The delegation of Chinese Investors & Entrepreneur visited Israel from Oct 17^th, 2013 to Oct 27^th, 2013 and aims at broadening Chinese investors and entrepreneurs’ horizon and getting more ideas or resources from Israel to explore the way that how to connect the technology and finance under the specific market environment with Chinese characteristics.

The team members consisted of certain partners from famous institutional investors, shareholders of certain listing Corporationand famous entrepreneurs in China.

For the registration of the next delegation, please contact Ms. Zhu (International Director of ZVCA, bella@zvca.org)

Details:

1.Visited Infinity Private equity fund which is one of the biggest PE fund in Israel

Infinity Group is well-known for its strong roots in China, its vast, global network of technology, IP and innovation and its“China-Outbound” initiative, which supports Chinese companies that show leadership in the Chinese market and which have an interest in international business, M&As, and R&D outside of China. It has set up Infinity I-China to manage huge amount of fund. Members of our delegation discussed the possibility for the further cooperation with Mr. Shilvershatz (Partner of Infinity).

2.Visited Aquagro Fund which  focused on Israel’s innovative water and agriculture technologies, as well as other innovative clean technologies

The Fund was formed by Gaon Agro Industries, AquAgro GbR Germany and Ainsbury Properties Ltd. together with Hillel Milo and Nir Belzer. Mr. Hillel Milo is one of the pioneers of the venture capital industry in Israel. Mr. Belzer was among the first and few venture capital funds to appreciate the opportunity in Material Science and CleanTech. We listened the introduction about the company from Mr. Milo and discussed details about the way of investment management, the field they focused on and how to enter into the Chinese market.

3.Visited Poalim Capital Markets which is Israel’s leading investment bank providing a full range of global products and services

PCM is a subsidiary of Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s largest financial group. Since its establishment in 1990, PCM has played a major role in shaping the Israeli economy by providing international investment banking services, advising on numerous M&A transactions, structuring private equity funds, and leading the local underwriting market (through Poalim IBI)

Poalim Asia Direct is the branch of PCM in China. The president Boaz Dymant and Poalim and the investment director Ami Samuels gave details about the Poalim’s business in China and Israel and discussed the further plan of cooperation.