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Benny Shlick

Entrepreneur | Strategic Partnerships & Business Building | Connecting Technology × Industry × People

📍 Israel, Israel🔄 Updated November 2026💼 3 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2015
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Seed Investor
2015
Since 2016, we are on a mission to make travel experience simpler, customized more unique. Now Cool Cousins partner program empowers hotels, travel agencies, airlines and other travel businesses to grow profits while thrilling customers throughout their journey. Fusing best-in-class content with curated up-sell opportunities, well help enrich your guests​ trips precisely when they want and need it most. Check us out at www.coolcousin.com
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2020
Country Partner - Strategy
2020
The EIT brings together leading business, education, and research organizations to form dynamic cross-border partnerships. As part of EIT's Global Outreach programme, EIT Hub Israel was established in 2019 with the mission to nurture and create synergies with the Israeli innovation ecosystem and support the growth of innovative EU and Israeli start ups. We do this through our innovative programmes and extensive global network that leverage both economies and empower entrepreneurs and corporates alike to make a societal impact. Whether you are an industry leader, a governmental body, an academic institution or an ecosystem player, EIT Hub Israel offers you the chance to gain access to the leading innovative opportunities and expand your global network. Sign up for our newsletter here https://go-eit.eu/eit-israel-hub/newsletter-israel/
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Co-Founder
2020
2019
Country Advisor - Strategic Collaborations & Partnerships
2019
Vinnova is Sweden’s innovation agency. Our mission is to promote sustainable growth by improving the conditions for innovation, as well as funding needs-driven research. Vinnova’s vision is for Sweden to be a world-leading country in research and innovation, an attractive place in which to invest and conduct business. We promote collaborations between companies, universities, research institutes and the public sector. We do this by stimulating a greater use of research, by making long-term investment in strong research and innovation milieus and by developing catalytic meeting places. Vinnova’s activities also focus on strengthening international cooperation. In order to increase our impact, we are also dedicated to interacting with other research financiers and innovation-promoting organisations. Every year Vinnova invests about SEK 2 billion in various initiatives. Vinnova is a Swedish government agency working under the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications and acts as the national contact agency for the EU Framework Programme for R&D. We are also the Swedish government’s expert agency within the field of innovation policy. Vinnova was founded in January 2001. About 200 people work here and we have offices in Stockholm and Brussels. Our Director General is Charlotte Brogren.
2016
Founder & Managing Director
2016
About IWB - Innovation Without Borders: IWB is an innovation platform and a landing-pad to the Israeli innovation ecosystem for international representatives. IWB was established in 2016, after understanding the increasing need of embassies represented in Israel to learn, leverage their presence and deepen their involvement with the Israeli Startup & Innovation ecosystem. Since then, together with a strong Advisory Board and business & ecosystem leading consultants, IWB is working with more than 40 embassies based in Israel and with international clients from the governmental, corporate and academic world. IWB work: - Leading and advising foreign governments, corporate and academic clients on innovation relations, design thinking and entrepreneurship. - Working on creating open innovation platforms for corporate clients, in their country and in connecting and establishing innovation representation in Israel. - Leading business delegations abroad and hosting delegations & business representatives in Israel. - Working in close partnership with Israeli Private and Governmental sectors. Leading the exclusive forum for over 45 Innovation Attaches of the foreign embassies based in Israel. - Access to all the players in the ecosystem (Private and Governmental)
2015
Seed Investor
2015
Since 2016, we are on a mission to make travel experience simpler, customized more unique. Now Cool Cousins partner program empowers hotels, travel agencies, airlines and other travel businesses to grow profits while thrilling customers throughout their journey. Fusing best-in-class content with curated up-sell opportunities, well help enrich your guests​ trips precisely when they want and need it most. Check us out at www.coolcousin.com
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