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of their efforts, Israel's annual venture capital outlays rose nearly 60-fold, from $ 58 million to $ 3.3 billion, between 1991 and 2000. The number of companies launched using
Israeli venture funds rose from 100 to 800. Israel's information technology revenues rose from $ 1.6 billion to $ 12.5 billion. By 1999, Israel ranked second only to the United States in invested private equity capital as a share of GDP. It also led the world in the share of its growth attributable to high-tech ventures: 70 percent. According to the
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The success of the venture capital industry in Israel continued with Yozma (Hebrew for "initiative"), a government initiative in 1993 offering attractive tax incentives to foreign venture capital investments in Israel and promising to double any investment with funds from the government. As a result
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Venture capitalist Aileen Lee coined the term "unicorn" in 2013 to define a privately held startup valued at $ 1 billion or more. It was initially used to portray the rarity of such companies. As of 2021, over 70 unicorns exist in Israel or were founded by
Israelis – making Israel the number one
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In 2019, Israeli companies were considered more popular than their
American peers. For comparison, investment volume in Israeli startups grew by 140% from 2014 to 2018. Investments in technological startups from the U.S. grew by 64%. Moreover, Israeli startups are becoming so attractive that US
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