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Building U.S.-Israel Innovation Partnerships

BIRD Foundation

www.birdf.com

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BIRD Foundation

Joint fund, established in 1977 as a joint initiative between the US and Israeli governments

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BIRD = Binational Industrial Research and Development

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To stimulate, promote and support joint (non-defense) industrial R&D of mutual benefit to Israel and the United States Income from interest earned

• n $110 million

endowment grant and from repayments from successful BIRD projects

Mission Funding

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BIRD’s Board of Governors*

Chief Scientist, Ministry of Economy and Industry (Israeli co-Chairman) Assistant Secretary for S&T, Dept. of Commerce Permanent Designee: Associate Director for Innovation and Industry Services, NIST (U.S. co-Chairman) Director General, Ministry of Economy and Industry Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Dept. of State Director General, Ministry of Finance Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, Dept. of Treasury (or their designees) (or their designees)

Israeli Representatives U.S. Representatives

*Source: Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation Agreement, March 3, 1976

The Foundation’s Board of Governors (BOG) consists of six members: three representatives of the U.S. and three representatives of Israel

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BIRD – Performance Summary

 $339M granted  948 projects approved  $105M repayments from projects  ~$10B in sales generated directly and indirectly by BIRD sponsored activities

2006-2016* *including BIRD Energy & BIRD HLS/First Responders

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The BIRD Model

Conditional Grant Risk Sharing Up to $ ½ (X) Repayments from 100% up to 150% Of Grant upon commercialization Conditional Grant Risk Sharing Up to $ ½ (Y) Budget $ X Israeli Company Proposer Budget $ Y U.S. Company Proposal $ (X+Y) BIRD

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Executive Summaries Final Proposal Proposal Evaluation Decisions

At the Board of Governors’ Meeting

March September April October June December

Submitting Process

(two cycles per year)*

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Evaluators appointed by NIST & the Chief Scientist’s Office

Cycle I Cycle II

* For the exact dates of the upcoming cycle see www.birdf.com

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Timetable and deadlines: Executive Summaries (using BIRD's template) – September 7, 2017 Full Proposals (following BIRD's detailed instructions) – October 17, 2017 Decisions – December 2017

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Timetable & Deadlines:

Executive Summary July 6, 2017 Final Proposal August 21, 2017 Decisions October 2017

BIRD Energy Call for Proposals

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“BIRD Energy” follows the same rules and procedures as BIRD. Please refer to BIRD’s website for submission details - www.birdf.com To be considered, a project proposal should include:

• R&D cooperation between two companies or cooperation between a company and a

university/research institution (one from the U.S. and one from Israel).

• Innovation in all areas of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, such as Solar

and Wind Power, Advanced Vehicle Technologies and Alternative Fuels, Smart Grid, Water-Energy Nexus, Advanced Manufacturing, etc.

• Significant commercial potential; the project outcome should lead to

commercialization. The maximum conditional grant is $1M per project Timetable and deadlines: Executive Summary - July 6, 2017 Final Proposal - August 21, 2017 Decisions - October 25, 2017

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Timetable and deadlines: Executive Summaries (using BIRD's template) – February 15, 2017 Full Proposals (following BIRD's detailed instructions) – April 5, 2017 Decisions – June 2017

NexGen First Responder Technologies Program

November 2016

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What are we looking for?

 Innovation  Synergy  Commercial potential  Proven ability to market & distribute

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Examples of BIRD Projects

Each project involves a U.S. company and an Israeli company, performing joint R&D for mutual business benefit.

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November 2016

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Opto-Knowledge Systems (OKSI)

is a high-tech R&D company specializing in developing solutions in areas of remote sensing, electro-optical sensors, algorithm development for sensor data analysis and exploitation, and others applications. Joint development product:

Solution that uses smartphone platforms and other wearable sensors to provide 3D location, physiological status, local hazards indicators, etc

SayVU Technologies develops a premier

emergency and alert system including multi- control centers and networks of reporters for real time events, in an era of escalating safety and terror challenges. Project title:

Indoor Positioning, Locating and Reporting System.

Locating and Monitoring

Mobile Healthcare

November 2016

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Dimagi delivers open and innovative mobile

technologies in the fields of health and education to underserved communities. Its CommCare platform is the most widely used, evidence-based mobile platform for community health programs in resource-poor settings. Joint development product:

Comprehensive solution to health care providers in screening and detecting cervical cancer in low- resource settings. Caregivers will capture patient data along with cervical imaging with a mobile phone and data will be aggregated to track and improve

• perations and the accuracy of diagnoses.

MobileODT is a biomedical optics

company that enables cancer detection using any digital camera. Its first product is the mobile colposcope, the world’s first connected-health gynecological screening device Project title:

Advanced cervical cancer analysis in remote areas

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Thank You!

Andrea Yonah East Coast/Midwest Representative BIRD Foundation andreay@birdf.com

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