JVP's headquarters in Jerusalem built in 1937
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Limited liability company | |
Industry | Venture Capital |
Founded | 1993 |
Headquarters | Jerusalem, Israel |
Key people
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Erel Margalit (Founder) Kobi Rozengarten (General Partner) Gadi Tirosh (General Partner) |
Products | Investments |
AUM | US$900 million |
Website | www.jvpvc.com |
Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) is an international venture capital firm founded in 1993. The fund specializes in investments in startup companies, focusing on Digital Media, Enterprise Software, Semiconductors, Storage and Cyber Security, having raised close to a billion US Dollars across nine funds. JVP is headquartered in the JVP Media Quarter in Jerusalem, Israel with offices in Be'er Sheva, New York City and Paris.
JVP, founded in Jerusalem in 1993 by Erel Margalit, has overseen at least 26 successful exits, more than any other Israel-based investor. The firm has led some of the most successful exits in Israeli history, including the IPO of business intelligence (BI) software company QlikTech- valued at more than $2.5 billion, and the sale of Chromatis Networks to Lucent Technologies for $4.8 billion, the largest sale of an Israeli company ever to that point. On May 2012 JVP portfolio company XtremIO, established in 2009, was sold to EMC Corporation for $430 million. Additional notable companies backed by JVP are Allot Communications, Altair Semiconductor, AnyClip, Cogent Communications, Cyber-Ark, Fundtech, Jacada, Navajo Systems, Netro, Playcast Media Systems, Precise, Sheer Networks, Qlipso, XMPie and more.