Shefa Gems

What Shefa Gems does

Shefa Gems is a publicly traded precious stone exploration company headquartered in Acre, Israel. Founded in 1999 by Abraham Taub, it is listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange under the ticker tlv:SEFA and operates with a small team of 11–50 employees. The company's stated business is precious stone exploration, and it has historically been classified as a for-profit exploration-stage entity in the gemstone mining sector.

According to the single fiscal year of financial data available (2021), the company reported zero revenue alongside a gross loss of approximately $171,000, an EBITDA loss of $3.5 million, and a substantially larger operating loss of approximately $61.6 million leading to a net loss of approximately $62.7 million. The large non-cash component of the operating loss is consistent with exploration-stage mining impairments and write-downs rather than ongoing operating burn, though the input data does not specify the breakdown. No customer base, distribution channels, partnerships, or product lines are disclosed in the available data, and the corporate website is not accessible for substantive scraping. No acquisitions, funding rounds, regulatory actions, product launches, or leadership changes beyond the founder attribution are recorded in the input data.

The overall evidentiary base is thin: only one year of financials, a single named founder, no management team beyond that, and no verifiable commercial activity. As a result, the company's current operational status, revenue model, go-to-market mechanics, and customer segments cannot be characterized with confidence from the available data.

Name

Shefa Gems

Website

https://www.shefagems.com/

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Shefa Gems is a publicly traded Israeli precious stone exploration company founded in 1999 by Abraham Taub, listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, with no disclosed revenue as of its last reported financials.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Precious Stone Exploration

NAICS

Support Activities for Mining (2131), Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying (2123)

SIC

Mining & Quarrying Of Nonmetallic Minerals (No Fuels) (1400)

akta.pro primary industry

Mineral Exploration & Geoscience Services (Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, Resource Modeling) (IMAKAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Diamond Cutting & Polishing (Manufacturing) (CRAKAJAA), Precious Metals Exploration & Project Development (IMAKAEAI)

Keywords

• Precious stone exploration
• Gemstone exploration
• Mineral exploration
• Diamond exploration
• Mining exploration

Headquarters

HQ city

Acre

HQ country

Israel

HQ region

Middle East

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D

Core offering

Shefa Gems is a precious stone exploration company that conducts geological exploration activities aimed at discovering and evaluating deposits of precious stones in Israel. The company's activities are focused on early-stage exploration work, with no commercial production or revenue recorded as of the 2021 reporting period.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Direct peers

• Lucapa Diamond Company: ASX-listed diamond explorer/producer focused on alluvial and kimberlite diamond resources in Africa. Direct comparable as a small-cap, publicly listed pure-play diamond exploration company.
• Mountain Province Diamonds: Public diamond mining and exploration company operating the Gahcho Kué diamond mine in Canada. Comparable as a publicly listed diamond-focused mineral exploration and development company.
• Petra Diamonds: LSE-listed diamond mining group with operations in South Africa and Tanzania. Comparable as a publicly listed diamond producer with multi-asset exposure to precious stones.
• Gem Diamonds: LSE-listed diamond miner operating the Letšeng mine in Lesotho, known for large, high-value diamonds. Comparable as a publicly listed precious-stone-focused miner.
• Diamcor Mining: TSX-V-listed diamond exploration and development company focused on projects in South Africa. Direct comparable as a small-cap public diamond explorer at a similar stage.
• Tsodilo Resources: Public mineral exploration company with diamond (BK11 kimberlite) and base-metal projects in Botswana. Comparable as a publicly listed junior explorer with diamond exposure.

Emerging players

• North Arrow Minerals: TSX-V-listed diamond exploration company with projects in Canada and Namibia. Comparable as a junior public diamond-focused explorer, smaller and earlier stage than Shefa.

Broad incumbents

• Stornoway Diamond Corporation: TSX-listed diamond miner (Renard mine in Quebec). Comparable as a publicly listed, diamond-focused miner at a more advanced production stage.
• Alrosa: World's largest diamond miner by volume, Russian state-controlled. Broad incumbent providing scale and pricing benchmarks relevant to any precious-stone explorer.
• De Beers Group: Anglo American-owned global diamond mining and marketing leader. Broad incumbent that sets industry pricing, offtake standards, and downstream demand signals relevant to Shefa's product.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/shefagems

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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