The Inno-Negev Technology Accelerator
A joint venture of the Bengis Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Ben-Gurion University and BGN Technologies
An initiative lead by Bengis Center and BGN Technologies (Ben-Gurion University’s technology company) is the new Inno-Negev Technology Accelerator. Inno-Negev provides students, start-ups and hi-tech entrepreneurs with the support and essential tools needed to advance their ventures .
Inno-Negev is committed to serving as the critical bridge and meeting point for entrepreneurs, investors and global organizations in one of the most rapidly developing hi-tech regions in Israel – the Negev. Inno- Negev is run in cycles, and each Inno-Negev cycle opens its doors to hi-
(Cyber, Homeland Security, ICT, Medical Devices, and more). The ventures targeted are in the early, pre-seed stage and have undergone a rigorous screening process to test the viability of the project and evaluate its team .
The accelerator offers a 4-month acceleration program (held twice a week) to entrepreneurs seeking assistance, direction, connections and business support. This includes mentorship provided by experienced mentors and expert advisors; practical lectures and workshops given by leading individuals and experts in intellectual property law and finance; branding packages; basic venture funding and office space; and more . Inno-Negev has a cadre of fifty leading business and technological mentors including CTOs of global companies such as Deutsche Telekom and Lockheed Martin, experienced business consultants, investors, hi- tech entrepreneurs and more .
Inno-Negev’s greatest strength is the partnerships recruited for each cycle, which vary in area of expertise in accordance with the cycle’s focus of activity. Partners provide active assistance to participants, including contact with experienced investors and, global companies, technical support and more. Partners in the initial cycle include the following leading organizations – Incubit Technology Ventures by Elbit Systems Ltd. (technological incubator), Deloitte (accounting), Leumi Tech (banking), Beta (social entrepreneurship), Luzzatto Law Firm (law), Luzzatto & Luzzatto Patent Attorneys (IP), Plus Ventures (venture capital fund) and the Office for Negev Development (governmental agency).
CheckPoint Software Technologies Ltd
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, provides customers with uncompromised protection against all types of threats, reduces security complexity and lowers total cost of ownership. Check Point first pioneered the industry with FireWall-1 and its patented stateful inspection technology .
Today, Check Point continues to develop new innovations based on the Software Blade Architecture, providing customers with flexible and simple solutions that can be fully customized to meet the exact security needs of any organization. Check Point is the only vendor to go beyond technology and define security as a business process. Check Point 3D Security uniquely combines policy, people and enforcement for greater protection of information assets and helps organizations implement a blueprint for security that aligns with business needs. Customers include tens of thousands of organizations of all sizes, including all Fortune and Global 100 companies. Check Point's award-winning ZoneAlarm solutions protect millions of consumers from hackers.
Microsoft Nazareth
The Microsoft North project utilizes the strategic location of the Microsoft Israel R&D Centers in Haifa and Nazareth to help promote the northern hi-tech, innovation and entrepreneurship communities in the area, by becoming a technological hub leading various related industry activities. It further promotes technological education, relationship with academia and employee recruitment from the diverse northern population. Microsoft works to encourage and reinforce the North's ecosystem and aspires to create an open, broad, challenging and fertilizing discourse within stakeholders who share its goal to advance the north.
Lockheed Martin
a global leader in the design, manufacture and
support of military aircraft. Lockheed Martin's aircraft leadership is earned through relentless research and development of high-performance combat, air mobility and reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft. They also provide world-class training, focused logistics support, and advanced targeting and navigation technologies to enable the right people with the right skills to be in the right place at the right time with the right information and the right munitions to accomplish their missions.
As a premier systems integrator, Lockheed Martin puts it all together to create an integrated system of system where that the value of the whole is greater than sum of its parts.
Lockheed Martin International was established by Lockheed Martin as part of its customer-focused business strategy, with the intention of strengthening the existing business relations with international customers and partners in approximately 70 nations worldwide in which the company operates, while also expanding its global operations and developing new business partnerships.
Lockheed Martin International, under the leadership of Executive Vice President John Rood, works in close collaboration with all the Lockheed Martin business divisions in order to provide its global customers with the range of products, technologies and services offered by the company as a solution for their various needs in national security, citizen services and economic development - starting with F-35, C-130J aircraft and missile protection systems, through to cyber security solutions and civilian services. The Lockheed Martin International organization is
headquartered in Washington, D.C., metropolitan area; has corporate offices in Ottawa, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Singapore and Canberra; and regional offices in Tel Aviv, New Delhi, Tokyo and Seoul.
