Looks like there are others appreciative of Israel's high tech abilities.
BY DAVID SHAMAH June 1, 2014, 7:07 pm 2
Ten Israeli start-ups have been selected to set up shop in Boston, where they plan to compete for as much as a million dollars in funding, courtesy of the State of Massachusetts. The MassChallenge competition awards over $1 million in cash prizes to winning start-ups, with no strings attached, along with top-tier mentoring, training, free office space, access to funding, legal advice, media and over $15 million of in-kind support.
While Israeli start-ups compete in tech challenges around the world, MassChallenge is different. The MassChallenge program is five years old, and is being run in Israel for the second time. It is the only place outside Massachusetts to be so honored.
So high a regard does Massachusetts have for Israeli tech that this years MassChallenge finalists were announced last Thursday by MassChallenge CEO John Harthorne, together with Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, at an event in Tel Aviv. Patrick led a delegation of over 120 Massachusetts business and academic leaders representing nearly 60 companies and institutions in IT, healthcare, energy and water technology, cyber security, academia, financial services and life sciences. It was, said the New England-Israel business council, the largest-ever economic trade mission to visit Israel from the US, far bigger than the delegation Patrick led here on his last visit in 2011.
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BY DAVID SHAMAH June 1, 2014, 7:07 pm 2
Ten Israeli start-ups have been selected to set up shop in Boston, where they plan to compete for as much as a million dollars in funding, courtesy of the State of Massachusetts. The MassChallenge competition awards over $1 million in cash prizes to winning start-ups, with no strings attached, along with top-tier mentoring, training, free office space, access to funding, legal advice, media and over $15 million of in-kind support.
While Israeli start-ups compete in tech challenges around the world, MassChallenge is different. The MassChallenge program is five years old, and is being run in Israel for the second time. It is the only place outside Massachusetts to be so honored.
So high a regard does Massachusetts have for Israeli tech that this years MassChallenge finalists were announced last Thursday by MassChallenge CEO John Harthorne, together with Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, at an event in Tel Aviv. Patrick led a delegation of over 120 Massachusetts business and academic leaders representing nearly 60 companies and institutions in IT, healthcare, energy and water technology, cyber security, academia, financial services and life sciences. It was, said the New England-Israel business council, the largest-ever economic trade mission to visit Israel from the US, far bigger than the delegation Patrick led here on his last visit in 2011.
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Mass. rolls out red carpet for Israeli start-ups | The Times of Israel