VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

Itamar Weisbord and I were introduced in 2008 by a mutual friend. where he now works as Director of product management, leading a team in Israel. He was the founder of Cellogic, an early stage of an Israeli startup that created a lock screen app (a bit ahead of its time) and I was a senior product manager at Ask.com.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 29, 2011

With six first investment deals Evergreen Venture Partners was the most active VC fund in Israel in 2010, according to the latest IVC Research Center report. The second place was shared by Battery Ventures Israel and Pontifax, with five investments each. Sequoia Israel. EarlySense, LiveU, Top7.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. ops team in NY, dev team in Philly and having dev teams in Israel). Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia. Read more: MediaWeek.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

In 2009, Israeli VC funds made 77 first investments in technology companies, compared to 119 investments in 2008. 38% of first investments (29 firms) were made in Seed stage companies, compared to 28% in 2008. The dollar amount in each investment dropped by about 50% compared to the year before.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

T he second quarter of 2010 has come and gone and despite the depleting VC and incubator capital in Israel, the quarter has brought approximately 40 deals with over $400 million invested. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Herzlia Pituach, Israel. Infinity Israel-China Fund. ACW GREY Israel -.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

T he second quarter of 2010 has come and gone and despite the depleting VC and incubator capital in Israel, the quarter has brought approximately 40 deals with over $400 million invested. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Herzlia Pituach, Israel. Infinity Israel-China Fund. ACW GREY Israel -.

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VC Cafe

MAY 19, 2011

Israeli VC investments are picking up pace and have reached a record level since the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008. Annual investment levels of Venture Capital Funds (in millions of dollars) are on the way UP. Slight improvement from the 46% of “no action&# VC funds in the last two quarters.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 9, 2011

S ure, Israel is known the ‘Startup Nation’, but judging by the actual venture capital investments raised by Israeli startups in the last decade, Israel looks more like a continent. The amount was calculated by the Israel MoneyTree Report for 2001-2010, conducted quarterly by PricewaterhouseCooper Israel.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 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. NEW LAW FOR CAPITAL INVESTMENTS OFFERS LOWER TAXES, HIGHER GRANT. Israel’s GDP rose 4.5%

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 1, 2010

ZON was founded by Ofer Vilenski Derry Shribman, the founders of Jungo, and is backed by leading venture capital funds, including Draper Fisher Jurvetson (initial backers of Skype Hotmail), Trilogy Partners, Magma Ventures and DFJ TF Ventures. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Poleg, Israel.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2011

A joint report by IVC Israel and KPMG, surveyed 95 venture investors (48 in Israel and 47 foreign investors who are active in the Israeli market) summarizes 2010 in Israeli venture capital. On the positive side, Israeli companies have continued to attract capital - both local and foreign.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2022

If you’ve seen or read the Big Short by Michael Lewis, you may remember Dr. Michael Burry of Scion Capital, who predicted the financial crisis in 2008 and made billions of dollars betting against the US housing market, which looked rock solid. Is a recession looming?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Takadu’s business model consists of charging a monthly fee from its clients, which already include the Thames Water company and other utility companies in Israel and Asia Pacific. Tags: Gemini Israel Fund Gemini Israel Funds giza venture capital MEND. Topell Energy Spotify.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 13, 2012

Of course, the European venture capital industry is filled with challenges, including a negative average return of 1.9 London has the largest venture capital and private equity industries in Europe. Israel sets an impressive example here. Comparison of entrepreneurship activity in Europe by GEM (until 2008).

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2011

AT&T set up new R&D and incubation center in Israel in collaboration with Amdocs – welcome AT&T Foundry. Cotendo raises $17 million in Series D from its current investors: Benchmark Capital , Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital as well as two CVCs: Juniper Networks and Citrix Systems.

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VC Cafe

JULY 12, 2011

50% of them, believe that we’re about to enter a second bubble and 33% claim that Groupon, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Zynga are overvalued, according to the latest Israel VC Indicator Survey for Q2 2011, published by Deloitte. The recent wave of Internet IPOs seems to remind the Israeli VCs of the previous tech bubble.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2010

A s 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. ISRAEL RANKED 17TH MOST COMPETITIVE ECONOMY BY IMD. Israel was also rated first in several of the report’s sub-categories.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

When we started to take stock of this progress four years ago with the first Accel Euroscape , the list of the top 100 cloud companies from Europe and Israel, we had great hopes and Europe delivered beyond our expectations. SaaS remains one of the top categories for funding in Europe and Israel with $6.1B

