TAU School of Management hosts video conference with Chinese investors

Investors from China interested in Israeli companies participate in a video conference hosted by Tel Aviv University School of Management

24 January 2016
From the right: Allon Reiter, VP for Business Development at LeukoDx, and Aviad Rabinovitch, Business Development Consultant at Step of Mind, both graduates of Tel Aviv University’s School of Management. (Photo by: Yael Zur)

On the morning of Tuesday, 19 January 2016, the School of Management at Tel Aviv University hosted a video conference for some 300 investors from China interested in Israeli companies.  The conference was the initiative of ZCVA, a Chinese venture capital and private equity fund with members from all parts of China.

 

The conference focused on maturing startups with a product or technology at the end of the first or second capital raising round, as well as maturing companies at various other stages of development, including pre-IPO companies interested in entering the Chinese market and the possibility of joint ventures. 

 

The Chinese investors participated in the video conference from three cities – Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.The representatives of the companies in Israel briefly reviewed their fund raising purposes, and answered the Chinese investors’ questions, as well as questions on issues such as the business models, development stages, and regulation.

 

Diverse business interests

The conference provided the Israeli companies with extensive exposure to the Chinese business community, in terms of both fund raising and developing business relations.  Participants represented Israeli companies operating in a broad range of areas, including medical equipment, computer hardware, the internet, mobile communications, energy, and environmental protection.  The companies were Mobileye, Oxitone, eyeSight, Starcom, ToucheMedical, SCREEMO, TinyTap, VideoDubber, Contacts+, WinkApp, Step of Mind, CNOGA, Dune Medical Devices, Fusic, LeukoDx, Forrest Innovations, Medicini Asia, Eco Wave Power.

 

Among the entrepreneurs from the companies participating in the video conference were graduates of Tel Aviv University and its School of Management.

 

  Participants at the event included Yair Dangoor, CEO of Medicini Asia, David Huberman, Sales Manager of Mobileye, Ofer Harpak, Chairman and CTO of Oxitone, Avihoo Keret, founder and CEO of ToucheMedical, Gideon Shmuel, CEO of eyeSight, Adir Zimmerman, co-founder and CEO of SCREEMO, and the School of Management graduates included Allon Reiter, VP for Business Development at LeukoDx, Aviad Rabinovitch, Business Development Consultant at Step of Mind, and Lior Romano, founder of Contacts+.

 

Internationally ranked

The September 2015 issue of PitchBook placed the MBA program at Tel Aviv University’s School of Management 13 out of 25 leading schools in its international ranking of schools producing entrepreneurs.  This was the only program from Israel in the ranking.  According to PitchBook, Tel Aviv University ranked ninth in the world in terms of producing entrepreneurs, in the period examined:  2010 to July 2015.  

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