Investors
Clal Industries and Investments Ltd. (CII) is an investment company held by IDB Development Ltd. (64%). CII holds a portfolio in a diverse industrial fields ranging from manufacturing oriented activities to advanced technology based companies. In the manufacturing sector, the company has holdings in enterprises that are leaders in their respective markets, with the major holdings being in the cement, paper and textile industries. In the advanced technology sector, the company has direct holdings in companies that operate in the Telecom, Industrial Electronics and Microelectronics fields. In addition, the company operates two specialized clusters: one manages CII's large investments in the bio-technology area and the other manages its portfolio of venture capital investments. For more information, visit www.cii.co.il.
Genesis Partners is a leading Israeli venture capital firm focused on early stage companies in the information and communication technology (ICT) sectors. Established in 1996, Genesis Partners manages over $500 million in capital commitments across three funds, and has made over 70 investments with 26 successful exits. Genesis Partners has strong ties to the Israeli entrepreneurial community and the global technology industry, and a strong team of venture professionals with extensive experience in venture capital, technology, operations and entrepreneurship. For more information, please visit www.genesispartners.com.
Intel® Capital has an overall strategy to enable innovation; Intel® Capital seeks out and invests in promising technology companies worldwide. We focus on both established and new technologies that help to develop industry standard solutions, drive global Internet growth, facilitate new usage models, and advance the computing and communications platforms.
As part of Intel® Corporation, Intel® Capital calls on some of its best and brightest to evaluate prospective investments, offer business and technology guidance to our portfolio companies, and provide unrivaled access to the latest developments in the industry. We are among the largest venture capital entities in the world with offices in established and emerging markets around the world.
Since 1991, Intel® Capital has invested more than US$6 billion in nearly 1,000 companies in more than 40 countries. In that time, about 180 portfolio companies have been acquired by other companies and another 155 have gone public on various exchanges around the world. In 2006, Intel® Capital invested about US$1.07 billion in 163 deals with approximately 60 percent of funds (excluding Clearwire) invested outside the United States. For more information, visit www.intel.com/capital.
Vertex Venture Capital, a top-tier Israeli VC with $600 million under management, has an experienced multi-disciplinary team of professionals, an impressive track record of exits through M&A and IPO and a strong international investor base. The Vertex team excels at identifying and investing in winners and works closely with management in company building, generating business opportunities and leveraging synergies through its extensive global network of financial and industrial leaders. As the Israeli VC with the largest number of strategic and financial investors from Asia, Vertex opens doors in this territory for its portfolio companies to penetrate markets and find partners and customers. Vertex was founded in 1997 and invests in high technology companies throughout their early stages of development in the areas of information networking and communications systems, software and components, digital media, enterprise software and greentech. For more information, please visit: www.VertexVC.com.