Giza Venture Capital group was established in 1992 and currently manages funds in excess of $600 million.
Over the past 20 years on the market, Giza VC has made almost 100 investments in Israel, Europe, the United States, and Asia. Since 2011, GPV has added more than 12 investments just in Poland.
Giza VC has achieved more than 40 successful exits. Portfolio companies were not only acquired by the industry leaders, but also taken public (IPO) and exited to strategic investors.
Thanks to its expertise and experienced team, Giza Venture Capital group has become one of the leading VC groups and has led to numerous successful exits. Some of the winning investments include: XtremIO (acquired by EMC for $450M), Soluto (acquired by Asurion for $100M+), Oplus (acquired by Intel for $100M+), Actimize (acquired by NICE Systems for $281M), Precise (IPO on NASDAQ; acquired by Veritas), Zoran (IPO on NASDAQ; acquired by CSR), M-Systems (IPO on NASDAQ; acquired by SanDisk).
GPV's aim is to use Giza Venture Capital group's broad investment experience and international network of business contacts as well as Polish team's expert local knowledge to identify Polish companies and teams with extraordinary international development potential and take them global.
Why Poland?Giza Polish Ventures actively participates in development of innovativeness in Poland by taking part in numerous conferences and seminars as well as by cooperating closely with public institutions. This includes—among others—cooperation with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and with the National Centre for Research and Development. These fruitful partnerships already resulted in preparation of the Report on Barriers to Development of Innovativeness in Poland (Polish only) by Zygmunt Grajkowski, GPV's Managing Partner. The report has been officially presented during the Round Table on Innovativeness event in February 2013.
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