Innovation Modules:
HealthTech
HealthTech
HealthTech is about combining medical data with new technologies and science to create novel solutions that can improve our care, deliver better treatment options, and improve our health outcomes.
Israel is positioned as one of the world’s top incubators of medical advances and a source of healthcare patents, scientific discoveries, and highly cited research. Israel’s scientific knowledge coupled with its digital public healthcare system has brought about health tech solutions for drug development, more accurate diagnoses, telehealth, remote monitoring, patient engagement technologies, treatment methods, and more.
A small country with a small population, Israel’s footprint in the HealthTech space goes above and beyond its population size. The local HealthTech sector boasts hundreds of startups and companies, technology hubs, R&D centers, VCs, accelerators, and government-supported initiatives.
(Sources: SNC, IIA)
OCON Therapeutics
Activity description:
Visit OCON Therapeutics, a female-led company, to learn about how it is reinventing women's health. Meet with CEO Karen Leshem, a seasoned executive with over 20 years of experience in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries and a mentor through the 8400 Healthtech Network in Israel. Visiting OCON includes a lecture and a tour of the facility, including the labs and manufacturing areas.
OCON Therapeutics has designed a patent-protected 3D stent that delivers drugs to the target tissue in the uterus allowing safer, less-invasive, in-office procedures for indications such as heavy bleeding, fibroids, endometriosis and menopause. OCON's product is used by over 130,000 women in 25 countries and is continuing to expand its operations globally. The company has been named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum for its contribution to shaping the future of women's health.
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Modi'in
Scinai
Activity description:
Visit Scinai for an up-close view of drug development solutions in the making. The visit includes a lecture and a tour of Scinai’s lab. Hear from professionals in the biotech space to learn about how Israel can make a mark in the pharmaceutical arena, and how international collaborations will change healthcare treatment. Lecture topics include the company’s innovation, international collaborations, Israel’s potential in the pharma sector, the Abraham Accords, and near-shore collaborations.
Scinai (previously BiondVax Pharmaceuticals Ltd.) is a biotechnology company that is developing, manufacturing, and commercializing innovative immunotherapeutic products primarily for the treatment of infectious and autoimmune diseases. The Jerusalem-based company is now working to develop and commercialize VHH antibodies (NanoAbs). Their NanoAb platform targets treatments of diseases with large unmet medical needs, such as COVID-19, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, asthma and macular degeneration. Scinai says NanoAbs have improved stability, increased potency and the potential for safer and more convenient routes of administration over conventional antibody treatments.
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Jerusalem
HealthTech Valley
Activity description:
Explore HealthTech Valley, a unique ecosystem where academia, a medical center and industry collaborate under the same roof to reimagine healthcare and to accelerate health-enhancing technologies. You can meet Uzi Ben Eliezer, Innovation & Business Development at HealthTech Valley, to hear an overview of HealthTech Valley and share examples of how the new ecosystem will impact health tech. You can also meet with academics, R&D, and innovators from HealthTech Valley collaborators (Bar Ilan University, Weizmann Institute, Sheba hospital).
HealthTech Valley is a collaboration between the Migdal insurance group, Sheba Medical Center, and the City of Ramat Gan. They bring together academia, medical centers and industry partners to offer better healthcare. HealthTech Valley is collaborating with global leaders to strengthen the well-being of global & local communities. While the ecosystem's core activities are health tech and biotech, they are also promoting R&D collaborations and programs with the agro-tech and food tech industries.
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Ramat Gan
VC Grove Ventures
Activity description:
At VC Grove Ventures, you will learn about the innovative solutions Israeli startups are providing in the health tech space. Examples of lecture topics include examples of groundbreaking solutions from health tech companies in Grove’s portfolio, and insights into why VC funds are being earmarked for this sector. Lecture topics can be tailored to the group.
VC Grove Ventures, established in 2017, was named Israel’s Best VC Fund by Founder’s Choice for 2023. The team at Grove includes experienced investors, veteran entrepreneurs, and seasoned company builders including founders Dov Moran (the guy who created the USB flash drive) and Lotan Lebkovitch, as well as general partners Lior Handelsman, one of the founders of Solaredge (renewable energy), and Renana Ashkenazi. The VC has assets exceeding $500 million. Grove has made investments in numerous companies, especially in the health tech and cleantech sectors.
VC Grove Ventures can also be found in the cleantech innovation category.
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Tel Aviv
OurCrowd
Activity description:
Learn about OurCrowd’s portfolio companies and how they are changing early detection and treatment for an array of diseases and explore OurCrowd’s role in the Israeli health tech sector. Experience options include a lecture, a panel discussion, and a meeting with a portfolio company. In-house speakers may include Jon Medved, OurCrowd founder and CEO, Alon Tal, OurCrowd Partner & SVP, Investor Relations, Josh Wolff, OurCrowd COO, Denes Ban, OurCrowd Managing Partner, and Allie Feuerstein, Director of New Business.
