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SEPTEMBER 3
Break for lunch
Meet Local and Global Venture Capitals and Hubs: Suggested Visits:
We Work:
We Work is an American company, which provides shared workspace, community, and services for entrepreneurs, freelancers, startups and small businesses.
MAGMA:
Magma Venture Partners is a leading Israeli venture capital firm, dedicated to investing in Israel's Information, Communications and Technology space ('ICT'), including the software, semiconductor and new media spheres. We seek bright ideas at their earliest stages, and serve as a springboard for our entrepreneurs as they develop and evolve into industry leaders. Our goal is to enable a flow of innovation from the earliest stage all the way through until a company realizes its potential reach
Blumberg VC:
Blumberg Capital is an early stage venture capital firm that partners with passionate entrepreneurs to innovate and build successful technology companies. They specialize in leading Seed and Series A rounds collaborating with angel investors, other venture capital firms and strategic partners. They are active investors and board members – operating as an extension of the entrepreneurs’ network. They invest in the best teams, solving the biggest problems in technology hot spots around the world.
Sosa:
SOSA (South of Salame) is a comprised community of leaders from all walks of the entrepreneurial ecosystem who believe in propelling innovation through constant personal interactions. Founded by a diverse team of industry enthusiasts, SOSA occupies four stories of a vintage industrial building in South Tel Aviv. It offers its members a uniquely crafted space, designed to promote interaction, creativity and collaboration, constituting a vibrant environment to meet, work, and socialize.
Junction:
The Junction was founded by Genesis Partners, a leading Israeli early stage venture capital firm, as part of our partnership and collaboration with the entrepreneur community and as part of our efforts to encourage and be a part of Israeli innovation.
Introduction to Startup Ecosystem: Suggested visits:
Welcome to Startau:
StarTau was established in 2009 in order to service Israel's aspiring entrepreneurs. We guide entrepreneurs from a variety of business fields, including: Internet, mobile apps, medical devices, and more. We link private sector entrepreneurship, angels, VC's and companies to the academy and the public sector. StarTau has been named one of the best 25 academy business incubators in the world. The group will have an introduction and presentation to Israeli global startups Ecosystem, Israeli history, politics, and will be exposed to the "Startup Nation" infrastructure.
TAU Ventures:
Tel Aviv University has played a key role in Israel’s rise as a world leader in research and as a tech hotbed. Approximately fifty percent of all Israeli entrepreneurs are alumni of TAU and the university is ranked ninth globally for producing the most venture capital-backed entrepreneurs.
With this in mind, TAU created TAU Ventures, a new venture fund focusing on early stage ideas from students, alumni and the wider Tel Aviv ecosystem.
Israel Innovation Authority:
The Israel Innovation Authority, formerly known as the Office of the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Economy (& MATIMOP), which is responsible for the country’s innovation policy, is an independent and impartial public entity that operates for the benefit of the Israeli innovation ecosystem and Israeli economy as a whole.Its role is to nurture and develop Israeli innovation resources, while creating and strengthening the infrastructure and framework needed to support the entire knowledge industry.
The Time Incubator:
The Technological Incubators Program was established in 1991 and is administrated by the Office of the Chief Scientist, Ministry of Economy. The primary goal of the program is to transforminnovative technological ideas that are too risky for private investments, into viable startup companies that after the incubator term should be able to raise money from the private sector and operate on their own. They focus on startups in the areas of Telecom, Internet, Media and Entertainment (T.I.M.E.) and invest in a new generation of companies, developing digital products or services that can be distributed through digital channels or over the web.
09:00-14:00
13:00-14:30
15:00-18:30
SEPTEMBER 4
Mayor of Tel Aviv Cocktail Reception:
SEPTEMBER 5
Tel Aviv Cities Summit has a vision of promoting Tel Aviv's technology and innovation communities, as well as featuring Tel Aviv's innovative municipal policies, this event brings together entrepreneurs, city innovators, city makers, senior urban administrators, and visionaries from cities around the world – who together experience the booming innovation ecosystem - the spirit of Tel Aviv. This annual summit will address key issues that urban administrators must consider as they face ongoing technological and urban revolutions that shape communities nowadays.
9:00-16:00
SEPTEMBER 6
The DLD, or Digital Life Design, Innovation Festival in Tel Aviv will bring together fields such as digital, financial, computing, telecom, and more. This day will be by invitation only, for the international community, and therefore act a hub for exhibiting business opportunities, joint ventures and exchange ideas. Developers, start-up companies, and unique thinkers will all be invited to take part.
