1. Israel: The Start-Up Nation

2. Israel Inside
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3. 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

4. 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

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

6. 300 Multinational R&D Centres Employing 50,000 People

7. 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…

8. 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