Innovation & Venture Building Leader | Deep-Tech, AI & Strategic Partnerships

Turning innovative ideas and technologies into products, ventures, and partnerships.

I work with founders, organizations, and investors to see the full opportunity: what the technology really enables, what the market may value, what the first product should be, and how to move from promising idea to structured execution.

20+ years connecting deep tech, business strategy, healthcare innovation, commercialization, and venture building.

Claudia Ben-Yaakov
Samsung Research IsraelSUN – Start-Up NorthTechnion T3Healthcare InnovationDeep-Tech EngineeringApplied AI

Why work with me

From complex possibility to a clear next move.

I combine deep technical understanding, business judgment, product definition, and the ability to align people around action.

Selected Impact

A few examples of the work I do best: identify hidden capacity, shape the opportunity, align the right people, and build the structure that lets something new exist.

Tzafon / Poria Medical Center

Won external funding for a hospital innovation program

Mapped the hospital’s innovation assets, identified the right external funding opportunity, built the business and innovation plan, aligned leadership, presented the initiative, and secured government funding to establish the innovation center.

SUN – Start-Up North

Built an innovation ecosystem where none existed

Built a regional innovation hub from the ground up, including a pre-accelerator, accelerator, co-working space, founder community, and cross-sector collaborations with municipalities, government bodies, companies, and entrepreneurship stakeholders.

Geha & Tzafon Medical Centers

Turned healthcare needs into structured innovation activity

Established innovation methodologies, translated clinical and operational needs into solution concepts, coordinated partners and stakeholders, and shaped pilots around KPIs, adoption criteria, and implementation.

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Practical AI Projects

Alongside my advisory work, I develop AI-enabled projects and digital solutions in progress — using modern GenAI tools to translate real needs into practical workflows, prototypes, and iterative product development.

AI Legal Hearing Review Engine

A legal-tech tool designed to analyze hearing-before-dismissal letters under Israeli labor law and generate structured plain-language review reports.

BuildStore – AI App Marketplace

A marketplace concept for AI tools and apps, including creator dashboard, app discovery, search, visibility controls, and app engagement tracking.

Elderly Digital Assistance App

An Android-based support tool helping older adults and their families manage digital tasks and SMS-related workflows.

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Have something worth building?

I care deeply about the projects and people I work with. If there is something worth building here, I would be glad to understand it with you.