Once we decide to invest in a company or to pursue a Pre-Seed investment with a team of entrepreneurs, we focus our attention on moving quickly to address the real challenge: building the company together with the entrepreneurs. We leverage our access to potential business partners through our global network of contacts to gain perspective on the proposed business and strategy, and sometimes even open the right doors well ahead of time. Cedar Fund's principals and advisors become effective team members, focusing our experience, energy, attention and intellect to complement the entrepreneurs’, and assist the entrepreneurs in building companies.

Cedar Fund typically invests in companies that have some Israel and U.S. presence. Our own U.S. presence, combined with our Israel-based advisors, ensures that we can help our portfolio companies locally when and where needed. Cedar Fund's proven abilities in crossing borders and bridging between different work cultures guide us as we help build our companies. These capabilities have proven invaluable both for our entrepreneurs as well as for our later stage investment partners.

Areas in which Cedar Fund works closely with portfolio companies include:

• Development and evaluation of overall strategy with focus on an effective “go to market” plan
• Conceptualizing and considering new business ideas
• Refinement of product and market focus
• Recruitment of key executives, advisory board and board members
• Further financing and evaluation of exit opportunities
• Establishment of international operations
• Strategic partnership formation
• Sales channel development