Tel Aviv Israel. Every day, the headlines are filled with challenging stories from Israel. Here is a positive story to brighten your day.
Israel remains the startup nation, with thousands of life-changing startup companies. Each company has an amazing story unto itself, but the world doesn’t have access to the stories. A new social media channel, What’s Next in Israel Tech, changes that. We scour Israel for the most interesting new companies, and launch a new 90-second interview each week.
The story behind What’s Next is itself a story. After October 7, a team at Finnegan, a high tech law firm that works with hundreds of Israeli companies, was dismayed by the horrible and often inaccurate Israel messages in the mainstream media. The Finnegan team decided to change the narrative. As a public service, the team began interviewing CEOs of hot new Israeli companies—the ones few yet know– to spread a positive message about Israel and to encourage investment in Israel. Each week, What’s Next publishes a fresh 90-second episode, highly edited with music and images.
Gerson Panitch the lead partner of Finnegan Israel and the host of What’s Next, grew up in middle America and made aliya from the Washington, DC area two years ago. He has stories to tell about his aliya during this historic time in Israel, and how October 7 spurred him to develop and host What’s Next. Gerson explains, “as startup Israeli companies struggled to find investments in the wake of October 7, we decided to launch a LinkedIn and Facebook social media channel called –What’s Next in Israel Tech.
”Each week we post a 90-second episode spotlighting an up-and-coming Israeli startup company—the types of companies everyone wants to know about but has no way of learning about. One of our goals is to reach venture capitalists outside of Israel and introduce them to Israel’s most exciting new innovative companies. Another broader goal is to spread a positive message about Israel, to help counter the negativity in mainstream media. We are doing this as our way of giving back to the Israel high tech community and accelerating its growth, particularly during these difficult times.”
Gerson Panitch has worked with over 250 of Israel’s top companies to help them grow valuation through strategic patenting, and to assert and defend patent infringement claims in U.S. courts. Gerson teaches patent strategy at Tel Aviv University’s Coller Business School. He founded the Finnegan Israel Practice in 2009 to help Israeli companies increase their valuation and protect their technology from competitors.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/whatsnextinisraeltech
Gerson is based in Israel and can be reached at [email protected] / +972 3 721 9629
For more information, please contact:
Zehava Avior- Marketing & Events Finnegan Israel [email protected] / +972 54 9421004
Sigal Feldman – P.R [email protected] / +972-52 2331748
