[Photo: Back from Austrade’s Tel Aviv Landing Pad: FlashFX co-founder Nicolas Steiger, Valient Finance co-founder Ritchie Cotton, Manner co-founder Simon O’Dell, Phriendly Phishing general manager Damian Grace, Meeco chief operating officer Mike Page, CapitalPitch co-founder Jeremy Liddle, FlashFX co-founder Michael O’Sullivan, Ryan Smith from the Department of Premier and Cabinet, and Sail Funding CEO and founder Yanir Yakutiel. ]
ISRAEL’S innovation prowess cast its spell on an eight-strong delegation of NSW startup founders, who returned to Sydney last week full of confidence, “chutzpah” and new business opportunities after spending 10 days at Austrade’s new Landing Pad facility in Tel Aviv.
The delegation members shared their experiences at an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC) business lunch attended by 400 people last Thursday, following a keynote speech from NSW Premier Mike Baird.
Reflecting on his “incredibly exhilarating experience” heading an AICC-hosted NSW trade mission to Israel earlier this year, Baird said “it seemed to me that almost every student I ran into in Israel was [saying] ‘okay, what is my startup going to be and how am I going to contribute and make a difference to the world?’”
“It was invigorating, and I want to try bring that culture, that approach, that DNA, here.”
Read the article by Shane Desiatnik in the Australian Jewish News.