JERUSALEM, June 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
On May 18th, Pitch Tonight event:
For the first time, the "Investors and Startups Night" event took
place at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, bringing together the best local entrepreneurs to
pitch directly to leading investors.
Pitch Tonight was formed with the purpose of connecting
promising startups and entrepreneurs with the right investors and
business opportunities: "One of the Israeli tech scene's strongest
suits is the solid sense of community, and we feel privileged to
help promote great startups as part of this community. We are
honored, as always, to have such incredible members of the tech
arena take part in this event, and are excited to see what
connections are formed following tonight," said Gil Shourka,
one of the group's founders and co- organizer.
Following greetings by Shourka, Amit
Zilberstein of HUstart - the Hebrew
University Center for Entrepreneurship - took the stage to
discuss the upcoming plans and events held at HUstart. Soon after,
Yisrael Gross, co-organizer
of the event, presented Incubit Technology Ventures, one of
the group's supporters, as well as an investor in Gross' startup
L7 Defense.
Incubit is a technology incubator, located in Be'er-Sheva and is
part of the OCS incubator program, owned by Elbit Systems an
Israeli High-Tech company (NASDAQ:ESLT). Incubit's goal is to
invest in innovative, early-stage startups with deep technologies,
promoting them to secure further growth and future investments.
Incubit invest in civilian infrastructure markets such as: Cyber,
Communication, ICT, Networks, Automation, Nano Technology, IT,
Electro-Optics, Aviation, Vision & Image Processing, Medical
Devices and more.
During the event, each one of the carefully selected startups
was given only 100 seconds to pitch their startup to the
distinguished panel of investors, led by Izhar Shay, General Partner of Cannan
Partners Israel. The presenter was then asked a series of
spontaneous questions by the panel, addressing their startup's
concept, current state and future plans, as well as given valuable
feedback and advice.
The panel was attended by Jon
Medved, Founder and CEO at OurCrowd, Ori
Choshen,
CEO at VLX Ventures, Astorre
Modena, Managing Partner at Terra Venture Partners, and
Elie Wurtman Managing Partner
at PICO Partners.
The startups listed below were chosen to pitch at the event, and
offer innovative solutions in a variety of fields:
MovinGame: The startup, presented by Co-Founder
and CEO Yael Tamar,
encourages positive habit building by harnessing technology and
neuroscience to create sustainable healthy lifestyles in
tweens.
CareNav: A digital health solution offering patient
navigation services by matching patients with experienced nurses.
CareNav was presented by Raissa
Hacohen, Co-Founder and CEO.
Strattic: The company's solution to vulnerable WordPress
sites, turning them into a lightweight, scalable, non-hackable
static websites, was presented by Miriam
Schwab, Founder and CEO.
Talklet: Lulu
Dubin, CEO & Co-Founder, pitched a children's
wearable device that records & analyzes speech, and offers
metrics to parents & speech professionals.
Fenror7: Alon
Golan, Co-Founder and CTO, pitched a cyber security
solution that lowers the TTD (Time To Detection) of hackers,
malwares and APTs in enterprises and organizations by 90
percent.
Say2Eat: The startup was presented by Li-ran
Navon, Co-Founder and CEO, and offers an innovative,
chatbots-based way of online ordering that opens new selling
channels to reach an untapped, billion size audience.
Following the startup pitches, the investors' panel answered
questions regarding their tips for investment seekers, common
mistakes made by young startups and their commitment to encouraging
women in tech.
The team that organized the event included: Gil
Shourka, Yisrael
Gross, Nogah Senecky, Ariel Zaretsky , Omri Ben Simon,
and Jonathan Gilat.
To get updates on upcoming events by Pitch Tonight, please
contact:
Gil Shourka & Yisrael Gross
pitchtonight.1@gmail.com
Meetup group:
https://www.meetup.com/PitchTonight/
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https://www.facebook.com/PitchTonight/
SOURCE Pitch Tonight