Israel: The Start-Up Nation

Israel Inside icq

2015: US$ 10.7 Billion in Exits $7.2 Billion in 62 M&A deals $3.5 Billion in 8 IPOs, mostly on NASDAQ $153 mil average deal size Sectors Semiconductors IT & enterprise software Life sciences Internet Communication Cleantech Source: PwC Israel 2015 Hi-Tech Exit Report 2016

Record $4.43B Invested in 708 Co’s 30% above 2014’s previous record $1.2B raised in Q4/15 alone $3.2B in VC-backed deals, up 36% Number of deals >$20m up 62% Source: IVC Research Center & KPMG, Jan 2016

Scale-Up Nation? Source: IVC Research Center, Feb 2016

300 Multinational R&D Centres Employing 50,000 People

Successful Academic Commercialization World pioneer in tech transfer since 1959 Two of world’s top tech transfer companies Yeda, Weizmann Institute of Science ( est.1959) Yissum, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (est.1964) >$22 Billion in licensed product sales per year >$500 million in tech transfer revenues annually Hundreds of spin-off companies Many success stories Copaxone®, Exelon™, Erbitux®, Azilect™, Doxil™, Rebif®, Cherry tomatoes, peppers, NDS Ltd. encryption algorithm, MobilEye driver assistance system…

IDC Herzliya Israel’s leading private institution of higher education Founded 1994 by renowned Prof Uriel Reichman Modeled after Ivy league universities Excellence and personal achievement with social responsibility 30% international students from 86 countries Uniquely interdisciplinary Highly entrepreneurial Israel’s first School of Entrepreneurship, only a handful worldwide Will offer undergraduate degree in entrepreneurship starting 2017 25% of students in voluntary student entrepreneurship club