infiniDome GPSDome Anti-jamming protection module
InfiniDome, an Israeli startup that offers anti-jamming solutions, raised $9 million in a Series A funding round led by Hanwha Aerospace, one of the largest conglomerates in South Korea, alongside Honeywell Ventures, and Next Gear Ventures. And Chiefy, an Israeli medtech startup that offers a cloud platform that helps surgical teams seamlessly embed quality and communication best practices, raised $4.2 million in seed funding led by LionBird, with participation from Nina Capital and Emerge Ventures.
The funding comes as hospitals and health systems continue to struggle with financial and operational issues. The lingering workforce crisis has many organizations seeking new ways to engage and retain clinicians.
Chiefy helps surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses and other surgical stakeholders seamlessly bake quality best practices like pre-op huddles, checklists, surgical protocols, debrief and feedback loops. It enables fast and efficient coordination and collaboration from pre-op to post-op, while automating administrative tasks. The result, boasts the company, is a dramatic improvement in perioperative quality, efficiency and patient safety.
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As a cloud-based SaaS platform, Chiefy represents a low-cost, low-risk opportunity for hospitals and health systems to quickly implement and scale a secure, compliant collaboration platform to engage clinicians and improve care quality. The platform is HIPAA compliant and does not require EMR integration to demonstrate results and return on investment.
“When everyone is forced to do more with less, we must find new ways to employ technologies to help clinicians focus on what’s important,” said Chiefy Co-Founder and CEO Maya Ber Lerner. “Chiefy is built to challenge the idea that if hospitals want high quality, they need to be slower, or clinicians need to suffer. We believe that quality, efficiency, and clinician experience can be a win-win-win. This requires building a culture of trust, and our technology serves as an enabler for building this culture.”
As for infiniDome, founded in 2016 by Omer Sharar (CEO), Moshe Kaplan (CTO), and Ehud Sharar (President and VP Manufacturing). and based in Caesarea, the company develops disruptive GPS protection and resilient navigation solutions tailored for defending UAVs and vehicles from jamming attacks. Its technology is built on redefined EW algorithms and its proprietary RFIC (chip) allows for its protection solutions – the GPSdome product line – to have the best performance vs. C-SWaP (Cost, Size, Weight and Power) balance in the world. Backed by Honeywell Aerospace, Hanwha Aerospace and other key investors, infiniDome boasts that its tech “disrupts” the defense and government UAV and vehicles protection space today and will do the same to the commercial UAV\UAM space tomorrow with leading protection and monitoring solutions.
Most recently, the company was recognized by AUVSI as finalists for the AUVSI XCELLENCE Awards in the Technology category for their new GPSdome2 – providing high end protection for small to medium platforms. infiniDome’s advanced solutions for protecting GPS systems in manned and unmanned critical applications, ensure accurate and continuous positioning and navigation data, even in heavily challenged GNSS environments.
GPS signals orbit at 20,000km above the earth’s surface making them extremely weak and vulnerable to jamming. This poses a potential threat to various industries, which would be left dead in the water (or in the air) without GPS. Manned ground vehicles, and unmanned vehicles such as UAV, UGV, and USV all rely heavily on GPS for tracking friendly forces (identification of friend or foe) as well as navigation and autonomous flight, making them extremely vulnerable to GPS jamming attacks exposing them to a significant risk to operation, and safety. With GPS jammers readily available online for as little as $30, GPS jamming is becoming increasingly prevalent worldwide. Integration of anti-jamming solutions could easily enable GPS reliant platforms to safely operate in GPS challenged, or even denied environments. infiniDome leads the market with anti-jamming solutions that meet stringent C-SWaP (Cost, Size, Weight, and Power) limitations for mobile assets like UAS/UAV where size, weight, and power are critical, offering a real advantage over large, heavy, and very expensive traditional anti-jamming systems.
“Although the defense market had been executing BVLOS and even autonomous UAV missions for quite some time, we see the demand for smaller, light, cheaper UAVs increase from year to year,” says Omer Sharar. “Together with our partners Honeywell and now with Hanwha as well, we plan to disrupt this $4B anti-jamming market, by providing solutions tailored to answer the growing demand in its largest and fastest growing segments – Class 1-3 UAVs and massive vehicles fleets.”
