Former prime minister Ehud Barak invests $1 million in Israeli startup Reporty Homeland Security, Globes reports.
The company developed a platform enabling real-time video broadcast from the scene, in an effort to improve and streamline communication between citizens and rescue services or local authorities.
Reporty’s product is an app for 2-way broadcasting video and audio, including geotagging and a function of measuring the credibility of reports.
Ehud Barak speaks at the opening of the ‘Globes Business Conference’, in Tel Aviv on December 08, 2014. (Photo credit: Flash90)
The company was established in 2014 by Amir Amihai, formerly an IDF officer in an elite unit and presently the company’s CEO. Amir Buhris, who served in the past as commander of the IDF’s 8200 intelligence unit and then as director general of the Defense Ministry, serves as a director in the company, Globes reports.
Reporty is based in Tel Aviv and intends to recruit 10 additional employees, especially mobile algorithm developers, by the end of 2015.
“The solution we are developing is based on sound technology, on the side of the end user as well as on the control and monitoring end. We are excited by the vote of confidence we received from Ehud Barak, whose rich experience in the world of security will help us form a strategy and break out with our product in Israel and around the world.”
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