Alon Blankstein

"the road to success is always under construction"

Meet me at ISC West 2007 – Las Vegas, March 28-30 BOOTH #26095

Financial & BizDev exec with broad experience in all aspects of fundraising, marketing, business strategy and management. Vast Experience in managing and consultanting IT infrastructure, Life sciences, retail, real estate and venture capital companies. Interested in supporting Israeli companies going global or Global companies interested in the Israeli local technology market.

I am one of the founders of Partners500, I am the CFO of Mate Intelligent Video Solutions and i am invested & on the advisory board of several Israeli based technology ventures

CFO MATE Intelligent Video Ltd.

"Adding Insight to Video Surveillance"

Meet me at ISC West 2007 – Las Vegas, March 28-30 BOOTH #26095

George Orwel's 1984 "Big brother WAS watching" but actually in 2007 he is only recording :-) One could ask: Is today's Human dependant real time monitoring practically useless? If one can't watch one monitoring screen for 1 hour and stay alert, how can we watch 100s of screens for 24/7? My answer is Video Analytics ... My small part in this answer is Mate

Look us up at www.mate.co.il
and my blog http://PerimeterDefense.blogspot.com/

About Maayan Technology Ventures www.maayanventures.com

Maayan Technology Ventures is a dynamic investment group specializing in early stage investments through a Technological Incubator. Established in 1990 and privatized in 2003 as part of the Israel Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS). Partners500, E&M Computing, Mr. Leon Recanati and Dr. Israel Yovel and are among Maayan's founders. Maayan's goal is to support young start-up companies in developing, positioning and commercializing new technological innovations. Maayan provide talented and motivated entrepreneurs with a fertile environment in which innovation thrives.

About D&A Hi-Tech Information www.dainfo.com

D&A provides information solutions and business tools for generating new opportunities within the Hi-Tech Industry. Through widespread networking with market leaders and ongoing cultivation of extensive databases, D&A provides investors, entrepreneurs and Hi-Tech companies a fast-track gateway to the Hi-Tech market

"Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities."
Alan Bloom

About Partners500 www.partners500.com and http://BizDevisrael.blogspot.com/

Partners500 is a team of veteran business development experts & venture capitalists with a strong local and international network to support our activities in most of the IT & Life Sciences industries. We provide a full suite of business development tools including: market validation, business plan formulating and writing, screening (for VCs and Strategic Partners), beta site location recruiting, sales and fundraising.

"Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant."
Mark Twain (Samuel Longhorne Clemens)

The following is a partial list of projects that I am currently working on:

Bio-Sense Technologies Ltd. (BST) (a Maayan portfolio company)

Bio-Sense Technologies Ltd. (BST) www.bio-sense.com develops, supplies and supports bioelectrical systems that integrate cutting-edge technology with the sensory and intelligence resources of nature.

Bio-Sense first commercial product is DBS, a watchdog-based intrusion detection solution. The system combines the superior senses of the watchdog with advanced detection algorithms, thereby upgrading the watchdog into a highly reliable bioelectric early warning security system. DBS uses the dog as a bio-sensor, continuously monitoring it’s status by sensors and transmitters placed in the dog’s vicinity or on the dog itself. The digital signals obtained are filtered, processed and analysed, to determine if the dog is responding to routine event, or if an intrusion occurred in the dog’s territory. DBS can be deployed as a stand-alone system, or to be integrated with existing security / alarm system, to effectively alert and present the security crisis

"But change is OK, people cope. They don't freak out just because the puppy grows up and turns into a dog."
Jerry Seinfeld

AppliSonix (Maayan portfolio company)

AppliSonix is developing affordable next-generation personal devices that utilize an innovative ultrasonic technology to remove hair surfaces permanently and painlessly.

"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."
William Shakespeare

EarlySense (Private Investment)

Shhhh..... Still in Stealth Mode… all I can say is that we can detect an asthma attack a few days in advance!!! in a seamless non invasive way. Your kid won't even know he his being monitored!!

