Mentor Hen Aharon [email protected] 054-668-4806 Hen Aharon Yakir Waynberg Kseniya Zinovyev
Team Balloan is a FinTech startup aiming to disrupt the loan industry by providing borrowers with ideal, personalized loan offers in just a few simple steps. Riding the recent trend of increased automation in the financial world, as well as the new open-banking regulations, Balloan’s advanced, user-friendly technological platform matches between borrowers and different credit providers in the market, to efficiently generate the most suitable loan offers for every consumer.
Mentor Ofek Gal [email protected] 054-575-5952 Ofek Gal Mohamad Awaisy Itamar Fluss
Team We are Highlights NFT, a new technolo-geek startup tailored for content creators, offering them a ticket into the world of Web3. We are developing an integrated service for streaming apps enabling content creators to live-auction their stream highlights in the form of NFT. Main benefits: Increased sales revenues - the speedy process leverages the hype of the moment to naturally increase sale value. Enhanced outreach to loyal customers - by directly offering highlights to the streamer's viewers, we engage the most loyal customers. Automated service all the way - from capturing the moment to delivering the product.
Mentor Ido Yonesi [email protected] 054-794-9588 Ido Yonesi Elad Israel Tanya Zhelezniak Ahmad Hakroosh
Team Italk is developing a mobile, accessible, user-friendly system that translates sign language into verbal language, aiming to free signlanguage users from the dailyhardships of trying to communicate with the rest of the world. With Italk's friendly technology, installed on any digital platform - smartphone, laptop or PC, users will be able to communicate easily and independently, no longer relying on cumbersome, inconvenient solutions like family and friends serving as interpreters, or writing in digital media as a main means of contact.
Mentor Nermin Zebida [email protected] 054-252-6666 Idan kario Nermin Zebida
Team LIPO is a service that enables safe bike parking in any space, whether public, commercial, or residential. Bike theft is a common and painful occurrence, with millions of bikes stolen worldwide each year, hampering people's transition to sustainable transportation. LIPO's mission is to connect with the urban ecosystem and work toward a greener and more sustainable transportation future. Using a smart anti-theft dock with a compact and universal design that can be installed anywhere, LIPO enables riders to move around using bikes in a safe and worry-free manner from place to place. LIPO facilitates the easy return of stolen bikes to their owners, and enables the collection of data on the parking patterns of private bike riders, which is currently difficult to collect, assisting municipalities in better managing their infrastructure.
Mentor Ben Shalom [email protected] 054-551-5401 Ben Shalom Doron Turgeman Zaher Khateeb
Team LOCA is an innovative, omnichannel commerce experience for retailers and makers alike. LOCA provides sellers with a unique, flexible, and profitable way to test and sell products without risk or commitment. With Loca, every e-commerce business can find a perfect location in stores, shops, and boutiques, and be able to test and sell products at multiple selling points at the same time.
Mentor Tom Pesach [email protected] 054-455-2888 Tom Pesach Tom Melloul
Team With DeepSearch you can find anything (and we mean anything!) in a video within a second! This is now possible thanks to the cutting-edge AI technology, developed by our team member Ameen Ali (Ph.D candidate), which analyses videos and generates metadata from people’s simple text searches. On a larger scale, this innovative feature can be incorporated into video editing and media player applications - a constantly growing market already worth billions of dollars per year.
