Another Start-Up in Flash, Anobit Technologies

On the Web site of Anobit Technologies, Ltd., there are only these words: "Anobit Technologies, Ltd is a fables semiconductor company developing enabling technologies for the rapidly growing flash memory market. Anobit was founded by a group of internationally renowned experts and entrepreneurs in the fields of signal processing, digital communications, system and silicon design. Anobit’s technology optimizes the cost and performance of flash memory devices, paving the way for next generation storage solutions. "

We also learned that the start-up, founded in 2006, is based in Pituach, Israel, and counts 43 employees. The secretive semiconductor start-up received a $17 million Series A investment from Battery Ventures and Pitango Venture Capital in August 2007.

Anobit owns at least these two patents:

• Command interface for memory devices – method for operating a memory device that includes a plurality of analog memory cells
• Reduction of back pattern dependency effects in memory devices

Its main executives are:

• Ehud Weinstein, founder and CEO
• Ofir Shalvi, founder and CTO
• Ariel Maislos, founder