Israeli start-up, Trollim, owned by the two two former We employees, Raz Alon (founder and former CTO of We! Secure) and Arki Filstein (former CEO of We! Hunters), reaped the Best International Start-Up award at TechCrunch’s TC50 event in San Francisco. Trollim will offer a platform for testing programers and comparing their skills against professional programing challenges and the skills of other programers.
Making a connection between job seekers, potential employers and semantic engines that are capable of analyzing a workers qualifications and skills seems to be a burning topic right now. If you are heavily vested in that world, or deal with HR in high-tech fields, check out another new start up started by Filstein – skilliq.com.
This may be a coincidence, or possibly sophisticated job-seeking search engines are the next big thing, but TechCrunch’s big winner was RedBeacon, founded by Israeli Yaron Binur, a former Google employee, which offers a semantics-based web application for connecting employers and job seekers.
Binur, along with Aaron Lee and Ethan Anderson, both former Google employees as well, provide a semantic search engine which analyzes requests for various professional services, and knows to direct the searcher to an appropriate service provider, based on geographical location. Winning the TC50 competition will reward Redbeacon with fifty thousand dollars, and a rich collection of prizes from a various third parties, as well as load and loads of free publicity.
Yet another Israeli start-up, this time Jerusalem-based JVP’s AnyClip, took home the TC50 People’s Choice award.
Translated by Itai Rosenbaum
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