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Maayan Ventures The Leading Incubator in Israel March, 2012. The Motivation. The initial motivation for establishing the incubators by the Israeli government: Encouraging growth of certain industries, developing high-tech industries
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Maayan Ventures The Leading Incubator in Israel March, 2012
The Motivation The initial motivation for establishing the incubators by the Israeli government: • Encouraging growth of certain industries, developing high-tech industries • Decreasing dependency of certain areas in one industry (such as: automotive, steel, defense) • Increasing activities in “weak” sectors – poor population, development areas • Increasing cooperation between the Academia / Research Inst. and the industry – commercializing new technologies • Creating new employment opportunities, especially for new immigrants • The two main reasons for business failure of new start-ups are lack of managerial experience and funding problems. The incubators professionalize in these areas.
The Business Model • The main principle: leveraging government money for early stage venture capital investments. • Basic funding for each new company: $600K: • ~$500K (85%) is given by the OCS as a non-recourse loan that is returned from future earnings. • ~$100K (15%) is invested as equity by Maayan Ventures. • Maayan Ventures receives 40% of the company. OCS Maayan Ventures 85% - Non-Recourse Loan 15% - Equity Portfolio Company
PRIVATIZATION (2002) Technological Incubators in Israel • Established by the government in 1991 • Overseen by the Office of the Chief Scientist of Israel’s Ministry of Industry and Trade • After 7-8 years, became a government investment channel, and a decline commenced: • Economic depression, burst of the high-tech bubble • Regarded as “heavy” and bureaucratic government institutions • High failure rates of graduate companies
The Current Situation • 24 active technological incubators • 15 of them operate in peripheral areas • 23 are privatized • More than 200 companies / start-ups operate in the various incubators (at least 100 of them are new) • The total incubators budget during 2010 – 177M NIS • Since 1993 until today – more than 1200 companies graduated from the incubators • In 2010 there were 57 graduates – 68% of them managed to raise additional funds
Maayan Ventures • The largest early stage investment company in Israel • Two “incubators” franchises from the Office of the Chief Scientist of the State of Israel (OCS) enabling leverage of government funds • Over 30 portfolio companies in three main fields: Software, Medical Devices and Materials Rotem Ventures Industry and Materials Maayan Ventures Medical Devices Iris Ventures Software and IT
The Business Model • The main principle: leveraging government money for early stage venture capital investments. • Basic funding for each new company: $600K: • ~$500K (85%) is given by the OCS as a non-recourse loan that is returned from future earnings. • ~$100K (15%) is invested as equity by Maayan Ventures. • Maayan Ventures receives 40% of the company. OCS Maayan Ventures 85% - Non-Recourse Loan 15% - Equity Portfolio Company
Typical Investment Cycle 48 Maayan’s Holdings 20%<Maayan<40% M&A or EXIT 36 Reality Check Maayan invests only with lead third party Series B End of Incubator Period 24 Series A 18 15% Supplementary Funding by Maayan 85% Government Grant Seed Stage Maayan > 40% 0 Months What do we do to get there?
1st Stage: Selecting The Right Companies Deal Flow Sources: Refer a friend Leading funds Tech transfer orgs Patent attorneys Maayan’s investors Due Diligence Technological Innovation Entrepreneurs Legal Financial • Internal Inv Comm • Leading professionals • Expert opinions from the field • Examining worthiness of investment Appointed examiner On behalf of the OCS – Government screening Process Incubatur Over 400 Opportunities per year Initial Screening Internal Investment Committee OCS Committee 5-10 companies enter the incubator every year
2nd Stage: Providing Added Value • Close Accompaniment • Recruitment of Key Executives • Financial Backing • Business Development • Strategic Consulting • Administration Backing • Legal Services • Coaching Company Entering Maayan Incubator
3rd Stage: Opening The Market • Door Opening • Exposure to Market • Connections with Relevant Players • Exposure to Strategic Partners • Leading Negotiation with M&A Partners • Legal and Financial Advice • Bringing Additional Investors
Strategy • Rich, balanced, high-quality portfolio • Focus on three market segments • Value creation while creating exits along the way • Deep involvement in portfolio companies • High-quality, professional and dedicated management • Low operational costs • Maintenance of high equity stake in key portfolio companies • Leverage of the connection with IDB and Infinity China • Social awareness - promotion of the Negev
Key Portfolio Companies Industrial/Material Medical Devices Software/IT 37% 43% 34% Aespira Breathing New Life Into Healthcare 42% 35% 46% 46% 29% 48% 21% Major Holdings in Leading Companies
Gizmox • Gizmox has developed a unique transposition technology for complex enterprise software applications from client server architecture to new architecture of cloud/web/mobile/HTML5 • The company had completed the development for Microsoft Applications and is now developing its JAVA based solution • Team: • Navot Peled- Founder, CEO- vast experience in product marketing • Guy Peled- Founder, CTO- vast development experience in MS architecture • Itzik Shpizen- VP R&D • Doron Libstein- Chairman- Over 15 years at MS, founder of MSN Israel and Head of MS Europe • Major Achievements • Convertible loan and strategic agreement of $2.5m with Citrix • Two major agreements with Microsoft • The company is currently in advanced negotiation with a number of potential clients in the financial sector and others for applications transpositioning projects based on Gizmox technology
B-Nano • B-Nano is revolutionizing the microscope world - has introduced the first electronic microscope to operate in atmospheric pressure. This development has tremendous implications in the medical and metrology fields • Team • Dubi Shachal, Founder- Dr. of Chemical Physics from Weizman institute, Held senior management positions at Applied Materials as system engineer, development manager, and product manager of an over $1b revenues product • Rafi De Pichoto- Chief Physician, Dr. of Physics from Weizman Institute, over 10 years of research experience at Bell Labs in the US. • Major Achievements: • The company has signed a $4.4m NRE agreement with a Korean Company • Sales agreements with additional Korean companies as well as interest from international semiconductor companies • Entrance to the labs market by installations at major labs across the globe, specializing in life sciences and nano technology
The company is revolutionizing the hair transplant field- moving from the operation room to a Botox like procedure • There are over a billion people globally suffering from balding. The potential is huge, but has not materialized commercially with existing procedures due to high costs and poor results • Hair Esthetics offers a revolutionary procedure for “hair injection” which will enable every balding person to enjoy great results for low cost • Hair Esthetics is the first company to offer a multiple hair implementation procedure enabling the transplanting of a group of hair versus single hair line in a click of a button, making it the lowest cost, fastest, easiest procedure on the market. • The company has received a lot of interest from strategic partners and leading investment institutions: • Approval for clinical trials/ completion of clinical prototypes • Signed a TS after reviewing several from a leading investment fund at an up round valuation • Interest expressed from strategic partners such as AmorePacific (Korean Giant) • The Vision: Hair Esthetics will revolutionize hair transplant in the same way Botox has revolutionized wrinkles removal