Investors

Apax Partners is one of the world’s leading private equity investment groups, operating across the United States, Europe and Israel. Apax Partners has raised or advised approximately $20 billion around the world. With more than 30 years of direct investing experience, Apax Partners’ Funds provide long-term equity financing to build and strengthen world-class companies. It pursues a multi-stage equity investment strategy, investing in late venture, growth capital and buyouts. Apax Partners’ Funds invest in companies across its global sectors of Tech & Telecoms, Retail and Consumer, Media, Healthcare and Financial and Business services.

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.

Established by a team of wireless and technology entrepreneurs, Trilogy Partnership invests private capital in areas where in-house expertise and market growth promise superior financial returns. Current businesses include operating national wireless carriers in four markets as well as investments in multiple early stage application and data infrastructure companies. Trilogy’s partners include industry leaders and senior managers from wireless telecommunication, data storage and computer software industries.

StageOne is an Information technology fund, which focuses mainly on communications ventures. The fund was formed by a professional management team and the sponsorship of The Israeli PTT- Bezeq and the investment arm of Israel's third-largest bank - Discount Capital Markets. StageOne invests approximately in Israeli-related telecommunications start-ups, focusing on breakthrough, next-generation technologies such as IP QOS/VPN/CDN, OSS-NMS, mobile datacom and 3G, multimedia streaming, optical networking, system-on-chip, LAN WAN servers, and storage networking.

Magma Venture Partners is a leading Israeli related venture capital fund. Magma invests in early stage communication and semiconductor technology and helps to build companies that target global markets and create intustry leading success stories. Magma seeks bright ideas, infuses them with experience and foresight, and facilitates their rise as industry leaders that redefine the global communications sector. The fund takes a lead position in its investments, providing seed, first and second round financing. Magma invests in fields such as: wireless networking, network and internet infrastructure, communication technology semiconductors, security and data storage, software solutions and applications for carriers, enterprise and the consumers. Magma currently manages US$180 Million in two funds.

With over $250 million under management, 70 portfolio companies and 13 successful exits (nine IPO's and four M&A's), the Challenge Funds are among the leading private equity funds dedicated to investments in Israel-related ventures. The Challenge Fund - Etgar L.P. ("Challenge Fund I") was founded in July 1995. After Challenge Fund I invested over 90% of its capital, a second fund, The Challenge Fund - Etgar II L.P. ("Challenge Fund II"), was established in 1999. Investors in the Challenge Funds include a highly distinguished group of American and European investors. In addition to new investors, most of the parties who invested in Challenge Fund I also invested in Challenge Fund II. Among Challenges's portfolio companies in the area of Communications, Internet and Software are: BreezCom, Expand Networks, HeliOss Communications, PowerDsine, Schema, Telgate, Voltaire, Interwise, Jacada, Nova Measuring Instruments and more.

Convergent Technologies is a European Venture Capital Fund, created in 2001 and managed by Convergent Capital. The Management Company is led by a team of 3 partners with 50 years of cumulated experience in managing technology companies. It’s focus is on early stage (seed and first round) investments in the high growth segments of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector, including core components and equipment as well as infrastructure and enabling software and related technologies. The regional focus is in France, Europe, and opportunistically in Israel.