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

The company is headquartered in London, UK, with satellite offices in the US and Israel. Supersonicads was founded in 2008 by Gil Shoham (CEO) and Arik Czerniak (COO) and Nissim (Romi) Romano (CTO). Cellcom , the leading mobile provider in Israel, enters the financial services market with new “mobile wallet&# product.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This year, in addition to unveiling the Euroscape, our list of top 100 Cloud companies started in Europe and Israel; and our Champions League, the high-growth unicorns from the region; we’ll also unveil the Accel Euroscape Public Index, the index of the European and Israeli-born public cloud companies, and its performance.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

I n its 52 M&A deal since 2005 and its third acquisition announced in the past week, Oracle acquires Israel-based Convergin , developer of a real-time service brokering applications for the telecom industry. Convergin has raised around $10 million in VC funding from Pitango Venture Capital and Rich Investment in November 2008.

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VC Cafe

MAY 22, 2011

The LinkedIn IPO this week may have opened the gates for an Israeli market thirsty for exits, but in the meanwhile, VC funding in Israel continues with business as usual. Below are three recent founding rounds in Israeli venture-backed companies. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Boston, MA with R&D offices in Israel.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

3, 2010) —Venture capitalists from around the world invested $7.8 Europe, Canada, Israel, Mainland China and India, according to industry tracker Dow Jones VentureSource. Venture investment in some major investment hubs, such as Europe, has not regained its footing following the economic downturn in 2008. NEW YORK (Nov.

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VC Cafe

MAY 5, 2010

We look forward to using this new capital infusion to drive further rapid growth.&#. Founded in 2008, Cotendo is already servicing customers in the US including Digg, Meebo, Payoneer and Adbrite. Tags: Cotendo Sequoia Israel Tenaya Capita Venture Capital Funds bechmark benchmark cdn sequoia DSA.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2011

The round was led entirely by previous backers: the Israeli offices of Greylock Partners and Carmel Ventures , as well as US fund Opus Capital. To date, Wanova has raised a total of $23 million since its inception in 2008. is based in San Jose, CA and has offices in Netanya, Israel.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Recent SaaS trends and the Accel Euroscape of the 100 most promising companies in Europe and Israel This article was co-authored with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne and published initially on Tech.eu. The pace of SaaS company creation in Europe is growing even faster, up from 200 companies in 2008-10 to 670 in 2014-16.

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Altgate

APRIL 26, 2009

This year the survey covers five countries (China, India, Israel, UK and US) in two industries (technology and life sciences). I’ve mentioned this survey several times before, but this time I bring news of the 2009 survey opening to participants. The report is then able to give ranges of compensation based on these attributes.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

This is Ybrant Media’s second acquisition in Israel. Investors in PicApp included Carmel Ventures as well as angel investors Yair Goldfinger and Lenny Recanati. million in September of 2008. Ybrant Media , an large Indian Media portfolio of companies, has acquired Israeli startup PicApp for an undisclosed amount.

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Altgate

MARCH 4, 2009

But in 2009, the survey is going to be expanded to China, India, Israel and the United Kingdom. As part of tailoring the survey for each new country I’d like to be able to speak with several investors, CEOs and CFOs (or other folks knowledgeable about executive compensation) in each of China, India, Israel and the United Kingdom.

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Altgate

MARCH 16, 2009

 So for the past few weeks I've been talking to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, CEOs and other industry participants in these countries and learning a ton about the local startup ecosystems.  Some of the more interesting things I've learned include: Salaries in Israel are described monthly.

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Altgate

JULY 12, 2009

The survey also covers China, India, Israel and the UK and will remain open for a few more weeks for those countries. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Management , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged bonus , compensation , compstudy , equity , executive , salary , startup , venture capital.

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Altgate

JANUARY 1, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Microsoft Buys 37signals For $300 Million The Coming Venture Capital Boom → The World Without Altgate Posted on January 1, 2009 by fnazeeri No, this blog is not going anywhere. 

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Altgate

MARCH 31, 2009

  Since the project is so international (China, India, Israel, US and UK) the ideal candidate will have a background (or interest in) international business.    It's a business analyst position on a new project at J.   If you know someone who would be a fit, please do pass this along!

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Back in July, I wrote an essay in Geektime on “ The Anti-Israel BDS Movement Will Fail “ Little did I know how quickly that would prove true! However, Israel and the United Arab Emirates recently announced that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship. If I’m missing any, please contact me.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

I asked him what motivated him and he told me, “I started it in 2008 as a project with my daughter helping canvass for Obama. She worked 6 years in venture capital at Battery Ventures, co-headed Corporate Development at IAC, ran a product line there and started her own company. She’s a competitive athlete.

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