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The venture capital funds present themselves as a home for innovative companies, but they are very picky when it comes to welcoming guests to a meal around their table - that is, in choosing who will get the coveted funding from them.
This is not surprising in light of the data showing that about 305 million startups are created every year around the globe, as of 2022, and are fighting for a place at the table of about 8-10 thousand venture capital funds that were active at that time in the world.
The situation of startups has even worsened in the last two years with the trend of rising interest rates and closing the pockets of investors, which led more startup companies to knock on closed doors.
However, alongside them there are also funds that are a platform for a range of investors from a range of fields, whose geographical diversity and investor tastes have allowed them to continue to be a home for Israeli innovation even in recent times.
One of them is the Israeli ExitValley, which is a global venture capital investment platform that includes about 25 thousand investors, and the next fund, Shavala!
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The investors are diverse: private individuals, companies, family offices and foundations/ExitValley
Fund manager and co-founder:
Shahar Sharaga.
When it started operating:
2015.
Location of the fund's offices:
Tel Aviv.
Value of managed assets:
about 70 million dollars.
The type and nature of investors in the fund:
private individuals, companies, family offices and foundations.
About 70% of them are Israelis and the rest from North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, India, and more.
Areas of investment:
all areas of technology and innovation, led by the areas of foodtech, agritech, digital health, transportation, medical equipment, cleantech, biotech and climatetech.
The stage of the companies it invests in:
mainly Seed and A, alongside investments in the B and C stages.
Average check range:
$500,000 to $2 million.
The amount of the fund's investments in Israel so far:
115 companies.
Among the companies she invested in:
Clariter, AgroScout, W-cycle, XRHealth, CoreBone, SolCold, HeraMED, Feelit.
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Most of the foundation's staff is currently recruited for reserve service/Yiniv Eitan
The fund's forecast for 2024:
"We estimate that at the end of 2024, a period of significant growth awaits Israeli high-tech, which lies in the unique power of Israeli innovation.
"We, at the fund, are already experiencing an increase in investor activity and estimate that the trend will continue.
The sequence of complex events that we experienced made it difficult for young companies to raise capital during this period, but
the diversity of our investors shows its possibilities in responding to the capital
raising needs of the startups that come to us."
As an officer in a variety of core positions in the array of special units in the IDF.
He has a bachelor's degree in Orientalism from Haifa University, which he studied in the army, and a master's degree in business administration from Ben Gurion University.
In his previous position, he served as business development manager at the Tamir Fishman Investment House.
According to Sharga:
"The current period emphasizes the strength of Israeli society, with an endless variety of civic initiatives and groundbreaking innovation. People from around the world continue to want to be part of the Startup Nation, and we are happy to be a platform that enables this."
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