Mentor Sivan shelef [email protected] 050-519-1554 Sivan shelef Dorel Nick Ameen Ali DeepSearch
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Tel Aviv University Entrepreneurship Center At Tel Aviv University Entrepreneurship Center we believe that an entrepreneurial mindset and the entrepreneurship toolkit are a toolset for life - at both the personal and professional levels. Our mission is to equip all TAU students with this toolset and everything it contains: from understanding needs and opportunities, through building a team, all the way to establishing a new social or business venture. Students of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts, Law, Medicine, Exact Sciences, Life Sciences, Design, Engineering and Business will be able to leverage this set of skills and upgrade everything they aspire to achieve. The academic program developed by our Center offers students from all faculties a unique opportunity to take courses in entrepreneurship as part of their studies for an academic degree. In our Experiential Entrepreneurship program, comprising a range of extracurricular programs and activities, students can gain experience by addressing real-life problems presented by industry and developing market-driven solutions, enjoying an opportunity to work closely with industry mentors. Finally, we offer our students soft-skills workshops to round up their experience and prepare them for assimilation into the workplace. The Team Yair M. Sakov Founder and Managing Director Entrepreneurship Center Eti Finkelstein jumpTAU Accelerator Director Entrepreneurship Center Nour Dassouky Program and Arab Community Maneger
jumpTAU is an intensive, industry-driven startup accelerator program, aiming to take student-initiated social or business ventures from the initial idea to a market-validated business. The program consists of weekly workshops, in which entrepreneurs develop their solutions with the support of our mentors – high-level industry experts and business executives. Each week a new step in venture development is presented by leading entrepreneurs and educators, in an in-depth, hands-on workshop. Throughout the sessions, the teams work and develop their concepts, together with mentors and other supporting staff. The program took upon itself an additional challenge: becoming a platform for developing and strengthening relations between Jewish and Arab students. To this end, mixed teams were formed, working together on shared projects, toward a common goal: the success of their studentinitiated venture. Working together in an intensive and demanding environment that requires mutual dependence and trust, participants develop meaningful relationships and a real understanding of the other. Founded by Yair Sakov, a veteran entrepreneur and venture capitalist, and managed by Eti Finkelstein and Nour Dassouky, entrepreneurs themselves, this program achieved remarkable results from both the business and human relationship perspectives. Our startups raised over 150 million dollars so far. Check out Cohort 4 jumpTAU accelerator startups. jumpTAU Startup Accelerator Program
Our Startups
Melodai Field: AI & Audio Challenge: Producing the right sound for every text. Entrepreneurs: Rany Zeidan, BSc from the Technion, MSc student at TAU's School of Computer Science; Ofer Privman, graduate student at TAU's School of Computer Science. Solution: Melodai is developing an AI model that generates perfectly tailored music/audio outputs for any input of words, texts, or lyrics. Potentially a game-changer in the audio industry, Melodai's novel deep-learning technology analyzes the content of text inputs to generate brand new, specifically customized soundtracks, melodies, or readings for a wide range of applications: songs, videos, cartoons, commercials, podcasts, read-aloud books, and more. Melodai – Deep learning at the service of sound. TEAM
Rany Zeidan [email protected] 054-4827752 MENTOR Ofer Privman
TEAM Mindomics Field: Mental health care. Challenge: Effective diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. Solution: Mindomics is developing advanced machine learning algorithms to optimize the effectiveness of mental health care. Mindomics' innovative system analyzes a combination of genetic, epigenetic, and psychological data to generate a comprehensive and accurate picture of the patient's mental state. In this way the technology enables mental health practitioners to optimize their diagnosis and ultimately provide precisely personalized treatment - for improved patient outcomes at a reduced cost. Mindomics – Using AI to optimize mental health care.
MENTOR Uri Bertocchi [email protected] 054-6873780 Orry Baum | Odai Agbariam | Ben Haddad
TEAM H2Vault Field: Hydrogen production. Challenge: Efficient production of green hydrogen. Solution: H2Vault is developing a patented, ecofriendly, nature-inspired technology for efficient production of green hydrogen. The system relies on a unique electrode that combines nanomaterials with live bacteria to convert electrical energy from any source into storable hydrogen gas - enabling highly efficient hydrogen production with no need for rare elements or costly membranes. Workable under highly variable conditions for extended periods of time, this innovation has numerous potential applications in many different industries: clean energy storage for future use, hydrogen fuel, and the production of semiconductors, fertilizers, steel, food, and more. H2Vault -Storable green hydrogen for numerous ecofriendly applications.
MENTOR Itzhak Grinberg [email protected] 052-5459998 Oren Ben zvi | Yuval Aharoni
TEAM Wiotek Field: IoT (Internet of Things). Challenge: Powering IoT devices. Entrepreneurs: Prof. Eran Socher and his team at TAU's School of Electrical Engineering. Solution: Wiotek is developing a patent-pending technology enabling IoTs and other lowpower wireless devices to draw the energy they need 'from thin air' – by using the electromagnetic waves generated by cellular antennas all around us, specifically 5G networks. Wiotek's game-changing product is a miniature module (5x5x3mm) attached to the relevant device, receiving 5G frequencies and converting this energy into battery power - potentially eliminating the need to purchase or recharge costly physical batteries. Highly cost-effective and environment-friendly, this innovation has numerous potential applications in the private, public, and business sectors – from smart homes and wearables to large facilities like airports, production plants, or sports stadiums that use IoT sensors extensively. Wiotek – Harnessing energy 'from thin air' for battery-free IoT devices.
