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Israel, Fertile Land for Device Company Creation

A surprisingly large number of medical device start-ups emerge from Israel, and at the recent In3 (Investment in Innovation) conference sponsored by the Medtech Insight division of Windhover Information Inc. in Brussels, Belgium in late September, a distinguished panel of venture capitalists made sense of the country's unique climate for device innovation. The speakers also had some lessons to offer to fledgling European device companies as well. Taking part in the panel were Avi Molcho, MD, Managing Director, Life Sciences, for Giza Venture Capital, one of Israel's largest venture firms, Zeev Zehavi, VP of Johnson & Johnson Development Corp., responsible for J&J's corporate investments in Europe and Israel, and Yuval Binur, PhD, Chairman of the board of device company creator Accelerated Technologies.

A surprisingly large number of medical device start-ups emerge from Israel, and at the In3 (Investment in Innovation) conference sponsored by the Medtech Insight division of Windhover Information Inc. in Brussels, Belgium in late September, a distinguished panel of venture capitalists made sense of the country's unique climate for device innovation. The speakers also had some lessons to offer to fledgling European device companies. Taking part in the panel were Avi Molcho, MD, formerly managing director of life sciences for Giza Venture Capital, one of Israel's largest venture firms, Zeev Zehavi, VP of Johnson & Johnson 's Johnson & Johnson Development Corp., responsible for J&J's corporate investments in Europe and Israel, and Yuval Binur, PhD, chairman of the board of device company creator Accelerated Technologies Inc..

Speaking at the conference, these venture capital veterans of medical investing arrived at the consensus that Israel is indeed a...

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