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Keren Fanan, Yafit Keret, Justin Borus<\/p>\n
\u201cEntrepreneurship is a long and often exhausting journey. Every door opening, meeting, or interaction with relevant people requires a great deal of effort and time. As part of the \u2018Dream Team\u2019 to New York last year, I received a response to exactly this need. In my opinion, the Mind the Tech conference is a must-attend event for startups that want to meet the American ecosystem that supports Israel in one fell swoop.\u201d With these words, Keren Fanan, CEO of the startup Myop, summed up her experience on last year\u2019s trip to New York.<\/p>\n
Her remarks capture the essence of the \u201cDream Team\u201d: the ability to take processes that usually require months of virtual and physical legwork and compress them into one intensive week with measurable results.<\/p>\n
Every entrepreneur\u2019s biggest fear is wasting resources on conferences that end in pleasant hallway conversations with no follow-through. However, evidence from the past year points to a very different pattern among Dream Team participants: converting on-stage exposure into concrete deals and investments. Data from recent delegations to London, Berlin, and New York suggest this is not a marketing slogan, but a genuine business growth engine. For CEOs and founders considering whether to apply, the answer lies in the success stories of their peers.<\/p>\n
For Roy Naaman, CEO of Torr FoodTech, who joined the delegation to London, the conference proved to be a turning point in raising capital. \u201cDuring the conference, I met a local strategic investor,\u201d Naaman says. \u201cThe investor saw our pitch on the main stage, and we stayed in touch in the weeks that followed. I\u2019m happy to say that he has since invested in the company as part of our current funding round.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the case of Michal Hubschmann, entrepreneur and CEO of Always Connect, who participated in the Berlin delegation, the value materialized as a strategic commercial deal. Hubschmann says the experience opened doors that had previously been closed. \u201cThe connections made during the delegation led to advanced negotiations with a government organization in Germany, toward a deal worth approximately \u20ac1.5 million,\u201d she says. For her, the delegation created a \u201csignificant shortcut\u201d to conversations with real decision-makers.<\/p>\n
One of the delegation\u2019s notable advantages, organized by Calcalist and Showcase IL, is access to organizations that cannot be reached through LinkedIn alone. Nimrod Bin-Nun of the medical technology company RespirAI describes how the Berlin delegation created a direct connection with GTAI, the official economic development arm of the German government. \u201cThe company has already gone through two stages of dialogue with the organization, and follow-up meetings are planned,\u201d Bin-Nun says, \u201cwith the aim of connecting the technology to local players, investors, and government support mechanisms.\u201d He notes \u201chigh enthusiasm and a sense of real potential.\u201d<\/p>\n
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