The TechAviv Founders Club’s CA and NY branches meet this week and showcase some excellent local Israeli startups. TechAviv CA met on Tues the 26th at Google’s HQ in Mountain View. Besides having the best pizza and beer in town, Google is an inspiring setting for entrepreneurs and its always pride-evoking to see how many Israelis hold key positions there. WorldMate, ClipSync and EyeCon demo’d. Some photos:
Thanks Nadav Gur, founder of WorldMate for the free pro accounts for all attending TechAviv members!
After three weeks of public and members-only voting, over 100 startups nominated and 6,000 votes cast, we have our Top 5 Finalists of the TechAviv Peer Awards. Face.com, my6sense, 5min, Colnect and 6rounds will compete live on Wednesday, Dec 30th, 7:00pm for the right to claim the crown ofTop Israeli Startup of 2009. The event will be broadcast live by TechAviv member LiveU.
The finals competition is a closed, members-only event of the TechAviv Founders Club in Israel which includes 600 Israeli hi-tech startup founders and investors. In typical TechAviv fashion, we’re crowdsourcing the competition. Rather than have a panel of so-called experts pick the winner, Israel’s founders and investors will select the winner via live SMS vote after the startups get 10 minutes each on stage to impress their peers. See who’s coming here.
Congrats to all of the great startups that were nominated and best of luck to our finalists!
It’s important to note, as many have commented, that many fine Israeli startups outside our mainly Internet, web and mobile software and services membership were not nominated. We may include different category awards next year as a result.
Nine months ago there was talk and speculation that Israel’s Web sector was done and not likely to recover. Mainly expressed by TechCrunch editor-at-large Sarah Lacy after her visit to Israel in March, at the time she wrote about her disappointment with Israeli Web startups except for MyHeritage and a few others. Her piece caused an uproar among Israelis on Twitter and in the blogosphere, including on TechAviv. Continued …
Before it has even been launched in the AppStore, TechAviv CA member Nitzan Vilnai’s SketchNation is making waves as the AppsFire AppStar Awards winner in the Gaming category. The iPhone app, produced by Nitzan’s company Engineous Games, is literally ingenious. The video above speaks for itself but in short it lets you draw your own game objects (e.g. player, planes, enemies, rocks etc.) on a piece of paper, take a photo of them with your iPhone and have them magically appear and function in your own action game. Reminiscent of Shidonni, that’s thinking out of the iBox. Continued …
TechAviv members Amobee and Innovid have been named Technology Pioneers 2010 by the World Economic Forum. The two startups along with 24 others, including Twitter and Amiando, were identified for developing new technology that can “change and improve the way business and society operate.”
Here’s a little more about the startups:
Led by CEO Zohar Levkovitz [...]
It’s been said Israel is the Start-Up Nation, but who’s the top Israeli startup? Here at TechAviv we’re big fans of crowdsourcing most of our decisions and continuing in that spirit of community we’ve just launched the first annual TechAviv Peer Awards. Starting today we’re inviting all 2,000+ TechAviv Founders Club members worldwide and TechAviv.com [...]
“Local” is the theme at tonight’s TechAviv Founders Club CA as over 120 members convene at Google HQ to see, discuss and help three hot Israeli startups that are connecting people and companies with local info, services and communities. Kenshoo, LocalTop and UpToUs demo their products live in front of the bay area’s top Israeli [...]
If you haven’t heard about the new book, Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle get ready for a treat. This book is already making waves in the Israeli hi-tech community and well beyond, and promises to be an instant and lasting classic. An Amazon bestseller its first week out, Start-up Nation is perhaps the best [...]
This week Twitter released their much anticipated Lists feature which basically lets users create aggregated feeds of related twitter accounts they want to follow and share.
We’ve created our own lists and we’re inviting all tweet’n Israeli startups, founders, VCs, Angels and tech bloggers/press to get on. And if you or your business is not on [...]
The TechAviv Founders Club in Israel, now 500 founders and investors strong by invitation only, is meeting Weds, Oct 28th, 6:30PM in Herzliya to see, discuss and help three of our hottest local startups. TechCrunch 50 winner for Best International Startup Trollim, SEO optimization star RankAbove and the just launched ServerMojo by the tireless Pidgin [...]
