{"id":1321,"date":"2019-10-30T13:51:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T13:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2019-10-30T13:52:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T13:52:20","slug":"israeli-start-ups-have-excellent-quarter-raising-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/2019\/10\/30\/israeli-start-ups-have-excellent-quarter-raising-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Start Ups Have Excellent Quarter Raising Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"610\" src=\"https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Cyberreason.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Cyberreason.jpg 864w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Cyberreason-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Cyberreason-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Cyberreason-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Cyberreason-696x491.jpg 696w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Cyberreason-595x420.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The third quarter of 2019 was another excellent quarter for Israeli start ups looking to raise money. A total of $2.24 billion was raised, making Q3 2019 the best quarter since 2013. The $2.24 billion was raised in a total of 142 deals. The sum raised during this quarter was up 37% from the same quarter last year. There were a total of 13 mega deals \u2014 i.e., deals over $50 million, which represented 57% of the money raised during the quarter. Six deals alone accounted for $841 million. During the first three quarters of 2019, a total of $4.68 billion was raised from venture capital firms, which is close to the total sum raised in venture capital during all of 2018. Software companies continued to lead the pack, with a total 52 deals totaling $1.4 billion. Life Science and CleanTech are two growing sectors, with Life Sciences garnering 38 deals totaling $350 million, and CleanTech companies picking up 10 deals totaling $85 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The big question facing the Israeli start up scene is how long the good times can continue? There is a natural fear that after the spectacular melt down of WeWork venture capitalists are going to be more cautious in allocating funds.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third quarter of 2019 was another excellent quarter for Israeli start ups looking to raise money. A total of $2.24 billion was raised, making Q3 2019 the best quarter since 2013. The $2.24 billion was raised in a total of 142 deals. The sum raised during this quarter was up 37% from the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,40],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"category-hightech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}