SEPTEMBER 7
Meeting Israeli Startups and TLV based companies: Suggested visits:
SimilarWeb:
SimilarWeb is a free tool that measures, benchmarks and compares web traffic for any site. Use SimilarWeb’s rankings to assess a site’s popularity and monitor its performance over time. SimilarWeb is built from group of developers, designers, mathematicians, data scientists, researchers and marketers that work relentlessly to measure online behavior worldwide and to generate marketing insights.
Mobileye:
Mobileye is the leading supplier of software that enables Advanced Driver Assist Systems (ADAS), with more than 25 automaker partners including some of the world’s largest. Beyond ADAS, our technology has rapidly evolved to also support the three pillars of Autonomous Driving – Sensing, Mapping, and Driving Policy.
Checkpoint:
Since 1993, Check Point has been dedicated to providing customers with uncompromised protection against all types of threats, reduces security complexity and lowering total cost of ownership. Checkpoint is committed to staying focused on customer needs and developing solutions that redefine the security landscape today and in the future.
Wix:
Wix provides a world class website building platform to over 100 million users in 190 countries. Wix has something for everyone. So, whether you’re a photographer, musician, small business owner, entrepreneur, bride or student, we provide all the tools and features you need to build an amazing online presence for FREE.
Fairfly:
FairFly was established to bridge this gap and solve the problem of volatility in ticket prices. FairFly uses innovative technology that continuously and automatically monitors ticket prices. When the price of the customer’s flight declines, FairFly notifies the customer right away. At FairFly, wepride ourselves on making sure our customers get the fairest price for their flight.
Meeting International R&D and Innovation Startups: Suggested Visits:
Hub:raum:
Founded in 2012, hub:raum enables and encourages the innovation transfer from the startup world to Deutsche Telekom, creating new business opportunities for both sides. By investing in innovative and early stage startups, hub:raum not only support our portfolio companies financially but also offer them access to our exclusive co-working space and partner and expert network. Next to their investments, hub:raum have also started several startup programs with our corporate partners and are running prototyping programs in business areas such as the Internet of Things.
Microsoft Accelerator:
Microsoft Accelerator is a global initiative built to empower entrepreneurs around the world on their journey to build great companies. We work with later-stage startups to provide the tools, resources, connections, knowledge and expertise they need to become successful companies.
Rise by Barclays:
Rise brings together the world’s best and brightest start-ups and experts to create the future of financial services.
Business in Jerusalem: Suggested Visits:
See what Jerusalem has to offer with its activities and growing ecosystem.
The Jerusalem Development Authority:
The Jerusalem Development Authority is a statutory corporation that was established by law in 1988. Its functions are to promote, plan and encourage the economic development of Jerusalem; to coordinate between government offices, authorities, and bodies involved in the development of Jerusalem; to advise and supply information connected to entrepreneurial initiatives, plans and commercial ventures in Jerusalem.
JVP:
The foundations for Jerusalem Venture Partner's (JVP) was established in 1993 by Erel Margalit. Its track record derive from the firm’s entrepreneurial spirit, experienced team and agile investment strategy. JVP now has over $900 million under management. The majority of the Fund's activities are led out of its International Media Quarter in Jerusalem with industry advisors in New York and Paris.
Siftech:
Siftech was founded in early 2012 as grassroots initiative of the Hebrew University Students Union, led by two extraordinary women, Stav Erez and Inbar Ziv. The idea was to create a vibrant ecosystem and environment for entrepreneurs and early stage startups to flourish in Jerusalem.
Our crowd:
OurCrowd is a venture capital crowd funding hybrid platform for accredited investors to invest in Israeli and global startups. OurCrowd launched its platform in February 2013 with its team based in the capital of the "Startup Nation". Jerusalem remains OurCrowd's flagship office and the center of its dealflow, investor relations, and operations team.
09:00-14:00
18:00-22:00
13:30-15:30
Break for lunch in Mahane Yehuda Market
Jerusalem Tour
Tour in Mahane Yehuda and the Western Wall.
World-famous icons of Jerusalem include the Western Wall, the Tower of David and the Machane Yehuda market. The Western Wall and the Tower of David represent the religious, historical nature of Jerusalem, the place from which the Jewish people developed. Machane Yehuda market, however, represents the contemporary—and the future—heart of Jerusalem. Machane Yehuda integrates, in a unique way, the old and the new. Both a bustling marketplace and a neighborhood, it incorporates food, drink, shopping, bars, restaurants. The shuk still retains its most important characteristics: it remains authentic, with all the flavors and aromas, the colors and the traders' interaction with the crowds.
13:30-17:00
18:30
Chairman Speaker Reception- Opening Reception of the DLD Event
SEPTEMBER 5
18:30
18:00
Urban Happening
10:00-14:00
16:00-18:00
Ron Huldai is an Israeli politician, academic administrator, former fighter pilot, general, and current mayor of Tel Aviv. He hosts the closing reception for the first day of the DLD to help kick off the event.
