ICON - Israel Collaboration Network

Say what?!? Yes. It’s true applications for SV101 by ICON batch 16 (🤯) are officially open! We are looking for Silicon Valley-ready founders with a nothing can stop us vibe. Read everything you need to know & apply here - https://bitly.cx/x0RwR Want to hear all about it from a fellow founder? Ask our latest batch Yonatan Schreiber  |  Yosef Peterseil  |  Michael Matias  |  Alon Kollmann  |  Omer Goldschmidt  |  Or Shani  |  Tomer Naveh  |  Gal Rapoport  |  Alon Ashkenasi  |  Gilad Uziely  |  Rotem Lurie  |  Jonathan Bregman  |  Ido Perlson

🐥🐸🐥 WOW 🐥🐸🐥 Our favorite duckings just blew our minds again!! Huge congrats to SV101 by ICON alumni Alon Lev & Lior Penso and the entire Qwak team on this exciting announcement! Read all about the new tech power couple JFrog + Qwak here —> https://lnkd.in/d7Xp-NYz

Battery 100% 🔋 Stepping into the new week feeling energized to the max. SV101 by ICON summer retreat came to its end yesterday, and we officially started counting the days until the next one. 3 full days of togetherness in the desert. Packed with group sessions, a party, extreme heat (but no humidity! 😂) and one lifesaving lake. We fall more and more in love with this community each time 🫶🏻 Thank you for coming and creating that special magic. Ami Gal I Asaf Ezra I Asaf Ofer I Elad Goldenberg I Gal Rapoport I Nevo Elmalem I Nevo Alva I Oded Poncz I Oded Valin I Ran Ribenzaft I Romi Gubes I Ron Nissim I Adir Gruss I Assif Ziv I Avishai Sharon I Dan Peleg I Dani Avitz I Dotan Bar Noy I Eden Amirav I Einav Itamar I Alon Kotler Gamzu I Alon Jackson I Liat Sade-Sternberg I Lior Akavia I Maor Levran I Matan Getz I Maya Cohen I Hila Goldman-Aslan I Ohad Biron I Ohad Rozen I Or Zilberman I Shani Toledano I Tal Saiag I Tom Livne I Yuval Dimnik I Yuval Hazaz Kudos to the 1 and only Jessica Hare who makes these dreams come to life. To our alumni who couldn’t join us this time, the FOMO is just beginning we’re working on a short clip too (;

Aiming high 🚀🚀🚀 Just in: Aim Security closes $18 million Series A Huge congrats to SV101 by ICON alumni Matan Getz, Adir Gruss and the entire team fir this record breaking achievement Seriously, 5 months after announcing your seed round?! - WOW Read more about their round led by our partners at Canaan (the best griller in town, Joydeep Bhattacharyya) and YL Ventures 💙 here —> https://lnkd.in/ducenVqU

ICON - Israel Collaboration Network - Can’t believe it’s over... I’ll probably need more than just a couple of days to fully embrace the SV101 by ICON experience. 🌟 But there’s 1 thing I know for sure. The one single thing that makes ICON so impactful → The people! 👥 Where do I even start? There is an extremely strong community around ICON, and it truly blew my mind. 🤯 A (big) group of people who are super committed to supporting the success of Israeli tech, in general, and the SV101 by ICON alumni startups and founders in particular. 🚀 Support isn’t just a fluff saying at ICON. It is people actually taking the time to make intros, provide feedback, and sometimes just lend an ear when you need it most. 🗣️🤝 I know that I am personally coming back as a different, stronger entrepreneur with quite a few new tools in my toolbox, but more importantly, a new state of mind. 🧠💪 My first shout-out goes to Yasmin Lukatz, who’s just a queen 👑, and her amazing team for supporting us (even when we were a bit annoying): Noa Topaz, Jessica Hare, Liat Miller, Karyn Priel. 🙌 Second, thank you to our amazing batch (you’ll hear about them in the future as they build super-great companies). 🌐 Last but not least, to the (too big to tag) ICON community and network who makes ICON so special! 🌍❤️ Thank you ICON and long live Batch 15 🚀

It's official! Batch 15 has completed their two-week SV101 by ICON program, and we’re thrilled to welcome our new alumni to our ICON #community. We usually don’t blow our own horn, but we really did choose 14 #Rockstars and couldn’t be prouder to add them to our alumni family. Yonatan Schreiber, Yosef Peterseil, Michael Matias, Alon Kollmann, Omer Goldschmidt, Or Shani, Gal Rapoport, Alon Ashkenasi, Gilad Uziely, Rotem Lurie, Or Vaknin, Jonathan Bregman, and Ido Perlson. We're excited to be part of your journey—this is just the beginning! We kicked off week #2 with Jacques Benkoski guiding us through the intricacies of the CEO and Board relationship, followed by Bruce Fram’s valuable insights into what VCs don’t tell us. Next, Nir Polak and Amir Ashkenazi shared their perspectives on the highs and lows of founding a startup. We headed over to a comprehensive #GTM session with experts Adam Nash, Meagen E., and Omer Gotlieb. Uri Maoz shed light on building high-performance sales teams. Tamar Yehoshua talked about building products people love (spoiler alert: it’s not as simple as it seems) - BTW congrats on your new endeavor at Glean!! Our #WIT community gathered to hear from SV101 alumna Rotem Lurie, and she was fascinating. And just when our stomachs couldn't be fuller, our partners at Valley Bank treated us to a delicious breakfast with Ira Robbins as the guest star! We celebrated the finish line with a fantastic celebratory dinner. A huge thank you to our speakers and mentors—we couldn’t have done it without you. Did someone say batch #16? 🤭 Yep - we did. Applications open up sooner than you think, so start collecting referrals Blings.io | Clarity | Clover Security | Evermile | Jigso AI | Kahoona | Sequence | Valkyrie Security | Yess

