Ikare Innovation

iKare Innovation is a GATEWAY into the Startup Nation, opening the Israeli “Innovation Ecosystem” to foreign companies: representing your interests, scouting the solutions you need, introducing you to relevant technology partners, offering technical & financial due diligences, following after your investments, and providing talent search solutions. iKare Innovation is a FACILITATOR, allowing Israeli companies access to: industrial and strategic partners (POCs, NREs, Investments, Alliances, R&D funding.), and connecting you to relevant business partners, offshore investors, public funding opportunities, distributors and global accounts. iKare Innovation represents VALEO GROUP in Israel. Valeo is a leading Automotive Tier-1, partner to all automakers worldwide, that employs more than employees in 32 countries. As a technology company, Valeo proposes innovative products and systems that contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions and to the development of intuitive driving. Together with the best local Israeli partners, Valeo aims at developing the cutting-edge solutions for tomorrow's mobility, and for today’s autonomous and electric car, building on its unique commitment to R&D (€1.9 billion in 2017). iKare PARTNERS have a global and broad experience in the private sector, and at governmental and intergovernmental organizations. Track record in facilitating strategic partnerships, joint innovation, business development, investments and M&A, public funding, R&D funding. iKare Innovation is the Israeli local correspondent of InnoCherche, a French based expertise Network dedicated to the digital challenges, providing a professional platform to C–level executives, giving them access to the most innovative solutions and complex scenarios across industries and countries. InnoCherche acts as an innovation hub, organizing training sessions and think tanks meetings in France, as well as digital exploration missions around the world.