BizTec Entrepreneurship Program Opens its 19th Class
Graduates of the program, including the founders of BreezoMeter, which recently sold to Google for more than $200 million, attended the opening event
BizTec, Israel’s leading entrepreneurship program founded in 2004 at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, recently announced the opening of its 2023 class. The opening event took place as part of the t-day entrepreneurship and career day organized by the t-hub: the Technion Hub for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. To date, BizTec has supported thousands of students, and almost 600 past groups have developed their ideas into a venture. According to Program Director Dr. Lital Attia, the key to success at BizTec is a combination of finding a solution suitable for a large market, adapting the product to the client’s and the user’s needs, using suitable technologies, and strong teamwork skills. “I believe that each of the accepted ventures has tremendous potential to become a success,” Dr. Attia said.
Ran Korber & Emil Fisher, Breezometer founders
Numerous graduates of the program attended the opening event, including Ran Korber, founder of BreezoMeter (BizTec 2013), which recently sold to Google for $200 million; Dr. Meital Segev Bar, who together with Dr. Gady Konvalina and Professor Hossam Haick, developed Feelit (BizTec 2016) and raised more than $10 million; Zinat Awad and Assaf Licht, current students in the double medicine and biomedical engineering track and co-founders of Harmony (BizTec 2020); Karny Ilan, one of the founders of Feminai (first place winner in BizTec 2022); and Anastasia Nepomnyashchaya, one of the founders of Speculate (second place winner in BizTec 2022). All shared their stories and offered advice for the young entrepreneurs.
Dr. Meital Segev Bar
Participants in the program benefit from lectures, workshops, training, and mentoring from academia, industry, and the venture capital sector. At the conclusion of the program, the successful ventures pitch their ideas at a major event, called Demo Day, to investors and opinion leaders. The program is held under the sponsorship of the Bronica Entrepreneurship Center, established by Yehuda and Yehudit Bronicki, founders of Ormat Technologies and winners of the Israel Prize for Lifetime Enterprise in Industry. The program is accompanied by the law firm S. Horowitz & Co. and runs in collaboration with venture capital funds Glilot Capital Partners, the Takwin Fund, and more.
Zinat Awad & Assaf Licht
Dr. Gady Konvalina