Avi Golan

CEO, Oosto

Avi Golan is CEO of Oosto. Previously Avi Golan worked in Silicon Valley for nearly 20 years, he worked at companies like SoftBank Vision Fund, Google, Intuit, and Air New Zealand in different leadership and investment roles, where he led large organisations across multiple products and verticals.

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OPINION: School safety – it’s time to accelerate the adoption of security tech

We must leverage existing technologies like social media monitoring, gunshot and weapons detection, and real-time watchlist alerting. We owe it to our children. The recent news of the Dallas element...

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Intellicene partners with Oosto to enhance security software with advanced facial recognition technology

Intellicene, the trailblazing pioneer in integrated, intelligent security software platforms, has announced a strategic partnership with Oosto, a provider of Vision AI solutions including facial biome...

Carnegie Mellon’s school safety summit: “Face and object recognition tech can save students’ lives and maintain high standards of privacy when operating within ethical guidelines”

Golan was speaking at Carnegie Mellon’s school safety emergency summit alongside school security professionals and academics. Michael Matranga, M6 Global security, “No doubt that weapons d...

Oosto parent’s survey: 59.4% support additional security measures in schools such as access control and real-time video surveillance

A significant number of U.S. parents of school-aged children feel insecure about, and support increasing, security measures in their children's schools, according to a survey conducted by Oosto follow...

Oosto's open letter to the white house lists 6 common use cases of facial recognition and the risks of each

The United States government is seeking information from both the public and private sector on how biometric data is being used for identification purposes, according to a request for information ...

Softbank's Yossi Cohen to Oosto: “See our 300 companies portfolio as Oosto's ambassadors to government and corporations”

Yossi Cohen, former head of the Mossad and current director of Softbank's operations in Israel, spoke at a conference of security consultants of the AI Company Oosto held in Raanana, Israel. Cohen, "...

The British and Australian privacy regulator order Clearview AI to delete photos of people from its database

Facial recognition company Clearview AI is facing a potential fine in the UK and has also been handed a provisional notice to stop further processing of UK citizens’ data and to delete any data...

Oosto endorses the Australian Government's decision to delete pictures scraped from the net for facial recognition app

CEO Avi Golan: “As a vendor of AI based facial recognition products for private companies and government agencies it is important for me to emphasise - facial recognition apps should be provided...

Visual AI company AnyVision changes its name to Oosto

AnyVision announced today that the company will change its name to Oosto. The new name reflects the company’s evolution and vision for the future which is shaped, in part, by a new collaboration...

The EU called for a ban on police use of facial recognition but not commercial use. Why?

Recently, the European Parliament called for a ban on police use of facial recognition. In the US, too, some cities have restricted police use of facial recognition. The first question that comes to m...