JEMM Ventures Accelerator brings Innovative Seed/Post Seed Israeli B2B companies to San Francisco for 3 Month Accelerator Program to help them relocate to the U.S. and immerse them into San Francisco/Silicon Valley's ecosystem and help them scale in the U.S. market.

WE ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM ALL B2B SECTORS, WITH EXTRA FOCUS ON SAAS, CLOUD AND MOBILE FIRST ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE,BIG DATA, MICROSERVICES, CYBERSECURITY, infrastructure software, and artificial intelligence. 

VALUE PROPOSITION FOR ISRAELI STARTUPS
 

CUSTOMIZED EXCLUSIVELY FOR ISRAELI B2B TO SCALE TO SERIES A IN THE U.S. 

WORK WITH TOP SAN FRANCISCO AND SILICON VALLEY EXPERTS ACROSS ALL B2B RELATED TOPICS INCLUDING SCALING, PRODUCT/MARKET FIT, SALES, PARTNERSHIPS, COMPANY CULTURE, MULTI-NATIONAL MANAGEMENT, AND GROWTH.

PLAN RELOCATION WITH REGARD TO EMPLOYMENT, TAX, AND LEGAL REGULATIONS BOTH IN U.S AND ISRAEL.

BRIDGING TOP ISRAELI INNOVATION WITH TOP U.S. RESOURCES INCLUDING SEASONED ENTREPRENEURS AND OPERATORS, TECHNICAL AND BIZ DEV EXPERTS, STRATEGIC/CORPORATE PARTNERS, AND INVESTORS.

OUR FIRST COHORT WAS COMPLETED IN MARCH 15, 2017.

NEXT COHORT WILL LAUNCH in SUMMER 2017

Interested to participate?

We bring together top San Francisco/Silicon Valley mentors, speakers, investors, and corporate strategic partners to meet our companies.

Mentors and Speakers

The program will include technical experts, CTOs, top B2B sales experts, human capital experts, strategic partners, and investors from companies like Google, Paypal, Salesforce, WealthFront, Intel, Optimizely, Oculus, Accel Partners, August Capital, Workday Ventures:

What We are Looking For

SECTORS

We accept applications from all B2B sectors, with extra focus on: Saas, cloud and mobile first enterprise, big data, microservices, cybersecurity, infrastructure software, and artificial intelligence.

TEAM

1. Good team composition, diverse and complimentary skills, good execution, work well together. 

2. At least 2 founders. Serial entrepreneurs preferred. 

3. Plan to relocate to the US or in the process of launching a U.S branch. 

4. Must have good expertise in chosen market.

5. Huge Mature and positive attitude and can take feedback.

PRODUCT/ TECHNOLOGY

1. Huge potential market

2. Proprietary technology that is fundamentally disruptive

3. Ability to grow fast with little resources

4. Ability to build new products/ services fast

5. Good user growth and retention

6. Revenue Driven - based on customer lifetime value (CLV), customer acquisition costs (CAC), growth margins, MRR, and churn. 

Our Philosophy

1. We believe in the boundless opportunities of Israeli-founded startups when brought up in the right environment with access to funding and resources.

2. We know well that integrating Israeli technology, innovation, and stamina with the ecosystem of San Francisco (and the broader Silicon Valley) creates the most invincible startup.

3. We understand what physical and mental resources Israeli companies need. 

4. By this, we mean bridging the cultural gap between Israel/U.S, and providing startups with knowledge and with strategic introductions with top corporations and investors.

5. While we understand the importance of venture fundraising, we believe that the most invaluable asset of this program is the unparalleled access to information and exponential knowledge that a startup will gain. 

6. We aim to position companies in this program for their Series A rounds and future growth.

Our Story

Jemm Ventures Accelerator is the result of 7 years of hard work with early, pre-seed stage Israeli-Jewish startups in San Francisco/Bay Area and New York City. 

Like yourself, we are visionaries, creators, builders, and we execute on our beliefs.

We built the largest Jewish entrepreneurial startup hub, Jews For Entrepreneurship, a non profit that was launched in 2009 and has hosted numerous (over 100) tech events and programs in San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Boston and Tel Aviv. Among its programs are the Series A Pitch, geared for Israeli startups raising their Series A, as well as JFE Accelerator, a 2-3 month accelerator program for pre-seed startups with top Silicon Valley and NYC technologists. Over 120 startups participated at JFE events, ranging from ideation stage to mature companies raising their A rounds.

We discontinued running JFE Accelerator because it was hard to scale the program under the non profit.

Instead, we launched Jemm Ventures Accelerator as a separate entity (not related to JFE Accelerator) focused exclusively on Israeli B2B startups.

For this program, we have built a startup preselection board consisting of successful investors and entrrepreneurs who are helping us with the preselection process.