Your Opportunity to Win a FREE Trip & Meet Businesses & Startups in Israel #StartTelAviv

iSPIRT partners with TiE Delhi – NCR & Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs to present Start Tel Aviv

Israel is known for its startups and Tel Aviv is a leading hub with a local  ecosystem  of  world  class  tech  talent,  dozens of  leading  multinationals  and  hundreds  of  tech  star  startups.

Start-TelAvivStart Tel Aviv from September 14th to 19th 2014 is an  International competition  in  the  framework  of  which  startups  from  different  countries  will  compete  for  the opportunity of a 5 day intense startup experience to learn from the startup ecosystem in Tel Aviv.  The prize is a paid trip where the 13 startup founders winners from around the world, joined by local Israeli entrepreneurs, to participate in “Start Tel Aviv” during the DLD Festival week, and participants have the opportunity to meet the coolest and smartest companies, techies, startups, designers, artists, scientists, investors, and cultural drivers from Israel and abroad.

The events at Startup Tel Aviv are as follows:
Day 1: Mentoring, Industry & Professional meets, M&A opportunities.
Day 2: Pitch to Investors and VCs. Visit Cities Summit Conference
Day 3: Tel Aviv DLD Conference
Day 4: Open Startup event across the city
Day 5: Tour Israel: Visit Jerusalem and the Dead Sea

Here’s your chance to connect with your Israeli counterparts, investors and VCs.  You should also use this opportunity to figure out if you can collaborate with your counterparts to go global.

Interested?  Here are the criteria based on which the selection will be made:
Criteria
1. Age of submitting founder: 25 – 40
2. Sectors: Web, Mobile, Security
3. Stage: Seed Stage

Competition Judging Parameters
1. Innovation
2. Team
3. Business
4. General
5. Creativity – Use a creative video to prove why this startup should go to Tel Aviv? Each company may submit a 45 second clip (maximum) explaining “Why should my startup go to Tel Aviv, Israel?” (this should be the first slide of the clip). Early submissions to be promoted on Social Media

For those of you interested, please submit the online application here

Initiative led by Rinka Singh, CEO, Co-Founder at AccelerateFire, on behalf of iSPIRT.