Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) LED Group Wins License to Operate a Tech Incubator
Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), an internationally recognized venture capital fund, announced today that it has been chosen byIsrael’s National Innovation Authority (Office of the Chief Scientist) to operate a Jerusalembased technological incubator. The JVP led group included Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI), Reliance Industries (NSE: Reliance) and Yissum, the Research Development Company of the Hebrew University […]
Israel Venture Funds on Track to Raise $1.5 Billion for 2015
Israel’s venture capital funds raised $1.02 billion last year for investment in startup companies – a figure that may still grow by $500 million to the highest total in many years, the IVC Research Center and accounting firm KPMG said in a survey released Tuesday. Israeli VC funds raised less than the $1.21 billion they […]
Israel ready to fund joint R&D investment fund
If the federal government does not grab the opportunity presented by Israel to set up a jointly funded research and development fund we will know all the talk out of Canberra about innovation is hollow rhetoric. Israel would welcome an R&D partnership fund. That was made clear to Chanticleer on Monday during an interview with […]
MIT-Israel-BGU Seed Fund Approves Five Projects
The MIT-Israel-BGU Seed Fund recently approved several joint research proposals for funding, supporting new collaborations between faculty and research scientists at MIT and their counterparts at Ben Gurion University. The grants extend over the period between January 2015-August 2016. Some of the approved proposals include “Self-Sustained Agriculture Based on Marginal Water,” “Improving the Delivery of […]