Domain Audit — Fiverr International Ltd
Supply Chain & Sourcing Relationships
Fiverr operates as a digital services marketplace and does not procure, import, or distribute physical goods 1. Standard supply-chain risk indicators for agricultural sourcing, manufacturing inputs, and logistics contracts have no applicability to Fiverr’s business model 1. No importer of record structure has been identified in any jurisdiction 1. Seasonal sourcing patterns are not applicable to a digital services company, and No public evidence identified for such patterns 1. Platform infrastructure including cloud hosting and payment processing is procured via commercial SaaS and cloud vendor agreements with no country-of-origin sensitivity under standard frameworks applied to physical goods supply chains 1.
Product Origin, Labeling & Regulatory Compliance
Fiverr sells no physical goods and is not subject to country-of-origin labeling regulations applicable to tangible products 1. The platform does host freelancers located in the West Bank, with verified seller profiles listing location as “West Bank” 2. This represents a platform-level settlement nexus distinct from physical goods labeling 2. Labeling compliance regulations do not apply to digital services 1. Fiverr’s 2024 Impact Report contains no statement regarding geographic origin disclosure for service sellers located in occupied or contested territories 3. No public evidence identified for any corporate labeling policy addressing settlement-area sellers 3.
Investment, Capital & Financial Exposure
Fiverr acquired AutoDS Ltd in July 2024 for $92 million, an Israeli-incorporated company with Company ID 515776185 and status Active 45. Stoke Talent Ltd was acquired in November 2021 for $95 million, an Israeli-incorporated company that shows status “Eliminated due to merger” in the Israeli Companies Registrar, indicating post-acquisition integration 67. Both acquisitions represent direct capital deployment into Israeli-domiciled companies within the post-IPO period 846. Fiverr maintains its principal R&D and engineering centre at 8 Eliezer Kaplan St., Tel Aviv 6473409, confirmed in all annual filings from 2019 IPO through FY2024 19. A Haifa R&D centre was opened in 2018 at Matam technology park and is referenced in subsequent filings as operational 1. Fiverr’s 20-F filings contain a generic reference to potential applications for Israel Innovation Authority tax deductions for research and development expenses, but no specific grant amounts, grant numbers, royalty obligations, or PTE designation amounts are publicly disclosed 1. Fiverr is registered under Israel’s Preferred Technology Enterprise tax track, reducing effective corporate tax rate on qualifying IP-attributed income to approximately 12% 1. Fiverr International Ltd. serves as the ultimate parent entity, incorporated in the Cayman Islands as a holding vehicle for the 2019 NYSE listing 9. Co-founder and CEO Micha Kaufman holds approximately 6-7% of total shares with Founder Share governance instrument providing veto rights over fundamental corporate actions 9.
Operational Presence & Market Activity
Fiverr’s principal operational headquarters is located at 8 Eliezer Kaplan St., Tel Aviv 6473409, confirmed as the registered office and primary engineering, product, and executive site with status ongoing as of FY2024 20-F 1. The Haifa R&D centre at Matam technology park, opened in 2018, remains confirmed operational in available filings 1. Fiverr maintains offices in the United States (New York and San Francisco), Germany (Fiverr GmbH), and the United Kingdom (Fiverr UK Ltd.) 1. No physical presence has been documented within the West Bank, Gaza Strip, or Golan Heights 1. Approximately 545 of 700+ global employees work from Israel, representing 78% of the workforce and consistent with concentration of R&D and engineering functions in Tel Aviv and Haifa 1. Fiverr does not characterize Israel as a distinct revenue market in investor disclosures; annual reports present revenue as a single global pool without country-level breakdown, with the United States identified as the largest single market at approximately 60-65% of revenue 1. Israel is characterized as the innovation and engineering hub, not as a primary sales market 1.
Corporate Structure & Foundational Ties
Fiverr was founded in Israel in 2010 by Micha Kaufman (CEO) and Shai Wininger (co-founder), with founding, early operations, seed funding, and product development all taking place in Israel 9. The current legal domicile is the Cayman Islands, standard structure for Israeli technology companies seeking US capital markets access 9. The operational headquarters in Tel Aviv constitutes the de facto Place of Effective Management for the consolidated group 19. Fiverr maintains an ongoing regulatory relationship with the Israel Innovation Authority for R&D tax deduction approvals 1. No Israeli government ownership stake, government-appointed board members, or government contracts have been identified 1. The Founder Share held by Micha Kaufman provides veto rights over mergers, acquisitions, amendments to articles of association, and similar extraordinary events, a standard founder-protective governance instrument in dual-class structures 9.
Profit Repatriation & Economic Contribution
No Israel-specific revenue is disclosed in annual filings, which present global total only 1. Transfer pricing is explicitly included as a disclosed risk factor in 20-F filings, with the Israel Tax Authority retaining the right to challenge pricing of intercompany transactions 1. Under the PTE tax regime, IP-attributed profits taxed in Israel at the preferential approximately 12% rate flow to the Israeli treasury, with the direction of profit flow being outward from global markets inward to the Israeli parent entity 1. Fiverr is characterized in Israeli financial and technology press as a flagship “Start-Up Nation” company and one of the first Israeli consumer-internet companies to achieve sustained NYSE listing 1. The company’s Israeli operations contribute payroll taxes to the Israeli treasury, though specific aggregate figures are not publicly disclosed 1.
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Footnotes
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https://www.globenewwire.com/news-release/2024/07/31/2921566/0/en/fiverr-deepens-ecommerce-solutions-with-acquisition-of-leading-dropshipping-automation-tool-autods.html ↩
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