THE THAMES VALLEY – A HUB FOR ISRAELI BUSINESS A HUB FOR ISRAELI BUSINESS

Israeli investors have invested £188 million into the Notable businesses located within and near to Arlington Business Park include: following technology companies since the start of 2016, all based in the South East: Kaminario, Stewart Plastics, Zerto, ECA Services, Agalimmune, SatixFy and Dynamic Yield. 97% of the £188 million invested from Israeli investors has been into information and technology companies, Zerto Ltd provides enterprise- TIS provides organizations Cyren Ltd is a cloud-based Inomize is a fast-growing R&D class disaster recovery and around the world with technology company and the largest ASIC with the balance into healthcare and materials & business continuity for technology to automatically company providing threat design firm in . Its resources. The information and technology companies virtualized infrastructure and transform their incoming detection and security analytics customers range from startup have mainly been focused on storage (IT), systems cloud environments. It is dual- business content into useful, such as spam classifications, companies to large international headquartered in Israel and the digital data delivered directly URL categorization, and corporations based in Israel, and information management, application specific United States. into their business applications. detection. Europe and North America. semiconductors and business/productivity software. The Thames Valley truly is a cluster for Israeli tech business and Arlington Business Park in Theale is an exceptional home for business to thrive.

Cato Networks builds cloud- Top brands use Dynamic Yield Tower manufactures is a provider of load based software-defined WAN. to increase engagement and integrated circuits for major balancing and cybersecurity Cato Cloud connects data revenue via personalization, semiconductor companies such services for data centres. It is centres, branches, mobile users recommendations, automatic as Avago, Fairchild, Panasonic, dual-headquartered in Israel and cloud infrastructure into a optimization & 1:1 messaging. Texas Instruments and Vishay. and the United States. unified, secure global network.

SatixFy is a leading provider of Extricom is the designer and Panaya is an Israeli software baseband modem and antenna manufacturer of an award- company, a subsidiary of SoC ASICS, development winning enterprise wireless LAN Infosys. Its products include platforms and solutions. It is a system for providing converged change impact analysis, ALM pioneer in designing advanced data, voice, and video acceleration, automated code satellite payloads with on- services over wireless with the remediation, collaborative board-processing, multi-beams dependability and performance test management and test- and VSATs systems. of the wired network. execution. A WELL-DEVELOPED CLUSTER OF RELATED BUSINESSES CAN PROVIDE IMPORTANT ADVANTAGES

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A POOL OF EXPERTISE FASTER and M4 skilled INNOVATION workers through cooperative research and more intense competition INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY through specialised inputs, synergies, access to information London and public goods Theale Station M25 & Heathrow The following Israeli Investors have invested money in The West UK businesses based in the South East since 2016: Venture Capital Emerge Vertex Ventures Israel Keter Plastic BioLineRx (NAS: BLRX) Cerca Partners Catalyst Investments E & M Computing (TAE: 83North EMCO) London Paddington Sequoia Capital Israel CIRTech Fund ClalTech

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BLACKWATERREADINGA322 56,300 VALLEY 8,000 A339 A33 digital technology specialists tech companies within a 25 mile radius £13.6 BN One of the highest £234K BASINGSTOKE employment rates in The fifth best qualified the UK with growth in workforce in the UK digital tech digital tech turnover employment to 2019 with almost 50% of the business turnover1 by employee1 forecast to be the fastest workforce educatedGUILDFORD to 450 600 200 of any UK city2 graduate level equivalent3 foreign owned digital tech start- tech firms ups per year companies 58,000

The second highest JOBS Top 25 European City digital sector salary in Top 3 most productive for Foreign Direct the UK after London – in digital tech1 workforce in the UK3 Investment4 600 120 £53,2555 telecom companies cybersecurity 80 companies Big Data companies

London is just 25 minutes by rail and Reading 4 x 7/25 will become the western Elizabeth Line 3 terminus in December 2019 of largestPARK enterpriseBUSINESS ARLINGTON national digital tech world- leading READING, RG7 4SA RG7 READING, By 2024 WRLtH will provide a direct rail Reading is home to 13 of the software companies concentration Big Data companies service to Heathrow world’s top 30 largest global brands

Source: Thames Valley Berkshire Digital Tech 1 Tech Nation 2018 2 EY UK and Regions Economic Forecast 2017–19 3 Centre for Cities, Cities Outlook 2017 4 FDI European Cities of the Future Awards 2018/19 5 Tech Nation 2017 Chris Barrs +44 (0)1189 680 650 Jeremy Metcalfe +44 (0)1189 680 650