NTT Innovation Laboratory Israel

NTT Innovation Laboratory Israel is NTT’s strategic hub in Israel’s rich technology and talent ecosystems.

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Today, Israel is home to both thousands of successful startups and hundreds of R&D centers for major global tech companies. NTT established its subsidiary in Israel, to combine NTT’s business and vision with cutting-edge Israeli technology environment.

In doing so, NTT is further empowered by top-notch solutions developed in Israel, ensuring new value to NTT’s solutions, services, and strategic resources. In parallel, Israel’s rich, unique innovation landscape makes it the perfect place to start and build on a technological and business journey

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Israel is home to a world-leading, robust, and thriving technology ecosystem grown from the drive to solve real-world needs and challenges. This ecosystem is served by corporates, academic institutions, government agencies, and 9,000+ innovative startups.



NTT IL helps customers and partners transform business gaps into opportunities for collaboration and growth by leveraging everything this ecosystem has to offer, and more.

Today, more than 20% of high-tech companies use AI technology and the development of these disruptive technologies is one of the biggest growth engines in the Israeli tech ecosystem. We help connect you to the most innovative emerging technologies that can truly transform your business.

We are here to bridge your way to the 2nd largest hub of digital health outside the US. With 1,800 innovative companies in Health-tech, of which 750 in Digital Health. Israel is well known for being one of the world’s leading health tech sandboxes, as 98% of the medical records in Israel are digitalized with 30 years track record.

We help you connect to the right technologies in Israel’s world-renowned cybersecurity ecosystem to help create a safer world. This includes 500+ companies and startups, leading academic institutions, and six dedicated government agencies.

Services we offer

  • Partnership for commercialization

    NTT IL identifies business gaps and real needs from different global NTT business units and customers, and then finds solutions and technologies from within the Israeli ecosystem to close those gaps. In doing so, we create collaborations and new business opportunities.

  • M&A and Investment Opportunities

    NTT IL scouts and supports strategic investment opportunities for NTT’s different investment arms, collaborating with Israel’s tech ecosystem including startups, Israel’s advanced VC scene and multinational CVCs operating in Israel.

  • Academic and R&D collaboration

    NTT IL promotes basic and applied research collaboration between NTT’s different R&D groups and Israel’s academia to ensure NTT’s leadership continues to excel in advanced technology. We also leverage Israel’s academia for research opportunities, generating new intellectual properties for NTT.

  • I Team V White Hackers

    Our iTeam V of white hackers actively hacks into NTT systems. We use the same real-world hacking techniques employed by hackers across the globe with the goal of identifying security flaws and then working with vendors, customers, and internal teams to find remedies to these flaws.
    In doing so, we are increasing resilience and improving the cybersecurity readiness of NTT’s global assets.

  • Visual Smart Labs. Tech Due Diligence & Validation Services

    NTT IL’s Virtual Smart Lab (VSL) is a cloud-based platform that mimics real-life data environments, creating a “virtual twin” environment.

  • The VSL is used by dozens of NTT’s business units as a sandbox for evaluation, POC/POV, integration, and demo of new technologies in a safe environment without accessing the customers real IT infrastructure.

  • Development center

    At NTT IL’s innovative Development Center, we transform today’s leading technologies into customized business solutions. 
We solve identified needs of NTT’s business units and customers by scouting for existing, outsourced and NTT’s internal technologies, and then by using our top engineering capabilities, we quickly and efficiently adapt them. By doing so we generate new, valuable products, assets, and services.

  • Tailored services

    NTT IL offers a range of customized services to NTT’s business units and its customers, including technology reports, talent sourcing, and extensive insights and access to Israel’s innovation ecosystem.

Partnering for success

At NTT IL, we offer you a free reach-out to the innovative Israeli ecosystem. During our fully supported process, we enable you to take advantage of existing Israeli technologies to instantly solve NTT’s and its customers’ challenges and needs with zero R&D spending.

By collaborating with us you will gain key access to Israel’s novel technologies, business models, and partnerships, and a front-row seat in an ecosystem that is home to more than 9,000 startups working on the most cutting-edge technologies in the world.

Success stories

Read about some of the ways we’ve helped propel NTT business units, customers, and technology companies forward on their innovation journey.

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Let our team boost your innovation journey

NTT IL’s multi-disciplinary team is uniquely positioned to bridge the gap between Israeli innovation and NTT.

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