The Israeli Tech Industry - Start-ups
- Israeli High-Tech Capital Raising Hits a Record High in 2016: $4.8 billion (11% above the $4.3 billion raised in 2015).
- Tel Aviv is the ecosystem with Highest Global Connectedness in the "Europe Region" according to
- There are over 6,000 active start-up companies in Israel.1
- 600 new startup companies per year.
- The average financing round reached $7.2 million in 2016, 19 percent above the $5.1 million five- year average.2
- The double multiplier: ratio of funding rounds vs. exits gave investors approximately $2 from exits for every $1 invested in the last 3 years.3
- In 2016, there were 104 exits worth a total of approximately $10 billion compared to the same number of exits in 2015, worth a total of $9 billion.4
- In 2016, Israel’s Cybersecurity sector broke its own record for financing raised, reaching $581 million in investments, second only to the United States and representing 15% of the capital raised by the global Cybersecurity industry that year.
1 Deloitte, 2017
2 IVC research center, 2016
4 IVC Meitar high-tech exits 2016 report