Next Tuesday 5 March, Bootcamp Ventures, the innovation global platform connecting promising tech startups with international investors, kickstarts
iX TLV 2013, a conference focused on “democratising the investment playing field”. The conference’s goal is to open up new business opportunities between international financial and strategic investors and upcoming startups, along with creating successful and sustainable businesses throughout the globe.
Despite Israeli startups attracting thirty times more venture capital than any European country and with Tel Aviv elected as the world’s second most innovative city in a survey conducted by the Wall Street Journal, the boom of the country’s entrepreneurial scene also proves challenging as startups must compete with a limited pool of local funding.
This year, 39 of the most talented and innovative Israeli tech startups, from fields including big data, digital media, health mobile apps, cloud and more will pitch to leading investors from over 15 different countries. However, the investors will also compete for the title of “investor of the year” by pitching to the audience their added value and why startups should invest with them.
Some of the startups include:
- Financial: Bukit, a debt settlement platform that bypasses collection agencies by directly connecting creditors to the people in debt
- Retail: Pose is a web based Point Of Sale system for small retailers that provides them with mission critical tools to help them ring up sales, manage inventory, get reports, collect customer data and much more
- Cloud: MXIMO, a pioneering self-serve B2B cloud based software solution offering retailers, e-tailers, independent designers and brands a simple, fast, affordable & effective mobile commerce solution
- Health: MobiStine is focused on servicing the untapped market of pregnant women and first time families in the Arab world. Mobistine offers a solution to a demographic that does not necessarily enjoy a plethora of pregnancy apps geared towards Western markets.
The iX TLV 2013 provides those startups with the platform to connect with the world’s top financial influencers. Among the renowned international investors attending iX TLV 2013 are
Jeff Karras from SingTel Ventures,
Jacques Benkoski, partner at US Venture Partners, and
Dr. Abdul Malik Al-Jaber, founder and CEO of MENA Apps. For the first time, top accelerators such as
LeCamping from France,
H-Camp from Italy and Russian
Ideal Machine will attend the Innovation Exchange to search for Israeli talent to attend their programs. According to Dr. Abdul Malik AL Jaber, the iX TLV 2013 allows investors not only to potentially discover “the next big thing”, now they can create a global network, potentially co-invest, and get introduced to regions they otherwise wouldn’t have access to.
“We’re interested in increasing our investments in Israel, since it is clearly one of the most innovative countries in the world with many promising startups. The iX TLV 2013 is the perfect event to get to know those startups and to network with investors from all over the world”, says Sachin Chudasama, Managing Director and co-founder of UK based
Zero Start Ventures.
Following last years’ Bootcamp Ventures’ Innovation Exchange, three Israeli startups, including
Zimperium and
Clarisite received funding from Russian and US investors amounting to $2.25 million.
“We are thrilled that this year’s IX TLV attracts more startups and top investors than ever before while making them part of our large network”, says Esther Loewy, co-founder of Bootcamp Ventures. “Thanks to these events our vision of the democratisation of the investment playing field is being globally promoted and established. We already believe that the startups pitching at this event have the potential to make significant contributions to the tech-industry by bringing new innovative technologies to the table.”