In Israel, ANNIE startup develops a platform to help trauma patients — Jerusalem Post

In Israel, graduates of the Leaders program at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have created the medtech startup ANNIE, which is developing a platform to monitor the condition of injured people with trauma during evacuation. As reported by the Jerusalem Post, the project was founded by Ofek Eliasko, Idan Mizrahi and Tal Ben-Lulu.

ANNIE combines wearable equipment and software to track critical health indicators in real time. According to the team’s concept, data should be continuously transmitted from the site of injury to emergency dispatch centers and hospitals. The founders aim to integrate the system into existing emergency services not only in Israel.

Practice instead of theory

According to the founders, they laid the foundations of ANNIE during the Leaders program, which operates at Ben-Gurion University’s Yazamut 360 center. The program’s founder and director, Gadi Bahat, noted that it focuses less on creating companies than on developing participants—their leadership qualities, resilience and ability to independently initiate change.

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Participants are brought together in teams that work on their own startups. The program views this process as a practical learning tool: students overcome difficulties, test assumptions, communicate with unfamiliar people and acquire negotiation and public speaking skills.

Alumni support and artificial intelligence

After completing their studies, participants join the Leaders alumni association. Later, the program changed its approach to team work: each team began to involve mentors from among alumni, as complete independence proved too difficult for the first cohorts.

The program also adds artificial intelligence tools to the curriculum. Next year, each student team is expected to develop its own AI agents that will work as team members. According to Bahat, despite updates to the methodology, human development will remain at the center of the program.