We are excited to announce that registration for the Atlas Award for the Best Israeli Startups has opened!

The Atlas Award is an Israeli startup competition recognizing companies that have developed technologies or products of exceptional value, both in Israel and globally.

This year's categories are:

Eligibility Criteria

Finalists will be selected by an independent Selection Committee composed of world-renowned entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

The Atlas Award 2026 Gala Event will take place at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on May 12, 2026.

Atlas Award 2026 — Company Nomination Form

The Ayn Rand Center, in cooperation with Calcala TV, IBI Capital, the Prometheus Foundation, and other leading partners, invites companies to submit their candidacy for this prestigious award.

The Atlas Award, widely recognized as the “Israeli Oscar of Entrepreneurship,” is presented as a $100,000 sculpture, created by acclaimed sculptor R. Minns (Z”L), symbolizing the mythological Atlas carrying the world.

Alongside the Award, we operate Atlas Juniors, the educational arm of the Atlas initiative, connecting highly motivated high-school students from Israel’s southern periphery – Sderot, the Gaza-border communities, and Ashkelon – with executive teams of participating startups. Through this program, students develop real-world projects in collaboration with leading Start-Ups companies. (Learn more).

For more information, collaborations and partnerships please email:

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Participants in the Atlas Juniors program working on a spectrum-monitoring drone project at D-Fend Solutions, developing hands-on technological solutions alongside the company’s cybersecurity team. Below: Atlas Juniors students at the laboratories of SpacePharma – a company specializing in autonomous microgravity experiments conducted in space – working on a therapeutic protein crystallization project with potential implications for advanced drug delivery methods.