{"id":985245,"date":"2026-01-14T08:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985245"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:06:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:36:36","slug":"israel-says-450-million-invested-in-local-vcs-to-support-tech-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/14\/israel-says-450-million-invested-in-local-vcs-to-support-tech-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel says $450 million invested in local VCs to support tech innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around $450 million in public and private money has \u200dbeen invested in nearly a dozen Israeli venture capital funds under a programme \u2060aimed at sustaining technology investment during a slowdown in VC markets, a government body said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The tech sector is a key driver of \u200cIsrael&#8217;s economy, accounting \u200cfor 20% of output, nearly 15% of jobs and more than 50% of exports. <\/p>\n<p>The \u200cinvestment in 11 Israeli venture funds was made through two tracks in the Israel Innovation Authority&#8217;s Yozma Fund &#8211; the Institutional Investors Incentive Program and the Deep Tech Funds Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around $450 million in public and private money has \u200dbeen invested in nearly a dozen Israeli venture capital funds under a programme \u2060aimed at sustaining technology investment during a slowdown in VC markets, a government body said on Tuesday. The tech sector is a key driver of \u200cIsrael&#8217;s economy, accounting \u200cfor 20% of output, nearly 15% of jobs and more than 50% of exports. The \u200cinvestment in 11 Israeli venture funds was made through two tracks in the Israel Innovation Authority&#8217;s Yozma Fund &#8211; the Institutional Investors Incentive Program and the Deep Tech Funds Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}