Monika Rozalska-Lilo, at The Blogs

Mar 21, 2021, 5:58 PM

Venture Capital (VC) landscape has been evolving more dramatically in the recent years, as the competition between various funds grew. The new-old trend has started surfacing, where VCs attract potential startups by showing them how much support they could...

Dec 22, 2020, 1:58 PM

How to Benefit from Joint Open Innovation and CVC?

Whether open innovation and venture capital activities should be executed in close cooperation or separately largely depends on the organization. For more mature, innovative companies, separating CVC and open innovation may make these functions quicker and more effective. For...

Nov 26, 2020, 4:21 PM

Manage Small Teams Like a Pro Startup Founder

Managing people is not easy, especially for those organizations that try to stretch their funding as much as possible. In this blogpost, I will be describing a few useful approaches to managing small teams that I have seen and...

Oct 20, 2020, 6:17 PM

Startup Tools We Should All Be Using

In this post, I will be exploring practical methodologies and tools coming from the startup world that can help all of us be more productive at work and successfully manage projects of all sorts. These methods include both strategic...

Sep 18, 2020, 10:48 PM

Startups Change the World. Can We Learn from Them?

Startups are young technological companies which, due to their small size, budget constraints and limited human resources, are forced to “figure out” the ways to make do with what they have and at the same time build cutting-edge technologies...

Aug 24, 2020, 3:06 PM

Smart Cities Are Still a Theory

Although we have seen great technological leap in the recent years, the way we live in cities and how we interact with them hasn't been significantly influenced by the innovations we produce. We are still faced with recurring issues...

Jun 23, 2020, 4:29 PM

How Corporations Establish Activities in Israel

This article will be devoted to the so-called “acquihire” – a practice in the M&A world where an acquiring party decides to utilize the teams and activities of the acquired company in addition to or as a basis for...

May 21, 2020, 8:02 PM

The Uniqueness of Venture Capital in Israel

In one of my previous blogposts, I have shared my thoughts on the Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) model. In this one, I would like to continue the ideas around investing in Israel both as a VC (venture capital) and...

Apr 19, 2020, 6:53 PM

Why is Digital Transformation so Difficult?

Digital transformation in traditional organizations is a challenging task for a couple of reasons. For one, it is difficult to define it and measure its results. Also, it is an activity that borders on different business units inside of...

Mar 16, 2020, 11:33 AM

Public Sector More Open to Innovation than Ever

Public sector and ground-breaking innovation do not typically go hand in hand. Traditionally, the public sector follows the trends and activities developed and implemented in the private sector first. Nevertheless, in the recent years, we see more interest in...

About Me

Monika Rozalska-Lilo has co-created and until recently served as the CEO of CREATORS, an innovation lab based in Tel Aviv that supports organizations in developing and improving innovation practices. Monika’s expertise includes corporate innovation, startup ecosystems, ideation methodologies and building & facilitating innovation programs. Before CREATORS, Monika served as Deputy Director of TheHive by Gvahim, a startup accelerator program for international teams in Israel.