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*Currently Available Profiles On IVC-Online
The Leading Data Source on Israel's High-Tech Industry since 1997
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| Multinationals |
Investors |
High-Tech Companies |
| 459 |
2,854 |
9,374 |
| Number of Unicorns |
Capital Raised in 2022 by Private Companies ($m) |
| 86 |
8,719 |
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*New Additions to IVC Database This Week
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| Financing Rounds |
Investors |
High-Tech Companies |
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Selected (*) Recent Database Additions & Activity (May 27 - June 2)
- Taboola Acquires Yusp by Gravity R&D (Hungary)
- Amdocs Acquires MYCOM OSI (US)
- Verbit Acquires U.S. Captioning Company (US)
- Ex.co Acquires Bibblio (UK)
- Optibus Acquires Trillium (US)
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| IVC, Arnon Segev & Co. and Consiglieri are proud to present the first Israeli Institutional Investors’ Tech Investments Report for the year 2021. With key insight provided by The Israel Innovation Authority.
In 2021, Israeli institutional investors increased their allocation to the Israeli start-up scene, for the first time in decades. Astoundingly, the capital allocated to the Israeli tech start-up sector in 2021 increased 6.5-fold and is estimated at $864m, compared with just $134m in 2020.
Read and download the report here
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| IVC Is proud and delighted to welcome LeumiTech as its new partner, elevating The Israeli Tech Review upwards and onwards!
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In Q1/2022, Israeli high-tech companies raised $5.6 billion in 212 deals.
While this amount wasn’t a record – in comparison with 2021 numbers – it is still an impressive number considering the decline over the last 6 months on Nasdaq.
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Genome sequencing co Ultima Genomics raises $600m
The US-Israeli company has come out of stealth with a sequencing machine that provides more data, more quickly and more cheaply.
(Source: Globes, June 2, 2022)
Good Company, Sompo Digital Lab Tel Aviv, seeking SilverTech solutions for new program
The startups selected to participate in the program could receive up to a $500,000 investment from Good Company for their technology solutions designed to meet the needs of the 65-plus demographic.
(Source: CTech, June 1, 2022)
Coralogix Closes $142M Series D Funding to Accelerate its Vision of In-Stream Data Analysis for Logs, Metrics, Tracing, and Security
New funding round underscores high demand for harmonious, scalable, and cost-effective observability.
(Source: PR Newswire, June 1, 2022)
Insight Partners to warn startups to prepare for crisis
The US venture capital firm has become the leading investor in Israeli tech startup and growth companies, having invested more than $3 billion over the years.
(Source: Globes, May 31, 2022)
Visa Partners with Fundbox to Enable New Payment Capabilities for Small Businesses
Collaboration strengthens payment offerings for embedded working capital platform.
(Source: Visa, May 31, 2022)
Freightos, a Leading Booking and Payment Platform Digitalizing Global Freight, to Raise Growth Capital and Become Public via Business Combination with Gesher I Acquisition Corp.
The combined entity, to be known as Freightos, with offices around the world, will have a pro forma enterprise value of approximately $435 million.
(Source: Freightos, May 31, 2022)
Interview: "There won’t be any unemployed in high-tech, there will be demand for everyone"
Yuval Tal, managing partner at Team8 and local fintech leader, is convinced that "the crisis will give birth to better companies, as in 2008 and 2001".
(Source: CTech, May 31, 2022)
Israeli mobile games co Playtika to lay off 250
The company will close studios in Montreal, Los Angeles and London and transfer some activities back to Israel.
(Source: Globes, May 31, 2022)
Israel approves 19 programs for $30 million digital health initiative
Project to enable health organizations to share anonymized medical data with startups for better healthcare.
(Source: The Times of Israel, May 30, 2022)
Investment terms will toughen; employees will take the hit
The value of options held by workers in tech startups could fall substantially, without the workers even knowing.
(Source: Globes, May 30, 2022)
Pixellot raising $161 million at $500 million valuation
The Israeli startup has developed a system that automatically captures, produces, and streams games and their highlights to any device, live or on-demand.
(Source: CTech, May 30, 2022)
Why are Israeli companies going to Wall Street right now?
The big-ticket IPOs may be a thing of the recent past, but there are good reasons why small companies are listing on Nasdaq rather than the TASE.
(Source: Globes, May 29, 2022)
Liquidity Group to launch $2 billion fund with Japan’s MUFG Bank
The fund will invest in growth companies and is set to begin investing in around a month, with the investment in each company set to stand at between $25-50 million.
(Source: CTech, May 29, 2022)
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IVC Research on Israeli & Global Media (May-June 2022)
Israeli startups raised $1.75b in May
Israeli privately-held tech companies have raised $8.1 billion in the first five months of 2022.
(Source: Globes, June 1, 2022)
Israeli Unicorns: The Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2022
(Source: Forbes, June 1, 2022)
Institutional investors poured $1 billion into Israeli tech in two years
Nevertheless, the institutional investors utilized only about NIS 1.2 billion from the NIS 2 billion safety net provided by the Israel Innovation Authority, which promised to cover 40% of potential losses it would incur from investing in startups.
(Source: CTech, May 26, 2022)
BeyondMinds shuts down, lays off 65
According to the IVC website, BeyondMinds' investors include Dov Moran's Grove Ventures, Prof. Udi Weinstein and Ofir Shalvi, cofounders of Anobit, which was sold to Apple, and Check Point cofounder Marius Nacht.
(Source: Globes, May 23, 2022)
Actelis Networks' share price halves after Nasdaq IPO
According to IVC, the company raised $137 million in venture capital, its last round having taken place in 2016.
(Source: Globes, May 18, 2022)
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Israel Tech Related New Appointments/Positions (May-June 2022)
Former Barclays Bank UK CEO Ashok Vaswani Joins Pagaya as President
(Source: Business Wire, June 1, 2022)
Michal Braverman-Blumenstyk appointed as CTO for Microsoft’s new Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management Division
(Source: CTech, May 31, 2022)
Microsoft Israel GM Ronit Atad steps down, to be replaced by Alon Haimovich
(Source: CTech, May 30, 2022)
Panorays announces two new executive hires
(Source: CTech, May 29, 2022)
Future Meat Technologies Expands Executive Leadership Team, Continues Momentum Towards Commercialization
(Source: PR Newswire, May 26, 2022)
Payoneer appoints John Caplan as co-CEO
(Source: CTech, May 25, 2022)
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