Incubit Technology Ventures
a technology incubator located in Be’er-Sheva and is part of the OCS incubator program. Incubit, a fully owned and backed by Elbit Systems Ltd is the first Hi-Tech industry backed incubator.
Their goal is to invest in innovative startups with unique technologies in their early stage. promoting them to secure further growth and future investments. Incubit believe in partnership, acceleration that their wealth of unique services and deep understanding in managing technology are the foundations of success.
They are seeking entrepreneurs and innovative startups that possess a strong drive to develop distinct technology that may be a market game changer and creates a high barrier for competition.
They believe in providing unique value to their portfolio companies through their technological and business experience. Starting with access to first tier technological experts, through their capability to participate in building a viable and risk managed R&D plan. Followed by, access to a wide global network that can help companies craft a partnership with the right strategic partners or investors.
In the cases that a startups technology has synergetic value to their shareholder Elbit Systems, further options of added value arise: technology robustness by having an alpha customer and financial by means of royalties as well as a strategic investor existence.
Gav-Yam Negev Park
Gav-Yam Negev Park is located at the heart of a new urban area that has created a clear link between Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the IDF’s Technology Campus .
Its concentration of hi-tech and R&D-oriented companies, organizations, and academic research distinguishes it as a leading center for all manner of technology and research in the world .
The park’s city location makes it immediately accessible to all those residing in the surrounding neighborhoods, including tens of thousands of university students and the thousands of IDF technology experts who will serve at their new Technology Campus .
In this way, the park will not only become a focus for business activities, but also for vibrant entertainment and leisure opportunities, thus creating a unique and stimulating work environment.
The Partners
Gav-Yam Negev - Advanced Technologies Park in Be'er-Sheva is the result of fruitful cooperation and partnership, and is an expression of the synergy between academia, R&D, technology and industry of the highest class,in Israel and around the world: Gav-Yam, part of the IDB Property & Building Group, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva Municipality, KUD International and with the support of the government of the State of Israel. d leisure opportunities, thus creating a unique a stimulating work environment
NEOT Hovav Eco Park
The environmental industrial council in neot Hovav is a model for dialogue between industry and environment. The industrial park was founded in neot Hovav about ten minutes’ drive from Beer Sheva, for chemical and other heavy industries. The factories Teva, Makhteshim, Bromine Compounds and other factories provide employment for about 4000 families of the Negev residents; their output is estimated by 2.5 Billion NS per annum.
The visitor center in Neot Hovav is designated for groups who wish to learn about the interaction between industry and environment, society and economics, the development of the Negev and much more.
Here you can learn what is a monitoring station, how to check pollution level from chimneys, how to treat waste water so the will not pollute the ground and underground water and many other interesting issues. General Information
Neot Hovav Eco Industrial Park is named after the Hovav stream, one of the names of the Biblical figure Jethro, a priest of Midian and Moses' father in-law . Neot Hovav Industrial Park was established in 1975. Bromine Compounds Ltd and Makhteshim Agan Industries Ltd were the first to relocate their factories from Beer-Sheva to Neot Hovav. The local industrial council Neot Hovav was established in 1989. The industrial Park Neot Hovav is located 12 kilometers from Beer-sheva and sized 5863 acres, of which 1976 acres are used and the rest is designated for future industrial factories. Currently there are 21 factories and industrial facilities on site .
Neot Hovav local council provides full municipal services for the factories under its jurisdiction and is fully responsible to infrastructure development and public spaces. These responsibilities come in addition to supervision and protection of the environment led by the council.
Dell EMC
Israel Center of Excellence is one of eight international EMC
sites that drive innovation in a dynamic, challenging and forward- thinking environment. With six business units, the center uses EMC’s global reach to promote local entrepreneurship and technological creativity.
The EMC Israel Center of Excellence spearheads EMC’s transformation revolution enabling businesses and service providers to deliver information technology as a service (ITaaS). The Center is a growth engine and innovation leader in research and development, product management and professional services. They focus on advanced storage technologies, high availability, cyber security, big data, cloud computing, and data science.
At the EMC Israel Center of Excellence, it is the people who make the difference. They have three R&D facilities, in Hertzliya, Be'er Sheva and Haifa, with over 700 employees and growing. they have a track record of successfully absorbing leading technology startups, encouraging personal development, and offering our employees challenging career opportunities and growth paths.
CDI
CDI is a leading global disc (CD/DVD) manufacturer, established in 1987 .
The Company has manufacturing facilities in Israel and New York. Creating a manufacturing network cable of serving a growing base of clients in North America, Europe and Israel.
