Intuview develops and sales it's key product - IntuScanTM - a decision support system using "Artificial Intuition" technology for real time content analysis of texts for possible relevance to terrorism. IntuScan TM enables the user to analyze large quantities of documents, to prioritize them and to produce immediate abstracts, including interpretation of the texts, identification of authorship, political leanings, issues and sentiments. additional products are under development.
The potential market of the Arabic translation documents (in relation with terrorists' acts) is estimated at $2B with 30% CAGR.
IntuScanTM has already been fielded with US counter-terrorism forces and operates on Arabic texts while other languages are in the works. The IntuView technology will revolutionize knowledge mining by replacing the current technology of generic language-dependent lexical-based tools with domain-oriented suites of language-independent ontology-based "idea mining" tools that will provide the knowledge consumer with summaries in his own language of information gleaned from a broad spectrum of sources in different languages.
In 2009 Intuview sold Release1 of its key product IntuScan to the US Military and European Police Forces.
The pipeline of US, European and Asian customers for 2010 is in the range of several $M's.
IntuView was founded in 2005. Xenia and an additional Canadian investor invested in Intuview in 2006. IntuView matured incubator in 2008, A second round was launched in August 2008 and additional funding received from US investors.
TEAM
Dr. Shmuel Bar, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Board of Directors
PhD Middle Eastern Studies from Tel Aviv University. Thirty years of experience in the area of radical Islam in the Israeli Intelligence Community.
Avishai Noam, Board Member
Founder and CEO of Novacom & Novanet Semiconductors (acquired by Connexant for $150m), electronics engineer (RAD Group).
Kfir Bar, CTO, VP R&D
Kfir holds a MSc Summa Cum Laude in Computer Sciences in which he majored in computational linguistics and NLP. He is proficient in English, Hebrew and Arabic and wrote his thesis on Arabic to English example based machine translation (EBMT). He served in the IDF's Intelligence Corp.
Caroline Parlato, Board Member
Active Director for Vernon Ventures LLC and Shorelands Inc.
Glenn Carle, Board Member
Active Independent Director, twenty-three year veteran of the Clandestine Services of the Central Intelligence Agency, during which he performed national security and counterterrorism assignments on four continents and in Washington, D.C.
ADVISORY BOARD
Shabtai Shavit
Head of the Mossad from 1989 to 1996.
Shabtai Shavit has over 40 years of experience in international security and counter-terrorism He currently serves as the chairman of ATHENA GS3 subsequent to joining the Merhav Group in early 2001. He is an active member of the NYPD Preparedness Task Force and an advisor to a special sub-committee of the Kenesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. Mr. Shavit holds an MA in Public Administration from Harvard University and a BA from Hebrew University.
Col. Dr. Tony Martin
Dr. Tony Martin spent 22 years in the US Army, retired as a Lieutenant-Colonel. He served as Joint Operations Center (JOC) Chief for the Combined-Joint Special Operations Task Force- Afghanistan. In his last assignment, he served as the Senior Intelligence Officer for the US Army Special Forces Command. He was responsible for the procurement and implementation of intelligence related hardware and software solutions for every US Army Special Forces operational unit.
R. James Woosley, former Director of the CIA
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