Israeli company executives pitched their businesses at the first-ever Florida Israel Business Accelerator (FIBA) Collaborative Exchange, an event which included a speech by Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik, who is redeveloping a large sector of downtown Tampa’s Channelside District, and to hear from a panel of local business experts.

Israeli company executives pitched their businesses at the first-ever Florida Israel Business Accelerator (FIBA) Collaborative Exchange, an event which included a speech by Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik, who is redeveloping a large sector of downtown Tampa’s Channelside District, and to hear from a panel of local business experts. FIBA, founded in 2016 by the Tampa Jewish Community Centers & Federation, is a technology accelerator with the purpose of helping establish and nurture successful, high-growth Israeli tech ventures in the Tampa Bay area. Yeniv Shneiderman, CEO and founder of BlazePod, presents his fitness solution onstage.Each startup works with the FIBA organization for 12-18 weeks, with the next batch of startups expected to begin in the fall of 2018. FIBA is based at the Glazer JCC and is headed by former JCC executive director Jack Ross.