MENTOR Eran Socher [email protected] 054-4339795 Tal Elazar | Edoh shaulov
TEAM Cielo Field: Healthcare. Challenge: An efficient alternative to in-person physician referrals Solution: Cielo is a physician-to-physician consultation platform that connects primary care providers with remote specialist physicians for same-day consultations. This enables them to provide better, more comprehensive treatment, reduce fragmentation, and increase access to specialty care. Cielo reduces treatment costs by replacing 50% of in-person referrals and avoiding unnecessary procedures and diagnostic tests, with the potential of reducing health expenditure by ~$45B annually. Cielo – Bridging the gap between primary and secondary care.
MENTOR Itai Braude [email protected] 052-4745765 Uriel Katz | Avia Lapidot
TEAM ReCell Field: Spinal surgery. Challenge: Alternative for the patient's own bone tissues in spinal fusion surgery . Solution: ReCell is developing a novel solution for spinal fusion surgery – a procedure in which the patient's vertebrae are connected to prevent movement and resulting pain. At present surgeons use the patient's own bone tissue for this purpose - a nonoptimal technique often entailing increased morbidity and complications. ReCell's innovation involves the use of mesenchymal stromal stem cells (adult stem cells) as an effective alternative for using the patient's bone tissue. The system isolates these cells, known for their potential for bone regeneration, from the oral mucosa – the membrane that lines the inside of the mouth, and enriches them. By combining the cells with a biodegradable scaffold, the researchers intend to develop a viable, easily fitted bone substitute for the rapidly growing global market of spinal fusion surgery, and possibly for other orthopedic procedures as well. ReCell – Bone substitutes for better results and fewer risks in spinal surgery.
MENTOR Dana Gleicher [email protected] 054-5882190 Gal Hirsch
TEAM LiVA Field: Time management. Challenge: Inefficient calendar management. Solution: LiVA develops AI-powered personalized virtual assistants that revolutionize calendar management, enabling users to achieve much more in less time. Taking time management to the next level, LiVA's cutting-edge solution uses smart algorithms to optimize the user's calendar and take care of all. calendar needs: scheduling and rescheduling meetings at the perfect time and place, making sure that every meeting has a clear agenda and that everyone is fully prepared. LiVA is cutting off all the unnecessary meetings that waste your time. Adapting their operation to every user's individual time management style, LiVA's virtual assistants can be integrated into any calendar - for maximum efficiency and convenience. LiVA – The future of time management.
MENTOR Golan Shmueli [email protected] 052-6640480 Yali Ash | Yarin Degani
TEAM Bonbon Field: Social contacts. Challenge: Forming contacts for shared activities in the real world. Solution: Bonbon is developing a novel app enabling users to find partners for any activity, anytime, anyplace, and manage groups of people who share their interests. With Bonbon's novel app, users can indicate the type and time of the desired activity (e.g. jogging at 6:00 p.m.) and the app automatically identifies their location – anywhere in the world, and connects them with potential partners nearby. Features for sorting partners by gender and/or age are also available. Bonbon - bringing people together anytime, anyplace.
MENTOR Mohannad Omary | Sarah Shitrit | Waseem Salman | Nizar Obeidat Heba Hussien [email protected] 050-5889584
TEAM DentaGrade Field: Dental treatment. Challenge: Difficulty of tooth extraction and long wait for dental implantation Entrepreneurs: Dr. Maayan Gal, Dr. Evgeni Weinberg, and their research teams at TAU's School of Dental Medicine. Solution: DentaGrade is developing a novel patented dental technique that revolutionizes tooth extraction, preventing pain and complications, and enabling immediate fitting of dental implants – during the very same session! This significant upgrade of common dental procedures is enabled by the enzyme collagenase, approved by the FDA for treating Dupuytren's disease, and adapted by the team at TAU for a novel dental application. Injected into the tooth before treatment, the enzyme breaks down the PDL layer that attaches the tooth to the bone, enabling the dentist to pull it out with relative ease and immediately fill in the gap with a new dental implant. DentaGrade - Easy tooth extraction and immediate dental implantation - all in the same session!
