Biztech 2010 - the final

Below is the list of winners

The EyalGPS group that develops cellular solutions for the visually impaired won first place this year in the national entrepreneurship competition BizTEC led by the Technion and TheMarker newspaper. Shay Eyal, the founder of the project, joined the competition as a choice of the "Sharks" panel that took place as part of the 'Israel Entrepreneurship Conference 2010'. "His investment in the project, the determined entrepreneurial spirit in his eyes and his desire to change something in the world" impressed the jury who decided to award him the award in memory of the late Nava and Nahum Sharpman.

The late Nachum Sharpman, whose figure was well known in the world of entrepreneurship, died with his wife during an unfortunate air accident over Greece. In their memory, his friends at CommTouch asked to dedicate the award. In addition to the prize, the group will represent Israel in Intel's European entrepreneurship competition: Intel Challenge, where they will compete against student-entrepreneurs from all over Europe. The winning team in the European competition will advance to the finals of the global competition of Intel and the University of Berkeley in California, and will be invited to the annual directors' conference of Intel Capital, Intel's venture capital arm, with the participation of hundreds of startup managers and leading companies from around the world.

The Windward company, led by students from Tel Aviv University and which develops technology for ship security, received a commendation. In the field of medical devices, the Easycheck group, from Rupin College, which is developing an innovative device for the early detection of breast cancer, received a commendation. The winner in the field of Internet and software projects, the TAKO company, enables the conversion of any computer to a website, and any application on it to a web page at zero cost and time. A venture of Ariel College called CellTV, which enables the transmission of several HD channels over WiFi transmission won in the field of communication. The award was donated by the founders of BizTEC, in memory of their friend Uri Aroch, who died.

The BizTEC competition is a national entrepreneurship competition managed by students and in which the leading universities and colleges in Israel participate. In the last two years, the competition was led by Gilad Saadon, a recent graduate of the Technion and a researcher at the IBM research laboratory. During his time, the work processes in the competition were improved and prepared, and methodologies were developed to assess and assist technological ventures at the beginning of their journey, moves that made it possible to expand the activity in the shadow of the economic crisis. Saadon passed the reins to Ofir Marko, a student at the Technion's Physics Faculty. Marko, who last year served as the competition's marketing manager, adds that "he wishes success to the BizTEC graduates and expects them to stand out this year as well among the companies that will raise initial capital from seed investors and R&D grants."

The BizTEC competition was joined by leading companies that engrave entrepreneurship education, training the next generation of entrepreneurs in the country and promoting the economy through the establishment of new start-up companies. During the event announcing the winners held in the presence of the president of the Technion, the directors of the competition thanked the CommTouch company, the office of patent editors Lozato and Lozato, the venture capital funds Canaan partners and Intel Capital, the law firms ZAG and GKH, the high-tech companies Teva, Raphael and Plenium, And to Hamma Meshav for their generous contribution to the holding of the competition.

More details about the winning teams and the competition can be found on the website http://www.biztec.org.il