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Israeli High Tech Exits On First Half of 2017 Slowdown and Potential Explanations

VC Cafe

According to the IVC Meitar exits report for H1 2017, Israeli high-tech exits total $1.95 The report sums up the exits of Israeli high-tech companies in merger & acquisition deals and initial public offerings, as well as buyout deals, from 2012 to H1/2017.

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The Snap IPO Happened. What Next LA?

Both Sides of the Table

Mayor Eric Garcetti at Upfront Summit, February 2017 I first sat down with then councilman Eric Garcetti on the Ides of March 2012 — almost 5 years ago exactly. It’s amazing to see the success of LA under Mayor Garcetti and that’s why I urge you to turn out to reelect him tomorrow — March 7, 2017 - every single vote matters.

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Revisiting the Craft Beer Metaphor for the VC Industry

View from Seed

When we started NextView back in 2012, we often used the metaphor of the beer industry to describe the evolution of the VC business. AB Inbev was huge back in 2012 but is only larger today. From 2012 to 2021, VC dollar inflows went from about $25B to over $128B in 2021. But consolidation has not happened at nearly the same rate.

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SXSW 2017: Connecting The Great Disconnect

Austin Startup

Andrea Conant, a Vice President at Consensus, has been participating in the SXSW community since 2012. SXSW 2017: Connecting The Great Disconnect was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Voyager Labs (2012) – cognitive computing for understanding human behaviour. Cimagine (2012) – launched the world’s largest implementation of AR in retail to date with Shop Direct.

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Startup Lessons: 4 Companies Facing Product Lawsuits

The Startup Magazine

In February of 2017, Takata pleaded guilty to the airbag defects and agreed to pay $1 billion to settle the investigation, which included compensating victims’ families and automobile manufacturers. Blitz USA had to file for bankruptcy in 2012 because it was unable to afford its product liability insurance. Blitz USA’s Gas Cans.

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Data Heist: 5 Most Popular Data Breaches of the Century

The Startup Magazine

eBay experienced a data breach in 2012 and approximately 145 million accounts were affected and their names, passwords and addresses leaked.These types of hacks make you wonder just how safe your data is. Equifax announced that they had experienced a data hack in 2017 and around 147 million accounts were affected.