Igal leads Cortica’s vision, strategy, and technology. Cortica is one of Israel’s leading AI companies. Its unique self-learning technology for visual perception, backed by more than 200 patents, allows Cortica to develop multiple products that can read and understand images on a human level–thereby significantly exceeding the capabilities of the major tech companies. Cortica was founded in 2007 and has raised ≈$70 million to date.
Igal is an award winning innovator with over 50 patents. His career began in an elite intelligence unit in the IDF, before founding LCB, Ltd. – a real-time voice recognition technology. Igal began his Ph.D. research at the Technion but left prior to graduation to pursue his ambitions with Cortica.