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage

FTK Technologies (VP BizDev via Partners500)

FTK Technologies (www.ftk.co.il) addresses human computer interaction (HCI) problems by enhancing the speed of data inputting, substantially reducing typing errors and improving the usability of software applications.
The company’s first product is “FastKeys” system which provides a leading and innovative solution for simple multifunctional and multilingual data entry tasks. By displaying a virtual keyboard and a real time simulation of a PC user’s hands on the PC monitor screen, the Fast Keys system facilitates an effective, ergonomic and convenient way to input data via a PC computer.

OREE (BizDev via Partners500)

Oree is developing a set of unique, patent protected, proprietary enabling technologies for the creation of an elastic, high performance planar waveguide that enables easy and effective coupling of external light sources like LED’s, laser diodes, bare die LEDs and fiber optics.

Oree's technology is used in a variety of applications from extra thin backlight illumination, endoscopes illumination and low cost optical PCB.

Looking for investors and business partners

BrightWire Technologies (founding team)

We are developing lasar radar systems for the aviation and security markets.

A wise man once said "War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's Left" so Let us help you stay in the Air

Foamix (Private Investment)

Foamix develops a broad spectrum of drugs, in three different types of foam vehicles: Emollient Foam (to replace creams), Oily Foam (to replace ointments) and Waterless Foam (for specific needs of sensitive drugs). All our foam vehicles are alcohol-free and we have clinical study results to demonstrate that they do not cause skin irritation in normal and sensitive skin.

Foamix is actively seeking development and marketing partners for products from the DeramFoamix, CosmetoFoamix and OILGEL platform.
look us up at www.Foamix.co.il or contact me at alon@foamix.co.il

WaveXtend (VP BizDev via Partners500)

WaveXtend is developing patent-pending, intelligent, multi-directional antennas for the indoor wireless communication market. WaveXtend's patent pending beam forming technology, significantly improves Quality of Service while reducing Total Cost of Ownership of any Wireless environment- whether 802.11, WiMAX, Bluetooth, W-CDMA, GPRS, etc.
Current product lines:
WiMAX basestation antenna product line
WiMAX CPE antenna product line
Wi-Fi AP antenna product line

look us up at www.wavextend.com or contact me at alon@wavextend.com

Softlib (BizDev via Partners500)

Softlib’s mission is to provide best-of-breed customized technical libraries for IT professionals. iDoc, Softlib’s flagship product, is designed to be the leading solution for IT departments to manage and search their centralized IT technical libraries, increasing the efficiency of their IT group. Thousands of IT professionals within the financial, telecom and government sectors already use iDoc and Find IT Fast.

Vendor Documentation - everything you wanted to know and was afraid to ask

We are looking for sales channels in Europe and the US so please drop a note at alon@partners500.com

E&M Computing (TASE; EMCO)(VP Finance)

An organization's IT infrastructure is the platform for its ongoing activities and its commercial success. At E&M Computing we have undertaken the mission of supplying you, the customer, with suitable solutions of the highest quality. Therefore, our motto has always been to provide the customer with the Best-of-Breed products.

Best-of-Breed - the best solutions for you

www.emet.co.il

Past projects and positions

VP Business Development VIM Technologies

VIM is an innovative offset printing plate & Imaging system vendor. Our DI waterless plate offering is promised to revolutionize the DI printers cost structure making it the most profitable venue by far for the short and medium print runs.

Alon has been instrumental in validating our target markets, fine tuning our product offering and in leading our business development efforts. In no time he understood our technological product offering and market business potential and today he is a valuable asset in planning our second and third generation of products. He is part of the team, no task is to small or to big. (January 4, 2004)

CFO Dunkin Donuts

CFO Jerusalem Ventures Partners (JVP)

Treasurer Amdocs (NSE; DOX)

Controller, and manager of the economics and Treasury Divisions
Urdan Inustries (TASEURDAN)

Auditor Barzily and Co

Three reasons why you should use accountants as test subjects in clinical studies instead of lab animals
1. Their are plenty of them around
2. They are Semi-Human
3. You don't grow emotionally attached to them

Capitan IDF
"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried."
Sir Winston Churchill