Delegation to Israel - June 10th - 13th, 2013
This June CICC is leading a delegation to Israel. Israel is not just the country of thousands of startups but a technology world leader second only to California in emerging and expanding technology companies. This year we offer an opportunity to get to understand this amazing fabric and build relationships that could foster cooperations, investments, and partnerships.
Join some of the top corporations, VCs, Growth Funds, Emerging Ventures, Investment Bankers, Commercial Banks and Law firms who are leaders in the field of Cyber Security; Big Data, SaaS & Cloud and Mobile & Internet and take part in this delegation.
The 2013 delegation to Israel will feature:
· Meet up to 30 Israeli innovative mid and late-stage companies.
· Company showcase, Panels, round tables, networking opportunities and
keynote speakers by industry leaders from Israel and California
· Meetings with Israel’s industry leaders, top decision makers
and government officials.
· Explore fascinating archeological sites at the Old City of Jerusalem
Co-Chairs
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Harry Kellogg
Vice Chairman, Silicon Valley Bank
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Dr. Giora Yaron
Chairman of the Executive
Council of Tel-Aviv University
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Jacques Benkoski
Partner, USVP |
Buddy Arnheim
Partner, Perkins Coie
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Zvi Alon
Chairman, CICC
CEO, Alon Ventures |
Nir Merry
Vice President of Engineering
Applied Materials |
For additional information about the tour and for sponsorship packages, please contact Talia Cohen
Technology and Venture Capital Missions to Israel
CICC leads annual delegations to Israel designed to introduce new innovations, entrepreneurial landscape, acquisition opportunities and joint ventures to interested global technology and venture capital firms. Over 70 US and European VC’s participated in CICC’s delegations since 2004. These delegations provided enormous value to Israeli technology firms and created incredible traction in new investments in the country.
CICC's recent Cleantech Delegation to Israel was an unprecedented effort which brought for the first time the leading California investors, companies and dealmakers in the cleantech space to Israel for a week long visit.
Mission delegates were honored by President Shimon Peres with a special reception at his residence in Jerusalem.
Their visit included meetings with pre-selected cleantech companies in Israel among them: TaKadu, GreenRoad, TransBioDiesel, HelioFocus, GreenLet Technologies, Phoebus Energy, ETV Mostors, AquaPure Technologies, Elcon Recycling Center,Larotecand GridOn.
In addition delegates visited Israel's Desalination Plant at IDE Technologies in Ashkelon, The WeizmannInstitute of Science and CEOs of Netafim, Mekorot & BetterPlace.
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Delegation included the following participants:
Michael Allman, President & CEO, Sempra Generation
Zvi Alon, CEO, Alon Ventures
Buddy Arnhaim, Partner, Perkins Coie
Russell Artzt, Vice Chairmen & Founder, CA
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David Anthony, Managing Partner, 21 Ventures
Adam Bergman, Senior Vice President, Jefferies
Pat Burtis,Amadeus Capital
WuSheng Chen, President, Protecht Group
George Cohelo, Managing Director, Good Energies |
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John Denniston, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers
Josh Green, General Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Harry Kellogg, Vice Chairman, Silicon Valley Bank
Henk Kielman, CEO, RIG Investments
Steve Krausz, General Partner, US Venture Partners |
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Jacob Lam, EVP, Strategy & Corp. Dev, CA
Joe McGee, SVP Strategic Planning and Development, Jabil Circuit
Atiq Raza, Partner, Khosla Ventures
Alan Salzman, CEO, Vantage Point Venture Partners
Sass Somekh, Managing Partner, Musea Ventures |
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Rachel Sheinbein, CMEA
Shai Weiss, Partner, Virgin Green Fund
Ben Wall, Investment Director, Texas A&M University Foundation
Kevin Wolf, COO, Wind Harvest International
Eric Young, General Partner, Canaan Partners |
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