VLVJ

1. Corporate Overview
www.vlvj.co.il

2. Menu (1)
• Vision & Mission
• The Van Leer story
• Ownership
• The entrepreneur journey
• Investment strategy
• Investment focus
• Investment characteristics
• Working processes - early
stage ventures

3. Menu (2)
• Portfolio – Current
• Portfolio – Graduated
• Board Of Directors
• Strategy
• Mile stones and work plan
• Mentoring
• Bi-weekly meetings
• Deal flow

4. Vision
• VLTVJ implementing the highest standards of
business excellence, decency and ethics, will be the
leading early stage investment center for nurturing
ventures into a successful and promising companies,
strengthen Israel economy and position
Jerusalem as a leading technology city.

5. Mission
• Nurture and grow new ventures with technology
innovation and high business potential for becoming
thriving business.
• Creation of opportunities and business
momentum to fulfill the business potential of the
companies and secure the companies future.

6. The Van Leer story
• In 1919 Bernard van leer founded the
packaging company which became a
world leader and provided him with the
means to establish, in 1949, a charitable
foundation with broad humanitarian goals.
• In 1971, the Bernard Van Leer Foundation
was legally established as a charitable
organization
• It is a private foundation that operates
internationally, concentrating its resources
on promoting the optimum development of
disadvantaged children.

7. VLVTJ Ownership
• Docor – 70%
An industrial Investment foundation
Subsidiary of the Van Leer Group Foundation
• JDA – 30%
The Jerusalem Development Authority
JDA
Docor

8. The entrepreneur journey
Idea
Home
Studio
Start-up
Small
Company
Solid
Corporation
FFF/Angles
Early
Stage
Venture Capital
Investment
comp’
Public
Private
equity

9. Investment Strategy
• Excellent entrepreneurs
• Deep and innovative technology
• Large market potential (>100M$ annual revenues)
• Growing markets
• Attractive opportunity for future investors
• IP – Always with Global potential
• Risk control

10. Investment Focus
• Information technology and security
• Industrial applications
• Advanced materials and
components
• Biotechnology (Medical devices,
Diagnostics & Pharma)
• Cleantech

11. Investment Characteristics
• Scope of investment: 0.5M$-1.5M$
• Time frame: 24 months
• Sources: Docor, OCS, JDA, Strategic Investor
• 8 new investments per year
• Resources allocation - Lowering risks (R&D, HR, Initial BD)

12. Working processes with
early stage ventures
• BOD – Board of directors
• Strategy
•Work plan / Mile stones
• Mentoring
• Special executive training program
• Bi-weekly meeting
• Van Leer world wide networking
• IP
• Managing the next funding round
• Frameworks agreements
• Services
• Advanced Labs located in JCE available for
our companies

13. Van Leer Technology
Ventures Jerusalem
companies

14. Current Portfolio
Insitex
U Ball Medical
Non-invasive amniotic
fluid monitoring
Bio-additive for water
resistant paper
Minimally invasive correction
device for bunions
Device to create intraluminal
bypass for colon anastomosis
Medical hyperosmotic
contact lens
Mapping of electro-mechanical
activity of the stomach
Device for construction
of branched stent grafts
Solutions for
Dental implants
Intrauterine ball for
contraception

15. Current Portfolio
Promining
Disposable device for
treatment of anal fissure
Small molecule
cancer drugs
Diagnostics for
Mycoplasma infections
Identification of small molecules
in differentiation protocol
Blood vessel connector
3D ultrasound system for
breast cancer detection
Monitoring, enhancing
enterprise software utilization
Software to enable higher
computer performance

16. Graduated Portfolio
Database optimization
technology
Malignant tumor
detection kit
Customizable domain
specific languages
Detection of micro-organisms
in body secretions
Compact GPS systems
IT security system
Software for online
documentation libraries
Foreign object/debris detection
system for runways

17. BOD - the Board Of Directors
• Usually the BOD is based upon 2 directors from the
investors, 2 directors from the founding team and an
industry expert.
• Deployment of a solid technology company management
standards
• Hands on - Active top-management efforts.
• Building strong BOD with the presence of market leaders.
• Recruiting Advisory board.
• Guiding the CEO to a more effective BOD meetings
• The BOD checklist: status report of AI, R&D status,
business development status, financial status, IP issues,
future funding and strategic issues (road map etc.)

18. Strategy
• Established thinking process for creating
the strategic concepts
• Systematic and methodological
process: Vision definition, SWOT
analysis, Strategic theme, Strategic maps,
goals, objectives, initiatives,
time/responsibility/resources
• Strategic core elements: markets,
business models, Partnerships and
alliances, Marketplace, Channels, Pricing,
Positioning, products, marketing efforts,
funding and road map

19. Mile Stones and Work Plan
• In depth understanding of the venture work plan
• Engineering standard reviews – SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR
• Guiding the entrepreneurs to define milestones
(strategic and tactic) and the achieving way.
• Road Map – work plan for 5 years including funding
plan for next rounds

20. Mentoring
• Continuous mentoring from the
incubator team
• In some cases, we recruit
experienced entrepreneur to guide
the CEO.
• Structured training course for
CEO’s focused on the required
skills for managing early stage
companies: negotiations, risk
management project, Regulation
and Reimbursement, Business
ethics etc.

21. Bi-Weekly Meetings
• Routine working meetings with the
executive team of the ventures together
with the incubator team.
• The following subjects are being
reviewed and addressed:
 Technical status – general status,
subcontractors, Gantt, short term goals
 Business status – customers status
report, partners status report
 General updates: IP, Regulation, trials,
Investors, Human resources,
administration, financial status, legal
issues etc.

22. Deal Flow

23. Thank You