Redding, California, native and Hebrew University master’s student Elyssa King is 24, and she has a big idea. Actually, her idea is more than an idea– it’s a way to harness everyone’s big ideas with a business called Seed. She went to Inspiraction’s Builders event in March to take her idea to the next level.
“Seed is my idea for an incubator for capturing companies before they go to market,” King explains. “Before there is a prototype or a business plan. I want to help the person with a napkin in his pocket and an idea in mind to help him see if it is worth doing.”
The student with a background in business describes her future enterprise as a “polymarket for ideas,” allowing others to vote on ideas and say yes or no in a public space.
Liam Ratner, the founder of Inspiraction, is a product of homeschooling. He developed AI projects and algorithms for trading futures while still in high school. Before he made aliyah at age 14, he had completed high school curricula on his own.
He created the Jerusalem-based not-for-profit and the Builders event for people like King. Ratner, a 21-year-old investor and inventor himself, is also in the process of founding a defense-tech start-up, but the multi-talented wunderkind is devoted to harnessing the creativity of Israel’s youth, bringing new ideas to market, and helping Israel grow.
