North Company Visits

This past weekend the team completed our Tour of Israel with a trip to the northern regions of Galilee and Golan Heights.  While there, we had the opportunity to meet executives at two of Israel's more exciting companies: Amiad and the Misgav Venture Accelerator.

Amiad

With the world's population rapidly expanding in areas already challenged by substandard access to clean water, it has become clear that the problem that my generation will be charged with solving is how to provide water to a world population that will exceed 7 billion by the end of this decade.  In a country where water is an issue of national security, it is no surprise that one of the world's most innovative water filtration companies has come out of Israel.  By providing customized solutions that last a lifetime, Amiad deploys its filtration products across the globe to meet the needs of small African villages and growing metropolises alike.  In meeting with their management and touring their facilities, our team left Amiad quite impressed by their innovative approach to tackling this timeless problem.

Misgav Venture Accelerator

An incubator run the by Trendlines Group, the Misgav Venture Accelerator is focused on building businesses out of life science technologies that seek to improve the human condition.  Awarded "Best Incubator" by Israel's Office of the Chief Scientist, Misgav is clearly doing something right.  Their CEO and Chairman Steve Rhodes walked the team through the Israeli incubator program and discussed its merits and recent successes.  By providing mentoring, office support and collaboration among like-minded entrepreneurs, Misgav has shown great promise in creating such  innovative companies as ETView and Endo Grab.  Their innovations save on healthcare costs and improve healthcare delivery in such a manner that the end user and the healthcare provider both benefit.  Before concluding our meeting, we all had the opportunity to pitch the companies we are building at the Technion and receive valuable feedback from experienced venture executive and long time business builder Steve Rhodes, an honor of which many an entrepreneur would be jealous.