Since late 2009, JFE hosted over 100 events and numerous startup programs, leading all aspects of innovation in our community.
Events
Founded in 2009, JFE Organization has hosted over 100 programs and events including:
Networking mixers in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Boulder, London, and Tel Aviv.
8 startup accelerator programs and demo days (2013-2017)
Series A pitch events for Israeli startups with Israel Economic Mission West Coast and East Coast SF (2015) NYC (2016)
Startup pitch events and seminar programs
Career fairs
Industry focused startup showcases and VC panels
Speaker panels
Participation of leading Silicon Valley/New York investors, entrepreneurs, and technologists.
JFE Accelerator was launched in 2013 as a program run by (Jews For Entrepreneurship) Organization, a non profit 501©3 organization founded in 2009 in San Francisco. Since its founding by Jenny Belotserkovsky and Michal Tavrovsky, JFE Organization has become the leading network of founders, investors, and technologists across both Silicon Valley and New York.
The founding team has worked with over 120 startups and was the first to discover numerous successful companies including Virool, Getgoing, Cater2me, and Saygent, WebDAM (acquired by Shutterstock) to name a few. J
FE events and programs engaged some of the biggest names in the tech world such as Jan Koum (WhatsApp), Dylan Smith (Box), Bram Cohen (BitTorrent), Jeff Pulver (Vonage), Michael Rubenstein (AppNexus), Barry Appleman (AOL), and many others. JFE has worked with most notable VCs and Angels included Greylock, Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Founders Fund, NEA, Softbank, DFJ, New York Angels, and many others.
Timeline
Over the past years, JFE Organization hosted entrepreneur training workshops, pitch demo events with the participation of leading investors and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. In February 2013, JFE launched its first accelerator program, the 2 month JFE Accelerator. In Fall 2013, the program expanded to NYC and 7 cohorts were completed, with the 7th (Summer 15 SF) lasting for 3 months in San Francisco. To date, JFE Organization hosted more than 100 events with 120 startups participating in JFE programs to dat
Snapshot of firms and people that have participated in JFE programs:
Alpha Venture Partners
Accel Partners
Angels Forum
August Capital
Band of Angels
Bessemer Venture Partners
BlueRun Ventures
Blumberg Capital
Capital A Partners
Draper Fisher Juverston
Emergence Capital Partners
FinTech Collective
Founders Fund
Genacast Ventures
Greylock Partners
Innovation Endeavors
Javelin Venture Partners
KEC Ventures
Lumia Capital
Lytical Ventures
Maven Ventures
NEA
Story Ventures
The Israel Syndicate
White Star Capital
Work-Bench Ventures
US Venture Partners
Unshackled Ventures
Venrock
Verizon Ventures
Zelkova Ventures
Notable Founders Participating in JFE Programs
Anthony Goldbloom Founder, Kaggle
Bram Cohen Founder, BitTorrent
Bryan Mason Founder, Typekit
Burt Herman Founder, Storify
David Beyer Founder, Chart.io
Daniel Abrams Founder,Edline
Dylan Smith Co Founder and CTO, Box
Ethan Anderson Founder, RedBeacon, MyTime
Gil Penechina – Entrepreneur, angel investor, Flight.vc
Gleb Budman Founder, BackBlaze
Jan Koum Founder, Whatsapp
Jason Freedman Co-Founder, FlightCaster, 42Floors
Lee Linden Founder, Tapjoy, Karma Science
Nir Eyal Founder, Author and Blogger of Nirandfar
Ofer Ronen Founder at Sandori, Astound Lab
Ohad Samet Co-Founder of Signifyd, Analyzd
Peter Yared CTO, CBS Interactive
Philip Kaplan Founder, Fandalism,Blippy, ADHD Labs, Tinyletter
Phillipe Suchet Founder-Zappli, Apsalar
Richie Hecker Co Founder, Insparq, Bootstrapper.com
Roger Royse Founder Royse Law
Stan Chudnovsky Founder, Ooga Labs
Roman Stanek Founder, GoodData
Ron Warshawsky Founder, Enteros
Zohar Levkowitz CEO,Amobee
Zvi Gutenberg, Founder and CEO, Cloudshare