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Our Impact

What Is The Sandbox?

The Sandbox is Israel’s home for early-stage defense tech startups, providing the space, resources, and guidance to reach their full potential. Our mission is to strengthen Israeli innovation by giving founders the inspiration and ability to design and build the physical products of tomorrow’s needs today — here, in-house and in-country.

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Product Development

Whether you're putting together your first technological POC, or putting together your final product and preparing for manufacturing, our job is to take your product wherever it is now, as close as possible to a finished product.

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Business Development

From idea validation, to signing design partners, to getting to market, our team knows how to build around you and your strategy.

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Network

Industry experts, funding sources, international & governmental partners - even Kevin Bacon, our mentors list is full of people ready to help and our team will make the right connections.

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Our Criteria

What We Look For

We seek early-stage, product-first teams with founders solving challenges
for civilian, HLS and defense markets.

Who we serve
Early stage startups
Ideators looking for validation
Those working on their POC, MVP or Product
Startups looking for product development support and committed teams.
Step 1
Application
Submit your startup idea and team details.
Step 2
Review & interview
Our team reviews and interviews candidates.
Step 3
Program launch
Selected startups join our 12-week program and focus on advancing their product and setting up demos.
Step 4
The Founders Club
Selected startups unlock permanent tailored guidance and continued access to The Sandbox
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