The “Alzheimer Challenge” was a competition for startups intended to encourage development of technology that can solve one of the biggest challenges posed by Alzheimer’s– diagnosing the disease in its early stages

Despite global economic slowdown, there was a 250% increase in job openings for non-technological positions in high-tech in Israel, creating opportunity for integration into high-productivity jobs in the industry

Start-Up Nation Central, CEO Avi Hasson presented an overview of the Israeli innovation ecosystem and how it is addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals

Israeli Start-up companies gave innovation demos of their technologies emphasizing emerging markets partnerships and solutions

CASABLANCA, May 26 - A new era of Israel-Morocco Business ties has launched following the successful “Morocco-Israel Connect to Innovate” conference which took place in Casablanca this week. The event, co-organised by Start-Up Nation Central, a non-profit organization that promotes Israeli innovation around the world and Morocco’s CPR, brought together government officials and 250 business leaders from the two countries and focused on ways to collaborate in the agrifood-tech, watertech, energy, logistics, and human capital sectors. These are areas of focus in H.M. King Mohamed VI’s multi-year economic and social roadmap, The New Development Model.

13 MOUs signed during opening ceremony of the first-of-its-kind conference dedicated to developing innovative solutions to common challenges shared by the two countries.

A new study by Start-Up Nation Central and Shenkar, examining the perception of how design contributes to business performance in the Israeli ecosystem, reveals that two thirds of investors think Israeli companies invest less than their foreign counterparts in design and that investors do not recognize the full potential of design, ranking it lower in significance than other parameters such as quality of team or technological innovation

The interactive map highlights some 130 startups and growth companies providing solutions across ten verticals to women; In 2021, $160M were invested in Israeli FemTech companies

JNF Canada, Start-Up Nation Central, and KKL-JNF, with the support of the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, join forces to promote Israeli research and startups developing climate change solutions

Start-Up Nation Central reveals which sectors benefitted most from the COVID-19 pandemic and who caught the eye of foreign investors as part of its ongoing research into Israel’s key innovation sectors.

For the last couple of decades, Israel has been on a continuous journey, transitioning from a developing economy into a developed one. Led by a thriving high-tech industry, which earned it its branding as “Start-Up Nation,” Israel is a country that every investor should have some exposure to. With 54 tech unicorns and attracting $25.6b of investment in high-tech, Israel clearly punches above its weight.