Connecting exceptional tech solutions with leading corporations and investors
We thank all the startups, partners
and participants.
See you next year!
The Winners

2nd place


1st place


3rd place

About
The Reinhold Cohn Group is holding the Reinhold Cohn Startup Competition aiming at finding scalable technological solutions to varied challenges, by connecting global organizations & innovative startups.
The Reinhold Cohn Group (RCG) is the earliest and leading Intellectual Property consulting firm in Israel, representing Israel’s most promising startups, and leading multinational corporations for more than 85 years.
Prizes
Win a 100,000 NIS Worth of Prize Packages

2nd place
IP services worth 20K NIS
By Reinhold Cohn Group
Consulting hours worth 6K NIS by Deloitte
Digital marketing consulting and storytelling services worth 3K USD by Oktopus

1st place
Full drafting and filing of one patent application in a single territory - worth 30K NIS
By Reinhold Cohn Group
Consulting hours worth 10K NIS by Deloitte
Digital marketing consulting and storytelling services worth 5K USD by Oktopus

3rd place
IP services worth 10K NIS
By Reinhold Cohn Group
Consulting hours worth 5K NIS by Deloitte
Digital marketing consulting and storytelling services worth 2K USD by Oktopus
All finalists will be eligible for up to $25K in credits
by Amazon Web Services AWS
and will receive media coverage by Calcalist
Partners
Who Can Apply
The competition is open to early stage startups (seed to A round), which have raised more than 100K USD with a working MVP, developing innovative technologies addressing one or more of the challenges detailed below. (see full terms and conditions)
Please note that before submission of new technological ideas within the framework of the context the participants should consider filing the appropriate application for the protection thereof. Publication of a new technology might jeopardize its novelty.
You are hereby invited to consult one of our professional patent attorneys in this regard.
Industry 4.0
Media & Telecom
Healthcare
Automotive & Mobility
Schedule
November 8
Application opens
December 17
Application closes
December 30
Semi-finalists announced
January 11-12
Semi finals
January 21
Grand Final Pitch event at 15:30
Meet the Judges
Jason Feist
VP Engineering, Emerging Products
and Solutions
Segate Technologies
Dr. Emily Rozenshine
Head of Strategy and Business Development Cloud & AI BG
Tel Aviv Research Center,
Huawei Technologies
Alon Segal
Managing Director
Group partnering and devices Deutsche Telekom, IL
Barthold Veenendaal
SVP startup partner
Schneider Electric
Dr. Emily Rozenshine
Head of Strategy and Business Development Cloud & AI BG, Tel Aviv Research Center Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Stephanie Vox
Managing Director
Konnect – Volkswagen Group Innovation Hub TLV
Ehud Hausman
Patent Attorney, Advocate
Head of Hi-Tech practice
Reinhold Cohn Group
Giora Kornblau
Partner, Terra Venture Partners
CEO, TerraLab
Yoav Tzruya
General Partner
JVP
Nicole Priel
Vice President
IBEX Investors
Hemdat Sagi
Head of Strategy & Business Development
Konnect – Volkswagen Group Innovation Hub TLV
Omri Green
Partner
Grove Ventures
Avi Feldman
Founder, Managing Partner
Mobilion VC
COO
Maverick Ventures Israel
Anat Tila Cherni
Managing Partner
Aristagora VC
VC Investor
Nate Sztrum
Investment Principal
Deutsche Telekom VC
Director - Innovation, strategy and operations ,Head of Israeli operations
Co-pace, the startup organization of Continental
Gady Shlasky
Angel Investor
Igor Gankin
Business Development manager
Huawei Technologies
CEO
Reinhold Cohn Group