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Featured on JewishPressPinellas.com: DeSantis makes history: Visit to West Bank, Cabinet meeting
With more than 100 fellow bipartisan politicians and businessmen in town, Gov. Ron DeSantis made his first foreign trip since taking office to Israel, leading a business development mission and holding the state’s first ever Cabinet meeting on foreign soil. He also visited a West Bank settlement, the first official trade mission beyond “the green…
Featured on MyNews13.com: Israeli Company Hopes to Send its Radiation-Proof Vests to ISS
FLORIDA — Some of the deals that Gov. Ron DeSantis put into place during his trip to Israel are already being put into action, including possible radiation-proof vests for astronauts. Radiation-proof vests will be sent to the International Space Station Israeli space company will open a new office in Tampa Planned first mission to the moon…
Featured on StPeteCatalyst.com: FIBA company ventures into space while deepening Tampa connections
A vest designed by StemRad to protect astronauts from dangerous deep space radiation will be part of a SpaceX flight this summer. The SpaceX flight will be followed by a NASA mission in preparation for a mission to Mars, said Jack Ross, vice president of North American operations for StemRad, based in Tel Aviv and…
Featured on StPeteCatalyst.com: How local sports arenas have become tech playgrounds: Innovation Fusion 2019
The FIBA sports technology panelists (from left): William Walsh, Tampa Bay Rays; Atul Khosla, Tampa Bay Buccaneers; Rob Higgins, Tampa Bay Sports Commission; Steve Griggs, Tampa Bay Lightning; Jack Elkins, Orlando Magic The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have partnered with Intel on technology to enhance the fan experience inside the stadium. The Bucs will use Intel…
Featured on JewishPressPinellas.com: FIBA leads mission to startup nation
The Florida Israel techy trek Business Accelerator (FIBA) – based at the Bryan Glazer Family JCC in Tampa – led a group of business leaders, investors and community members on a recent trip to Israel to explore the startup nation firsthand. The trip aimed to immerse participants in the Israeli business environment so they could…
Featured on 83degreesmedia.com: Innovation Fusion event in Tampa focuses on tech in sports
The Florida-Israel Business Accelerator’s annual Innovation Fusion event is coming up May 22, and this year, the focus is on innovation in sports. The event, which is entering its third year, will highlight different ways technology is changing the sports industry. During the sit-down dinner, attendees will hear from keynote speaker Aviv Shapira, who created the sport…
Featured on JewishPressTampa.com: Business development event in Tampa, May 22 to tackle intersection of sports, tech and Israel
Techies, entrepreneurs, Israel lovers, and sports fanatics are all invited to the third annual Florida-Israel Business Accelerator (FIBA) Innovation Fusion event, at the Bryan Glazer Family JCC in Tampa. This year’s Innovation Fusion will focus on how technology is changing the sports industry. The event is scheduled for May 22. Attendees should plan to arrive…
Featured on JewishPressTampa.com: Israeli company gets $1M to expand here
UC-Care, an Israeli medical device company that came to Florida last year in hopes of establishing a U.S market, recently landed a $1 million investment from a group known as Florida Funders to help the company grow operations at a new facility in Oldsmar. The company, with products aimed at improving prostate cancer diagnosis and…
Featured on StPeteCatalyst.com: Israeli-based companies show off their tech for investors in Tampa
Tuesday was demo day for 11 companies in the 2019 cohort of the Florida-Israel Business Accelerator. Top executives from each of the Israel-based firms made their business cases to a group of investors gathered at Five Labs in Tampa. About 100 investors from Tampa-St. Pete, Orlando and Sarasota attended in person, with a larger audience…
Featured on BusinessObserverFL.com: Overseas firm working with area accelerator nets $1 million investment
TAMPA — Israeli medical device company UC-Care, part of the Tampa-based Florida-Israel Business Accelerator’s 2018 cohort, has landed a $1 million investment from Florida Funders, a group that backs early-stage tech companies in Florida. According to a press release, Tampa-based real estate developer and FIBA board member David Scher led the funding effort. “I’m always…