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How the pre-seed round made a comeback in 2024

VC Cafe

especially if the startup already has a product and revenue? While the answers are somewhat semantic, the pre-seed funding round is making a comeback in 2024 startup financing. A founder asked me what makes a $2M round “pre-seed”? Pre-seed tends to be about developing an MVP and generating early traction.

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Euroscape 2024: AI Eating Software

Cracking the Code

AI investments pushing venture funding back up After three years of consecutive decline, funding of private AI and cloud companies across the US and Europe is climbing again at $79B, up 27% vs. 2023 and 65% vs. 2020. the cost of inference for 1,000 tokens on GPT4 has gone down 90% from March 2023 to May 2024.

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Covid-19 is a marathon, not a sprint, for startups in US, UK and Israel

VC Cafe

Israel – 500M NIS to cash strapped startups. Earlier this week, Israel started with an alleviation of the self-quarantine measures that restricted people’s movement to no more than 100 meters from their house. This is part of Israel’s Ministry of Finance NIS 1.2 Meanwhile in Europe.

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Accel 2021 Euroscape: On the path to global dominance?

Cracking the Code

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. in Sept 2020. In 2020, c.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Do Your Homework First

ReadWriteStart

At today's roundtable, we had entrepreneurs presenting from Brazil, Israel and India. Siddhesh has already validated his business and is catering to home buyers, sellers, and brokers, generating revenues from advertising and sponsorships as well as brokerage revenue sharing. Estate Lister.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Kauffman Fellows Report (2020): “Diverse Founding Teams generate higher median realized multiples (RMs) on Acquisitions and IPOs]. ” (I discuss this more in Why are Revenue-Share VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders ?)

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Continued International Participation

ReadWriteStart

India and Israel pitch their businesses. Next, Yael Greenberg from Tel Aviv, Israel, pitched tapTank , a concept stage business where Yael wants to help consumers barter, collaborate, and compete on specific tasks. The site has 11 million page views a month, and Jeu expects 2011 revenues to be about $250k. directdialogs.

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