This Entrepreneur Has Raised $60 Million To Listen To Machines And Tell You What‘s Wrong
On August 5, 2017, the skies above New Orleans opened and dumped almost a foot of rain on the city in just a couple of hours. The streets flooded. More than 100,000 people were evacuated. A million people suffered property damage. That wasn’t even Hurricane Katrina. It was just a random rainstorm sweeping through the region. New Orleans relies on eight vital pumps to move water from the streets back to the ocean. On that day, four pumps were down for scheduled maintenance. Two others stopped working during that rainstorm. The failure of just those two pumps caused those 100,000 people to lose their homes and belongings. Fortunately, if Saar Yoskovitz’s vision is realized, that will never happen again. Saar and his cofounder have already raised $60M to save us from critical machine breakdowns.
On August 5, 2017, the skies above New Orleans opened and dumped almost a foot of rain on the city in just a couple of hours. The streets flooded. More than 100,000 people were evacuated. A million people suffered property damage. That wasn’t even Hurricane Katrina. It was just a random rainstorm sweeping through the region.
New Orleans relies on eight vital pumps to move water from the streets back to the ocean. On that day, four pumps were down for scheduled maintenance. Two others stopped working during that rainstorm. The failure of just those two pumps caused those 100,000 people to lose their homes and belongings.
Fortunately, if Saar Yoskovitz’s vision is realized, that will never happen again.
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Saar and his cofounder have already raised $60M to save us from critical machine breakdowns.
It isn’t just about flooding either. Their solution is used to help keep production lines working, to keep essential utilities like water and electricity running, medicines being made and medical machines reliable and dependable for keeping our kids alive and healthy.
We recently got together on an episode of the Dealmakers Podcast. We talked about tech, building, and scaling companies, about listening to machines and company culture.
Listen to the full podcast episode and review the transcript here.
Here is the content that we will cover in this post. Let’s get started.
- 1. It’s Your Time To Shine: Finding Your Path Into Entrepreneurship
- 2. Why Move Your Startup To The United States?
- 3. Living On The Edge
- 4. Saar’s Top Advice For New Startup Founders
It’s Your Time To Shine: Finding Your Path Into Entrepreneurship
Saar Yoskovitz’s father was an engineer. He made sure his son was always surrounded by computers and technology. He fell in love with them since getting his first one in second grade. By age 10 he was learning to program.
It was only natural for him when he got into University. He went on to study electrical engineering and physics at Israel’s equivalent of MIT, Technion.
During this time he landed an internship at Intel. On graduating he went to ask the smartest and most experienced people he could find what his best path was. He knew he wanted to start his own venture, but wanted to use the next two years to really build out the best knowledge and toolkit for doing that well.
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