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Your go-to podcast for all things to do with innovation in Israel!
Join Eve Young as she delves into the heart of Israel's tech and business scenes and uncovers the groundbreaking ideas and visionary minds working to shape the future. Join her each week as she shines a spotlight on the latest trends and entrepreneurial spirit propelling Israel to the forefront of global innovation.
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This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Maayan Shahar, managing director of UST Spark - the software company's open innovation program.Maayan's role is focused on identifying Israeli startups with potential and integrating them into UST's portfolio, and in this episode, she shares the expertise she has gained in this role as well as nearly 20 years in the tech industry.Eve and Maayan discuss tips and tricks for aspiring entrepreneurs and start-ups, with a focus on strategic partnerships and scaling - two areas of Maayan's expertise.
This week's host Abigail Rubinstein, interviews Oded Rozenberg, co-founder and CEO of Apollo Power, in The Jerusalem Post Studio to discuss Apollo's novel, innovative, lightweight, and flexible solar panels.Rosenberg describes how the new lightweight design could allow someone to charge their phone from a portable solar charger or even construct much larger solar panels than is possible today.He also describes that these solar panels can have very important applications for "off the grid" businesses that won't have access to a regular electricity supply. Using lightweight solar panels also has implications for defense technology.
This week, host Abigail Rubinstein, interviews Shaul Shulman, the founder and CEO of SafeFields Technologies, a startup that focuses on the exposure to electromagnetic radiation (EMF) within cars. Shaul will discuss the effects of the radiation and potential health problems for drivers with excessive exposure.Shaul also discusses the short history of SafeFields and its rapid rise, the science behind in-cabin radiation, and implementation in order to protect drivers. As SafeFields has opened to the Israeli public, global rollout will soon follow. Join Abigail as she takes a look at the effects of EMF and uncovers the groundbreaking ideas on how to keep people healthy and safe with new technology.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Noam Solomon - CEO and co-founder at Immunai.Immunai is a biotechnology company working to comprehensively map and decode the immune system with single-cell biology and AI to make new therapeutic discoveries, accelerate drug development, and improve patient outcomes. Noam will talk about how Immunai uses AI and machine learning to make medical advancements, and explain what machine learning is in laymans terms. He will also explain what kind of team is best suited to face the challenges of a complex, deep science problem like mapping human immunity.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Irad Renan, Co-Founder & CEO of Weme - a non-profit platform for volunteers.Irad and his co-founder created Weme in the wake of the October 7 attack on Israel and the Israel-Hamas war, after seeing how much help was needed, and how much Israelis wanted to give to and support each other.Weme is helping to overcome frictions in the volunteering market by helping connect those in need to those who can offer help - and users can both ask for and offer help, according to their needs.About Inside Israeli Innovation:Your go-to podcast for all things to do with innovation in Israel. Join Eve Young as she delves into the heart of Israel's tech and business scenes and uncovers the groundbreaking ideas and visionary minds working to shape the future. Join her each week as she shines a spotlight on the latest trends and entrepreneurial spirit propelling Israel to the forefront of global innovation.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Yaky Yanay, the CEO and President of Biotechnology Research company Pluri. Yaky is also the former Co-Chairman and a current Board Member of the Israel Advanced Technology Industries (IATI) - the largest umbrella organization representing the life science and hi-tech industries in Israel. Pluri is using cell-based technology to do everything from curing radiation sickness to creating large amounts of meat and coffee from a small sample. Yaky will share how the technology has increased some radiation exposure survival rates from 30% to 100% and how one machine can take a tiny sample and turn it into 80,000 coffee plants. Yaky will talk about what these things mean for the future of healthcare and food production, especially in the age of global climate change. He will also explain why it's important in business to take existing industries into consideration and work together to take industries into the future rather than causing collapse. Join Eve Young as she delves into the heart of Israel's tech and business scenes and uncovers the groundbreaking ideas and visionary minds working to shape the future. Join her each week as she shines a spotlight on the latest trends and entrepreneurial spirit, propelling Israel to the forefront of global innovation.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Gili Fleekop and Noam Biton, the co-founders of Pink Chili - a boutique, gen-Z social media agency. Noam and Gili will explain what makes their approach different and why authenticity and "showing rather than telling" are so critical in social media marketing these days.They will share about the challenges of working in the world of social media and being a proudly Israeli company in an age where anti-Israel sentiment is commonplace online. Noam and Gili will also share the challenges of founding a company in Israel and how they combine American and Israeli know-how to give Pink Chili an edge. Join Eve Young as she delves into the heart of Israel's tech and business scenes and uncovers the groundbreaking ideas and visionary minds working to shape the future. Join her each week as she shines a spotlight on the latest trends and entrepreneurial spirit, propelling Israel to the forefront of global innovation.