Company: The Yozma Group
Description: The Yozma Group is a prominent venture capital firm that concentrates on investments across all stages of a company's development. This includes a particular emphasis on early-stage startups, mid-ventures, late ventures, and pre-IPO companies. The firm selectively considers investments in mature companies as well. The Yozma Group primarily focuses on sectors such as communications, information technology, healthcare, life sciences, and medical technologies, with a special interest in companies that develop infrastructure and enabling technologies.
Additionally, the firm places investments in various subfields, including telecommunications services, communications equipment, enterprise software, medical device research, wireless telecommunications services, bioinformatics, and related life sciences. The Yozma Group has demonstrated notable success, having facilitated the public listing of 23 portfolio companies on NASDAQ, as well as executing numerous exits through mergers and acquisitions of Israeli startups with multinational corporations.
The Yozma Group has a strategic focus on companies located in the United States and Asia, particularly highlighting its interest in ventures from Korea and Israel, as well as Israeli-related companies that aim for international markets. It typically invests between $1 million and $6 million in its portfolio companies, with a capacity to provide additional capital for follow-on investments. The firm aims to secure significant minority equity stakes in its investee companies and often seeks a seat on the board of directors.
Founded in January 1993, The Yozma Group is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. In 2015, the firm expanded its activities with the establishment of Yozma Group Korea, which was created to identify and support technology-based startups in Asia. Operating seven technology incubators in collaboration with reputable universities across Korea, the firm actively invests in and nurtures both early and late-stage startups, strengthening its commitment to fostering innovation and growth in the technology landscape.
Industry: Venture Capital and Private Equity
Founded: 1993
Location: Gangnam-gu, Seoul
Address: 624 Gangnamdaero, 13F ICT Tower Building, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06035, KR
Size: 11-50 employees