BVP began investing in Israel in 1992, recognizing that innovation knows no borders. Although geographically isolated, Israel’s concentration of engineering and business talent along with a culture valuing education, originality, and enterprise closely resembles that found in Silicon Valley. Far away from the world’s largest markets, Israeli start-ups must be global from inception, making them a good match for global fund like BVP’s. BVP opened an office in Herzliya in 2007 to pursue further deals in the region. The partners consider companies at all stages, from seed to growth, and across a number of sectors: Software, Internet, Semiconductors, Storage, Services, Communications, and Cleantech.

In our Israel investments, we seek strong entrepreneurs and management teams with a demonstrated ability to lead, execute, and continuously innovate and adapt to market developments. These entrepreneurs and managers form the backbone of any start-up in our portfolio and become our partners in building a successful company.

BVP also aims to tap Israelis’ proven ability to develop disruptive technologies for large, established markets, and their skill at launching innovative product/service concepts aimed at emerging, rapidly growing markets, such as the various Web businesses. Since technology leadership alone rarely ensures success, BVP targets those companies that apply such innovations to deliver a very compelling proposition for customers.

High productivity and efficiency are another hallmark of the Israeli technology start-up industry and can be a source of true competitive advantage. BVP places a premium on those companies that exhibit unique capital efficiencies in their businesses, whether in R&D, marketing, or sales.

Taken together, strong teams, compelling customer propositions and efficient business models lead to superior performance.

Our Contribution 

With a track record of more than 100 IPOs and close to 150 M&A transactions, BVP brings value to our portfolio. Investments made in Israeli companies are part of a single, global BVP fund, and enjoy the same resources, expertise, and network connections as the rest of the BVP portfolio. Beyond providing capital, BVP works with entrepreneurs to attract and recruit talent, devise and refine strategy, and provide helpful feedback, information, and contacts.

Several Themes of Interest

Within its general sectors, BVP’s Israel team has identified several particularly interesting investment themes:

• Software and appliances that increase the efficiency and performance of the existing enterprise/data center infrastructure
• E-commerce and payments infrastructure for small and medium web businesses using service sales models
• Enterprise software and SaaS companies using low cost online marketing and sales models
• Platforms for online lead generation for on-line and off-line businesses
• Applications and solutions that leverage solid state disks and non-volatile memory
• Solutions that provide for more granular and intelligent matching of online ads

We are always looking for new ways in which innovation meets market need, so if you are an entrepreneur passionate about changing the world, please drop us an email at Israel@bvp.com.

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• Advanced Recognition Technologies (Acq. by ScanSoft, 2005)
• Cyota (Acq. by RSA, 2005)
• DSP Group (DSPG, 1995)
• Finjan (Acq. by M86 Security, 2009)
• Mellanox Technologies (MLNX, 2007)

• Altair
• ColorChip
• Siano Mobile Silicon, Inc.
• Soluto
• Storwize
• Wix