Is the online financial trading industry part of Israeli high-tech?

My article regarding the online trading financial arena  has just been published in the IVC annual high-tech handbook. http://www.barlaw.co.il/files/45907783cc0605368396bb029b9b4624/HT_Internet_BarneaArticle.pdf

Israeli Startup Success Report 1999-2014

An interesting report   by IVC Research Center and REVERSEXITregarding Israeli Startup performance between 1999-2014, shows that only 4 of 500 Startups are successful and growing independently.

More interesting details inside: http://www.ivc-online.com/Research-Center/IVC-Publications/IVC-Surveys/Startup-Report

Since the beginning of 2015 Companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa have gone public faster than in any other year on record, with $10.2 billion raised so far.

According to research by DEALOGIC, a real-time analytics platform used by Investment banks, this year's trend is largely the result of several very big ticket European offerings launched in January and in the first weeks of February. 

According to Dealogic, IPOs accounted for 33 percent of equity capital market volumes in EMEA countries in 2015 so far, exceeded only in 1995 when this ratio was 35 percent of equity deal volumes in EMEA.

I hope that this positive trend will continue as the year progress. 

The Startup Nation can already claim an remarkable start in 2015 -  In just the last week, $910M was raised through acquisitions, including a new Amazon R&D center, and also  Dropbox and Alibaba are on their way to Israel

  

The presence of R & D centers of multinational companies in Israel is extremely important to economic output for the country in general and high-tech industry in particular. R&D centers are a source of employment for thousands of people. Employees are exposed to international processes and practices which create a symbiotic relationship with Israel’s high-tech industry.

We must continue to encourage international companies operating in Israel and ensure an environment which will enable them to continue to operate here.

An article i wrote few weeks ago regarding the R&D centers in israel: http://www.barlaw.co.il/news/threats-foreign-rd-centers-startup-nation-2015-adv-micky-barnea

בפתח השנה החדשה נתבקשתי לספר על תפקידם של מרכזי פיתוח זרים בישראל. דעתי היא כי מרכזי הפיתוח הזרים -דוגמת אפל, מייקרוסופט ופייסבוק - הם מרכיב חיוני באומת הסטארטאפ שלנ. שנת 2015 התחילה ובפתחה אנו ניצבים בתקופת אי וודאות- מערכת הבחירות הקרבה, השינויים הפוליטיים במדינות ערב הגובלות עימנו, והמהלכים השונים שנוקטת הראשות הפלסטינית- כל זה עלול להביא לשינוי דרמטי במגמת פעילותם של מרכזי פיתוח של חברות ההייטק הזרות בישראל. להמשך קריאת המאמר:
http://www.ivc-online.com/Research-Center/News-PR/News-Archive?nid=2C224D35-A091-E411-B8A7-80C16E7D3630