About the Accelerator

The WHIZZ accelerator is an innovative accelerator, managed by PresenTense, working in collaboration with the Small and Medium Business Agency (SMBA) in the Ministry of Economy and Industry, via its executive arm "Maof", the Ashqelon youth center, and the municipality of Ashqelon. The participants of the program are entrepreneurs and start-up founders who benefit from being part of a supportive entrepreneur community, networking, connecting with leading investors, personal mentoring by leading mentors and training with innovative tools for developing their start-ups. Additionally, as part of the program, the entrepreneurs will receive guest lectures on a variety of topics and connections with leading companies. The goal is providing the participants with the tools and knowledge to succeed with their ventures.
The current accelerator is a technological accelerator, operated by PresenTense. The latter’s leading concept is that entrepreneurship contributes toRead More.... personal empowerment, as well as economic and community empowerment, and it can effectively narrow gaps and promote growth and social inclusion. Together with their partners, they formulate models for promoting an entrepreneurial ecosystem among diverse communities and they hold hundreds of workshops, entrepreneurial programs and training for diverse audiences.
PresenTense is a company for the public good, founded in 2007, and as a pioneer in its field, built a prosperous community of social entrepreneurs in Jerusalem, and established an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Jaffa, the first of its kind, connecting Jaffa to Tel-Aviv. Additionally, it launched the first social entrepreneurial accelerator, the first technological accelerator in the Arab sector, the first accelerator for orthodox women, and the first accelerator of its kind for assistive technologies – solutions for people with disabilities. PresenTesnse makes the entrepreneurial world accessible for all groups in society. Close