph, Maniv Mobility, Tusk Venture Partners, Ibex Investors, Nationwide Ventures, 40 North Ventures, Micron Ventures, and Corner Ventures to name a few.
In this episode you will learn:
The future of self-driving cars
Insights on mapping epidemics as complex networks
How much data Nexar has
Nexar versus Google Street view
Working inside Yahoo!
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About Eran Shir:
Eran Shir is the co-founder and CEO of Nexar, an artificial intelligence dashcam application that seeks to rid the world of car crashes. Nexar is a vehicle-to-vehicle network connecting cars nearby; it can warn its users in real-time of dangerous situations happening beyond each individual driver’s line of sight, such as issuing a forward collision warning, effectively giving drivers more time to react.
Prior to founding Nexar at the beginning of 2015, Eran Shir was the entrepreneur in residence at Aleph, a Tel Aviv-based venture capital firm, where Eran Shir focused onbig-data, crypto-currencies and market disruption.
Eran Shir also was the senior director and head of the creative innovation center at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for their creative advertising technologies strategy and portfolio, as well as the development of their next-generation personalized creative advertising platform.
Connect with Eran Shir:
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* Crunchbase
* Twitter
* Facebook
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FULL TRANSCRIPTION OF THE INTERVIEW:
In this episode you will learn:
The future of self-driving cars
Insights on mapping epidemics as complex networks
How much data Nexar has
Nexar versus Google Street view
Working inside Yahoo!
SUBSCRIBE ON:
For a winning deck, take a look at the pitch deck template created by Silicon Valley legend, Peter Thiel (see it here) that I recently covered. Thiel was the first angel investor in Facebook with a $500K check that turned into more than $1 billion in cash.
Moreover, I also provided a commentary on a pitch deck from an Uber competitor that has raised over $400 million (see it here).
Remember to unlock for free the pitch deck template that is being used by founders around the world to raise millions below.
About Eran Shir:
Eran Shir is the co-founder and CEO of Nexar, an artificial intelligence dashcam application that seeks to rid the world of car crashes. Nexar is a vehicle-to-vehicle network connecting cars nearby; it can warn its users in real-time of dangerous situations happening beyond each individual driver’s line of sight, such as issuing a forward collision warning, effectively giving drivers more time to react.
Prior to founding Nexar at the beginning of 2015, Eran Shir was the entrepreneur in residence at Aleph, a Tel Aviv-based venture capital firm, where Eran Shir focused onbig-data, crypto-currencies and market disruption.
Eran Shir also was the senior director and head of the creative innovation center at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for their creative advertising technologies strategy and portfolio, as well as the development of their next-generation personalized creative advertising platform.
Connect with Eran Shir:
* Crunchbase
* * *
FULL TRANSCRIPTION OF THE INTERVIEW: