AYEKA

AYEKA is an inspiring, upscale, shared workspace for entrepreneurs, startups, designers, freelancers and artists. AYEKA is a home for the curious. A place for dreamers and the ambitious. A space for doers who challenge the obvious. It is an exclusive, members-only community of leading entrepreneurs and creative teams where life and work goals combine. A productive environment that builds a community around individuals and helps you to be your best. We offer private furnished studios, large cozy suites and shared desks, suitable for individuals, teams, and companies.

 

 

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Chedva Kleinhandler

Founder at Emerj

I’m the founder of Emerj, a startup with one clear goal: make work – better. This is a life mission for me and my team, built out of our own experiences as well as of the 600 people from 56 countries that shared (and continue sharing) their experiences with us.
Our solution is an app that connects between employees and mentors for always relevant, always confidential career advice on demand. This would help not only with economic empowerment, but would also build more diverse, more productive and more efficient businesses with inherent growth, and with reduced employee turnover.

Before Emerj (which was previously called Lean On), I helped local brands take the leap and become recognizable abroad by tweaking their social media, content strategy and connections with bloggers and magazines.

Specialties: Blogging, blogger outreach, content strategy, Twitter, Pinterest, Shopify.

I’m the former co-founder of #InsightMediaIL – a social media workshop series for lifestyle business owners and creative entrepreneurs. I started my design blog Rooms and Words on 2010 (after blogging since 2007) and since then I’ve written and blogged for various magazines, brands and online publications.

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Dan Alexander

Founder at Dan Alexander & Co.

As Founder and Chief Strategy and Innovation of Dan Alexander & Co., an award winning branding studio with offices in Tel Aviv, Paris and Belgrade, Dan Alexander applies insightful strategic thinking and visual talent, rendering a shape and form to any business dream. This is achieved through bespoke aesthetic contexts, compiled within strategically intelligent market-gaining frameworks. Be it for an organization, a particular service or any commercial product, Dan Alexander affirms that business growth emanates from the high-level resonance of clear-sighted identity positioning. To arrive at a lifting commercial image, and maintain a winning business identity, a merge must be created every time, between an awareness of all possible capabilities, and an unbeatable concept that hurdles any impossibilities. Dan is recently focusing on technology, specializing in strategically defining the interfacing meeting-point between technology, design, and philosophy. He is involved in several disruptive ventures advancing pioneering innovations.

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Gabby Czertok

CEO at The Bridge by Coca Cola

Entrepreneur in Art, Business and Social activities. Founder of several non-profits and CEO of a Clean Technology company (we make electricity from the flow of water inside pipes). Constantly seeking to innovate and co-operate, interact, learn and feel. Photography art and exhibition – “Things I see on the street” – “Over the past years, I’ve witnessed special moments and seen unique things in Tel-Aviv and around the world. Moments when no one is looking but something just happens, or unique points of views to things that are usually seen as ordinary. These are “Things I see on the street.” I’ve decided to return these moments I have taken from the street back to the street in the form of postcards that will be hung on boulevards of Tel-Aviv. 5000 postcards hung on the trees in the boulevard, inviting visitors to the exhibition to take home the postcards of moments and images I’ve captured in my cellular camera. When the last postcard will be taken home, the exhibition has ended. Text message poetry – “70 characters” Text messages take such a big part of our life and in this event I’ve invited a few artists to create poetry that will use the text message format and limitations as part of a festive evening. During the evening, in addition to many activities that take place only in the participants phones, Daniel Salomon, one of Israel’s most prominent artists, received text messages from the audience, composed them and sung them online and turned this evening into the world’s first concert where the audience creates the texts to be sung online through text messages as part of innovative interactive concept.” Gabby co-founded and is now the General Manager of The Bridge in Israel. Coca-Cola’s first commercialization program in the world, joined by Turner Broadcasting to bring innovative technology into our corporations, building a bridge between tech startups and Coca-Cola // Turner.

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Jacob Peres

Jacob Peres has a background in product design and journalism and launched his career as a communications and strategy specialist in London working for design, art and luxury brands. He has collaborated with leading companies including British Airways, Fiat, Fornasetti, Contrasts Gallery (Shanghai) and Paul Smith. In 2004, he joined British designer Tom Dixon to head global marketing collaborations and public relations. In 2009, he was appointed International Communications Director of Design Museum Holon. In 2011, the Jacob Peres Office was established.

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Jerusalem Venture Partners

Jerusalem Venture Partners’ is one of Israel’s leading venture capital companies, headed by MK Erel Margalit. Its investment strategy is spearheaded by a deep expertise in identifying opportunities from inception and growing them into global industry leaders. Through our theme-driven focus and strong network of strategic partners, we seek to stay ahead of the latest market trends and address the most relevant market needs. Our unique Centers of Excellence and dedicated team ensure we effectively deliver this added value directly to each of our current and prospective portfolio companies.

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Joanna Landau

CEO at Vibe Israel

Joanna Landau was born in London and moved to Israel with her family when she was 5 years old. She returned briefly to the UK for high school at the Jewish boarding school Carmel College. After serving in the IDF as a paramedic, she read law at Cambridge University where she gained BA and MA degrees. Joanna also holds an MBA, cum laude, from the Herzlia Interdisciplinary Center in Israel. Joanna worked as a lawyer in the high-tech industry and established two Internet start-ups based in Tel Aviv. In November 2009, Joanna founded her first nonprofit, Kinetis, to change the way people think and feel about Israel. In December 2013, she established Vibe Israel, through which she has been promoting her vision since then.
Joanna is a governor of Tel Aviv University, a member of the International Education Committee of Taglit-Birthright, and a board member of the Brand Israel Group in New York. In 2013 she was voted by Forbes Israel as one of ten powerful women in Israel to look out for, and in 2015 she was shortlisted for the Rappaport Prize for a Change Making Woman. She lives in Tel-Aviv with her husband and three children.

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Ofra Strauss

Chairperson at Strauss Group

Ofra Strauss, Chairperson of the Board, Strauss Group, since 2001. Strauss Group is a global food and beverage company headquartered in Israel. The company operates in 18 countries and has 14,000 employees around the world. Ms. Strauss, who holds an LLB from Tel Aviv University, is dedicated to the promotion of social issues and has spent many years actively doing so. She is Chairperson of Ma’ala, Israel’s leading membership based organization promoting corporate responsibility. Ms. Strauss initiated the launch of Catalyst based census in Israel and is President of Jasmine, a non- profit promoting Jewish and Arab women who own small businesses. Since 2003 Ms. Strauss has been ranked between 42nd and 47th in Fortune’s List of the Most Powerful Women in Global Business.

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Raphael Ouzan

Market Initiative Leader at Proctor & Gamble

Cyber and data security expert, Raphael has been coding professionally since the age of 13 and has been lecturing on big-data, crowdsourcing and cyber security ever since. In 2010, he co-founded BillGuard and built its first version and core technology. Raphael received Israel’s highest President’s Award for technology innovation and was invited to address world leaders at The World Economic Forum in 2012 in Davos, all before the age of 25. Raphael is also the founder of Mission Intelligence, an elite technology training program for the world’s top performing students. Raphael is a member of the Tel Aviv Global Shapers Hub of the WEF, which is a group of engaged young leaders drawn from diverse fields, ranging from the arts to high technology and politics. He is also the Market Initiative Leader for Procter & Gamble.

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Uri Adoni

Partner

Uri Adoni joined as a partner to JVP with extensive experience in Internet and new media, gained from his prior position as the CEO of MSN Israel. During the past twelve years, Uri has been one of the new media pioneers, who saw the many stages that the Internet, mobile, and TV went through.

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