Israeli startups are on track to raise $1 billion in September alone. According to the latest Israel fact book published by Pitchbook (get your free copy), not only has deal volume risen, but other interesting trends have emerged:
- A surge of investor participation from Bay Area-based firms, which notched a cumulative $1.4 billion in associated deal value last year
- 2019 has already seen close to $2.3 billion invested across 153 deals, signifying a rise in median and average financing sizes. Pitchbook indicates that in 2018 Israeli startups raised $3 billion across 331 deals.
- Israeli VC activity with European investor participation hit a high of 86 transactions for over $900 million in deal value last year, while $820.4 million has already been closed in the first half of this year. With that said, US-based firms still participate in many more transactions, notching 167 for over $2 billion in 2018 and already reaching $1.8 billion over 81 deals in 2019 to date
September has been particularly active in Israeli deals. Select Israeli venture deals announced in September across categories:
- Fundbox – $176 million in equity (another $150M in debt) – fintech
- Tipalti – $76 million – fintech/payments
- Snyk – $70 million – security/open source
- Healthy.io – $60 million – digital health
- Syte.ai – $21.5 million (disclosure: I’m an investor via Remagine -Ventures) – AI, mobile, retail tech
- D-Fend – $28 million – security, drones
- Tipa Corporation – $25 million – packaging
- VIM – $24 million – health
- Trigo Vision – $22 million – AI, retail tech
- Explorium – $15.5 million – AI, data enrichment
- Neura – $16 million – AI, smart notifications
- PerimeterX – $14 million – cybersecurity
- FieldIn -$12 million – agritech
- Scylla DB – $10 million – cloud database
- Lumen – $8.5 million – IOT, health
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