Israeli Innovation for the world

What we do

Israeli Innovation Ecosystem Development

We identify tech sectors with high growth potential and boost them by providing business and investment opportunities, data and insights along with networking events to foster collaboration.

Global Innovation Partnerships

We forge business relationships through customized engagements leveraging global companies competitive advantage goals by facilitating partnerships and joint ventures with Israeli innovators.

Innovation Diplomacy

We strengthen Israel’s international relations by leveraging innovation as a diplomatic resource. By identifying shared challenges and ways to solve them together, we cultivate governmental, business, and people-to-people ties.

Our offerings

Start-Up
Nation Finder

Start-Up Nation Finder is the world’s most trusted online platform for engaging with the Israeli innovation ecosystem. It enables users from around the globe to learn about business opportunities and connect with key players.

Business Engagements

We build customized business engagements that match innovative Israeli companies with global business partners. These activities have given rise to hundreds of partnerships including joint ventures, commercial agreements, POCs, and new R&D centers.

Human Capital Solutions

We create programs and support initiatives to help the Israeli tech industry overcome its chronic human capital shortage. By partnering with government agencies and leading tech companies, we drive solutions that increase the size and diversity of the innovation ecosystem’s talent pool.

Start-Up Nation Policy Institute

Start-Up Nation Policy Institute (SNPI) is an independent think-tank that works to strengthen the Israeli innovation ecosystem while expanding its impact to all areas of Israel’s economy and society

Focus sectors

AgriFood-Tech
HealthTech
ClimateTech

AgriFood-Tech

Israel is a trailblazer in the field of AgriFood-Tech, having been forced to innovate in order to overcome unfavorable growing conditions. Today it is home to a thriving ecosystem, the second largest in the world, made up of more than 400 companies. Israeli companies provide a broad spectrum of solutions, helping to increase yields, reduce the use of harmful chemicals and improve the quality and variety of crops, by employing cutting-edge technologies like computer vision, artificial intelligence, robotics, advanced communications, traceability solutions, and biotechnology.

$2.14B
Total capital raised by year

Investments by Year

Source: Start-Up Nation Finder

HealthTech

Israel is home to a vibrant and flourishing HealthTech sector, with roughly 1600 innovative companies, as well as technology hubs, R&D centers of multinational corporations, and a range of government support programs. The sector received a substantial boost in the past two years as a result of the demand for solutions in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. Pioneers in the field, Israeli healthcare providers have been accumulating medical data for the last 25 years, making Israel an ideal validation site for companies developing data-driven solutions.

$9.60B
Total capital raised by year

Investments by Year

Source: Start-Up Nation Finder

ClimateTech

As the climate change crisis looms large over governments, businesses, and individuals alike, Israel is poised to become a major player in the budding Climate-Tech sector. It is already home to roughly 700 companies whose products or services have the potential to aid in the battle against climate change in fields such as sustainable food production, afforestation, recycling, energy efficiency, and smart mobility, with new companies being launched regularly to provide solutions to help meet net-zero emissions targets.

$2.99B
Total capital venture raised by year

Investments by Year

Source: Start-Up Nation Finder

Our partners

"This relationship has greatly helped us explore new tech innovation and establish connections with the Israeli startup ecosystem "

Nadav Berger,Peak Bridge - Foodtech investor

“SNC has been instrumental in our ability to connect with all the key players in the israeli technology based ecosystem..”

Lisa Prasad,Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer

“..So far… after this visit (Start-Up Nation Central) is very clearly a go-to address to explore…”

Andreas Schell,CEO

“Your delivery of key market innovators, new technologies, and pivotal ecosystem participants has contributed directly to the milestones achieved in these efforts to date…”

Sure Kumar,Chief Information Officer

News

30. 1. 2023

High-level Moroccan delegation visits Israel for continued tech collaboration

Start-Up Nation Central and AMDL gather for three days of exploring supply chain innovation to promote the Moroccan logistics sector

10. 1. 2023

Start-Up Nation Central and SNPI Think Tank 2022 Israeli Tech Ecosystem Report of the Israeli High Tech Industry

30. 1. 2023

High-level Moroccan delegation visits Israel for continued tech collaboration

Start-Up Nation Central and AMDL gather for three days of exploring supply chain innovation to promote the Moroccan logistics sector

10. 1. 2023

Start-Up Nation Central and SNPI Think Tank 2022 Israeli Tech Ecosystem Report of the Israeli High Tech Industry

15. 12. 2022

Start-Up Nation Central welcomes delegation of UN ambassadors for introduction to Israeli innovation technology

The delegation visited Israel at the invitation of Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, and met with Israeli start-ups developing technologies focused on water and climate solutions in line with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals

12. 12. 2022

The Winner of the Henry Ford Health and Start-up Nation Central’s Nursing Care Efficiencies Challenge: EyeKnow

The challenge offered the Israeli innovation ecosystem the opportunity to present solutions fostering an environment that allows nurses to provide safe care efficiently, freeing them to spend more time with the patient and their family

17. 11. 2022

Start-Up Nation Central & Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) are Promoting Innovation Knowhow Partnership

Tel Aviv, November 16, 2022: – Start-Up Nation Central – a non-profit that promotes the Israeli innovation ecosystem around the world – welcomed a delegation from Morocco’s Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) this week to promote greater partnership between the innovation ecosystems in both countries.

26. 10. 2022

More than $2 million awarded to Israeli Climate Tech researchers and startups

20. 10. 2022

Finalists of the Climates Solutions Prize

Finalists of the Climates Solutions Prize, awarding over $2 million to researchers and startups with solutions to climate change, are revealed by JNF Canada, Start-Up Nation Central, and KKL-JNF
The winners will be announced at the Climate Solutions Festival, a large-scale global summit with a unique showcase of innovative solutions, on October 26, 2022 at Hulda Forest – register here

Over 300 applications from Israeli startups and academic researchers entered the prize competition

8. 9. 2022

What we do

Israeli Innovation Ecosystem Development

Global Innovation Partnerships

Innovation Diplomacy

Our offerings

Start-Up Nation Finder

Business Engagements

Human Capital Solutions

Start-Up Nation Policy Institute

Focus sectors

AgriFood-Tech

Investments by Year

HealthTech

Investments by Year

ClimateTech

Investments by Year

Our partners

Nadav Berger,Peak Bridge - Foodtech investor

Lisa Prasad,Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer

Andreas Schell,CEO

Sure Kumar,Chief Information Officer

News

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