Nucleate Israel

Welcome to Nucleate Israel: We empower the next generations of biotech leaders! Nucleate is a volunteering-based non-profit focused on improving the biotech ecosystems across the globe and run by PhDs, postdocs, and students. * Our Origins - Nucleate was founded in 2018 at Harvard University and MIT. Since then, Nucleate expanded to many different countries and empowered the global biotech community at a trainee level. Through Activator, Nucleate’s flagship program facilitating the formation of new biotech ventures, we have supported over 100 start-up teams worldwide that went on to raise over €190M as of January 2023. * Our Mission - To collectively build the global leader for developing and empowering next-generation biotechnology talent. We are open to collaborations with researchers, entrepreneurs, companies, and venture capitals in the fields of #climatetech , #foodtech , #medicine, and #biotechnology, as well as students from all over Germany who wish to join our community as volunteers or members! Read more about the global organization here https://www.nucleate.xyz/ Have any questions? seek a collaboration? DM us! התנועה הגדולה בעולם ליזמות ביוטכנולוגית הגיעה לארץ - הכירו את Nucleate Israel! במשך שנים יזמים ביוטכנולוגים נאבקים בדרך הבעייתית להקמת סטארטאפ בתחום - חוסר בתקציב, חוסר הבנה לפוטנציאל וחוסר תמיכה הם רק חלק מהקשיים בתהליך (ושלא נתחיל אפילו לדבר על יצירת הרעיון לסטארטאפ עצמו כן?) לכן, בשנת 2019 הוקמה תנועה עולמית לתמיכה ביזמות בתחום הביו טק - וכעת אנו משיקים אותה לראשונה בישראל! אנחנו גאים ומתרגשים להציג בפניכם את Nucleate Israel, אשר פועלת מסביב לכל העולם ובימים אלו ממש מתחילה לפעול גם בארץ, עם הצוות הישראלי הראשון בתנועה. Nucleate הוא ארגון המובל בידי סטודנטים ומטרתו להקל וללוות יזמיות ויזמים צעירים בתחום הביו-טק בדרכם מהאקדמיה ועד להקמת חברות חלוציות בעצמם. אנו שואפים להפיח אמון ומוטיבציה במדענים וסטודנטים להתחיל מיזמים חדשים, ולהעניק להם את כל הכלים האפשריים להצלחה - מליווי בידי אנשי מקצוע בעלי שם בינלאומי ועד קשרים ונטוורקינג עם צוותים אחרים מסביב לעולם. אז קודם כל - תעקבו אחרינו בשביל כל העדכונים על הפעילויות שלנו בארץ, הזדמנויות להצטרף אלינו וגם סיפורים מתחום הביו טק. ושנית, אנחנו כבר מתחילים! אם אתם סטודנטים באוניברסיטת תל אביב, זכיתם: היום בערב יתקיים האירוע הראשון עם שתי הרצאות מדהימות שאתם לא רוצים לפספס. הסתקרנתם? לפרטים נוספים הירשמו בלינק הבא- https://lnkd.in/ddvNMjXN

Exciting News from the Nucleate Jerusalem Chapter!🎉 Join us for an unforgettable evening as we kick off this year’s last event in style! This is your chance to mingle with friends, enjoy delicious food and coffee, and soak up exclusive knowledge you won’t find anywhere else! 🗓 Date: 21st of July ⏰ Time: 17:30 📍 Location: ASPER HUJI Innovate Center We’re thrilled to feature an impressive lineup of biotech representatives, including: - May Meltzer Ph.D., Scientific IP Lead at Prilenia - Ziv Zwighaft Ph.D. MBA, CEO of Ambrosia Bio - Cheli Gonnen Director of Clinical Affairs at RS Ness - Shiran Zimri Ph.D., VP of Research and Development at NeuroSense Therapeutics - Ela Elyada Ph.D., Project Leader at Teva Pharmaceuticals Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to connect, learn, and have a fantastic time. 👉 Register Here! https://lnkd.in/eHjg7Wjw 👈 See you there!

Israel's next-gen inventors aren't building bombs 💣 – they're doing something far more powerful.⚡ My experience judging the BioSense Hackathon in Tel Aviv last week revealed a "surprising" truth about Israel's innovation landscape. Contrary to some popular media narratives, the competition finalists shared a common goal: Protect and Defend. Here are some of the standout innovations: 🟢A portable oxygen generator that replaces bulky, hazardous cylinders, designed to save lives. 🟢An app dedicated to aiding PTSD sufferers and their support networks, significantly easing their daily struggles. 🟢A lightweight, protective neck guard, addressing the 40% of serious battlefield injuries that occur at the neck – again, saving lives. 🟢An AI-powered coating for field vehicles that adapts its colour for better camouflage from drones, enhancing soldier safety. 🟢An ingenious partial substitution of cement with recycled plastics, slashing CO2 emissions and helping to save our planet. It's a powerful reminder that innovation can be a force for good, even in complex geopolitical contexts. Yet technology alone can't solve everything. It's crucial to address the immediate crisis: NOW🎗️ is the time to bring back the hostages and implement a ceasefire.

