Israel Isolated? Israel Embraced by the Investment Community!
Walking the (pro-Israel) walk supersedes talking the (anti-Israel) talk. The following data provides some background to Standard & Poor's decision to upgrade Israel's credit rating to A+:
ChemChina acquired Israel's Agan Machteshim Chemicals for $2.4BN - $1.1BN in cash and $1.27BN in a non recourse loan (Globes, Oct. 18, 2011).
Israel Electric Company will establish a $1.3BN solar energy plant in China, 25% owned by a Chinese partner (Globes, Oct. 10).
The London-based Permira Private Equity negotiates the acquisition of 55% of Israel's Netafim for $450MN (Globes, September 22).
The Chicago-based GTCR Private Equity acquired Israel's FundTech for $388MN (Globes, Sept. 19).
Intel acquired Israel's TeleMap for $300MN (Globes, October 2).
The Arris Group acquired Israel's BigBand for $172MN in cash (Globes, October 12).
Tyco International acquired Israel's ViSonic for $99.5MN (Globes, Sept. 16).
E-Bay acquired Israel's The Gifts project for $25MN, its 4th Israel acquisition since 2005 (Globes, Sept. 12).
The E-storage giant, EMC, acquired Israel's ZettaPoint for $10MN, its 5th Israeli acquisition since 2006 (Globes, Oct. 2).
Twitter acquired Israel's Julpan (Globes, September 23).
The Hong Kong-based Li Ka Shing's Horizons Ventures, the Malaysia-based Joshua Lim's Jfund and the Menlo Park-based Kleiner Perkins Caufied & Byers invested $30MN in Israel's Waze (Globes, Oct. 19).
The Menlo Park-based Menlo Ventures, Eric Schmidt (Google's CEO), Michael Arrington (founder of the Silicon Valley's TechCrunch) and Troy Carter (founder of Coalition Media Group) invested $15MN in Israel's Shaker (Globes, Oct. 11).
The Menlo Park-based Sequoia Partners and India's Northwest Venture Partners invested $11MN in Israel's Ravello (Globes, Sept. 27).
The NYC-based OrbiMed, the Boston-based Oxford Bioscience Partners and the Mansfield, MA-based Covidien Ventures invested $11MN in Israel's SuperDimension (Globes, Sept. 14).
The Menlo Park-based Khosla Ventures, Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, the Menlo Park-based Bessemer Venture Partners, the NYC-based IA Ventures and the San Francisco-based Founders Fund invested $10MN in Israel's BillGuard (Globes, Oct. 19).
Harbin (China) municipality and Israel-China Infinity Fund invest $10MN in ten Israeli start ups (Globes, Oct. 11).
US VC funds invested $8MN in Israel's Motus GI (Globes, Oct. 6).
The Boston-based Battery Ventures and the Holland-based Gimv NV co-led a $10MN 2nd round of private placement in Israel's ActivePath (Globes, Sept. 20).
The Menlo Park-based Sequoia Partners led a $9MN investment in Israel's Mintigo (Globes, Sept. 20).
The $1.7BN Italy's Sorin invested $7MN in Israel's EnoPace (Globes, Oct. 18).
Hong Kong's Li Ka Shing invested $5.5MN in Israel's Magisto (Sept. 21).
Microsoft invests $1.5MN in a joint E-Commerce 5 years project with Israel's Technion, Israel's Institute of Technology (Globes, Oct. 10).
Notwithstanding the anti-Israel policy of Turkey's ruling Islamist party, the Israel-Turkey trade balance during the first half of 2011 reached $2.35BN (Israeli export - $1.1BN, Turkey export - $1.25BN), compared with $3.1BN during the entire 2011 (Sept. 5).
The scope of Israel-Singapore trade balance was $1BN, trending upward (Globes, Aug. 31).
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger
The Ettinger Report
"Second Thought: A US-Israel Initiative"
