Just a week ago, we reported on the hearing tests conducted by a French organization, whose representatives arrived in the city to perform hearing and vision tests in which hearing aids and glasses were distributed to hundreds of children and the elderly.
This week we reveal that behind the unique development of the device that enables the performance of remote hearing tests, stands a student of Ashdod Seminary, who is one of the developers of the product that is sold in the millions these days.
The student, Tzipi Sheinin, who is the granddaughter of the chief rabbi of Ashdod Rabbi Yosef Sheinin Shlita, acquired her training in the fields of programming in the computer major of the “New” Beit Yaakov Seminary (Rabbi Lieberman) in Jerusalem.
The one who provides the professional training for the students of the seminar, is the company “Qualis Showcase Company”, which deals in audiology and focuses on providing a wide range of solutions for hearing accessories and hearing tests.
The company experienced significant growth during the Corona period, when, naturally, it was not possible to perform hearing tests due to the frequent closures, and the company tried to find a solution that would allow remote hearing tests to be performed.
The task was assigned, among other things, to the students of the seminar, where Shainin was the one who was in charge of a team that was asked to develop special software, which would enable video tests.
In addition, with the start of the corona virus, in 2020 the company was urged to develop a new development for remote treatment, so that all the processes of hearing tests and device equipment for those who need it, will not be stopped during the corona virus and the closures. The development required a lot of effort and time from a small team of developers (only 3 developers!), among them was the student of the Ashdod seminary.
In the end, Qualis succeeded in meeting its goal, and the startup company introduced a website and application for hearing tests and analysis, where the website is for use by audiologists and otolaryngologists, i.e. for those with medical training only, while the application is friendlier and is intended for simpler and easier use by technicians or even Self examination. The products are all medically approved by global organizations such as the FDA, HIPPA, ISO, GDPR And she received the international medical certificates.
Indeed, the product came into use already in August 2020 and was defined as a great success. It has since been incorporated into many systems as many hearing aids have been sold, and a lot of money has changed hands. Following the significant success of the company, ‘Coalis’ took another leap forward, when it was acquired by WSA – The fifth largest audiology company in the world.
Today, the company is a subsidiary of SHOEBOXa Canadian company that was also purchased by me WSA two years earlier. The developments carried out by the company bear the name: “Qualis Showbox Company”. Those who pushed the company to nurture the seminary’s students were the former CEO Bernard Lasry and his brother Yves, as well as Emmanuel Lesgold.
What’s interesting is that in the past the two companies, ‘Koalis’ and ‘Showbox’ were considered tough competitors. Today, after the company was acquired by Shobox, Shobox sees Coulis as a source of many revenues and its executives do not hide their admiration: how such a small company, a tenth of the size of their company, managed to become a significant competitor to them in the past.
At Koalis, in any case, the special team that works within the Jerusalem seminar is nurtured, and there the girls say that “Koalis was more like a home for us than a workplace. We all experienced, especially during Corona but even before it, the successes and failures, the ups and downs, so that for us we felt that we are full partners in success.”
Since then Shainin had time to leave the company and join another company, while her younger sister joined ‘Coalis’.
It is likely that in the near future we will hear – literally – about another development that came out of the company, again this time with the help of the ultra-Orthodox girls that the company was able to nurture and now she is enjoying the fruits of the investment.