MENTOR Mahdy Watad Hen Alali [email protected] 053-5633337
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2 Tel Aviv University Entrepreneurship Center The Team >> At Tel Aviv University Entrepreneurship Center, we believe that an entrepreneurial mindset and the entrepreneurship toolkit are a toolset for life - at both the personal and professional levels. Our mission is to equip all TAU students with this toolset and everything it contains: from understanding needs and opportunities, through building a team, all the way to establishing a new social or business venture. Students of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts, Law, Medicine, Exact Sciences, Life Sciences, Design, Engineering and Business will be able to leverage this set of skills and upgrade everything they aspire to achieve. The academic program developed by our Center offers students from all faculties a unique opportunity to take courses in entrepreneurship as part of their studies for an academic degree. In our Experiential Entrepreneurship program, comprising a range of extracurricular programs and activities, students can gain experience by addressing real-life problems presented by industry and developing market-driven solutions, enjoying an opportunity to work closely with industry mentors. Finally, we offer our students soft-skills workshops to round up their experience and prepare them for assimilation into the workplace. Yair M. Sakov Founder and Managing Director Entrepreneurship Center Eti Finkelstein jumpTAU Accelerator Director Entrepreneurship Center
3 MENTOR jumpTAU 50:50 Startup Accelerator Program jumpTAU 50:50 is an intensive, industry-driven startup accelerator program, aiming to take social and business ventures from idea stage to a market-validated business. The program, targeted at TAU students and Arab participants from all over Israel, consists of weekly workshops, in which entrepreneurs develop their solutions with the support of our mentors – high-level industry experts and business executives. Each week a new stepmin venture development is presented by leading entrepreneurs and educators, in an in-depth, hands-on workshop. Throughout the sessions, the teams work and develop their concepts, together with mentors and other supporting staff. The program took upon itself an additional challenge: becoming a platform for developing and strengthening relations between Jewish and Arab. To this end, mixed teams were formed, working together on shared projects, toward a common goal: the success of their venture. Working together in an intensive and demanding environment that requires mutual dependence and trust, participants develop meaningful relationships and a real understanding of the other. Founded by Yair Sakov, a veteran entrepreneur and venture capitalist, and managed by Eti Finkelstein and Nour Dassouky, entrepreneurs themselves, this program achieved remarkable results from both the business and human relationship perspectives. Our startups raised over 150 million dollars so far. Nour Dassouky Program and Arab Community Maneger Batsheva Baraban 50:50 Startups General Manager Marwan Meqbil 50:50 Startups Director
4 Our Startups
5 MENTOR
6 CarzBase Field: Outdoor advertising Need: Traditional out-of-home (OOH) advertising has limitations in customizing and targeting ads, making them less engaging and less effective; current privacy options on cellphones further reduce exposure opportunities for advertisers. Value proposition: CarzBase revolutionizes OOH advertising by transforming vehicles into mobile digital/virtual AI-powered outdoor billboards. As the vehicle travels, an installed IoT computer vision device identifies and analyzes changing audiences to optimize targeting in real time, based on parameters like age, gender, location, affiliation, special events, or even changes in the weather. With the CarzBase platform, advertisers gain data-driven real-time personalized targeting for maximum impact. Attention-grabbing ads are displayed on special screens installed on top of the vehicle or on its windows, and vehicle owners/ drivers receive commissions to encourage collaboration. CarzBase – Revolutionizing outdoor advertising TEAM
7 Entrepreneurs: Mohammed Kabajah – 12 years in the tech industry, infrastructure solutions architect, Amazon Web Services Mohammed Nawahda – 12 years in the tech industry, software architect, autonomous vehicles startup Natalia Chicu – Investor communication lead, Vintage Investment Partners Mentors: Romi Stein – Cofounder & CEO, OpenLegacy Ilya Sloushch – Director of Engineering, HARMAN International Contact: Mohammad kabajah [email protected] 054.3344418
