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How the Israeli government spurs innovation
How Israel become a dominant player in the information security space
In his illuminating article, Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest calculated the number of information security vendors per country here.
Predictably the United States came out on top with 827 firms. Surprisingly, Israel was second with 228. What’s astonishing from Stiennon’s research is that Israel has more security companies than the next 5 countries combined. How is it that Israel has more security firms than the UK, Canada, India, Germany and France combined? The question is even more compelling given that Israel has a population of roughly 8 million; while those five countries have roughly 1.5 billion inhabitants.
An excellent resource with detailed listings of Israeli technology startups is the IVC Research Center High-tech Yearbook. It has trend analysis and YOY investor activity, along with detailed profiles of investors, including venture capital funds, private equity funds, incubators, angels and corporate investors investing in Israel.
For a visual listing of firms, the Israel CyberScape map from Bessemer Venture provides a listing across 14 information security domains.
