The Zell Entrepreneurship Program is a venture creation program for outstanding undergraduate students at the Interdisciplinary Center of Herzliya. The impact on the start-up world that the program has had is one to reckon with. Zell has produced 63 founders of startup companies and 24 CEOs whom have dreamed up 64 ventures that've lead to 28 registered companies, including Wibiya, Walyou and Picapp, to name a few. These ventures have reached many users in various ways, including 100 million photographs protected by PicScout, 200 apps created by Ono Apps, 1 million registered travelers on Gogobot and over 4 million gift recipients through the gift project.

1. The Zell
Entrepreneurship
Program is a venture
creation program for
outstanding
undergraduate
students at
IDC Herzliya
T H E I M P A C T
THE PEOPLE
THE PROGRAM THE USERS REACHED
THE LEADER
THE NETWORK
33%
Internet
5%
Other
17%
IT and software
9%
Finance
and banking
8%
Consumer
retail
12%
Marketing and
advertising
11%
Consulting
5%
Law
graduates
in 11 years
233
Year
1
Designed by:
up in the program
64 Ventures
dreamed
Finance,
Marketing,
Strategy, Law,
New Media,
Branding and
Positioning, Team
Dynamics,
Negation,
Communication
skills
26Credits
from 8 faculties20Students
Zellumni
active on
the Zell
Facebook
group
82%
Zellumni in
8 Zell2Zell
panels to
hear 16
alumni
present their
venture
ideas
85
enjoy the
science room
the Zell Gives
Back project has
adopted
900 kids
connections
made
2,954 Zelltro
“The goal is to identify the
entrepreneurial talents that people
innately have and attempt to hone
them to produce an optimum
result.
Sam Zell
FOUNDER
”
Jobs
created
338
Funding
raised
US $35m
Capital gains tax
paid to the
State of Israel
US $25m
Seedcamp
Competition
finalists
4
7 Companies with
ESOP donations
to Tmura
Donations
Ebay Social Commerce and Innovation,
Samsung Telecom Research Israel,
Getty Images R&D Center
3 R&D Global Centers
In companies by IDC Elevator
accelator, Tel Aviv Angel
Group and Zell Alumni
18 Investments
THE VENTURES
Registered
companies28
4m+ videos
viewed on Wibbitz monthly
50k books
sold by JEP
200k websites
use Wibiya, reaching
200m users over the
entire network
100m
photographs
protected by PicScout
50 websites
using Webleads
36m pageviews
generated by Walyou
1m registered
travelers on Gogobot
4m gift recipients
by The Gifts Project
200 apps
created by Ono Apps
100k stickers
for sneakers sold by Funkkit
30m
unique visitors to Picapp
24CEOS 63Founders
92%
in Israel
Abroad with experience
in global companies37MBAs