Entrepreneurship in israel

Inside the BGU fund where students invest real venture capital

Some are barely into their twenties, yet they decide which startups receive funding. Inside Ben-Gurion University's Cactus Capital, students aren't preparing to become investors. They already are.

|ByRONNIE ROSENMAN, IN COLLABORATION WITH BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY 
Roy Kimchi, Cactus Capital’s founding CEO
View of the Malha Technological Centre, which houses the Israel Innovation Authority, in Jerusalem.

'Dollar-shekel exchange, more local production': Next Innovation Authority CEO has challenges ahead

While the current chief, Dror Bin, faced economic turbulence with the pandemic and the Hamas war, the next CEO will be in charge of guiding Israel to the age of AI, experts told the Post.

|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN
A group of diverse people are queueing up in a movie theater to watch a movie.

This Israeli startup is using AI to transform cinemas into more than just a place to watch movies

Aiming at younger generations and their need for socialization, Bigger Picture offers cinemas a platform to track their data and create better experiences.

|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN
Roi Danino, Entrepreneur & Business Mentor

From Gaza frontlines to corporate recovery

An entrepreneur's blueprint to leading through uncertainty

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Tel Aviv among leading cities worldwide for women entrepreneurs

Despite dropping eight places, the city was praised for improvements in the presence of open data initiatives and access to technology.

JULY 15, 2019ByEYTAN HALON
A woman walks near high-rise buildings in the high-tech business area of Tel Aviv

First shared workspace for women aims to spark a business movement

Panthera, Hebrew for a female panther, is a sprawling indoor campus on HaArba'a Street, specially designed to cater for the needs of professional women.

APRIL 23, 2019ByEYTAN HALON
Panthera co-founders Galit Ben Simhon, Limor Dahan and Shani Burstein

Israeli society at its very best

APRIL 13, 2019ByJOSEPH BORNSTEIN
A UNITED HATZALAH ambucycle is seen with Jerusalem in the background

Tel Aviv opens its doors to a smarter urban future

Among the multinational companies that have joined the project are Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi's Israeli innovation lab and Dell Technologies.

MARCH 21, 2019ByEYTAN HALON
The inauguration of Tel Aviv's CityZone innovation laboratory and field experiment center

The Human Spirit: Redefining impact at the OurCrowd summit

MARCH 14, 2019ByBARBARA SOFER
ADIR AND LIAT GRAINER SIMAN TOV.

In first Israeli acquisition, Walmart purchases start-up Aspectiva

FEBRUARY 27, 2019ByEYTAN HALON
An employee pushes shopping carts outside a Walmart store in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 20, 2018

Forbes Under 30 Summit for Women to be held in Israel

Last year's conference was such a success, Forbes is launching its first every Under 30 women's summit in the Jewish state.

FEBRUARY 14, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Supermodel Bar Rafaeli and Randall Lane, Chief Content Officer at Forbes Magazine at the Forbes Under 30 Summit Global

BGU receives 6 million shekel grant to establish entrepreneurship center

The center will run courses, hackathons and initiatives to create bonds within the nation's startup ecosystem and BGU's 20,000 students, researchers and 130,000 graduates.

JANUARY 11, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Ben Gurion University

OurCrowd announces 2019 Investor Summit theme: Making a global impact

According to the Global Impact Investing Network, assets under management defined as impact now tally $114 billion.

DECEMBER 4, 2018ByMAAYAN HOFFMAN
Thousands of people attended the 2018 OurCrowd summit in Jerusalem

Analysis: Bringing Israeli expertise back home

A total of 11% of Israeli doctoral graduates since 1981 have spent at least three years abroad by 2017.

OCTOBER 10, 2018ByEYTAN HALON
Tel Aviv University