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8Venture Capital & private equityIsraeli VCs are focused on technology companies, mainly in thefields of communications and components, software,semiconductor chip design and manufacture, Internet ande-commerce, Bio-tech, Cleantech and medical devices.Types of target companyIn VC transactions, target companies may be seed/pre-seed stage companies orlater-stage companies. The companies may be registered in Israel or becorporations registered in Delaware with Israeli subsidiaries.InvestorsIn recent years, several foreign venture funds and venture lending companieshave opened offices in Israel and have invested in local Israeli companies.Tax IncentivesForeign investors are generally exempt from Israeli capital gains tax on therealization of their investment in Israeli high-tech companies if the followingconditions are met: the shares were purchased on or after 1 January 2009; theshares were not held through a permanent establishment maintained by the nonresidentshareholder in Israel; the shares are not in a company whose assets

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