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Startup Designers
Startup Designers is a community platform focused on providing resources, mentoring, and networking opportunities for designers in the startup ecosystem. They offer design services and insights into industry trends.
Overview
What Startup Designers does
What Startup Designers is
Startup Designers is a community platform focused on providing resources, mentoring, and networking opportunities for designers in the startup ecosystem. They offer design services and insights into industry trends.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
The current public profile supports community capabilities. Each capability below is shown separately so organization identity and role-specific information do not get conflated.
Operational profile
Organization status and context
Organization status describes the entity itself. Funding and program availability appear within the relevant capability profile.
- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Community
- Structured capabilities
- Community
- Last reviewed
- March 31, 2026
Official channels
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Capability profile
Startup Designers as a community
Community overview
Startup Designers is a community and mentoring program for product and user experience designers in Israel. It was founded in January 2017 by Shir Zalzberg as a space for user experience designers of all types and sizes to meet, talk, and learn. The community includes an active Facebook group with thousands of members, a monthly meetup featuring leading speakers in the field, a website with relevant design events in the country, and a mentoring program.
Community focus
Startup Designers focuses on supporting product and user experience designers through community engagement and mentoring. The organization provides a platform for designers to connect, learn, and grow professionally.
Member value
Members benefit from networking opportunities, access to a mentoring program, and participation in monthly meetups featuring industry leaders.
Membership
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- hybrid
- Schedule
- rolling-admissions
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Founders · Students
- Benefits
- mentorship and network-access
- Program types
- community
- Selection criteria
- open
Community activity
- Annual events
- 12
Events and activity
The community hosts monthly meetups featuring leading speakers in user experience design, as well as webinars with recordings accessible through their content portal.
Notable members
Shir Zalzberg - Founder; Inna Shtuckmeyster - Team Member; Michal Ninburg - Team Member; Lishay Noam - Team Member; Eden Shopen - Team Member; Tamar Segura - Team Member.
Common questions
What to know about Startup Designers
Upseed classifies Startup Designers under the Community organization type. Its current public profile includes community capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
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Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
March 31, 2026
Known limits
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