VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

T erra Venture Partners, a $25 million fund made the most first investments in 2009 (6 deals) followed by Carmel, Giza, JVP, Magma, Pitango, Sequoia and TriVentures (another small fund with $25 million under management), who all made 5 first time investments. Follow this link to access the original pdf report.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Eyeblaster , an Israeli company headquartered in New York, develops several media-rich advertising formats (see examples here and here ) and interactive ad features , as well as MediaMind , campaign management software for agencies and online advertisers. million in 2009. Revenue inched up only two percent to $65.1 The company has $15.4

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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. Evergreen started in 1987 by Jacob Burak, as one of the first VC funds in Israel.

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 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. FITCH AFFIRMS ISRAEL AT “A” (OUTLOOK STABLE). in 2009 and debt moderated to 76.6%

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 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. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. million it was claiming in 2009.

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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. ISRAEL 2010 GDP GROWTH WELL ABOVE OECD AVERAGE. Israel’s GDP rose 4.5% for the year.

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APRIL 29, 2010

This represents a 15% drop from Q4 2009 and a 12% drop from the first quarter of 2009. Koby Simana, CEO of IVC Research Center, said: figures for the first quarter of 2010 emphasize that Israel’s high-tech industry is still experiencing substantial difficulty. million in the first quarter of 2009. Deal Stage.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Poking around in the usual spots, here’s what I was able to dig: From YouNoodle : ZON is developing software in communications. in the autumn of 2009. develops network management software. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Poleg, Israel. “ but there’s still very little known about it.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The top 100 SaaS companies in Europe and Israel The European Software-as-a-Service world changed forever when Daniel Dines, the founder of UiPath, made the cover of Forbes as ‘Boss of the Bots’ last month. 2009, CapitalQ, Yahoo! Full presentation available here. Source: The Angel VC Blog, BVP SaaS benchmarking Oct.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Despite the third-quarter funding drop, though, funding for the full year still looks to be higher than it was in 2009. billion invested during the same three-month period in 2009, according to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Move your company to China, India, or Israel. Get in a recession-proof sector.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Started in 2009, Enigmai built and deployed a simplified workforce management SasS tool that enables SMBs and large companies to better manage their human resources. Adir : I read a few articles about the shift management software. Our beta process was in Israel and we’ve approached VCs only in Israel.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Started in 2009, Enigmai built and deployed a simplified workforce management SasS tool that enables SMBs and large companies to better manage their human resources. Adir : I read a few articles about the shift management software. Our beta process was in Israel and we’ve approached VCs only in Israel.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Started in 2009, Enigmai built and deployed a simplified workforce management SasS tool that enables SMBs and large companies to better manage their human resources. Adir : I read a few articles about the shift management software. Our beta process was in Israel and we’ve approached VCs only in Israel.

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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. Tendril SecondMarket. Topell Energy Spotify.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 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 , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. ISRAEL’S STATISTICS BUREAU FORECASTS 4% GROWTH IN 2010. drop in 2009. following a 5.8%

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

A VG, one of the largest American PC anti virus software makers with 110 million subscribers worldwide, has acquired Israeli startup DroidSecurity , maker of anti virus software for Android phones, for an estimated amount of $4.1 DroidSecurity was founded in 2009 by Eran Pfeffer, CTO Dror Shalev, and VP marketing Omri Sigelman.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

A VG, one of the largest American PC anti virus software makers with 110 million subscribers worldwide, has acquired Israeli startup DroidSecurity , maker of anti virus software for Android phones, for an estimated amount of $4.1 DroidSecurity was founded in 2009 by Eran Pfeffer, CTO Dror Shalev, and VP marketing Omri Sigelman.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

A VG, one of the largest American PC anti virus software makers with 110 million subscribers worldwide, has acquired Israeli startup DroidSecurity , maker of anti virus software for Android phones, for an estimated amount of $4.1 DroidSecurity was founded in 2009 by Eran Pfeffer, CTO Dror Shalev, and VP marketing Omri Sigelman.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 7, 2010

Israel has long been power house of online gambling software, with companies like 888 and Playtech dominating the casino, poker, slots and even online scratch cards. As gambling is illegal in the US and Israel, the company is based in Cyprus and operated as P4SMedia. Play4Skill is based in Haifa, Israel and has 12 employees.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

Zend was started in 1999 and is currently headquartered in Cupertino, CA with an R&D office in Israel. Having Viola Private Equity as an investment partner with expertise to share in the management of large software companies will help Zend drive PHP innovation and community-building, and accelerate enterprise business growth.”.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

A s venture funds struggle to raise money in Israel, seed capital, one of the earliest and riskiest stages of investment, is becoming harder and harder to secure. Janvest: In 2009, roughly 450 Israeli high-tech companies raised a little over $1.0B. VC Cafe: How do you plan to source new deals in Israel given how crowded the market is?

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JUNE 8, 2010

million to its coffins in April of 2009. Israel-based eToro offers social “trading arenas” for foreign exchange (FOREX), commodities and indices in a fun and social way. The tools offered on the site could easily compete with professional investment software in a family office or a small trading desk.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Sparkeo started in 2009 and has gotten a very nice validation as the winner of mini Seedcamp Tel Aviv and Seedcamp week in London. Kryon Systems Enhanced help software application called “LEO&# in the form of a floating bar, to replace the tedious process of trying to find information in the help section.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

Vivek Wadwha - Campus Entrepreneurship , November 19, 2010 Best Practices for Introduction Emails - Israel Venture Capital 2.0 , March 25, 2010 Weekend Reading - The Mogul Mom , October 1, 2010 Make informal advisors part of the team. Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

The company was founded in 2009 by Uzi Shmilovici raised the funding from OCA Ventures , I2A Fund and angel investors. Chicago-based InterCall buys Unisfair , Israel’s virtual conference tool, for $35 million. Perhaps this is how we’ll start solving co-existence in Israel? Chicago-based Future Simple raised $1.1

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

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VC Cafe

JULY 20, 2011

That is the promise of Multimi , a new software app for Windows that launched yesterday, July 19th. Zbang.it (site redirects to Multimi), was started in Israel in 2009 by Eidan Apelbaum , previously a director of product management at Yahoo! In may of 2010, AVG made a strategic investment in Zbang and took 20% of equity.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Previous Israeli exhibitors lists are available MWC 2009 and MWC 2010. Simply fill in this form provided by the Israeli Foreign Trade Administration, Matimop and the Israel Export Institute. Each Xeligence software solution provides guidance to support automatic decision making. Ceedo Technologies. IXI Mobile. -

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2019

In 2009, my mother moved into a house across the street so I could help her with her daily needs. I have worked for 10 years in international IT companies selling software products. My skills and experience in sales of complicated and expensive IT software combined with my love for visual arts. Photo Credit: Tavis Schriefer.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

We were going to pay people, who are clearly closer to the top 1% than anything else, money, and it’s $44k each, to implement software. Bill Gurley : The only reason I can believe that it happened is because the only executive on his advisory committee was the CEO of Epic Software, the largest EHR vendor out there.

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