OMRON Ventures Co. Ltd. (CEO: Tomoko Inoue) announces that it has made an investment in De-Identification Ltd. (headquartered in Israel). De-Identification Ltd. develops privacy protection technology for facial images, which has the potential to become an industry standard.

OMRON Ventures aims to combine OMRON’s work in Data Trading Market, development of next-generation traffic control systems, etc. with De-Identification’s technology, and thereby create new businesses in various areas.