Israel Innovation Authority
The Israel Innovation Authority is the central governmental body responsible for fostering and advancing Israel's innovation ecosystem. Its mission is to power innovation through investment, insight, and impactful programs, supporting high-tech entrepreneurship, deep-tech ventures, and global collaborations. The Authority provides non-dilutive funding, strategic support, and regulatory guidance to startups and established companies, ensuring Israel remains a global leader in technology and innovation. With a focus on sectors such as AI, bioconvergence, foodtech, climate tech, and more, the Authority bridges academia, industry, and international partners to address humanity's pressing challenges and drive economic growth. Israel's tech ecosystem, often called the "Startup Nation," is characterized by a culture of bold experimentation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and resilience, making it a global powerhouse for innovation. The Authority also plays a pivotal role in shaping national innovation policy, supporting R&D, and facilitating co-investment opportunities for international investors. The Authority's unique features include proactive future-readiness, risk-absorbing investment models, global market integration, and resilience in times of crisis, such as the deployment of Fast-Track bridging funds to protect startups. The Authority also operates innovation centers and manufacturing accelerators to expand high-tech opportunities geographically and demographically, and regularly identifies and supports emerging technologies with high potential impact. The Authority supports a vast portfolio of startups and scale-ups across diverse sectors, including medical engineering, software, electronics, foodtech, biotech, and more, through programs such as Tnufa, Technological Incubators, R&D grants, and international collaborations.
Israel Innovation Authority
What We Do
A national initiative to build a drone delivery network for medical and consumer goods, laying the foundation for urban air mobility and eVTOL operations. The project includes large-scale demonstrations of Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) with multiple drones operating simultaneously in urban airspace.
Advanced genomics for livestock breeding, health, and welfare, supporting leading animal breeding organizations in Europe.
Improving medical implants to enhance patient health through advanced surface technologies.
Technologies blurring the boundaries between the real and virtual world, enabling brain control of virtual environments.
Establishing a systems medicine approach for efficient and personalized medical treatment.
Research to protect oysters in Europe from viral attacks, supporting sustainable aquaculture.
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CEO of the Israel Innovation Authority
Vice President and Head of the Startup Division
Chairman
Head of National Programs
Executive Director, International Collaboration Division
Senior Director
News & Updates
The Technological Incubator program has created over 2,500 innovative technology startups, accumulated hundreds of exits, and attracted multinational companies to Israel, providing thousands of jobs and establishing deep-tech companies with significant government participation in early stages.
Despite a challenging year, the Authority supported 50 companies and entrepreneurs in FoodTech, with significant backing for alternative protein, plant-based, fermentation-based, and cultivated meat initiatives.
A comprehensive analysis of the current state of artificial intelligence in Israel, the progress of the National AI Program, and the launch of key strategic initiatives.
An in-depth report on the state of FoodTech investments in Israel and globally, regulatory developments, and food security challenges. Highlights the sharp decline in investments, the Authority’s continued support, and regulatory advancements for alternative proteins and precision fermentation.
Explores innovations in food packaging technologies and their impact on sustainability and the food industry.
Discusses the impact of rapid technological advancement on the labor market and workforce adaptation.
Covers the strategic partnership between Israel and the UAE in innovation and its potential to disrupt the regional tech landscape.
An overview of the Innovation Authority's process for identifying and supporting emerging technologies with high potential to transform industry and society. The article details the annual survey, collaboration with academia and industry, and the Authority's role in building infrastructure and knowledge for future technologies.
Explores how Israeli startups SWAPP and BRIA combine human ingenuity with advanced technology in architecture and creative design, challenging the notion that AI will replace all human workers.
Highlights two Israeli companies offering groundbreaking cancer treatments: one using targeted heat to destroy tumors and another delivering radioactive material directly to cancer cells, leveraging personalized medicine.
Features Israeli ventures using bio-convergence, including AI and engineered T cells, for early detection and advanced medical solutions in the fight against cancer.
Showcases Israeli companies advancing autonomous transportation through smart simulations, innovative regulation, and technology, moving towards driverless travel.
Describes the Israel National Drone Initiative (INDI) and how startups like High Lander and Cando Drones are positioning Israel as a leader in smart aerial transportation.
Discusses the role of bioconvergence in addressing desertification and environmental challenges.
Examines how biomanufacturing technologies are being leveraged to address climate change.
Explores the application of AI in drug development and the pharmaceutical industry.
Reviews advances in engineered algae technologies and their applications.
Covers developments in quantum communication technologies in Israel.
The Israel Innovation Authority launched a competitive process to establish up to three new technological incubators, focusing on deep-tech fields such as semiconductors, bio-convergence, agri-food tech, robotics, and defense tech. Each incubator can receive up to NIS 40 million over five years, with additional non-dilutive investments available for startups within the program.
A new Deep Tech Incubator Fund was unveiled, offering grants of up to NIS 40 million over five years to set up incubators in health, bio-convergence, climate, agri-tech, food-tech, and other sectors. The initiative aims to nurture startups, diversify the tech landscape, and strengthen Israel’s innovation competitiveness.
The Authority has announced multiple open calls for proposals, including programs for homeland security pilots, personalized learning technologies, physical rehabilitation pilots, AI model training, space technology labs, manufacturing R&D accelerators, and innovation centers for underrepresented communities. These initiatives aim to foster innovation across diverse sectors and promote inclusive growth.