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Elron is a high-tech operational holding company based in Israel.
A pioneer in Israeli high-tech since 1962, Elron has been instrumental to the success of high-growth enterprises in fields such as medical devices and imaging, advanced defense electronics, information technology, software and services, telecommunications, clean technology and semiconductors.
The Elron group of companies includes both publicly-traded and privately-held companies. Elron acts as a founding or major shareholder in almost every one of its group companies, thus enabling the companies to benefit not only from Elron's strong financial backing, but also from its extensive expertise in all aspects of establishing and developing profitable technology companies - capital raising, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, management and operations.
Elron, through its subsidiary (50%) Rafael Development Corporation (RDC) has the exclusive right to commercialize in civilian applications the technologies created within RAFAEL, the primary research and development arm of Israel's Ministry of Defense.
Elron's major holdings, directly and indirectly through RDC, currently include:
- Medical Devices – Given Imaging (Nasdaq: GIVN), Galil Medical ,Medingo, BrainsGate ,NuLens, Notal Vision, Impliant ,Pocared ,Sync-Rx.
- Information and Communications Technology (ICT) – ( TASE:NTSN),Wavion ,Teledata ,Starling (TASE: STLG) ,Safend ,PLYmedia and XSIGHTS .
- Semiconductors – Jordan Valley.
- Clean Technology – Atlantium ,Aqwise and BPT - Bio Pure Technology .
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