507 / 730
High-Tech, Electronics & Computing
I
ndustrial production in the high-tech
sectors
1
grew by 3.2% after registering
stability in 2014, and this rise was the
largest of all the technology sectors.
Exports of high-tech industries totaled $22.4
billion in 2015, a rise of 13.3% compared
with 2014. The main rise in exports was re-
corded in the aircraft, aerospace and auxiliary
equipment industry (a rise of 54.5%) and in
exports in the computer, and electro-optic
equipment manufacturing industry (a rise of
10.9%). Exports in the pharmaceuticals man-
ufacturing industry rose 5% and amounted
to $6.8 billion.
High-tech industry exports amounted to
76.2% of the total industrial exports to the
United Kingdom (not including diamonds)
in 2015. High-tech industry exports to China
were 67.9% of total industrial exports (not
including diamonds). High-tech industry
exports amounted to 55.7% of the total in-
dustrial exports to the United States (not
including diamonds) and high-tech industry
exports amounted to 48.7% of the total in-
dustrial exports to Hong Kong (not including
diamonds).
2
As of the end of 2015, 88 technology com-
panies were traded on the Tel Aviv Stock
Exchange and 57 medical technology com-
panies out of 567 companies listed. The Blu-
etech Tel Aviv Index
3
rose by 1.6% in 2015
after falling by about 5% in 2014.
Raising Capital
In 2015, there was another record reported in
raising capital by Israeli high-tech companies
– 708 deals totaling a huge amount of $4.43
billion. This is the largest amount and the
biggest number of deals ever reported. The
amount reflects a jump of 30% from the pre-
vious peak in 2014, when 690 deals totaled
$3.42 billion. The amount of the average deal
also rose and reached $6.3 million in 2015
compared with an average of $5 million per
round 2014, and an average of $4 million in
the past 10 years.
Israeli venture capital funds raised $1.02 bil-
lion in 2015, which was the first vintage year
in the seventh cycle of fund raising for Israeli
venture capital funds. (A vintage year in the
venture capital world is a year in which the
fund begins to invest after its initial fund rais-
ing and in most cases the funds continue to
raise capital even in the following years).
1
This classification relates only to industrial sectors
according to "the unified classification of economic
branches 2011," which is divided into four groups:
high-tech industries, technological industriesmixed
with high-tech, technological industriesmixed with
traditional industries, and traditional technological
industries.
2
The Central Bureau of Statistics: The industrial
import export balance according to technological
strength in 2015.
3
The Bluetech Tel Aviv Index includes all the shares
included on the Tel Aviv Tech Index and the Tel Aviv
Biomed Index.
Investment ratio of venture capital funds out of the total capital raising in 2006 - 2015
38%
39%
40%
40%
37%
37%
35%
30%
30%
23%
27%
24%
27%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
Source: Data from IVC
Total capital raisings by hi-tech, electronics and computer companies in 2006 -2015
in billion NIS
4.4
4.5
4
3.4
3.5
3
2.3
2.5
1.8
2.1
2.1
1.8
2
1.6
1.5
1.2
1.1
1
0.5
0
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
Source: Data from IVC
507
2016
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DUN’S
100
DUN’S
100
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2016
DUN’S
100
|
2016
2016
|
DUN’S
100
High-Tech, Electronics &
Computing