Zebra Medical Vision

By: Komal Chhabria

Zebra Medical Vision
• Established in 2014
• HQ: Herzliya, Israel
• Worked on tools that could assist radiologists
• Leveraged machine Learning
• Started with lung cancer identification
• Received ample funding
• Had 40 employees by 2018
Analysis
Competitive advantages
• Lenient privacy laws in Israel
• Low cost per scan, easy to sell
• Located in the start-up hub
• Variety of data
• Hired from the right talent
pool
Competitive disadvantages
• A lot of companies practicing
ML
• Technology isn't considered
reliable
• Difficulty in procuring data
• Supervised learning was
required
• Lack of technical knowledge
amongst graduates
Recommendations
• Hire good negotiators
▫ To get variety of data
▫ To get bigger contracts
• Improve on accuracy to maintain competitive
advantage
• Target developed countries first
▫ Move to cloud, would help in developed countries
• Develop bundles which could detect multiple
conditions