CDI's growth in recent years can be attributed, among other factors, to the expansion of activity in the realm of DVD.
CDI is the only company in Israel that produces DVD in all formats (5,9,10) and is the only authorized manufacturer of DVD by All the patent owners for DVD production.
The company’s employees are committed to the highest possible levels of quality, service, speed of performance, and precision. As testimony to the Company’s dedication to quality, Microsoft and AOL have officially recognized CDI as an authorized CD replicator, and Warner Bros. as an authorized DVD replicator.
Along with its traditional manufacturing activities, CDI has made significant investments in recent years in companies specializing in the development of digital media technology applications and products. These are offered on the open market but first and foremost they combine well with CDI's products and add enhanced value to our products.
To date the company has invested in digital printing technology, DVD applications, and CD-ROM Copy Protection services
Intel
Intel established a presence in Israel in 1974 in Haifa with five employees. Today the company employs about 10,000 people, in addition to indirectly supporting the employment of 30,000 workers in Israel. About 60% of Intel Israel's employees are engaged in cutting- edge R&D, while half support high-volume manufacturing of microprocessors that power the world's computing devices.
As Israel's largest privately-held employer and exporter, and as the leader of the local electronics and information industry, Intel Israel is one of the building blocks of Israel's high-tech industry and an important component in the country's economic foundation.
Intel has four development centers located in Haifa, Yakum, Petach Tikva and Jerusalem, as well as manufacturing-related facilities in Kiryat Gat and Jerusalem.
Intel has committed to invest 1.87 billion New Israeli Shekels (NIS) in procurement every year for the next decade. This means that in the next 10 years, Intel will spend NIS 18.7 billion, mainly through small to medium Israel suppliers.
Intel in the Community-Intel has contributed to Israel in countless social and community activities over the past 42 years.
Intel collaborates with schools, municipalities and community organizations in a range of initiatives. Intel donated NIS 23 million to community activities in 2015.
Intel invested 20 million NIS to enhance STEM education in Israel. This four-year commitment allowed Intel to create the We Are The Future initiative with an umbrella of targeted programs for students and teachers in close collaboration with Israel's ministry of education .
Quick Facts
•Employment more than 10,000
•Investment since 1974: $11 billion and $6 billion underway •Average annual capital expenditures: $1 billion
•Employee volunteerism rate: 42 percent
•Community Donations in 2015: $6 million
Maala
Israel’s leading CSR organization Social utility as a business value
An umbrella organization of some 130 of Israel’s largest companies, their goal since founding in 1998 has been to promote corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSR) in Israel.
Provides a forum for sharing practical knowledge and experience, as well as training CSR managers and helping businesses set local and international benchmarks and promote innovative in the field.
Maala is part of a global network of organizations that promote corporate responsibility, including: BSR, CSR 360 and the UN Global Compact.
Since 2003, Maala has produced the annual Maala Index, which ranks publicly traded as well as privately held Israeli companies on the basis of CSR criteria.
As part of its effort to train qualified CSR personnel, Maala operates an annual training course for CSR managers, in cooperation with BDO Ziv Haft.
Maala believes that integrating social, ethical and environmental considerations into the core workings of the Israeli business world is good for business and good for Israeli society.
Dalet Digital Media Systems
Founded in 1990, Dalet Digital Media Systems is a leading developer of audio, video, and multimedia software solutions for the broadcast industry, government agencies, corporations and educational institutions. Dalet solutions are designed to streamline media production workflows, to increase output, and to improve content sharing so that content providers can better optimize and monetize their valuable media assets . Today, more than 200 televisions, 1500 radios, and 30 institutional clients located in 60 countries and totaling more than 50,000 users rely on Dalet solutions for their mission-critical operations. A partial list of our customers includes public broadcasters (ABS-CBN, BBC, CBC, DR, France Télévisions, RTBF, RFI, Russia Today, RT Malaysia, VOA, and WDR), commercial networks and operators (Antena 3, BFM TV, Canal+, FOX, eTV, Mediaset, MediaCorp, L’Equipe, Sirius XM Radio and Time Warner Cable), and government organizations (Canadian House of Commons, The European Commission, and The United Nations .)
