TechAviv Top Startup is a new event series in Tel Aviv showcasing Israel's best startups to the world's best investors. Each quarter we ask 400 TechAviv Founders Club members - Israel’s top founder CEOs, CTOs, and investors to nominate Israel’s most promising growth and early-stage startups. On Oct 4th the top 5 nominated growth-stage startups took the stage in front of 150 fellow founders and local VCs, and over 50 top-tier global VCs via video. Participating global VCs include senior partners from Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark, Bessemer, Sequoia, Greylock, Accel, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, Index Ventures, Founders Fund, Breyer Capital, CRV, Kleiner Perkins, Battery, First Round Capital, SV Angel ...

Top Startup Presenters: (Growth Stage)

• Innoviz - Omer David Keilaf, Founder & CEO

  • VIDEO: Minute 02:10

• Gong.io - Eilon Reshef, Founder & CTO

  • VIDEO: Minute 15:29

• Demisto - Dan Sarel, Founder & VP Product

  • VIDEO: Minute 33:23

• SparkBeyond - Sagie Davidovich, Founder & CEO

  • VIDEO: Minute 46:24

• Spotinst - Amiram Shachar, Founder & CEO

  • VIDEO: Minute 57:18

Panelists:

• Adam Fisher, Partner, Bessemer

• Michael Eisenberg, Partner, Aleph

• Scott Tobin, Partner, Battery

• Amir Orad, CEO, Sisense

Event Sponsor:

Thanks Natti Ginor Managing Director Head of Israel Markets, Jefferies.

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On Nov 20th its the early-stage startups turn. If you're an Israeli founder or investor and not yet a member, apply here. To attend or nominate a startup, email yaron@techaviv.com.

120 TechAviv founders and investors got together to give 3 members feedback on their products and to hear the founder story of double-unicorn-builder Shai Wininger. In the history of TechAviv, no one founder has created more B2C value from Israel. Shai shared his biggest challenges, eventual triumphs and unique lessons learned from a remarkable two-decade personal and professional journey as a 5-time founder. 

Agenda:
6:00pm - 6:30pm  Networking (Light food, lots of beer)
6:30pm - 6:40pm  Member Announcements (How can we help?)
6:40pm - 7:30pm  Startup Demos: MissingLink AI, Innovesta, Lumen
7:30pm - 8:30pm  Fireside with Shai Wininger, Founder, Lemonade & Fiverr

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Event Sponsor:

Thanks Natti for everything you do for Israeli startups.

100 TechAviv founders and investors get together to give 3 early-stage startup founders feedback on their products and to hear and discuss the inside story of unicorn-builder Tomer Bar-Zeev's personal founder journey. We'll unpack the lowest moments, biggest challenges and brilliant navigation along the path to building a $1.5B monster - ironSource.

Need some help or connections? Share it during our member announcements session. Someone from 100 fellow founders and investors in attendance can help. That's what we're here for.

Agenda:

• 6:00pm - 6:30pm Networking (Light Food & Beer)
• 6:30pm - 6:40pm Member Announcements (How can we help you?)
• 6:40pm - 7:30pm Early Stage Showcase: Conffit, Teledrone, BeeHero
• 7:30pm - 8:30pm Fireside with Tomer Bar-Zeev, CEO, ironSource 

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Event Sponsor:

Thanks Natti for everything you do for Israeli startups.

Part of our global monthly CEO lunch series, New York-based TechAviv CEO members meet to discuss our CEO journeys, off the record.

Members attending:

1. Yaron Galai (CEO, Outbrain)
2. Zvika Netter (CEO, Innovid)
3. Tomer Tagrin (CEO, Yotpo)
4. Yonatan Raz-Fridman (CEO, Sosu)
5. Hesky Kutscher (CEO, Caredox)
6. Penina First (CEO, Swifto)
7. Or Shani (CEO, Albert)
8. Eran Ben-Shushan (CEO, Bizzabo)
9. Yaniv Makover (CEO, Keywee)
10. Benzi Ronen (CEO, Farmigo) - Host
11. Yaron Samid (Founder, TechAviv) - Host

Part of our global monthly CEO lunch series, Silicon Valley-based TechAviv CEO members meet to discuss our CEO journeys, off the record.

Members attending:

1. Amir Ashkenazi (CEO, Uncommon)
2. Oren Boiman (CEO, Magisto)
3. Eyal Lifshitz (CEO, BlueVine)
4. Assaf Wand (CEO, Hippo)
5. Oz Alon (CEO, Honeybook)
6. Aviram Jenik (CEO, Beyond Security)
7. Ori Greenberg (CEO, AlgoPix)
8. Adi Bittan (CEO, IMPOWER)
9. Chen Levanon (CEO, SimilarTech)
10. Iddo Tal (CEO, Invi Labs)
11. Daniel Shaked (CEO, ClipCall)
12. Oren Dobronsky (CEO, Wondermall)
13. Guy Nirpaz (CEO, Totango)
14. Doron Reuveni (CEO, Applause)
15. Yaron Samid (Founder, TechAviv) - Host

Part of the global TechAviv Founders Club monthly CEO lunch series, New York-based TechAviv CEO members meet to discuss our CEO journeys, off the record.

