What Icar Collective does

ICAR Collective is an Israeli not-for-profit organization established in October 2023 in response to the national mental health and trauma crisis following the events of October 7. It operates as a neutral backbone organization using a collective impact model, convening leaders across seven stakeholder groups — government, civil society, healthcare, academia, philanthropy, investment, and innovation — to coordinate Israel's trauma-healing and mental health ecosystem rather than delivering clinical services directly.

The organization's core technological asset is ICAR Connect, a public mapping platform that catalogs more than 400 organizations active in Israel's mental health, trauma-healing, and resilience field. The platform enables structured search by population served, focus area, intervention type, and geography, and allows organizations to claim profiles, publish current projects, signal partnership or funding needs, and identify gaps and overlaps. Complementary products include the 2025 Mental Health Technologies Landscape Map (developed with Start-Up Nation Central and Bezyl, covering ~120 tech companies), the National Workforce Database for trauma-trained clinicians, and the HRU national psychoeducation campaign delivered with 30 partner organizations. ICAR also runs an annual summit, sector-specific roundtables, and a national research agenda with NATAL and MATAT.

ICAR's revenue model is philanthropic: operating costs are funded by donations and grants, and the organization has guided $15 million in new capital toward trauma-healing and resilience efforts across the field. The organization employs 1–10 staff and is headquartered in Jerusalem. Its GTM motion is community-led — it does not pursue individual customer acquisition but instead drives ecosystem coordination through convening, mapping, insight-sharing, and initiative-building, with a multi-channel presence across social media, newsletters, webinars, and earned media (128 documented media placements).

Name

Icar Collective

Legal name

ICAR Collective

Website

https://icarcollective.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

ICAR Collective is an Israeli nonprofit backbone organization founded in October 2023 that maps and coordinates 400+ organizations across Israel's trauma-healing and mental health ecosystem through its ICAR Connect platform, annual summits, and cross-sector convening initiatives.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Mental Health Ecosystem Coordination

NAICS

Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813), Voluntary Health Organizations (813212)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus & Resilience Programming (BPADAEAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Disaster Response Coordination & Incident Command (EOC/ICS) (HLAJAGAB), Post-Conflict Recovery, Reconciliation & Social Cohesion Programs (BPADAFAL)

Keywords

• Ecosystem mapping
• Trauma recovery coordination
• Mental health convening
• Collective impact backbone
• Nonprofit coordination services

Headquarters

HQ city

Jerusalem

HQ country

Israel

HQ region

Middle East

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Philanthropic Funding: As a not-for-profit organization, ICAR Collective relies on donations and philanthropic support to fund operations. They facilitate connecting funders with organizations in the ecosystem and have guided $15M in new capital toward trauma healing and resilience.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

ICAR Collective functions as a neutral backbone organization that maps, convenes, and aligns Israel's fragmented trauma-healing and mental health ecosystem across government, healthcare, NGOs, academia, philanthropy, and technology. Its flagship deliverable is ICAR Connect, a public living-map platform covering 400+ organizations and programs searchable by population, focus area, intervention type, and geography, supplemented by an annual national Summit, the HRU national psychoeducation campaign, and workforce, research, and quality-standards programs.

Product overview

ICAR Collective operates as a coordination and convening organization rather than a technology product company. The organization offers ICAR Connect as its primary platform—a living map of Israel's mental health and trauma-healing ecosystem. ICAR Connect enables users to search organizations by population served, focus area, intervention type, and geography; it includes an Ecosystem View for visual representation and an Organizations Directory. Related initiatives include a Mental Health Technologies Landscape Map developed with Start-Up Nation Central and Bezyl, and the HRU psychoeducation campaign (Israel's first national psychoeducation campaign). The organization also runs annual ICAR Summits, roundtable discussions addressing specific populations, and initiatives to build national research agendas, quality standards, workforce databases, and care continuity frameworks. ICAR Collective does not offer a traditional SaaS product with modules; rather, it provides coordination services, a mapping platform, and various programs aimed at building trauma-healing capacity across Israel.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ICAR Connect Ecosystem Mapping Platform