The BioFense Hackathon was a journey to remember! 💫 Embarking on my first venture of founding, building, and creating a hackathon was nothing short of a monumental task, especially one that spanned an entire month! Back in November, when BioFense was merely an idea, many doubted its viability. They said no one would commit to such a lengthy endeavor, and that people's focus would inevitably shift from aiding our country to tending to their personal lives and recovery. Today, I am proud to say those skeptics were wrong. Through the creation of the BioFense Hackathon, I was fortunate to collaborate with an incredible group of volunteers who believed in this vision as passionately as I did. This is the essence of our remarkable Nucleate Israel community. Together, we meticulously crafted this groundbreaking initiative, bridging academia with industry, investment, and defense. We equipped a diverse and talented cohort with the necessary tools to tackle the most urgent bio-convergence challenges in the context of Israel’s current situation. The results were beyond our expectations: 26 dedicated teams, about 50 mentors and judges, 7 compelling final pitch decks, and a plethora of new collaborations in progress. We succeeded in providing an unforgettable learning experience for our participants, fulfilling our mission to shape the biotech leaders of tomorrow. For many, this hackathon could be the start of an exciting journey into the startup world. I extend my deepest gratitude to my incredible team—this achievement wouldn’t have been possible without our collective effort: Eden Fleshler, Naomi Tawil-Winter, Ankita Lahkar, M.D., Malkah Sokol, Manal Marzouk, Nur Zaid, Ido Meir, Daniel Somekh, Ron Nagar and Sarit Feldman A heartfelt thank you to our sponsors, Teva Pharmaceuticals, DDR&D (MAFAT) - Directorate of Defense Research & Development, Herzog and Walder Foundation, for their unwavering belief in our vision, and to everyone who believed in us along the way. To every aspiring entrepreneur out there: dare to dream and trust your instincts. You might just realize you were right all along! This is only the beginning.

"Focus your energy on the challenges that truly matter and make a difference" This quote from Daniel Schwab at our BioFense Biohackathon finale perfectly encapsulates the spirit of the past two days. 🌟 Our semi-finalists pitched innovative ideas with the potential to transform our ecosystem to industry-leading judges. Two teams advanced to the finals, where they showcased their solutions to the judges and audience. 🏆 🎉 Congratulations to the winning teams: 🥇 First Place - Biomedical Sector -Daniel Engelberg, Gabriel Ganeles, Theodor Fuchs, Ran Benayoun, Eytan Merkin 🥈 Second Place - Ressiliance - Gabriel Berezovsky, Aviv Fedida, Jennifer Jehan, Joshua Blecher 🥉 Third Place - Ressiliance - Avital Yosupov, Lena Yadgarov, Vladimir Vinokur 💡 We also hosted two insightful panels: Defense-Tech Ecosystem: Led by Itay Varkovitzky, an investment professional and former DDR&D (MAFAT) - Directorate of Defense Research & Development member, this panel explored Israel's defense-tech landscape. Our esteemed guests included Yaron Mayrovich (Director of Strategic R&D, Elbit Systems Israel, C4i), Guy Keren (CEO, iHLS Israel Homeland Security), and Duddy Rokach (Managing Partner, SOSA). Israel Innovation: Sharon Goldberg, Catalyst Director at the Israel Innovation Institute, hosted this panel on innovation in Israel. Our panelists, Alona Barnea (Head of Neurotechnology Resilience and Rehabilitation), Gil Horsky (Founder & Managing Partner, FLORA Ventures), Daniel Schwab (Founder & Advisor, Brightmerge), and Yishay Falick MD MBA (Director, HealthTEACH & Bioconvergence), shared key advice and insights for young entrepreneurs in 2024: 1.Don't hesitate to ask for help and embrace failure. 💪🧠 Learning from mistakes is essential for growth. 2.Stay hungry and constantly remind yourself of your goals. 🚀🎯 Passion and perseverance are key to success. 3.Leverage the advantages of our small ecosystem. 🤝 Collaboration and networking opportunities abound. 🌐 4.Focus on impactful problems. 🎯 Don't waste time on issues that won't move the needle. ⏳ 🙏 A huge thank you to our sponsors – the Walder Foundation, DDR&D (MAFAT) - Directorate of Defense Research & Development, and Teva Pharmaceuticals – for making this event possible! Without your support, BioFense wouldn't have been the success it was. 💪 And a massive shoutout to our Biohackathon participants – you are the lifeblood of this event. Your passion and creativity fueled BioFense, and we couldn't have done it without you!

