VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

A midst a 72% decline in funds raised by Israeli venture capital funds in 2009, Battery Ventures announced the completion of its new fund, BV-9, totaling $750 million. Geography : The Company invests throughout the world, with most investments are made in North America, Europe, Israel and India.

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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

JULY 20, 2010

T he summary of high tech capital raising in Q2 is out, and the IVC Research Center confirm what we’ve already knew – capital raising in Israel is showing seeds of recovery (see VC Cafe’s post “ Crisis Shmisis “) with $343 million raised in 104 deals, representing an increase of 47% from the previous quarter.

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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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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2010

According to the Q1 2010 report, Israeli companies managed to raise $234 million from both Israeli and foreign venture capital funds. This represents a 15% drop from Q4 2009 and a 12% drop from the first quarter of 2009. million in the first quarter of 2009. Fifty-four companies attracted more than $1 million each.

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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). Current round: $31.0mm in Series C by Insight Venture Partners (Jeff Lieberman).

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VC Cafe

MAY 2, 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. The IMF also predicted that unemployment in Israel will drop to 5.5 ISRAELI ECONOMY TO EXPAND 3.8

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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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Altgate

APRIL 26, 2009

I’ve mentioned this survey several times before, but this time I bring news of the 2009 survey opening to participants. This year the survey covers five countries (China, India, Israel, UK and US) in two industries (technology and life sciences). Don’t miss the opportunity to get the 2009 data… take the survey now!

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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

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

MARCH 2, 2009

Nicles and Dimes in Israeli Venture Capital. The Israeli venture capital industry has experienced a $250 million decline in the past few months. Israeli venture capital funds have struggled to raise the target capital and the impact is likely to be felt on emerging technology companies in Israel.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 1, 2010

in the autumn of 2009. 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. They plan to launch ZON 1.0 Do you know Hola!?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Yair Geva is a partner at Herzog Fox & Neeman , one of the leading Israeli law firms that has helped facilitate some of the major exits and deals in Israel within the past few years. They’re investing directly in Israeli companies and are also investing in domestic venture capital funds. billion people in 2009 to 4.9

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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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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

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Fabless semiconductor company Provigent is named the most promising startup in Israel by Globes and E&Y – The company had $25 million revenue in 2009 and expects $40 million in sales this year, and has been profitable for 18 months. It has 120 employees. – Learn more about its recent products: [link].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

R ecord Low for European Venture Deals; Investment in China Up 32%; Canada Ahead of 2009 Totals. 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. Israel : Investment and Deal Activity Declines.

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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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United Kingdom Venture Capital Taiwan 107

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. Full presentation available here. billion collectively.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Venture capital Rounds. The company was founded in 2009 by Uzi Shmilovici raised the funding from OCA Ventures , I2A Fund and angel investors. million in its third financing round led by Pitango Venture Capital. Perhaps this is how we’ll start solving co-existence in Israel? Footbo raises $2.5

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 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. GE CHOOSES ISRAEL’S KINROT VENTURES TO JOINTLY DEVELOP NEW WATER TECHNOLOGIES.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2010

I sraeli startup Waze , developer of the free social GPS app for smart phones, has announced a $25 million venture round bringing the total capital raised to date to $37 million according to VentureWire. The round was led by prior investor BlueRun Ventures which valued the company between $90 million and $100 million.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley? First Principles.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

Zend has raised $37 million to date, most recently adding $9 million to its coffers in a round led by previous investors including: Greylock Partners, Index Ventures, Azure Capital Partners, Intel Capital,SAP Ventures. According to Linkedin , Zend has a headcount of 130. Watch this space.

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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. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Management , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged China , compensation , equity , executive compensation , India , Israel , United Kingdom , venture capital.

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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

First, as the post title suggests, the 2009 survey will close on July 15th for Canada and the US. The survey also covers China, India, Israel and the UK and will remain open for a few more weeks for those countries. It’s free to participate in the survey so there really is no reason not to do it. Bookmark the permalink.

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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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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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VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2010

Our games studio has created the first RPG advergame in Israel for Bamba. The 2009 Calpers investment report shows another disappointing year for Israeli venture returns – most funds had negative returns and those with positive returns were extremely low. Carmel Ventures I was on the top spot with 6.6%

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists. He was named the venture capitalist of the year in 2016 at the TechCrunch’s annual Crunchy awards. Every single thing.”

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