Kodem CEO Aviv Mussinger (from website)
Kodem (Hebrew for before), an Israeli cybersecurity startup founded by former employees of Israel’s controversial cybersecurity firm NSO Group, raised $18 million in a Series A round of funding led by Greylock with participation from TPY Capital. Kodem has now raised $25 million to date. And Levana.ai is a new Israeli femtech firm that offers an AI-based solution for personalized medication for women.
Founded in 2022 by Dr. Ilana Kwartin, a lawyer and women’s rights activist, and Alon Ben-Shoshan, Levana.ai is an AI-based solution that personalizes women’s prescriptions based on their cycle. Kwartin founded the company after both she and her son were diagnosed with ADHF and she was unhappy with the treatment provided by doctors.
“When my son was diagnosed with ADHD four years ago, I was told it is hereditary and that I should get a diagnosis as well,” she explained. “After I was diagnosed with ADHD (what I now know to be “the mommy effect“) I was soon referred to receive a treatment plan for my medication. I was prescribed Focalin 30mg.”
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But Dr. Kwartin realized at a certain point that the medication was not helping.
“As someone who tracks her cycle,” she said, “I also noticed that there seemed to have been a correlation between the cycle’s hormonal fluctuations and the effectiveness of the medicine fluctuations. Surely, there must be a connection!”
So she looked into clinical research and found out that estrogen has a huge part in enhancing dopamine function while reducing ADHD symptoms.
The Levana platform has not yet been released. But when operational it will try to help women who take long term mediations find the best ways to do so based on their feminine issues.
Kodem was founded in 2021 by CEO Aviv Mussinger, CTO Pavel Furman, and Idan Bartura. The founders said they started the company because they were tired of watching AppSec teams struggle with endless streams of false positives from traditional software composition analysis tools. They decided to solve the problem once and for all — by defending applications from manipulation and attack through Runtime Intelligence. They have decades of combined experience in red teaming and other offensive cybersecurity projects with the world’s elite military and software organizations.
Now, it remains to be seen if the company’s founders can break free of all of the scandals that still revolve around NSO group which was accused of helping dictatorships around the world spy on political opponents and journalists.
