Nexar
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Nexar develops Dashcam, a mobile application that offers insights and alerts about surrounding cars and enables users to provide feedback and alerts to other drivers on the road. The Company’s application records the road while driving; detects a hard break or an accident; records past, present, and future of an incident; and automatically creates an incident and uploads it to the cloud.
| Type | Private | |
| Founded | 2015 | |
| HQ | Tel Aviv-Yafo, IL | Map |
| Website | getnexar.com | |
| Employee Ratings | More |
Recent NewsAll News
- Nexar now 'sees' 130 million road miles per month to train autonomous vehicles for the most extreme driving situations
- Nationwide's venture partnership with Nexar helps create safer roadways
- This API can predict the state of traffic lights across a city
- Nexar raises $30M to protect drivers with its AI-powered dashcam app
Latest Updates
| Employees (est.) (Sept 2021) | 111 | (+6%) |
| Cybersecurity rating | B | More |
Key People/Management at Nexar
Eran Shir
CEO & CO-Founder
Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz
CTO & Co-Founder
Nexar Office Locations
Nexar has offices in Tel Aviv-Yafo, New York and San Francisco
Tel Aviv-Yafo, IL (HQ)
58 HaRakevet St
New York, NY, US
29 W 17th St
San Francisco, CA, US
25 Taylor St, San Francisco
Nexar Financials and Metrics
Summary Metrics
Founding Date | 2015 |
Nexar total Funding | $96.5 m |
Nexar latest funding size | $52 m |
Time since last funding | a year ago |
Nexar investors | True Ventures, Expansion Venture Capital, Slow Ventures, Micron Ventures, Aleph, Mosaic Ventures, Tusk Ventures, Nationwide, Samsung NEXT, La Maison, Alibaba Innovation Ventures, Nationwide Insurance, Ibex Ventures, Ibex Investors, Corner Ventures, Sompo, Atreides Management |
Nexar's latest funding round in April 2020 was reported to be $52 m. In total, Nexar has raised $96.5 m
Nexar Operating Metrics
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Nexar Online and Social Media Presence
1.36k Twitter followers
Nexar has 1.36k Twitter Followers. The number of followers has increased 0.8% month over month and increased 4.9% quarter over quarter
Nexar's Trends
Twitter Engagement Stats for @getnexar
695
Tweets
181
Following
1.4k
Followers
9
Tweets last 30 days
0.3
Avg. likes per Tweet
33.3%
Tweets with engagement
Nexar News and Updates
July 21, 2021
Nexar now 'sees' 130 million road miles per month to train autonomous vehicles for the most extreme driving situations
TEL AVIV, Israel, July 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Nexar, makers of the popular Nexar dash cams and provider of crowd-sourced street-level visual data, announced today it has reached a new monthly coverage milestone, capturing 130 million miles of driving per month, reflecting 30% growth...
October 01, 2018
Nationwide's venture partnership with Nexar helps create safer roadways
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Since the announcement to deploy more than $100 million of venture capital in customer-centric solutions, one of many investments delivering value is Nationwide's partnership with Nexar, a mobility startup focused on promoting safer driving. A...
May 30, 2018
This API can predict the state of traffic lights across a city
Traffic lights are society’s equalizer. Rich or poor, you’ve got to wait for them to change. Waiting in a static line of diesel-spluttering SUVs on a warm summer day is just one of those universal experiences that everyone can relate to. But what if you could predict the state of traffic lights, and…
January 24, 2018
Nexar raises $30M to protect drivers with its AI-powered dashcam app
Israel-based startup Nexar believes that we don’t have to wait for the self-driving car revolution to make the roads safer with artificial intelligence. Today the company announced that it has raised $30 million in funding for its AI-powered dashcam app. The Series B funding round was led by Ibex In…
January 24, 2018
Israeli road hazard warning app Nexar raises $30 million: Reuters
Israel-based Nexar, whose technology warns drivers of real-time road hazards, said on Wednesday it raised $30 million in a financing round led by Ibex Ventures.
January 24, 2018
Israel’s Nexar raises $30 million for its car safety technology
Car tech firm Nexar has raised $30 million led by Ibex Ventures with participation from new and existing backers Alibaba Innovation Ventures, Nationwide Insurance, Aleph, Mosaic Ventures, Slow Ventures, True Ventures, and Tusk Ventures. The AI-enabled automotive technology, which is used by consumer…
Nexar Blogs
July 21, 2021
Nexar now ‘sees’ 130 million road miles per month to train autonomous vehicles for the most extreme…
Nexar now ‘sees’ 130 million road miles per month to train autonomous vehicles for the most extreme driving situationsNexar generates the world’s largest independent vision dataset providing AV creators with the anomalous data they need for training along with mapping and change detectionhttps://medium.com/media/546726b5abccf086922934d23bd5c0e5/hrefNexar,…
June 23, 2021
Nexar and Blyncsy use dash cam footage and machine learning to improve road maintenance
Blyncsy will ingest billions of images collected by Nexar’s popular dash cams to support pilot programs for the New Mexico Department of Transportation, CalTrans and other departments nationwideNexar, whose dash cams enable crowd-sourced vision, and Blyncsy, a movement and data intelligence company,…
May 11, 2021
Parking and curb-space: can you map it in real-time?
What it takes to create a crowd-sourced identification of free, on-street, parkingDuring February 2021 we used images collected from dash cams and AI to map on-street parking spots in Milan. We wanted to understand the city’s curb-side and prove the value of real-time, free-parking-spot detections f…
April 27, 2021
National Work Zone Awareness Week: An Interview with John Penuelas of RTC
John Penuelas is the Senior Director of Engineering at the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada. We spoke to him about how the RTC uses Nexar’s Road Work Zone detections (based on dash cam imagery) for the Las Vegas Valley and its importance. The following are excerpts from the inte…
March 29, 2021
Imagining vision-based connected car camera applications
By 2024 most new car models will include several built-in cameras. Cameras are there for the cars to “see” — the road, cyclists, pedestrians, road signs and more. Most industry pundits focus on the use of car-sight as cars evolve to self-driving. Yet, even before, during and after self-driving becom…
March 24, 2021
Nexar releases first-ever AI vision technology to reconstruct car accident scenes
Using video footage captured by on-board cameras, Nexar’s technology provides drivers and insurance companies with a detailed reconstruction of the actions of all parties involved in a collisionNexar, a leading AI computer vision company, announced today the release of the first-ever collision recon…
Nexar Frequently Asked Questions
When was Nexar founded?
Nexar was founded in 2015.
Who are Nexar key executives?
Nexar's key executives are Eran Shir and Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz.
How many employees does Nexar have?
Nexar has 111 employees.
Who are Nexar competitors?
Competitors of Nexar include Nauto, Zoox and Optimus Ride.
Where is Nexar headquarters?
Nexar headquarters is located at 58 HaRakevet St, Tel Aviv-Yafo.
Where are Nexar offices?
Nexar has offices in Tel Aviv-Yafo, New York and San Francisco.
How many offices does Nexar have?
Nexar has 3 offices.
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