"I DISTINGUISH BETWEEN ideas that are improving the existing and ideas that are conceptual breakthroughs," says Israeli angel investor Shmuel Harlap. So in 2001, he put less than $10,000 into an Israeli startup called Mobileye. With the advent of autonomous vehicles, virtually every global automaker has come to rely on Mobileye's camera-based software for assisted-driver systems like lane-departure warnings. "I thought Mobileye was a breathtaking technology" Harlap says. "I didn't see it anywhere else."
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