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Young Samurais
En Route to Stock Exchange
At age 27, with a less than a year’s
experience and with no revenues, Simi Efrati and Yossi Moldawsky
will issue Samurai Web Ventures at a company value of $50 million. |
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Samurai Web Ventures, a holding
company in the Internet field, is seeking to raise $12 million
on the Tel Aviv stock exchange next month, based on a company
value of $50 million. Underwriters Leader and Eyal will manage
the offering.
Samurai, which began operating last year, will present nine
company holdings on the issue date, representing the hottest
venues of tomorrow’s industry: a portal (Tapuz), B2B e-commerce
(Infomedia), cellular Internet content (Feather Mobile), and
even online psychological consultation. Since the Internet
creates instant millionaires within months, we should not be
surprised by Samurai’s brief history (all its investments,
totaling NIS 5.7 million, have been made since May 1999), the
absence of revenue from its activity or the young age of the
two entrepreneurs. General manager Attorney Simi Efrati is
only 28 years old, and his colleague, Yossi Moldawsky, a year
younger.
Efrati and Moldawsky, residents of Savyon, grew up in privileged
circumstances, and they are proud of the extensive network
of connections that, according to them, helps Samurai in nurturing
its investments. Efrati’s father, attorney David Efrati (of
Efrati, Galili & Co.), serves as chairman of the Israeli high-tech
industry’s umbrella organization.
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