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies's Fareed Mahameed, a climate resilience & environmental public health expert.Fareed will explain what climate resilience is and why it is necessary in a world so impacted by climate change that extreme is the new normal. Fareed also manages the off-grid hub in Alfura village, a bedouin community in the Negev. The hub supplies the local highschool with electricity, water, wastewater treatment and more, and Fareed will explain how this hub could be a pilot for the future of climate rights.Join Eve Young as she delves into the heart of Israel's tech and business scenes and uncovers the groundbreaking ideas and visionary minds working to shape the future. Join her each week as she shines a spotlight on the latest trends and entrepreneurial spirit, propelling Israel to the forefront of global innovation.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Adina Kraus - Founding Partner and CEO at InnoSource Ventures, an independent innovation division of the Swiss family office Toledo Capital. Adina will talk about the impacts of October 7 and the Israel-Hamas war on the Israeli startup ecosystem. She will highlight success stories of companies who managed to excel in spite of the war's challenges and tell us what characteristics these companies showed.She also talks about challenges faced by Israeli startups and innovators in the wake of the war and where the Israeli economy is today. Adina also touches on the importance of looking to markets outside of the US, and shares how InnoSource helps startups to do this. She explains the relationship between startups and family offices, and offers tips for how startups' approach should differ when working with family offices as opposed to with venture capital firms.
This week, The Jerusalem Post’s Yuval Levy and Abigail Rubinstein interview AION Labs CTO Dr. Yair Benita.Yuval, Abigail, and Yair will talk about recent advancements in the AI pharmaceutical industry, as well as the work AION Labs is doing to propel technological innovation in the field of drug development. Yair will discuss his venture studio’s collaboration with major corporations such as Pfizer, Merck, Teva, AstraZeneca, and Amazon to support independent Israeli startups as they pursue solutions to some of the biggest challenges in the medical field. He will also dive into the details of AI in the scientific world and what the future holds for the world of medicine.
his week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Riverside Co-Founder and CPO, Gideon Keyson.Eve and Gideon will talk about how Riverside grew from a platform to host live debates he set up with his brothers in his spare time, to a one-stop-shop for podcast recording used by Marvel, Netflix, and Hillary Clinton, among others.Gideon will talk about the impacts of the Israel-Hamas war on the company and about a special project Riverside did in collaboration with Israel Police to collect testimony from survivors of the Nova festival massacre.He will also talk about innovation in Israel, AI, and how Riverside stays ahead of the game and at the forefront of change.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews co-founders Shai Goel and Tomer Biton, who together are working to help "miluimnikim" (reservists) transition from their reserve duty to the hi-tech ecosystem with their project - MiluimTech. Shai, the CEO, and Tomer, the COO, are working to help reservists who have never been in the tech sector or reservists who were working at tech companies but faced challenges or were fired after extended periods of reserve duty during the Israel-Hamas war.The two will talk about how they encountered the problems faced by reservists, which included cold shoulders from employers and illegal firing, and how they are working to solve these by raising awareness and helping reservists network and connect to key players in the field.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Oracle's Senior Vice President, Partner and Operations Strategy, Leah Yomtovian.Leah shares what drew her to tech, and how she ended up at Oracle. She will also talk about Oracle's transition from a product-oriented to a service-oriented company, and what the company's part is in the artificial intelligence boom.Leah and Eve will talk about how large companies view and advance innovation and how they work and interact with smaller startups.Leah will also touch on her experiences as a woman in tech, and share tips for women interested in the field. She will talk about Oracle's commitment to Israel - where it comes from and what it means.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews generative AI coding platform Qodo's CEO and co-founder Itamar Friedman and Venture Capital firm TLV Partners, Partner Brian Sack. Eve, Brian, and Itamar will discuss what makes a good investor-founder relationship and what the most important parts of Brian and Itamar's relationship are.They will share red and green flags for investors and founders to look out for when exploring work together. Itamar will explain how Qodo uses AI to help developers write quality code and the future of AI for coding. He will also talk about the relationship between innovation and academia.Brain will talk about what makes early-stage startups a different kind of challenge and opportunity for investors, and what he likes about this.