Quantifiable outcome

• 400+ organizations mapped in ecosystem
• +3 more outcomes

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Startup Nation CentralcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for mental health technology mapping. Together with Bezyl, ICAR mapped mental health tech companies with Israeli connections. The mapping displays innovation in digital therapeutics, AI-based mental health tools, trauma care technologies, prevention, and early detection. Available at finder.startupnationcentral.org.
• NATBAL (NAT and Matit)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerICAR, NAT (Israel Trauma and Resiliency Center), and Matit are convening researchers to identify key knowledge gaps, align research priorities with field needs, and strengthen connections between research, policy, and practice.
• JDC (Joint Distribution Committee)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJDC is mentioned as a key partner in ICAR's ecosystem coordination efforts and mental health initiatives.
• 30 Partner Organizations (National Psychoeducation Campaign)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerICAR operates with 30 partner organizations including academia, HMOs, nonprofits, and philanthropy to expand public knowledge on mental health, encourage early help-seeking, and reduce stigma through the 'HRU' (Eicha Ata) national psychoeducation campaign.
• Yarkon (JDC Israel)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerYarkon (JDC Israel) mentioned as partner in roundtables addressing mental health and prevention among youth.
• Yedidim for the NorthminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerYedidim for the North mentioned as partner in roundtables addressing mental health and prevention among youth.
• BezylcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in mental health technology mapping initiative alongside Startup Nation Central, mapping Israeli mental health tech companies and displaying innovation in digital therapeutics, AI tools, and trauma care technologies.

Scale indicators7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• NESTA: UK-based innovation foundation that uses mapping, convening, and challenge-prize models to align ecosystems around social priorities. Closely comparable in operating posture (data-driven ecosystem building) though focused on innovation rather than trauma.
• Bezyl: Mental-health technology platform and ICAR's co-mapping partner on the Israel mental-health tech landscape map. Overlaps with ICAR Connect on the technology-discovery layer and represents the kind of dedicated platform peer ICAR would compete or partner with at scale.

Direct peers

• Start-Up Nation Central: Israeli innovation ecosystem mapper and convener. ICAR partnered with Start-Up Nation Central on the Mental Health Technologies Landscape Map; both operate ecosystem-mapping platforms targeting decision-makers and funders — closely aligned business models.
• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC): Large diaspora-based intermediary that funds and coordinates Jewish community welfare and social services globally, including substantial Israel operations. JDC performs the same 'intermediary/convener' function at larger scale, including mental-health programming; ICAR is a named partner.
• NATAL: Israel Trauma and Resiliency Center: Israel's leading trauma-focused NGO, working directly on trauma treatment, research, and resilience. NATAL is a research and treatment provider; ICAR is a coordinating backbone. They are explicit partners via the National Research Agenda but have overlapping mandates for trauma response, making NATAL the closest functional peer.
• Collective Impact Forum / FSG: The leading US-based practice community and consulting firm for the 'collective impact' backbone organization model that ICAR explicitly uses. They set methodology, training, and case studies for backbone-organization operations and are the closest conceptual peer.

Broad incumbents

• NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness): Large US-based mental-health nonprofit that plays a convening, advocacy, and resource-navigation role for a fragmented mental-health field. Comparable in mission (mental-health system coordination) though operating at vastly larger scale and with a US orientation.
• Mental Health America: The oldest US mental-health nonprofit, operating as a national convener across advocacy, screening, and ecosystem coordination. Its network-of-affiliates model parallels ICAR's cross-sector alliance approach at larger scale.

Others

• Wellcome Trust: Major global health/mental-health research philanthropist that convenes researchers, policymakers, and funders around defined agendas. Comparable convening-and-fund-deployment posture to ICAR's national strategic model, though at much larger scale.
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: A US health-focused foundation pursuing 'culture of health' system-change agenda via grantmaking, convening, and research — comparable posture as a downstream funder and ecosystem convener for the health sector.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/p/ICAR-Collective-61570194544674
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/icar-collective
• Instagraminstagram.com/icar_collective
• TikToktiktok.com/@icar_collective_

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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