VC Cafe
OCTOBER 18, 2011
Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. In 2006, Moshe was promoted to corporate vice president and head of Israel Research and Development. By Ben Bakhshi. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il
Cracking the Code
MARCH 28, 2022
Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. Today, Europe and Israel have generated 23 public companies worth $231B and private cloud financing reached c. Annualised, this would be 2.7x larger than last year!
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VC Cafe
APRIL 7, 2011
As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. Israel’s index of leading economic indicators rose a preliminary 0.4%
VC Cafe
OCTOBER 2, 2020
billion in exits in 2019 alone, Israel punches above its weight. What’s less discussed, is that Israel also, has one of the highest number of unicorns, aka privately owned startups worth more than $1 billion, globally. As of now, Israel has 42 Unicorns, or (technically 40, now that Lemonade and JFrog went public).
VC Cafe
MARCH 8, 2010
Only three Israeli venture capital funds completed their fund raising efforts in 2009: Sequoia Capital Israel , announced final closing of Sequoia IV, a $200 million vintage 2009 fund. The Carmel I Fund, raised in 2000, had the highest performance, giving an internal rate of return (IRR) of 8% and a positive multiple of 1.4.
The Next Web
JANUARY 21, 2014
Yaniv Tross is the CEO of Tross Creative House , a creative agency for tech, based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Can you imagine the headline “A [new gadget] was pre-ordered by 2000 users on eBay!”? Have a great idea and thinking about crowdfunding it? Think again. Your idea, as great as it is, is simply not enough.
VC Cafe
JANUARY 20, 2014
222 firms held initial public offerings last year, raising $55 Billion, the most since 406 companies went public for $97 million in 2000. The BUBBLE came to Israel too, with a record $4.2 The bull market will celebrate its 5 th anniversary in March (NASDAQ grew 38.3% Now the cost of entry to the Party is rising. Bubble 2.0 $4.2
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