On this week’s episode of Inside Israeli Innovation, this week's hosts Corey Tusak and Ellie Esquenazi take a deep-dive into Aardvark Israel’s Tech Track.This gap-year program specializes in preparing students for the Israeli technology industry. During their 9 month-long stay in Israel, students on the Tech Track spend one semester taking computer science courses, where they learn to code in various programming languages. During their second and final semester, participants work as interns at different startup companies and tech businesses in Israel. They utilize their coding expertise at these internships and are able to become fully integrated into the Israeli workforce.Within the episode are interviews with Eitan Kiperman, Aardvark’s Tech Track coordinator, Maya Michaeli, a current student on the program, and Emily Poltrack, a former participant in the Tech Track. These three individuals share their thoughts on Aardvark’s program as well as provide insight into their personal experiences while on the Tech Track.Michaeli explains the computer science course Aardvark Israel offers through the Tech Track as well as the tours she has been on, exploring Israeli startups. Poltrack recaps her work as an intern at Anima Biotech, an Israeli company that specializes in AI tracking technology with the goal of photographing mRNA lifecycle images.
Guest hosts Ellie Esquenazi and Corey Tusak, discuss some of the innovative stories breaking this week with a key theme of Israeli resilience and effects of the Israel-Hamas war. Among other exciting articles, Corey and Ellie share the story of Noga Sela Shalev, founder of Fresh Start - a food technology incubator, who was evacuated from her home in Kiryat Shmona and discuss how the war has affected her business and other startups, according to Calcalist. Corey and Ellie also discuss the influx of startup Israeli business migrating to Miami following the Israel-Hamas war. The city has become a booming spot for business people and entrepreneurs alike, Calcalist highlights.They also discuss the Israeli state-owned company, Rafael Advanced Defense System Ltd after their announcement of their latest defense capabilities.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Ravid Granov, the founder of Mami, a podcast aiming to support families handling the mental illness of their loved ones. Ravid will explain where the idea for the podcast came from, and why she and her team are seeking to support the families of those dealing with mental health issues. She will talk about cycles of shame and stigma that surround mental health, how they created challenges for Mami's team, and how Mami is seeking to break these cycles.
1This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Yehuda Niv, Founder & CEO of Spines - an online book publishing platform.Spines creates another option for authors beyond traditional, untraditional, and self publishing options, and it uses AI to drastically shorten the timeline for publishing a book or audiobook. Yehuda will share how he came up with the idea for Spines, and how he took it from an idea to a business. He will share about the importance of publishing and, in a broader sense, of storytelling. As an entrepreneur who has founded companies by bootstrapping and by fundraising, Yehuda will also compare these two paths and share which works best for him.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Tal Lev-Ami, co-founder and CTO of Cloudinary - a technology company that provides cloud-based image and video management services.Tal will tell us about how Cloudinary is using generative AI to help companies use images in a better way. He will also touch on the potential risk of using gen AI with images and how these risks can be minimized. He will tell us about how the company is defining the standards of how images should be used on the web - literally, through work with the International Organization for Standardization.Tal will talk about why Cloudinary bootstrapped rather than raised funds in its earlier stages and what advantages this had for the company. He will also talk about the company's values and culture and how they make Cloudinary a better company.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Didi Gurfinkel, Co-Founder & CEO of Datarails - an AI-powered financial planning and analysis platform. Datarails is using AI to change how Microsoft Excel users do financial planning and analysis. Didi will tell us about why the Datarails founders decided to work to fix a problem arising from the use of a product rather than trying to replace it. He will also explain the importance of product-market fit and tell us about Datarails' journey to find it.He will talk about how he fell in love with coding and how this sent him on his path to tech, and he will touch on his education - why he dropped out of high school, and why this didn't hold him back.
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