Company: GSHRW
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001213900-25-018139
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Company: Gesher Acquisition Corp. II
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: S-1/A
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 was approximately 4.0% of Israel’s gross domestic product in 2010, increasing to 6.0% of its gross domestic product as of 2022, the highest ratio in the world. As of April 2023, the Israeli Innovation Authority states that there were 9,093 technology companies in Israel that raised money from investors throughout their existence. This places the Israeli startup ecosystem as the third largest globally in this measure, highlighting Israel as a prominent startup hub on a global scale. It also positions Israel with the highest number of startups per capita of any country globally. Israel stands out globally as a leader in business innovation, as highlighted in the 2023 Global Innovation Index, published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in partnership with INSEAD and Cornell University. The country ranks 6 thglobally in Business Sophistication, and 5 thin Knowledge and Technology Outputs. Israel’s long history of cutting -edgeresearch is underpinned by supportive government policy including consistent support of the incubator programs in key sectors, grants for certain research and development and an attractive tax regime. Israel’s higher education system is also well positioned to support further growth in key sectors. Israel has one of the highest number of scientists and published research papers per capita in the world. Our intended industries of focus include verticals where our management team’s partners have historically invested and collaborated successfully. In particular, our management team believes their past experiences in the areas of mobility and electric vehicles, autonomy and robotics, agricultural technologies (Agtech) and financial technology (fintech) will provide access to a significant number of potential business combination targets in these sectors. We intend to focus our search on potential targets with a clear competitive advantage over other companies in their field. We believe businesses in high growth market segments with a business model that creates barriers to entry through disruptive technology will continue to produce attractive returns to investors. We believe there exist numerous privately held Israeli companies that are suitable to go public. Our management team believes many of these companies would benefit from additional capital that cannot be easily accessed in the private markets and are therefore open to engaging in a value -addedtransaction with an attractive counterparty, like our company. We expect to encounter intense competition, however, from other entities having a business objective similar to ours, including private investors (which may be individuals or investment partnerships), other SPACs and other entities competing for the types of we intend to acquire. In recent years, the number of SPACs that have been formed has