Ira Ingerman Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Get attention for your winning venture and get to a new level of success.
Vital Exposure for Young Entrepreneurs
While awards are a boost for businesses at every stage of development, they make an especially big difference to brand-new companies.
If you’ve recently gotten a venture off the ground that’s making an impact for society—and if you’ve demonstrated inspiring leadership in fulfilling your entrepreneurial dreams—the Ira Ingerman Entrepreneur of the Year Award wants to help, by opening doors to new markets, funding sources, partners, and opportunities.
An Award That Keeps on Giving
Get attention for your winning venture and get to a new level of success.
Instant Visibility
Get the attention of Israel’s entrepreneurial community
Cash Injection
Win $5,000 dollars for investing in your or your project
Independent Validation
Gain credibility, the trust of your audience, and an edge on the competition
Career Boost
Stand out in a crowded job market and make key professional connections
Personal Growth
Experience taking risks, overcoming fear, and getting constructive feedback
Past IIA Winners
A disruptive technology in the field of early breast-cancer diagnosis, Feminai combines home-screening tests with wearable AI. Together with her partners, Ilan won investment from Cactus Capital, raised a first round of funding, and completed pre-clinical trials. The first-place winner in the 2024 global She Loves Tech competition, Feminai is currently preparing for clinical trials at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv.
Based on the win-win model of social impact, AgriFriend helps smallholder farmers in developing countries scale up their businesses through animated videos for increased productivity and profit. To date, AgriFriend has improved the lives and long-term prospects of nearly 20,000 small farmers, was accepted into the +100 Accelerator, and worked with leading global companies in the agri-tech space.
Dana Gavish
Founder and Head of Entrepreneurship, Yazamut 360°
Gavish brings a background in high-tech marketing and venture management to Yazamut 360°. She is also vice president of entrepreneurship at BGN Technologies.
Buzi Raviv
Founder and CEO, BGU Radio
Raviv established BGU’s new-media services unit, featuring academic courses, workshops, and educational outreach.
Michal Rotem-Hovev
Head, Oazis “Lab”
Rotem-Hovev is a computer scientist, human-factors engineering consultant, and head of the Oazis “Lab” for identifying and accelerating research with commercial potential.
About Ira Ingerman z”l
Ira M. Ingerman was a long-time benefactor of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and successful entrepreneur in the fields of finance and real estate. Passionate about Israel, education, the acquisition of business skills, and the development of both personal and professional resilience, Ingerman believed that entrepreneurship was the key to improving people’s lives—just as it helped him build a better life as a young immigrant to the United States.
His legacy lives on in Yazamut 360°’s Ingerman Innovation Hub, whose atmosphere of curiosity, collaboration, and innovation reflects the values he loved and sought to instill in the next generation of Israelis. The annual Ira Ingerman Entrepreneur of the Year Award seeks to honor his memory by encouraging leadership, risk-taking, and out-of-the-box thinking among students at the university—and in the country—he cherished.
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