Argonaut Private Equity
Argonaut Private Equity is a diversified global private equity fund dedicated to building emerging market leaders. With more than $2 billion under management provided by a single entrepreneur, Argonaut is uniquely positioned to assist entrepreneurial companies. Its equity investments range from $1 million to $200 million and span such diverse markets as consumer electronics, specialty materials, telecommunications, drug discovery and delivery, medical devices, aviation and healthcare services. Argonaut's portfolio includes investments in the United States, China, Israel, India, Japan, Eastern Europe and Australia.
Cedar Fund
Cedar Fund is a venture capital firm, investing in high technology companies. Cedar Fund seeks to invest in outstanding entrepreneurs pursuing high growth markets with distinguished technologies in the telecommunications, networking, Internet-infrastructure and enterprise software areas. Cedar Fund invests in all stages, and specializes in early stage, Israel-related situations. With its quality investment track record and over $225 million under management, Cedar Fund is among the largest and most notable venture capital firms focusing on Israel-related, early stage investments. For more information, please visit www.cedarfund.com.
Evergreen
Evergreen Venture Partners is one of Israel's pioneering and premier venture capital firms focusing on early-stage technology investments. Evergreen's current $650 million of private equity funds under management represents one of the largest portfolios in Israel with investments in almost 100 technology start-ups. Founded in 1987, Evergreen's long track record of success is based on the experience, skills and commitment of its core team which has worked together for the past three funds. Evergreen has executed 30 successful portfolio company exits through IPOs or trade sales. Some of these companies include P-Cube, Actona, Creo, Galileo, Backweb, Exalink, Radvision and Radware. Evergreen's seventeen years of successful private equity investments has attracted a global network of blue-chip investors, including Bank of America, HarbourVest, Teachers of Illinois Retirement System, NIF Ventures (Daiwa), ABN-Amro, CALTECH, and Ontario Municipal Retirement Fund. For more information, please visit www.evergreen.co.il.
Motorola Ventures
Motorola Ventures (MV) is the global, strategic venture capital investment arm of Motorola, Inc. MV actively invests at all stages in developing companies of strategic value to Motorola in order to accelerate access to new technologies, new markets and new talent. For more information: www.motorola.com/ventures.
STATA Venture Partners
Stata Venture Partners is a private equity fund that invests in early stage new business opportunities around the world. They have strategic investments in a wide array of technologies ranging from semiconductors to telecommunications backbone and infrastructure. Stata Ventures specializes in helping companies build the internal infrastructure and long term strategic plan needed to be successful in today's dynamic marketplace. Stata Ventures was begun by Ray Stata, founder and Chairman of Analog Devices, a leading semiconductor corporation.
Walden Israel
Walden Israel is one of Israel's leading early-stage technology venture funds, operating in Israel since 1993. Walden Israel manages three focused funds concentrating in the communications and information technology markets. The fund is managed by experienced technology entrepreneurs and has backed more than 40 Israeli start-ups to date. Walden Israel's 2006 exits include: Passave (acquired by PMC-Sierra, Inc. (NASDAQ: PMCS), nLayers (acquired by EMC, Inc. (NYSE:EMC), and Ex Libris (acquired by Francisco Partners). For additional information about Walden Israel, please visit www.walden.co.il.