In today's world, the one characterized by the invasive and almost oppressive presence of the fifth dimension (the cyberspace so to speak), sometimes there is the problem of which product to buy for your company or, for investors, what is the product or the company on which to bet.
Market analysts or industry experts are certainly ready to give the right advice at the right time, as it is expected, but there are tools that give us a hand and, in some cases, are free and available online.
If it is our intention to explore the world of new Israeli technologies in some way connected to the cyber world, it is possible to take a look at the map of the IVC Research Center which collects data on Israeli high-tech industries and provides, upon payment, analysis for help investors. IVC indeed stands for Israeli Venture Capital.
Now, without spending a penny, you can take a look at the map published on their site.
The map can be navigated by clicking on each of its elements and provides some essential information such as the name (green dots) and the type of company, the investors (red dots), the invested capital and so on.
Let's focus for a moment on the green circle in the center of the map, click on the red dot in the middle and see that OCS (abbreviated name of the investor, turns out to be an Israeli government agency that has in its portfolio
Just to continue playing a bit 'to do the OSINT detectives, we choose a company from the portfolio, for example the SCADA fence.
You can immediately notice from the links that become visible that the SCADA fence is co-financed by JVP Management and Microsoft Ventures Accelerator.
Now, you can continue the investigation yourself or, if you are seriously interested, buy the services provided by IVC Research Center. I stop here.
A last consideration: the technique of displaying maps has existed for some time and is an excellent tool for management and control, perhaps even in Italy you could use this tool to understand how we are made of cyber companies and to see who they are from financed. Naturally this presupposes that a government agency invests initially in research and development and puts in place the structure that deals with data analysis, if in fact we look closely at the Universities or Ministries we could realize that there are ad hoc investments in the high technology sector for the financing of startup, but then there is no control and publicity.
Una startup it is all the more important the more it is able to make itself known and appreciated, that is its ability to attract capital.
To learn more:
- https://www.ivc-online.com/
- http://www.ivc-online.com/Research-Center/Industry-Maps/Cyber-Map
