New IVC Survey: $1.6B Invested In 29 Deals

July 26, 2016 |The Israel Venture Capital Research Center (IVC) has published its IVC-Shibolet Israeli Private Equity Market Survey for the second quarter of 2016. The survey showed that private equity investment in Israel in the first half of 2016 fell 24% to $1.6 billion in 29 private equity deals from $2.1 billion in 53 deals in the corresponding period of 2015. In the second quarter of 2016, 13 Israeli private equity deals accounted for $1.3 billion, up from $270 million invested in the preceding quarter, but below the $1.6 billion in the corresponding quarter of 2015. The average deal amount climbed to $98 million, the highest quarterly average in the past four years. Foreign PE funds lead Israeli PE deal-making, with 80 percent of total capital invested in the first half of 2016. The survey also showed that 88 percent of all PE investments were made in the technology sector.  Also, straight equity deals dropped 50% in the first half of 2016.