Members attending:

1. Benzi Ronen (CEO, Farmigo) - Host
2. Michael Reitblat (CEO, Forter)
3. Ran Harnevo (CEO, Homeis)
4. Eli Singer (Pres, JethroData)
5. Ofer Israeli (CEO, Illusive Networks)
6. Zohar Dayan (CEO, Wibbitz)
7. Eran Ben-Shushan (CEO, Bizzabo)
8. Yoav Naveh (CEO, ConvertMedia)
9. Or Shani (CEO, Albert)
10. Tomer Tagrin (CEO, Yotpo)
11. Amir Orad (CEO, SiSense)
12. Ido Gaver (CEO, Flok)
13. Inbar Carmel (CEO, Infimé)

TechAviv is a non-profit founders club. 100% of your lunch ticket payment goes to the restaurant, covering your food, drinks, tax, and tip. Any additional amounts needed for tax/tip are covered by TechAviv (Yaron).

Part of our global monthly lunch series, Israel-based TechAviv CEO members meet to discuss our CEO journeys, off the record.

Members attending:

1. Yuval Tal (Pres, Payoneer)
2. Daniel Zelkind (CEO, Zeek)
3. Ori Lahav (GM, Outbrain)
4. Inbar Carmel (CEO, Infimé)
5. Einat Metzer (CEO, emedgene)
6. Shmulik Grizim (CEO, Webydo)
7. Yuval Kaminka (CEO, JoyTunes)
8. Daniel Tal (CEO, Lumen)
9. Amir Konigsberg (CEO, Twiggle)
10. Tomer Dvir (CEO, Soluto)
11. Guy Zyskind (CEO, Enigma)
12. Zohar Fox (CEO, Aurora Labs)
13. Omer Perchik (CEO, Any.do)
14. Kobi Marenko (CEO, Arbe Robotics)
15. Nimrod Lehavi (CEO, Simplex)
16. Uri Haramati (CEO, Torii)
17. Jonathan Meiri (CEO, Superfly)
18. Ran Krauss (CEO, Airobotics)
19. Ouriel Ohayon (CEO, Django)
20. Ran Geva (CEO, Webhose)
21. Amit On (CEO, CallApp)
22. Liad Agmon (CEO, Dynamic Yield)
23. Dan Adika (CEO, WalkMe)
24. Zohar Levkovitz (CEO, Amobee)
25. Yaron Samid (Founder, TechAviv) - Host

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200 TechAviv founders and investors got together to learn from each other. Like any good 10 year-old startup, we experimented. This time with two new formats:

1. TechAviv Founder Stories - A new fireside chat series diving into the untold, uncensored personal journeys of our most bold and successful founders. The unicorn builders. The idea is to inspire fellow Israeli founders to dream much, much bigger. First up is one of our founding members, Micha Kaufman, Founder & CEO at Fiverr. We'll discuss the challenges he faced and the tactics and strategy he deployed to overcome them on the way to building one of the most successful marketplaces in history.

2. TechAviv Boardroom - Imagine what you could learn being a fly on the wall at another CEO's board meeting. This month Nadav Shoval of Spot.IM and mock board members Gili Raanan  (Sequoia), Tal Morgenstern  (Lightspeed), Eran Shir  (Nexar) and Micha Kaufman  (Fiverr) discuss Spot.IM's real company updates, challenges and ways to optimize growth.

Agenda:
6:00pm - 6:30pm Networking (Pizza)
6:30pm - 6:40pm TechAviv Announcements
6:40pm - 7:30pm TechAviv Founder Story: Micha Kaufman, Fiverr
7:30pm - 8:20pm TechAviv Board Room: Nadav Shoval (Spot.IM), Gili Raanan (Sequoia), Tal Morgenstern (Lightspeed), Eran Shir (Nexar), Micha Kaufman (Fiverr).
8:20pm - 8:30pm Member Announcements

Others in this year's Founder Stories series include Tomer Bar-Zeev (ironSource), Yuval Tal (Payoneer), Yaron Galai (Outbrain), Adam Singolda (Taboola), Shai Wininger  (Lemonade), and Tomer London (Gusto). Events will be held in all 5 of our branches so stay tuned if you're based in the bay area, NYC, Boston or London.

Our kick-off global monthly lunch series, NY-based TechAviv CEO members meet to discuss our CEO journeys, off the record.

Members attending:

1. Yaron Galai (CEO, Outbrain)
2. Benzi Ronen (CEO, Farmigo)
3. Yair Goldfinger (CEO, AppCard)
4. Michael Reitblat (CEO, Forter)
5. Yaniv Makover (CEO, Keywee)
6. Oz Etzioni (CEO, Clinch)
7. Yoni Bloch (CEO, Eko)
8. Eli Singer (Pres, JethroData)
9. Nadav Shoval (CEO, Spot.IM)
10. Yonatan Raz-Fridman (CEO, Sosu)
11. Victor Rosenman (CEO, Feedvisor)
12. Ofer Israeli (CEO, Illusive Networks)
13. Zohar Dayan (CEO, Wibbitz)
14. Elnor Rozenrot (CEO, CreditStacks)
15. Eran Ben-Shushan (CEO, Bizzabo)
16. Yoav Naveh (CEO, ConvertMedia)
17. Saar Yoskovitz (CEO, Augury)
18. Zvika Netter (CEO, Innovid)
19. Or Shani (CEO, Albert)
20. Yaron Samid (Founder, TechAviv) - Host

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