As seen on Tampa Bay Times: “Meet the Tampa women building a business pipeline from Israel to Florida”
Over a recent Zoom interview, Miniati and Bachur-Phillips talked about the group’s evolution and future goals. (This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.) Do a lot of states have a direct-to-Israel startup pipeline? Bachur-Phillips: I think it exists in other states, other cities, and for a good reason, because Israel is such a…
Read MoreAs seen on South Florida Business Journal: News in Brief Week of June 24
The Alan B. Levan | NSU Broward Center of Innovation is collaborating with the Florida-Israel Business Accelerator to help the Israeli organizations establish a presence within the Florida market. Israeli companies and startups working with FIBA will have access to the Levan Center’s facilities and programs while in South Florida. https://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2022/06/22/news-in-brief-for-the-week-of-june-24.html
Read MoreAs seen on Jewish Press: “New partnership to expand Tampa-based Israel business accelerator’s reach into South Florida”
Our goal is to help Israeli companies establish a presence in Florida. Some companies prefer Tampa Bay, others prefer the Space Coast, and for others Broward County is the right spot. By partnering with the ambitious team at the Levan Center of Innovation, we can support these companies on both coasts of Florida.New partnership to…
Read MorePress Release: The Florida-Israel Business Accelerator & The Alan B. Levan | NSU Broward Center of Innovation Partner to Support Israeli Startups Expanding to South Florida
Tampa Florida (June 23, 2022) — The Florida-Israel Business Accelerator (FIBA) is pleased to announce its new strategic collaboration with The Alan B. Levan | NSU Broward Center of Innovation (Levan Center), an industry magnet for talent and innovation in technology. FIBA will be expanding its operations into South Florida by becoming a member of…
Read MoreAs seen on The Business of Life Master Class podcast “Getting Inspired by Accelerator Leaders, Pam Miniati and Rakefet Phillips”
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Read MoreAs seen on Axios “FIBA aims to solve Tampa Bay business problems with Israeli tech”
The massive building on North Howard Avenue in Tampa was once a place for history-making men, a former armory stocked for war and full of machismo. Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders camped there before fighting in the Spanish-American War. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy both spoke there. Even Elvis was at the…
Read MoreAs seen on Tampa Bay Inno “Tampa-based FIBA accelerator wants to help restaurants and hotels with the labor crisis”
Like many companies, by the end of 2020, the Florida-Israel Business Accelerator knew there needed to be a change. It’s not to say the accelerator program, which focused on Israeli companies, wasn’t hitting achievements. The program, founded in 2017, had worked with 60 companies, and many had expanded to Tampa Bay. Read the full article…
Read MoreAs seen on Tampa Bay Times “In Israel, the perception is very different from the reality”
Israel may be the Jewish homeland. But it is also a place where a large percentage of its population are non-Jewish Arabs. …I was in Israel at the end of March with a delegation of 12 U.S. mayors as part of a trip from Project Interchange, an institute at the nonpartisan American Jewish Committee. It…
Read MorePress Release: ICYMI: Commissioner Nikki Fried and FDACS’s Second Annual Florida-International Agriculture Innovation Summit Concludes
Apr 1, 2022 Tallahassee, Fla. – Thursday concluded the second annual Florida-International Agriculture Innovation Summit hosted by Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) in collaboration with the Florida-Israel Business Accelerator (FIBA) and the governments of Florida, Israel, Canada, and the Netherlands. “This year’s summit brought together an all-star team of farmers, ranchers, scientists, investors, and global agriculture powerhouses,” said Commissioner Fried. “I thank…
Read MorePress Release: NEXT WEEK: FDACS To Host Second Annual Florida-International Agriculture Innovation Summit
Mar 25, 2022 Tallahassee, Fla. — Next Wednesday and Thursday, March 30-31, Commissioner Nikki Fried and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) will host the second annual Florida-International Agriculture Innovation Summit in collaboration with the Florida-Israel Business Accelerator (FIBA) and supported by the governments of Florida, Israel, Canada, and the Netherlands. The 2022 Florida-International Agriculture Innovation Summit seeks to offer insights on…
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