OurCrowd is a global venture firm investing in emerging companies. OurCrowd vets and selects companies, invests its capital, and provides its global network with access to co-invest and contribute connections, talent and deal flow. OurCrowd has numerous med-tech startups among its portfolio companies, including BrainQ Technologies, Diagnostic Robotics, Future Family, MedAware, Momentis Surgical, DreamMed, CytoReason, OncoHost, binah.ai, Bionaut Labs, and Sweetch.
OurCrowd can also be found in the food tech, cybertech, and fintech innovation categories.
High
Jerusalem / Tel Aviv
Milbat - Giving Quality to Life
Activity description:
Experience hands-on the cool gadgets, out-of-the-box solutions and tech devices specifically created by the multidisciplinary team at Milbat to aid people in regaining independence. The tour and lecture at Milbat consists of a short introduction to the department and its history, and a lecture from one or more of their consultants (occupational therapists, speech therapists, industrial designers). You will explore their different products and accessibility solutions, and hear from Milbat staff about the process of creating personalized assistive technologies. Milbat can also offer more specific lectures and workshops in different areas of expertise, such as wheelchair accommodations and adjustments, ADL accessibility, alternative and augmentative communication, and 3D printing.
“Milbat – Giving Quality to Life” combines rehabilitation expertise and technological know-how to create tailored technology for people of all abilities to perform activities independently. Milbat is a non-profit organization and has been changing people's lives in the health tech space since 1981. Headquartered in the Tel Hashomer Sheba hospital, Milbat introduces children and adults to available technological options. However, when no suitable device can be found, Milbat’s 600+ multidisciplinary volunteer corps goes into action to design, create and develop a suitable aid, specifically tailored to the person’s needs.
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Ramat Gan
Viva Sarah Press: A Lecture on Current HealthTech Companies in the News
Activity description:
Viva Sarah Press lectures about the innovations of the HealthTech sector in a fun, engaging and inspiring way. You will gain a better understanding of how and where Israel is leading in the health and bio technologies sector (with many examples) and the impact Israeli health tech has on the global community. No two talks are the same because every talk is updated according to what’s in the news. The experience includes a lecture and Q&A session, and Leaders can request specific topics to be included.
Israel’s HealthTech sector is brimming with audacious startups truly believing they can solve the many challenges facing global healthcare. With a finger on the pulse of the latest Israeli innovations, Viva Sarah Press presents a lecture on the latest cutting-edge health technologies and solutions in the news and the impact they will have on the global community. Viva is unaffiliated, meaning her talks do not promote one company over another but rather offer an unprejudiced look at the companies making headlines and how their solutions can and are impacting the global community. Known for her clear grasp of Israeli innovation and amazing storytelling skills, Viva puts the stories of present-day HealthTech into context and focuses on the newest health technologies. Viva has been giving lectures on HealthTech innovation in the news since 2015 in the U.S., Canada and Israel. In addition to her speaking activities, Viva is a published author (HCI research, educational resource, journalism), a lecturer of journalism at Reichman University and a Senior Delegation Connector at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation. Viva is a regular speaker with itrek groups.
Viva Sarah Press can also be found in the Agri - Tech, FoodTech, and CyberTech innovation categories.
High
Tel Aviv
MassChallenge Israel
Activity description:
At the Accelerator Experience with MassChallenge Israel allows for an , you will gain a better understanding of what it means to be a non-equity accelerator in Israel, how startups launch, and the solutions now being designed for the HealthTech sector. Experiences may include a lecture, panel, and a workshop. Lecure speakers include industry leaders from the startup, accelerator, VC, governmental and nonprofit spaces, and MassChallenge staff. Topics cover HealthTech innovation trends in Israel and the next generation of Israeli HealthTech startups that are inspiring the world. The panel is a conversation between MassChallenge Israel and one or more HealthTech startup founders. In the interactive workshop, you will connect, communicate and create, going beyond learning about startups to actually take part in the innovation.
Since 2016, MassChallenge Israel has been helping 40-50 companies accelerate each year – matching entrepreneurs with industry experts and mentors to help them develop their ideas into successful ventures. MC Israel gives visiting groups inside access to the knowledge and expertise of their team, and invites visitors to meet and learn from their growing community of startup innovators. Among the startups to have accelerated via MC Israel include Atiko Technologies, which brings the lab out into the open and enables health tests to be performed anywhere; Cuspa, providing a state-of-the-art transcatheter repair solution for heart valve insufficiency; IntraGel Therapeutics, a new safe, effective and targeted anti-cancer therapeutic gel to battle oncology patients’ solid tumors; and Pregnantech, which has developed a game-changing non-surgical device for delaying preterm birth to reduce global rates of child morbidity and mortality.
MassChallenge Israel can also be found in the Agri - Tech, FoodTech, CleanTech, and FinTech innovation categories.
High
Jerusalem
