Innovate Israel 2017 in summary

Session
Tuesday, 12 September 2017
09:12 - 09:12
Duration: 3 mins
Publication date: 06 Nov 2017
Location: Turing Lecture Theatre, Savoy Place, London, United Kingdom
Part of event Innovate Israel

About the session

Innovate Israel was organised by UK Israel Business, the bilateral chamber of commerce, and hosted at the IET’s Savoy Place venue. The event brought together 17 of Israel’s most exciting scale-up companies and over 150 UK attendees including corporates, funds and private investors, all interested in hearing the latest in innovation and disruption from Israel. For more information, please visit https://ukisrael.biz.

Keywords:: Israel

R&D

agile

innovation

investment

investors

private data

start-ups

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Sectors

Manufacturing

Speakers

Mike Hodgson

BT
Jon Medved

OurCrowd, Founder & CEO

Jonathan Medved is a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Medved currently is the founder and CEO of OurCrowd, an equity-crowdfunding platform for accredited investors and angels focused on investing in Israeli and global startups www.ourcrowd.com.Medved was the co-founder and CEO of Vringo between 2006-2012, a leader in the mobile social and video applications area. Vringo trades on the NASDAQ under the symbol of VRNG.Prior to founding Vringo, Medved founded Israel Seed Partners in 1995 in his garage and co-managed the fund until January 2006. Israel Seed had $262M under management in four funds and has been an investor in 60 leading Israeli companies. Exits include: Shopping.com (acquired by Ebay), Compugen (Nasdaq: CGEN), Answers.com (acquired by Summit)), Tradeum (acquired by VerticalNet),Broadlight (acquired by Broadcom), Mobile Access (acquired by Corning), Cyota (acquired by RSA), Native Networks (acquired by Alcatel), Xacct (acquired by Amdocs), Business Layers (acquired by CA), Xtellus (acquired by Oclaro), Digital Fuel (acquired by VMWare).Prior to Israel Seed, Medved built several technology startups. Medved was a founder and Executive Vice President of Marketing and Sales at MERET Optical Communications, Inc. (Santa Monica, CA) between 1982-1991. MERET was an early pioneer in fiber optic communication systems for video transmission which was acquired by the Amoco Corporation (NYSE:BP) in 1990. Medved then was part of the founding management team at Accent Software (Nasdaq:ACNTF) where he served as Executive Vice President of Marketing and Sales between 1992-1994.
Yali Saar

Tailor Brands, Founder & CEO

Yali Saar is the CEO and Co-Founder of Algorithmic Branding Agency Tailor Brands, a venture backed startup company teaching computers how to design, and offering a self-service branding platform for over 2,000,000 clients worldwide. Set to create the world’s largest branding agency, Saar has experience leading projects for BBDO, Coca-Cola, Telekom companies and more. Prior to Tailor Brands, Saar was a journalist, political spokesperson and co-founder of Raising the Bar, a worldwide education initiative with hundreds of members in New York, San Fran
Asher Bennett

Tevva Motors, Founder & CEO

Asher Bennett is the founder and CEO of Tevva Motors limited a UK-Israeli company that designs and manufactures extended range electric trucks. Among its customers are UPS, DHL and Kuhne+Nagel (As Costa Coffee trucks). Asher previously co-founded Evida Power Ltd. a provider of energy solutions for the electrical vehicle market. Among the projects he was involved in was the Beijing Olympics electric buses (robotic swapping of batteries), Shanghai Expo Electric bus (fast charging at bus stations). He also led the design of the first swappable battery for Better Place.Asher’s first career as a diesel-electric submarine officer gave him the foundation for his electric-vehicle career.Asher was also a founding shareholder in Cyota (online anti-fraud software company) and Co-Founder of Coral-Tell the operator of Yad2 Israel’s largest classifieds website.Asher has an MBA from IMD, Switzerland and graduated first in class from the Israeli Naval Academy (Chovlim)
Hugo Bieber

UK Israel Business
Sangita Kanoria

Advina Healthcare
Eze Vidra

Antidote

computer crime

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