Internet trading platform PrivatEquity.biz, the first secondary market platform in Israel, is expanding its operations to the UK. PrivateEquity.biz, which was launched several months ago, is offering private and institutional investment managers in the UK the opportunity to establish in-house venture capitals funds, which invest in private Israeli high-tech companies in the secondary market. The British investors will be able to invest in securities held by entrepreneurs, employees and former employees of private Israeli hi-tech companies
The company is negotiating with several UK-based entities to establish its extension in London.
For the first time in the UK, PrivatEquity.biz is inviting investment managers that manage over $2 million to join the “broker-dealer” program, which enables the creation of an innovative long term profit centre in the secondary market, and the establishment of in-house venture capital funds for investment in securities held by high-tech entrepreneurs and high-tech employees in Israel. The program is designed for investment managers and financial consultants, family offices, private banking entities, large and small investment houses, pension consultants and insurance agents.
As part of the “broker-dealer” program, PrivatEquity.biz will enable UK-based investment managers who meet the criteria to offer their clients a direct approach to long term investments in a diverse portfolio of growing private Israeli technology companies and private securities offered by entrepreneurs, employees and former employees in the hi-tech industry.
Along with the “broker-dealer” program, PrivatEquity.biz is launching the “barometer” program for UK institutional entities interested in investing in a wide variety of private hi-tech companies in the secondary market, with a focus on Israeli companies. The arena allows UK institutional entities access to investment in low entry level amounts, in order to create an internal “barometer” for the portfolio companies selected for the investment by the investment managers of the institutional entities. In this manner, the institutional entities will create an indicator for identifying potentially greater and more significant future investments, with an informed risk management.
PrivatEquity.biz Chairman Oren Harel said, "The high-tech industry is flourishing in Israel, and it has sprouted thousands of start-up companies, many of which are issued or sold to corporations. This industry has yielded countless breakthrough technologies from the disk-on-key, through Intel processors, and up to the firewall. Therefore, private Israeli high-tech companies are an extraordinary investment opportunity for UK investors.”
For the first time, the ‘broker-dealer’ program will allow investment managers as well as private and institutional investment entities to offer their clients a direct access through the secondary market to long term investments in a diverse portfolio of growing private technological companies in Israel.” Harel added: “The trade in private shares is one of the fast-growing fields in the financial trade world, and for a good reason. Outside the public trading arenas, there’s a whole, constantly-growing world of private companies which haven’t yet reached issuance, and even more importantly these companies are in a very dynamic stage of their life cycle. The potential of these companies is very attractive to many investors, private and institutional alike, who are looking for promising and unusual investments outside the traditional arenas and the low interest areas, investments to which they can funnel their extra funds.”
Harel added, "The UK investors joining the program will enjoy the many private investors from Israel and the world that are active in PrivatEquity.biz.”
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on September 11, 2014
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