Invest in Israel, the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, Foreign Trade Administration has published a list of Israeli M&A deals in the recent years. I cleaned it up a little bit and presented below some of the Israeli M&A deals that made headlines in 2007. Missing from this list are deals that occurred past Novemeber of this year, including the sale of semantic Q&A engine Yedda, and Adwords competitor Quigo to AOL, so keep that in mind when viewing the list.
The Israeli center provides resources about the Israeli industry for foreign investors interested in direct investment opportunities in Israel or joint ventures. Among the many interesting resources on the site, I found a few gems. Skip the images to get to the M&A Deal table below. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge.
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ISRAEL MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS OF 2007
| Multinational | Israeli Company | Technology | Date | Sum in $ |
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Life Sciences |
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Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. |
Taro Pharmaceutical Industries |
Pharmaceutical |
5.2007 |
454 mil | |
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Medical Devices |
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DefinitIVe Medical | Intravenous infusion pumps | 6.2007 | * | |
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Information Technology |
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| SAP | Ingeneo | Customer relationship management software | 6.2007 | * | |
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Reuters |
ClearForest |
Text analytics solutions |
4.2007 |
25 mil* | |
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Entropic Communications |
Arbella Software |
Software |
3.2007 |
* | |
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GlassHouse |
MBI |
IT Systmes and Colstancy |
2.2007 |
* | |
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GlassHouse |
Integrity Solutions |
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2.2007 |
* | |
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Tessera |
Eyesquad |
Electronics & imaging |
1.2007 |
24 millioin | |
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Amdocs |
SigValue |
Software |
1.2007 |
85 mil | |
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Microsft |
Secured Dimensions |
Software management and security |
1.2007 |
* | |
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Semiconductors |
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Broadcom Corporation |
Octalica |
Digital home entertainment networking products |
5.2007 |
35 mil | |
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Telecommunications |
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Motorola |
Terayon |
Cable Modem Systems |
4.2007 |
140 mil | |
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Optium |
Kailights |
Optical systems for cosmetics |
3.2007 |
35 mil | |
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Polycom |
Destiny Conferencing |
Communication and Conferencing Solutions |
1.2007 |
47.6 million | |
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Nextwave |
Go-Networks |
Wireless |
1.2007 |
46.6 mil | |
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Water Technology |
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| Jain Irrigation Systems | Na’an Dan | Irrigation | 6.2007 | 21.5 | |
I'm a former general partner at google ventures, head of Google for Entrepreneurs in Europe and founding head of Campus London, Google's first physical hub for startups.
I'm also the founder of Techbikers, a non-profit bringing together the startup ecosystem on cycling challenges in support of Room to Read. Since inception in 2012 we've built 11 schools and 50 libraries in the developing world.
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