About the Accelerator

The MADE IN LOD accelerator is an innovative accelerator, managed by PresenTense, operating in cooperation with the Small and Medium Business Agency (SMBA) in the Ministry of Economy and Industry, via its executive arm "Maof", the young adults center of Lod, and the Lod municipality. The participants of the program are entrepreneurs and start-up founders, which benefit from being a 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 participant with the tools and knowledge to succeed with their ventures.
The current accelerator is the third class under the management of PresnTense, whereas the previous classes were mostly business and socialRead More.... ventures. The first classes graduated over twenty entrepreneurs, currently operating in a variety of businesses in and around Lod. The entrepreneurs who participated in the program represent a cross-section of the Lod population, including men and women, Jews and Arabs. Some of the ventures are - an app for running a resident committee, a social pub, a hostel for youth in distress, an app for finding paycheck errors, educational escape rooms, and so forth.
The current accelerator is a technological accelerator, operated by PresenTense. The latter’s leading concept is that entrepreneurship contributes to 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 forms 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 ultra-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