Hanan Brand head of the Startup Division Israel Innovation Authority

About this episode

Hanan Brand discusses the role of the Israel Innovation Authority in supporting early-stage startups and shares insights on securing grants.

Hanan Brand the Vice President and head of the Startup Division at the Israel Innovation Authority. He is responsible for giving grants to hundreds of early-stage Israeli startups. Avraham and sat down with Hanan to discuss what the Innovation Authority does, how to be in the 25% that get a grant, lessons he’s learned over the years, why Israeli is the startup nation and much more. Do you have a great innovation? We'd love to hear from you. Contact us by going to https://jmbdavis.com/startup/contact. Learn more at https://jmbdavis.com and https://jmbdavis.com/startup. Also available at https://soundcloud.com/jmbdavis/ innovation-authority. Listen to all of the episodes at https://jmbdavis.com/podcast.

People in this episode

Host: Avraham

Guest: Hanan Brand

Topics covered

• Israeli startups
• Innovation Authority
• grants
• entrepreneurship
• technology

Keywords

• Israeli startups
• grants
• Hanan Brand
• Innovation Authority
• entrepreneurship

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Israel Innovation Authority, JMB Davis Ben-David International IP Law Firm

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