Middle East and Israel
9 February 2012
In 2011, 60 Israeli private equity deals attracted $2.88bn, an 18 per cent increase from $2.44bn attracted by 65 deals in 2010. Ten deals, each more than $100m, accounted for $2.15bn or 75 per cent of the total amount.
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25 January 2012
In 2011, Israeli venture capital funds invested $525m in Israeli companies, an increase of 42 per cent from 2010, and a rise of 28 per cent from 2009 levels.
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15 November 2011
The first three quarters of 2011 saw 119 emerging markets private equity and venture capital funds raising $32.3bn, against the $23.5bn raised in all of 2010, returning fundrasising activity in this sector to pre-crisis fundraising levels, according to new research.
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24 October 2011
Investment in Israeli high-tech companies rose year-on year in the third quarter of 2011, with137 Israeli companies raising $522m
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26 July 2011
In the first half of 2011, $965m was invested in 29 Israeli private equity deals, a decrease of 16 per cent from $1.146bn invested by investors in 31 deals in H1 2010.
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13 July 2011
Israeli technology companies saw a boom in capital raised as in the first half of 2011, 285 companies raised $1.048bn, 82 percent above the $577m raised in the first half of 2010.
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9 August 2010
The private equity (PE) industry in the Middle East (ME) has grown remarkably quickly for an industry that barely existed a decade ago. Today, there are around 150 funds in the region, with a further 12 announced and six rumoured to be happening. In 2008, total funds raised increased to more than $6.4bn. However, PE as an asset class in the Middle East is relatively new and, on a global scale, still very small. In 2001, its share of emerging market PE was less than two per cent. By 2008, however, it accounted for ten per cent.
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27 January 2010
Countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, driven by the need to provide employment to a growing workforce and counter increasing competition from other emerging markets, have introduced economic and investment reforms to increase private investment in their countries. Although the level of foreign private investment in the MENA region throughout the 1980s and 1990s remained low, the region has now become attractive to investors due to acceleration in the pace of reforms and a decline in the role of the state. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows increased at an average of 28 per cent per annum, from $13bn in 2000 to over $97bn in 2008.
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19 June 2009
In this part two of a two-part series in the Israel Venture Capital Journal, high-tech entrepreneur Isabel Maxwell continues to discuss the principles of good communications.
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15 April 2008
In this IVCJ article, Jessica Steinberg looks at some of the programmes that have been created over the years to promote wide-ranging Israeli-European research and business relationships.
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