2007 M&A activity in Israel and then some

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.

The Israel High Tech cluster is based on a strong vc platform, complemented by a pool of entrepreneurial talent

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Did you know that Israel has the highest number of non-US companies listed on Nasdaq?

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There’s a long list of foreign companies that invested in Israel including Google (2 R&D centers), Microsoft (their first office outside of the US), SAP, BT, Intel, Siemens, Sony, Sun Microsystems and many mor…

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Select Israeli breakthroughs in technology include: Intel’s Centrino chip, Flash memory key, Zip compression, IP Phone and more…

 

 

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I encourage you to take a look and explore further.

ISRAEL MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS OF 2007

Multinational Israeli Company Technology Date Sum in $

Life Sciences

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

Taro Pharmaceutical Industries

Pharmaceutical

5.2007

454 mil

Medical Devices

CAIR LGL
DefinitIVe Medical Intravenous infusion pumps 6.2007 *

Information Technology

SAP Ingeneo Customer relationship management software 6.2007 *

Reuters

ClearForest

Text analytics solutions

4.2007

25 mil*

Entropic Communications

Arbella Software

Software

3.2007

*

GlassHouse

MBI

IT Systmes and Colstancy

2.2007

*

GlassHouse

Integrity Solutions

 

2.2007

*

Tessera

Eyesquad

Electronics & imaging

1.2007

24 millioin

Amdocs

SigValue

Software

1.2007

85 mil

Microsft

Secured Dimensions

Software management and security

1.2007

*

Semiconductors

Broadcom Corporation

Octalica

Digital home entertainment networking products

5.2007

35 mil

Telecommunications

Motorola

Terayon

Cable Modem Systems

4.2007

140 mil

Optium

Kailights

Optical systems for cosmetics

3.2007

35 mil

Polycom

Destiny Conferencing

Communication and Conferencing Solutions

1.2007

47.6 million

Nextwave

Go-Networks

Wireless

1.2007

46.6 mil

Water Technology

 
Jain Irrigation Systems Na’an Dan Irrigation 6.2007 21.5

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