Friday, October 19, 2018

Startups Pack GTC Israel as Smallest of Them All Sweeps Top Inception Award

NVIDIA’s third GPU Technology Conference in just over a month spilled across Tel Aviv’s convention center this week, in a packed show featuring a live demo of an AI-infused apple-picking drone, a student-built autonomous Formula One car and a two-person company that ran away with the title of Israel’s hottest startup.


The second annual GTC Israel show drew 2,000 attendees, up 75 percent from last year, on the back of recent sellout crowds in at GTCs in Tokyo and Munich. It was wall to wall with the companies that have won Israel the moniker of “startup nation.” Indeed, there are more than 4,000 tech startups in a country of 8.5 million, or 40x the density of startups in the U.S.