TheHive by Gvahim Accelerator Program
Pitch Night TheHive3 October 23rd 2013 @ Google Campus TLV
What does TheHive provide to entrepreneurs? The 6-month accelerator program includes: A community of international entrepreneurs who learn from, motivate and support each other Top-tier mentorship from entrepreneurs and investors Access to Capital: connections to top investment firms, VCs and angels Office space in a creative co-working space in its two centers: at Tel-Aviv University and in the city of Ashdod Training and office hours with experts “Google Launchpad�, a one-week bootcamp at Google Campus TLV Networking events An active and supportive alumni community Our next program starts in December 2013 in Tel-Aviv.
Alumni
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As much as it is important to have a great idea and a great product and a great business plan, one thing that Olim lack is business connections. TheHive with our great mentor, the mutual help among “bees” and the wider Gvahim community, gave us that nework needed to take the business off the ground.
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Itzhak Oppenheim, COO & Co-Founder Agilite.
70 33% 3 25 27 entrepreneurs (36 startups) joined the first 4 programs.
already raised funds and more than ½ are self-sustainable
Awards*
* Prizes from Google (Parko – TheHive1), Teva (PressureMed – TheHive2), Go4Europe (Bob – TheHive3)
Countries of origin
export markets
The Bees Uri Goldberg Elana Kirsh Too often when we travel, we fail to meet the authentic and rather meet the watered down, touristy version of the destination. Chronus City is a simple, beautifully-designed mobile tour application, which presents users with a selection of crowd-sourced, self-guided tours, so they can experience local heritage like never before. uri.goldberg@chronus-imaging.com 054-247-6660
Michael Guenoun Yoram Adjedj MotionCooker is developing a video automation solution for ecommerce platforms. An easy to use SaaS to automatically generate thousands of unique videos of your products. Affordable and highly scalable, MotionCooker is the best solution for small and medium online shops willing to optimize their customer experience, SEO, and conversion rate. michael@motioncooker.com 054-9492263
Vienne Chan Dr. Yahya Al Salqan
Mickael Nadjar Adam Levy-Zauberman Space is precious. Let's share it! Costockage is a unique platform that connects people looking for storage space with people who own unused space - an empty room, garage or basement – and are interested to rent it. The transaction is online, simple, secured and terms are agreed on in advance. mickaelnadjar@costockage.fr 058-4200982
Feel like you're spending just a little too much time in front of the screen? Internet and smartphone addiction is a growing social problem that affects our quality of life and is in some countries a real public health concern. Meet BOB – a friendly, free application that addresses the problem of compulsive internet and smartphone use.. vienne@headuptribe.com 054-7745572
Sarah Fedida Having hard time to recruit/be recruited? Choocker is an exciting recruitment facilitator tool, connecting candidates and companies based on recommendations. Sarah Fedida, new immigrant from France and experienced HR recruiter, realized that existing standard recruitment tools alone were no longer efficient when actual recruitment processes were involving more and more social tools. sarafedida@gmail.com 054-4438975
Joel Bloch Jean-Yves Boublil
Udi Mansouri Richard Winocour You are young and mobile. You want to live in the city but can't get an apartment to rent that fits your lifestyle or your pocket. Lifepod, developed by a team of Architects proposes an original solution to the housing shortage and lack of affordability of apartments in city centers: utilizing the shell of standard shipping containers to build high quality affordable apartments on temporarily unused sites. richwinocour@gmail.com 052-3370584
Stores spend large amounts of money trying to attract new customers. Tag'by is a social marketing platform for physical places (stores, events, exhibitions) that connects visitors to their social networks and enable them this way to share their experience (promotions etc.) and invite their friends to join. joel@tagby.com 054 697 8327
Amit Resh Nezer Zaidenberg About 80% of PC game players use pirated software copies. The 20% that do pay comprise of a $6.5B market. TrulyProtect, an academic venture supported by one of the leading universities in Finland, develops an innovative software copy-protection solution, based on digital encryption at the level of the CPU. nzaidenberg@me.com 054-5531415
Carole Karat Isabella Zajde Variations of moods such as stress, lack of happiness, tiredness have an impact on women’s external appearance.Research shows that parts of the brain responsible for processing emotional information are also strongly linked to the sense of smell. DERMAPOSITIVE is the first anti-aging line which provides a synergetic action: psychological (olfactory essential oils which influence internal emotions) and dermal (anti-aging extract). dermapositive@gmail.com 054-2009347
TheHive Team
Gvahim Team TheHive Steering Committee Rina Pridor | Founder and former General Director of the Israeli Program of Technological Incubators Moshe Mor | Managing partner Greylock Partners Yuval Mor | CEO at Beyond Verbal Communication Eran Goren | Managing Partner at Fidelis family office
Mickael Bensadoun Ph.D. Gvahim - Executive Director Patricia Lahy-Engel Director TheHive by Gvahim Lina Calavres Consultant start-up development Tal Kelem Director TheHive by Gvahim Ashdod Noemie Alliel Assistant Manager TheHive by Gvahim Ashdod
Mentors, experts and lecturers ARE YOU READY TO JOIN THE BUZZ?? To support our program or join our list of mentors or for any further information, please contact: Patricia Lahy-Engel Director TheHive by Gvahim Patricia.thehive@gvahim.org.il 054-4271893
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Thank you to all the mentors who contributed to the success of TheHive3 start-ups: Adi Pundak-Mintz Amir Fischer Amit Barel Amit Halperin Ariel Cohen Assaf Harel Avital Zer-Sincai Avner Halperin Ayal Itzkovitz Ben Geva Chen Lindman Chen Sirkis D. Todd Dollinger Dana Cohen Baron Dan Marom Daniel Alfon David Harari Donna Abraham Dror Galis Dvir Reznik Ed Mlavsky Gadi Mazor Gideon Michonik Gil Efrati
Grant Leboff Harold Goldmeier Hemi Weingarten Ilan Tshaiek Irit Israeli-Kahana Jeff Kupietzky Jeremie Berrebi Jeremy Kletzkine Karen Eladan Koby Menachemi Levi Shapiro Lilach Butchmits Meir Refael Michael Morris Michal Gat Moshe Eisenberg Nimrod May Nir Ben Levy Nir Kaftan Ofer Ben-Yehuda Oren Rossen Oren Levy Rami Fital Rami Gazit
Rani Wellingstein Raphael Meyara Richard Roberts Robert Barzelay Ron Tamir Sagiv Cohen Serge Rozenblum Shai Tsur Shimon Bart Steven Katz Tomer NeuNer Uri Pelli Uri Shmueli Vered Horesh-Yaniv Yaacov Cohen Yair Engel Yaniv Cohen Yariv Levski Yariv Nornberg Yosi Ben Dov Yosi Taguri Yossi Kantor Yuval Elgavish
Gvahim is a nonprofit organization which provides highly-skilled Olim from around the world the coaching and networking tools to succeed in their professional integration in Israel and therefore contribute to Israel’s brain gain. TheHive by Gvahim is the entrepreneur arm of Gvahim which operates two accelerator programs in Tel-Aviv and Ashdod, providing entrepreneurs, immigrants and returning citizens, with tools and mentoring to create and develop their startup in Israel.
Our donors and corporate partners: Sabbah Foundation
The Mor Family