Advenio & XLPAT Labs will represent India at this year’s Start Tel Aviv Workshop in Israel
New Delhi, 12th August, 2016: The Embassy of Israel in partnership with TIE Delhi-NCR organized today the “Start Tel Aviv – India Finals”, to find two Indian women founded startups who will travel in September to Israel, together with 22 other startup companies from around the world, to participate in "Start Tel Aviv" event and to be part of one of the biggest, most exciting and innovative festivals in Israel, the DLD Festival.
The festival, Israel's largest international Hi-tech gathering, will feature hundreds of startups, VC’s, angel investors and leading multinationals. Thousands of interactions are expected to take place in order to create opportunities for up and coming startups and entrepreneurs from around the world in the field of technology.
The Indian winner’s Advenio (Mausumi Acharyya) & XLPAT Labs (Komal Talwar), will travel to Israel and will have the opportunity to meet the smartest and the most innovative companies, techies, startups, designers, artists, scientists, investors, and cultural drivers from Israel and abroad.
The jury included Gita Dang – Founder Director, Talent Advisory Services; Dev Khare – MD, LightSpeed Venture Partners, India; Rajesh Razdan – Founder CEO, mCarbon Tech Innovations; Gaurav Bhatnagar – MD, Tek Travels and Kalpana Jain – Senior Partner, Deloitte (Moderator).
Start Tel Aviv is a global event held by The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Tel Aviv Municipality to bring together startups from different countries to take part in an intense, five-day startup workshops in the heart of Tel Aviv.
Ms. Ditza Froim, Minister Counsellor, Public Diplomacy at the Embassy of Israel said, "this is the first time the competition is focusing on women. We want to bring the female entrepreneurs to the front of the stage to take their rightful place in the startup world."
Israel's Ambassador to India, Mr. Daniel Carmon who awarded the winners stressed the important role that women can and should play in all sectors and noted that his own political team at the embassy is comprised of women. "I take pride in working with these 'diplomatic entrepreneurs' as my very professional and creative partners".
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Embassy of Israel Looking for the Next Hot Indian Startup
Stand Up Women Bring Innovation from India to Israel - “The Startup Nation”
Embassy of Israel in cooperation with TiE Delhi-NCR will host the “Start Tel Aviv” competition India Finals on 12th August. Two women entrepreneurs will be awarded a trip to the Startup Nation by the Ambassador of Israel to India. Who will they be?
Start Tel Aviv 2016 is a global annual event organized by the Israeli MFA and Tel Aviv Municipality. Technology startup winners from 23 different countries around the world will convene in Tel Aviv, Israel, in September 2016 to take part in an intense, five-day startup experience. They will join local Israeli entrepreneurs and participate in lectures, workshops and meetings with leading Israeli and international investors and professionals.
For the first time ever, the 2016 edition of START TLV focuses on women entrepreneurs. Ms. Ditza Froim, Head of Public Diplomacy at the Embassy of Israel, applauded the indomitable spirit of women leaders to innovate and succeed. “No socio-economic ecosystem,” she says “is complete unless it incorporates all segments of society, even more so when it comes to building an ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation.”
The finalists of the national competition in India will pitch their startups to a panel of experts including Dev Khare, Managing Director, LightSpeed Ventures India; Rajesh Razdan, Founder & CEO, mCarbon; Ankita Vashishth from Saha Fund (Women Focused Fund); Gaurav Bhatnagar, Co-Founder, Travel Boutique Online; Kalpana Jain, Partner, Deloitte Tohmatsu and Gita Dang, Talent Advisory Services from the local “Shark Tank”.
Venue: Bridge School of Management - 1st Floor, Tower B Infinity Towers, DLF Cyber City, Gurgaon, Haryana 122001.
Date & Time: Friday, 12th August, 2016 (12 noon onwards) Press Conference for Media will be held post the announcement of Winners.
Winner of Start Tel-Aviv 2015 national competition:
Winner of the Indian finals for Start TLV 2015, Gautam Shewakramani, Founder & CEO of AudioCompass, a company that turns smartphones into personal tour guides said, “Winning Start Tel Aviv gave us global exposure to other startups and entrepreneurs. We were able to share ideas and learnings from different markets. Start Tel Aviv enabled me to connect with innovative Israeli companies in similar fields to explore licensing and technology collaborations.”
Background on Start Tel Aviv 2016:
The 4th edition of Start Tel Aviv will be held in Israel from 25-29 September 2016, organized by Israel’s MFA and Tel Aviv Municipality. The goal is to help promising early stage startups meet and establish relationships with potential customers, partners and high profile industry leaders alike.
Tel Aviv, Israel’s business capital is a leading innovation hub with a local ecosystem of world class tech talents, dozens of leading multinationals and hundreds of tech startups. The city was named Europe’s leading tech hub by the Wall Street Journal, ranked by Startup Genome as the 2nd best place in the world to open a startup.
Israel, known as Startup Nation, through its human capital, generates more startup companies than other nation around the world. In addition, Israel attracts over twice as much venture capital investment per capita as the US and EU combined.
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Meet the winners: