Investment & Business Development
Technology brokering approach – Knowledge is imperfectly shared over time and across people, organizations, and industries. We assist companies to get funded either institutionally or privately. We might also from time to time arrange private financing of bridge loans or special situation loans.
Dan Aridor Holdings Ltd offers an exceptional value proposition – for venture investors and venture-backed companies, by bringing together the varied perspectives and experiences of professionals from the venture capital community, start-up companies and the turnaround industry. Such experience is essential in assisting and presenting companies to potential investors.
We are creating value due to our ability to:
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Pass through and get listened to - albeit today tremendous multiple opportunities, busy and short attentions time of potential investors.
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Fill the gap in the flow of information - Social network theory suggests that there is a role in filling a gap in the flow of information between subgroups in a larger network.
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Create new connections - Ideas from one field might solve the problems of another, but only if a good system of communications and willingness to listen exists. When new connections are made, existing ideas often appear new and creative as they change form, combining with other ideas to meet the needs of different users. These new combinations are objectively new concepts or objects because they are built from existing but previously unconnected ideas.
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Assist on follow through - It is not enough to get people and ideas together. We facilitate the meeting of the minds and the hearts. Negotiations are often uneasy and have several breaking points. Both sides need a trusted mutual friend to help balance, hear, feedback and smooth the rough spots.
The great barrier - We believe it is much harder to get a company to its first sale then to take an existing idea and make it a great company. We found that for some companies and with some investors and funds we can assist to promote an idea and get it funding. We do it by:
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Selecting idea's well.
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Present realistic business plans and valuation models.
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Choosing companies and investors that have management teams that we would be proud to be associated with on a long term basis.
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Having a long term relationships with people.
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We work based only on success basis.
Disruptive technology or Kfitzat Haderech
Kefitzat Haderech (1) (Hebrew, Standard Qəfiẓat haDéreḫ or Kfitzat haDérech) means, "jumping of the path/road/way", the English equivalent is the expression "short cut".
In Torah study and Jewish folklore, kefitzat haderech is the ability to jump instantaneously from one place to another or travel with unnatural speed. The term is originally found in Midrashim to explain anomalies of travel in the Hebrew Bible. In East European Jewish folktales, especially those associated with the Hasidic movement, kefitzat haderech was utilized by various revered holy men.
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Frank Herbert - One of the greatest authors of science fiction literature used the term Kwisatz Haderach
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Thomas Samuel Kuhn - was an American intellectual who wrote extensively on the history of science and developed several important notions in the philosophy of science. His thesis was that science was not a steady, cumulative acquisition of knowledge. He wrote that, it is "a series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions." And in those revolutions, he wrote, "one conceptual world view is replaced by another."
Clayton M. Christensen coined the term Disruptive Technology . A disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is a term describing a technological innovation, product, or service that uses a "disruptive" technology to overturn the existing dominant technologies or status quo products in a market.
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In an interview to the magazine Strategy & leadership professor Christensen said: "I believe there are two kinds of technology innovation that leaders in an industry need to track. First, there are sustaining technologies, which can be the simple incremental improvements you'd expect all companies to grind out year after year. Or they can be radical, up-market technology innovations that leap-frog ahead of the competition. The evidence shows that sustaining technology consistently appears on business leaders' radar screens because it enables them to bring forth better products that can be sold for higher margins to their best customers. Disruptive technology, on the other hand, initially gives them neither a better product nor acceptable margins, so it tends to be overlooked or ignored.
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"Conducting there own research the IBM institute for business studied ten companies that are known within their respective industries for strong innovation all of them changed in one point of time the basis of the competition. One of the common denominator found is that those companies did plan for disruptions. Those companies worked on both aspects of technology the sustained technologies and the emerging technologies.
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The European Journal of innovation management published and article about the disruptive technology and it is a necessity for survival in dynamic and complex markets and in uncertain economic circumstances. According to the article by Marnix Assink, the development and implementation of disruptive innovation are not well understood (Leifer, 2001). According to Assink only a small number of companies manage to leverage and maximize their disruptive innovation capability. "Yet, future success has much to do with a company's innovation capability. Without radical innovation, decline is inevitable (Hamel, 2002). A Deloitte Research (2004) study revealed that there is a vast gap between intention and actual disruptive innovation capability of firms. Developing distinct capabilities to bridge this gap should be an integral part of a company's strategy for growth."
The term and its practical uses is getting a wider recognition
There are some interesting examples of disruptive technologies\Kfitzat Haderech technologies in the making today. When emerging these technologies will create a major difference in our life's. just Solar power alone there are room for major advancment.
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Solar power - As oil prices have climbed, so has venture investment in alternative energy. According to VentureDeal, a venture-tracking service in Menlo Park, CA, solar-power startups in particular have seen a three-year surge, from a low of no venture investment in the third quarter of 2005 to a high of more than half a billion dollars in the second quarter of 2008.
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Solar power at night – storing solar power for night time. "Without a good way to store electricity on a large scale, solar power is useless at night. One promising storage option is a new kind of battery made with all-liquid active materials. Prototypes suggest that these liquid batteries will cost less than a third as much as today's best batteries and could last significantly longer."
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Prism has engineered a new type of solar concentrator by inscribing holograms in a transparent medium sealed between pieces of glass. Much of the light that strikes a conventional solar cell generates waste heat rather than electricity, but Prism's holograms can divert unproductive wavelengths of light away from the cell. As a consequence, it can concentrate the productive wavelengths more intensely without fear of overheating. The company claims that it can concentrate light two to three times as much as its competitors can.
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CaliSolar - Most solar cells are made from very pure--and thus expensive--silicon. But CaliSolar can make do with silicon that has a thousand times the impurities and can cost a sixth as much. That could mean real savings, since silicon can represent a quarter to a third of the cost of making solar cells
