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Thursday, March 19, 2020
-Tel Aviv, Israel
IVC ONLINE PROPRIETARY DATABASE*
ACTIVE ISRAELI HIGH-TECH CO’S
ACTIVE INVESTORS
ACTIVE MULTINATIONALS
9,008
2,317
371
*Updated Daily
ISRAELI HIGH-TECH INDUSTRY UPDATES (MAR 15- MAR 19)
Israeli investment group Viola releases a survey of Israeli high-tech executives revealing a relatively modest isolationist position as a near-term reaction to the COVID-19 outbreak,
with a majority mandating hiring freezes and over 1/3 cutting marketing budgets or temporarily freezing the signing of new vendor agreements.
(Source: Company Website)
Israeli pharmaceutical developer Compugen announces the successful closing of a $75M additional share offering
with SVB Leerink and Stifel Financial acting as joint bookrunners, SunTrust Robinson as lead manager, and Oppenheimer as co-manager.
(Source: Company Press Release)
Private capital placement manager Eaton Partners releases survey results to gauge institutional investors' opinions on how the COVID-19 outbreak will affect the private capital market,
revealing that nearly 80% will not pull capital out of a specific region due to the recent pandemic.
(Source: Company Press Release)
Global growth investor Insight Partners sells its majority stake in Israeli cybersecurity software developer Checkmarx to San Francisco based private equity fund Hellman & Friedman
at a $1.15B valuation, with Evercore acting as lead sell side M&A advisor.
(Source: Company Press Release)
Corporate advisor Axis Innovation helps identify the constituents contributing to the flood of corporate venture capital into the Israeli ecosystem,
which (for better or worse) has clearly increased consensus estimated valuations for Israeli startups after a foreign headquartered multinational takes a minority interest.
(Source: Global Corporate Venturing)
Israeli business analytics software developer Convizit secures $5 Million in Series A financing,
with micro VC investor Jumpspeed and Pitango Venture Capital participating in this round.
(Source: CTech)
RECENTLY PUBLISHED MACROECONOMIC PIECES (Q4'19-Q1'20)
*New
COVID-19's Impact on Early-Stage Israeli Investment Activity
Secondary Deal Activity in Israel
IVC Annual Israeli Tech Review
Israeli High-Tech Capital Raising & Exit Multiples: Correlation Analysis
Israeli Deep-Tech Overview
IVC-Meitar 2019 Full-Year Exits Report
IVC-ZAG 2019 High-Tech Capital Raising Report
Multinational Corporate Activity in Israel
Israeli High-Tech Startup Decline
Israeli Unicorn and Charging Ponies
IVC / Crunchbase Global Capital Raising Analysis
RECENT DATABASE ADDITIONS & SELECTED ACTIVITY (MAR 15- MAR 19)
Financing Rounds
Axis Security
($14M Series A)
Exits
Checkmarx
(Acquired by Hellman & Friedman for $1.15B)
VC / PE Fundraising Activity
Liquidity Capital LP
(Closed on a $500M Trajectory-Based Financing Fund)
New Startups
Track Virus
(Mobile Application)
HyperGuest
(Enterprise Software)
smrt
(Internet Application)
Griin
(Industrial Technologies)
Industry Personnel Movements
Moti Litochevski
(Promoted to CTO at
hiSky Ltd.
)
Josh Peleg
(New CEO at
BGN Technologies
)
UPCOMING ISRAELI HIGH-TECH EVENTS (Q2-Q4'20)
TRAVELTECH ISRAEL 2020
(Jun 8-10)
MIXiii Biomed
(Sep 7-9)
Vehicle & Transporation Technology Innovation Meetings
(Sep 16-17)
IVC UPDATES
IVC dynamic Israeli unicorn dashboard
is now available
IVC Life Sciences sub-sector reclassification
has been recently updated
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