8 TEAM ABC3D (Anatomic Breast Computerized 3D models) Field: Plastic surgery Need: Plastic surgery in general, and breast reduction procedures specifically, currently grapple with a significant problem: accurately predicting postoperative results. This challenge, especially daunting for less experienced surgeons, often hinders effective pre-surgery communication with patients and causes unrealistic patient expectations. Value proposition: ABC3D's state-of the-art Surgical Simulation Software aims to revolutionize plastic surgery by bridging the gap between surgical planning and outcomes. The software, currently addressing breast reduction procedures, is powered by a proprietary predictive model, based on advanced AI and biomedical engineering algorithms. Validated by leading medical and engineering experts, this prize-winning model assimilates key breast parameters like breast shape, skin elasticity and tissue density, into a sophisticated, dynamic biomedical model, to accurately predict postoperative results. In the future, ABC3D plans to develop similar models for additional breast procedures, and possibly also for other plastic surgery operations – to optimize both surgeon-patient communication and ultimate patient satisfaction. ABC3D – Shaping the future of plastic surgery
9 Entrepreneurs: Alaa Masarwa – BSc student, biomedical engineering, Tel Aviv University Lydia Sokolovski - MSc student, biomedical engineering, Tel Aviv University Mai Ohana – BSc student, biomedical engineering & neuroscience, Tel Aviv University Ido Shapira - BSc student, biomedical engineering & neuroscience, Tel Aviv University Mentors: Amir Blumenfeld - Senior Director of Discovery, Edwards Lifesciences Barbara Elstein - Lean customer discovery and development consultant and coach, specializing in startups and NGOs Contact: Ido Shapira [email protected] 054.3210877
10 TEAM TOTALGRID Field: Renewable energy in power grids Need: Use of renewable energy is on the rise, which is of course commendable, but not without its challenges. In particular, integrating power from renewable sources into existing electrical grids can cause voltage fluctuations that might threaten grid stability, power quality, and the longevity of electrical equipment. The urgent quest for effective solutions to mitigate these fluctuations has generated several innovative strategies: sophisticated monitoring and control systems, power electronics and voltage regulation devices, and energy storage systems. However, all of these are top-to-bottom methods focusing on the power grid, rather than on its renewable sources. Value proposition: TotalGrid introduces a novel bottom-up approach to proactively stabilize the green power supply before its integration into the grid. Employing advanced sensors and AI algorithms, the TotalGrid platform obtains and analyzes data on diverse relevant factors – the renewable energy facility, weather forecasts, geographical location, etc., and uses it to monitor the renewable energy supply and adjust it as needed. In this way the system is able to prevent voltage fluctuations, overvoltage events, and other power disruptions before they occur, enhancing the reliability and efficiency of power grids that utilize green sources of energy. TotalGrid – Smooth integration of renewable energy into power grids
11 Entrepreneurs: Maher Rayyan – Business development & R&D consultant, mechatronics engineer Paz Katz – CEO of Youth Edge Movement, studying for BA in Business Administration & Entrepreneurship Muhammed El-Khatib – Student employee at the Israel Planning Administration, graduate of Executive Education program at TAU Mentors: Gil Feingold – VP Operations, Cybord Pini Pur – Business & tech entrepreneur Contact: Muhammed El-khatib [email protected] 050.7707933
12 TEAM xALS Field: ALS Need: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating adult-onset neurodegenerative disease which affects motor neurons throughout the patient's body and causes progressive paralysis and premature death within 2-5 years of disease onset. Knowledge about the disease mechanism and cause for degeneration is limited and therefore, despite four FDA-approved drugs, there is still no effective treatment or cure that can extend life expectancy or even improve patients' quality of life. Value proposition: xALS is a biotechnological venture developing a groundbreaking treatment for ALS. Following extensive academic research and clinical work the xALS team recently detected a pivotal early ALS pathology: aggregates of the protein TDP-43 in peripheral nerves and neuromuscular junctions inside muscles of early-stage ALS patients. Based on this new knowledge, xALS has developed a novel mechanism- driven treatment – a unique inhibitory peptide that dissolves the pathological TDP-43 aggregates. Laboratory experiments in mice and human cells have demonstrated that this treatment halts deterioration, promotes nerve regeneration, and restores lost functions. Following these encouraging results, xALS now intends to go on to clinical trials in humans. xALS - Hope is on its way for ALS sufferers