According to PitchBook’s latest Venture Ecosystem FactBook, Israeli startups are on track to raise $1 billion in September alone.

PitchBook also points to some interesting trends regarding the Israeli ecosystem. First is a surge of investor participation from Bay Area-based firms, which notched a cumulative $1.4 billion in associated deal value last year.

Secondly, 2019 has already seen close to $2.3 billion invested across 153 deals. In comparison, Israeli startups raised $3 billion across 331 deals in 2018.

Additionally, Israeli VC activity with European investor participation hit a high of 86 transactions for over $900 million in deal value last year, while $820.4 million has already been closed in the first half of this year. However, US-based firms still participate in many more transactions, notching 167 for over $2 billion in 2018 and already reaching $1.8 billion over 81 deals in 2019 to date.

As mentioned, September has been particularly active in Israeli deals. Here are some of the deals announced this month:

Fundbox – $176M in equity, plus $150M in debt (fintech)

Tipalti – $76M (fintech/payments)

Snyk – $70M (security/open source)

Healthy.io – $60M (digital health)

Syte.ai – $21.5M (AI, mobile, retail tech)

D-Fend – $28M (security, drones)

Tipa Corporation – $25M (packaging)

VIM – $24M (health)

Trigo Vision – $22M (AI, retail tech)

Explorium – $15.5M (AI, data enrichment)

Neura – $16M (AI, smart notifications)

PerimeterX – $14M (cybersecurity)

FieldIn -$12M (agritech)

Scylla DB – $10M (cloud database)

Lumen – $8.5M (IOT, health)

[Source: VC Cafe]