MIDC Investors Mission to Israel

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 January 15-22, 2012

   

Israel is known as “The Startup Nation” for its dynamic high-tech talents and entrepreneurship. Its innovations power cellphones, protect the Internet and are found in medicine cabinets and hospitals around the world.

The Maryland/Israel Development Center (MIDC) and its Israeli partner, Trendlines, launched a venture capital fund earlier this year to invest in Israel’s most innovative and promising high-tech entrepreneurs.

While only three percent of Israeli investments go to seed stage companies, the country’s future depends on high-tech innovation and commercialization. This creates a unique market opportunity for the Maryland/Israel Trendlines Fund to invest in promising high-tech startups while building Israel’s economic future.


Join the MIDC Investors Mission to explore promising investment opportunities among Israel’s creative entrepreneurial class of talented scientists and engineers and learn the role that Maryland plays in supporting one of the world's strongest startup arenas. Determine if an Israeli investment makes sense for you.


Trip Highlights:

  • Meet dozens of Israeli biomedical, “clean-tech” and IT entrepreneurs at Trendlines
    Annual Investors Conference
       Opportunities for one-on-one meetings with companies of interest are available
  • Visit Trendlines exciting “Incubator of the Year” in Misgav*
  • Get a behind-the-scenes look at the Israeli startup system:
       See ground-breaking research at Israel’s world-class universities
       Hear how seasoned executives turned their high-tech startups into global powerhouses
       Learn how unique government policies created an economic miracle in Israel, which now enjoys the lowest unemployment rate in its history
  • Tour Israel’s amazing historic sites:
      Walk the streets of the Old City of Jerusalem and visit the Western Wall
      See how Israel’s founders used innovation to create the Jewish state

For more information, contact Barry Bogage, at bbogage@MarlyandIsrael.org or 410-767-0681.

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