Honored to participate as a mentor and judge at #Nucleate Israel's BioFense hackathon tonight . Looking forward to learning about the innovative ideas presented. Well done Ankita Lahkar, M.D. and Daniel Somekh! #innovation #startupnation

Our team was excited to participate in the Biofense Nucleate Hackathon! Our CTO, Tammy Meiron, Ph.D., challenged students from universities across Israel to develop solutions for long-term #food #preservation that maintain nutritional integrity and taste without refrigeration. Over the past two weeks, our Director of Business Development, Daniel Gamsu, and Technology Analyst, Hadas Sibony Benyamini, mentored these talented students. Yesterday, we attended the semi-finals to witness and judge their innovative presentations. Kudos to the students, the Nucleate team for organizing a fantastic event, and Shelly Lotan (Adv.), CEO of our portfolio company Medium Well Technological Solutions, for an insightful lecture on foodtech in times of crisis. #FoodTechExperts #StartupIncubator #Academia #Collaboration #SharingKnowledge #VentureMentors #InnovationPartners Noga Sela Shalev, Sapir Hashmonai, Tnuva, Tempo Beverages Ltd, OurCrowd, Finistere Ventures, Israel Innovation Authority רשות החדשנות, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Haifa, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Tel-Hai College, Weizmann Institute of Science, Reichman University, Ankita Lahkar, M.D., Naomi Tawil-Winter, Daniel Somekh, Ron Nagar, Manal Marzouk, Yael Tahan, Eden Fleshler, Malkah Sokol, Ido Meir, Tom Schneider, Eden Abergel, Nur Zaid

📢 Attention Nucleate Community! 🎉 We are thrilled to share an exclusive opportunity with you first! 🤩 We have 3 tickets up for grabs for the Super Interesting AI Week TLV, at Tel Aviv University on June 26-27! 🧠🚀 Want to be part of this amazing event? Enter our lottery for a chance to attend AI Week 2024, happening this week! Discover cutting-edge advancements in AI, network with industry experts, and be part of the future! 👉 Enter here: https://lnkd.in/d5nDaGtj ⏰ Hurry! The lottery closes tomorrow! Details: *Who: Nucleate community members only 🧬 *Event: AI Week 2024 *Dates: June 26-27 *Deadline: The lottery closes tomorrow morning, so enter ASAP! *Our network and friends can also use the 10% discount code: AIW-PARTNER, registration link in the first comment. Also, don’t miss out on Cyber Week on June 25th! It's free of charge but requires prior registration, you can find the link in the first comment 🌐🔐 ****Winners will be notified via email.**** Good luck! 🍀 #AIWeek2024 #NucleateIsrael #NucleateIsraelCommunity #CyberWeek #AI #TechEvent

Busy weeks with Israel's next generation of #FoodTechExperts! 💡 Our CEO, Noga Sela Shalev, lectured on promoting climate and food crisis solutions at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology's FoodTech Nation meetup. 💡 Our CTO, Tammy Meiron, Ph.D., led an online workshop on technical risks and scientific planning for Nucleate Israel. 💡 Our Director of Business Development, Daniel Gamsu, shared business tips and insights for foodtech innovations at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's "The Race for Protein" meetup. We are proud to be advancing #foodtech #innovation with the #leaders of tomorrow! #KnowledgeSharing #Acadmeia #Industry #StartupIncubator #Mentors Nir Zut, Eyal Ackerman, Oren Mor Levin, Royi Katz, Sivan Rubin, Tal Benlulu, , Shay Moguiliansky, Shachar Heppner, Gabriela Amiram, Neta Soto, oren saig, Ankita Lahkar, M.D., Naomi Tawil-Winter, Daniel Somekh, Ron Nagar, Manal Marzouk, Yael Tahan, Eden Fleshler, Malkah Sokol

Dear Attendees, We regret to inform you that our upcoming event on Pharmaceuticals and AI, scheduled for Thursday, June 13th, has been postponed, due to the ongoing student strike in support of the families of those abducted in Gaza. 🙏🏻Nucleate Israel and Nucleate Tel-Aviv appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to reschedule this event. We look forward to welcoming you to this event on a new date and sharing a fascinating evening of innovation and networking. Stay tuned for updates! Best regards, The Nucleate team🤍