ISRAEL is known around the world as the start-up nation and a leader in workforce gender equality, but Australia is also becoming a significant player on both counts, judging by the quality of entries in the Australian final of the Start Tel Aviv 2016 competition.
More than 120 people, including competition judges Israel’s Ambassador to Australia Shmuel Ben-Shmuel and NSW Chief Scientist Professor Mary O’Kane, attended the final in Sydney on July 11, won by a Melbourne-based corporate secure messaging start-up called Konnective.
The competition is being run by Israeli embassies in 30 countries, with winners from each receiving a five-day, all-expenses paid trip to the DLD Tel Aviv Digital Conference in September.
A special feature this year was that all entrants had to be start-ups founded or co-founded by women.
Read the story by Shane Destianik in the Australian Jewish News.