Eureka! 👑 WOW. WOW. WOW. Just in: Eureka Security was acquired by Tenable. Huge congrats to SV101 by ICON alumna Liat Hayun and the Eureka team! Read more here --> https://lnkd.in/dCP3rnGr

This is what we call 30 under 30 Not yet 30, Rotem Lurie, our SV101 by ICON founder, is already the CEO of Valkyrie, a #cybersecurity startup. In her talk for our #WIT community, Rotem shared the trajectory of her journey, on the decision to start her own company, the importance of having the right role models, and the courage to take risks. Her career journey inspired us, from the decision to found a #startup to her ability to raise money during war times. We had a no-filter conversation about her insights on the underrepresentation of women as you climb higher in your career and how to address this imbalance. A big thank you to all the community members who joined us. Have in mind any women who should be part of our community? Tell us all about them! Yasmin Lukatz I Jessica Hare I Noa Topaz I Karyn Priel I Liat Miller I Shlomit Cohen I Yaniv Benji I Noa Eilon | Shani Yavin

Could it be? Are we halfway through?? It’s hard to believe all of the following happened in 1-week, we know.  We kicked off the week with our traditional welcome breakfast for our local ICONs to meet the batch 🫶🏻 After that began the Back-2-Back sessions (try to keep up): Jeff Epstein shed light on the Million Dollar question of "What Investors Want", completed by Amir Faintuch on corporates. Our product masters Effi Fuks Leichtag, Lior Ron, and Eyal Manor gave a new perspective on creating #stickyproducts from 0 to 1. In a marketing session with the mind behind the #categorycreation of Gong, Udi Ledergor 🏳🌈 shares his best practices for B2B marketing. New session alert 🚨 Scott Huffman, The man behind “Hi Google” (and search-by-voice) gave us a glance at what’s going on at Google labs, and what the future holds for us in #LLMs. Adi Tatarko and Ariel Cohen took us on a journey behind the scenes of becoming an SV unicorn 🦄 the good the bad, and everything you can’t read in the news (spoiler: having a community rooting for you is key). Dror Nahumi guided us in achieving the ideal PMF, Opher Kahane discusses thriving amidst uncertainty in today's startup landscape. Yaniv Bar-Dayan and Omer Rabin's talk on S&M strategies for US-based corps. If our inspiration bucket wasn’t full enough we experienced the founding story of #Netflix, first handed by Marc Randolph, and interviewed by Omer Malchin. We wrapped up the week with our traditional "grill" session, where our founders pitched to a panel of investors Ilya Kirnos, Ching-Yu H., Jocelyn Goldfein, and Joydeep Bhattacharyya. A huge shoutout to Donna Griffit for polishing our diamonds to perfection 💎 Luckily for us, our partners at Sidley ensured we wine-down (thank you! Idan Netser, Ray (Raymond) Habot). We celebrated our first week together at a Shabbat dinner (just to find out Jessica is the best cook among us) Here's to another insightful week ahead! 🙌🏻 Check the comments to stay tuned for what’s coming. Yonatan Schreiber | Yosef Peterseil | Michael Matias | Alon Kollmann | Omer Goldschmidt | Or Shani | Gal Rapoport | Alon Ashkenasi | Gilad Uziely | Rotem Lurie | Or Vaknin | Jonathan Bregman | Ido Perlson Blings.io  |  @Clarity  |  Clover Security  | Evermile  |  Jigso AI  |  Kahoona  |  Sequence  |  @Valkyrie Security  |  Yess

An Evening We’ll Never Forget Not just because we learned Marc Randolph’s real name. But because for one night, we got a glimpse into the building of Netflix a company we all know and love. Interviewed by one of their pioneer employees, Omer Malchin, and our very own steering committee member, Marc candidly took us on a #journey to the early days of Netflix (which was this close to being a personalized shampoo startup 😂 ). We got an insider view into how Netflix overcame the Dot.COM crisis and the Goliath ($6B multinational company) vs. David ($5M ARR startup) battle. At the end of the day, it comes down to not stopping at anything while chasing your #vision. We were especially fascinated by Marc’s leadership style and learned more about the true meaning of Netflix’s 'freedom and responsibility' #culture. Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday and met SV101 by ICON batch 15 (at their finest thanks to Donna Griffit! 💎 ) Yasmin Lukatz I Noa Topaz I Jessica Hare I Karyn Priel I Liat Miller I Shlomit Cohen I Noa Eilon I Yaniv Benji I Shani Yavin Yonatan Schreiber | Yosef Peterseil | Michael Matias | Alon Kollmann | Omer Goldschmidt | Or Shani | Gal Rapoport | Alon Ashkenasi | Gilad Uziely | Rotem Lurie | Or Vaknin | Jonathan Bregman | Ido Perlson