Dalet solutions are built on open IT-based hardware. Customers have the freedom to choose key system components which integrate easily with other devices and are easy to maintain. The flexible and scalable architecture of Dalet’s MAM Galaxy platform meets the needs of the most demanding enterprises, such as organizations that use multisite applications, SOA and Cloud deployments. Our integration capabilities and partnerships with more than 60 technology companies enable us to
technology leaders such as Apple, Adobe, EMC, IBM, Hitachi, HP and Netapp, as well as with prominent broadcast companies like Harmonic, Orad, Signiant and Front Porch Digital to name a few, we are able to provide solutions that integrate perfectly into the preferred environments of our customers. Our Vision: Collaboration and Media Convergence The Dalet MAM integrates heterogeneous production systems into a common work environment while eliminating redundant tasks, such as multisystem metadata capture. The result is a production workflow that is similar to a supply-chain model – tasks and workflows are organized, collaboration and productivity are enhanced. Users can work together and enrich the content throughout the creation path and to distribution across all types of outlet.
Innovation and Global Reach
Innovation is central to Dalet’s strategy. Our significant and ongoing investments in research and development enable the company to sustain momentum for continued growth and innovation. Dalet has won many prestigious awards, such as the 2009 IBC Innovation Award and the TV Technology Star Award in 2011 and 2012. Dalet provides a global presence through fifteen offices strategically located throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, North America, and South America. Nearly 60 distributors covering 87 countries reinforce our presence. To better meet the local needs of each client, our user interfaces are available in over 15 languages
Amdocs Limited
Provider of software and services for communications, media and entertainment industry service providers. The company develops, implements and manages software and services for business support systems (BSS), including billing, customer relationship management (CRM), and for operations support systems (OSS). Amdocs is the market leader in Telecommunication Billing Services which forms the major strength of the company. Its products consist of software developed to provide customer experience systems functionality for service providers. The software systems support the customer lifecycle: revenue management, customer management, service and resource management and service delivery.
In 2013, Israeli-founded technology company Amdocs, which has a large office in Alpharetta, opened a branch in Nazareth, Israel’s largest Arab city. Now Amdocs Nazareth is at the forefront of an Israeli revolution to bring Arab citizens into the high-tech fold .
In Amdocs Nazareth Muslims, Jews and Christians all working together in a way that creates co-existence and in which the diversity is an outcome and a strength. In order to have an office that would provide 24/7 support and operations support. It has to be open all days, including the weekend and holidays. In Amdocs you can see how using diversity helps industry to succeed
WIX.com
cloud-based web development platform that allows users to create HTML5 web sites and mobile sites through the use of their online drag and drop tools. Users may add functionalities such as social plug-ins, e-commerce, contact forms, e-mail marketing, and community forums to their web sites using a variety of Wix-developed and third- party applications .
Wix is built on a freemium business model, earning its revenues through premium upgrades. Users must purchase premium packages in order to connect their sites to their own domains, remove Wix ads, add e- commerce capabilities, buy extra data storage and bandwidth, and more. Wix was founded in 2006 by Israelis Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami and Giora Kaplan. The company, headquartered in Tel Aviv, with offices in San Francisco, New York City, Dnipropetrovsk, and Vilnius, is backed by investors Insight Venture Partners, Mangrove Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Benchmark Capital. By April 2010 Wix had 3.5 million users and raised $10 million in Series C funding provided by Benchmark Capital and existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Mangrove Capital Partners. A year later, in March 2011, Wix had 8.5 million users and raised $40 million in Series D funding, bring its total funding to that date to $61 million. In April 2014, Wix announced its acquisition of Appixia, an Israeli startup for creating native mCommerce apps. In October 2014, Wix announced its acquisition of OpenRest, developer of online ordering systems for restaurants
ADAMA Agricultural Solutions Ltd.
ADAMA Agricultural Solutions Ltd. is one of the world's leading crop protection companies .The Company’s comprehensive range of high- quality, differentiated and effective herbicides, insecticides and fungicides help farmers worldwide to increase yields by preventing or controlling weeds, insects and disease that harm their crops .
With one of the world’s most extensive and diversified product portfolios, Adama sells its products in more than 100 countries, with 2015 revenues of $3.1 billion .
Adama's purpose is “Creating Simplicity in Agriculture” – striving to provide farmers accessible, easy-to-use solutions that simplify their lives and improve their crop yields With their lifelong focus on innovation and passion for simplifying the life of the farmer, today Adama is poised to help meet the vital needs of global agriculture, to feed a vast and growing population .
With an heritage of 70 years, the two sister companies, Makhteshim and Agan, embarked on a journey to turn a knowledge of chemistry and agrochemistry into solutions that could help feed the growing population of Israel, in spite of a dearth of natural resources .
Their partnership with ChemChina has started another chapter in their story. The mutual benefits of their merger will be felt beyond China, as they move to strengthen their global leadership .