VC Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2020

Lets start with some numbers: Newzoo estimates the gaming market revenue will reach $189.6 billion in 2020, up from 148.8 Global games market is projected to grow in revenue and usage. Intel has announced it will host an esports tournament in Tokyo during the lead-up to the 2020 Olympics. billion in 2019. billion).

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VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2021

As the startup ecosystem in Israel scales, so must the teams leading the growing number of Israeli unicorns. Is there a marketing crunch in Israel? In November 2020, Appsflyer announced a $210 million round led by Salesforce Ventures at over $2 billion valuation. The post Is there a marketing crunch in Israel?

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

billion in exits in 2019 alone, Israel punches above its weight. What’s less discussed, is that Israel also, has one of the highest number of unicorns, aka privately owned startups worth more than $1 billion, globally. As of now, Israel has 42 Unicorns, or (technically 40, now that Lemonade and JFrog went public).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The global rise in venture capital didn’t skip Israel, which has been breaking new records the amount of venture capital raised by companies in 2021. Generally speaking this breakdown applies to Israel as well, with a number of huge outcomes in fintech (Melio, Rapyd, eToro, Papaya Global, etc) and of course Cybersecurity.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The 2020 Accel Euroscape was unveiled earlier today at SaaStockEMEA. 2020 Cloud Market: Is The Sky the Limit? The average revenue multiple is now 17x+, close to 10 times higher than during the 2008 crisis! In 2020, Europe and Israel minted seven new unicorns, taking the total number to 25.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2014

Despite the momentum with India, Israel-China (including Hong Kong) trade is on-track to hit $10 billion this year, representing 13% of total Israeli exports (Bank of Israel). Mobile Data as a percentage of total revenue is about 7.5%. By 2020, the average Indian will be 29, versus 37 in China. 250 million Internet users.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The 2022 Founders Factories report by DealRoom and Accel shines a spotlight on the startup clusters that produced most unicorns across Europe and Israel, and then tracks the alumni of those unicorns to test where the talent goes to found their next companies. Companies have raised record amounts of venture capital money in 2020 and 2021.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 25, 2020

Today The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2020 by Startup Genome was released, ranking the top 30 and 10 runner up global startup ecosystems, with a data-driven approach based on talent availability, connectedness (density), VC activity, etc. Source: The Global Startup Ecosystem Report (GSER) 2020. And, I do like stats.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

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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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

The buzzy app, that only launched in April 2020 as the pandemic was hitting the US, reached Unicorn status last week with fresh $100M round led by A16Z and has gone from an invite-only insiders chat for Silicon Valley founders and VCs to early adopters everywhere in Europe.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 11, 2020

This story was originally published on MassChallenge.org on April 9, 2020 Written by Jon Nordby, MassChallenge Texas in Houston and Bill Powell, Stadia Ventures In the face of catastrophe, innovators turn challenges into opportunities. billion in revenue, and created more than 136,000 total jobs.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

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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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 30, 2011

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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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Israel Startup Network (ISN), led by Arlene Marom, one of our affiliate partners, organized the event with us. First up, David Nordell from Kfar Ya'avetz, Israel, pitched New Global Markets , a solution for making it easier for banks to offer their customers global banking facilities. New Global Markets.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

15 – Strong Ties to Israel. Both our families have strong ties to Israel and we thought it would be nice to incorporate a Hebrew word into the company name. Towards the end, we decided we needed a name that really spoke to what we wanted to do, that being, increasing visibility for companies and driving traffic and revenue.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

Tom from Omaha, Nebraska, shared an update about what is going on in that part of the world, as did other audience members from New York City, Israel, and Columbus, Ohio. The challenges of bootstrapping a venture that is dependent on ad-revenue is, however, also quite significant. could be your companion. for their monetization needs.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

Also, Irit Dabby from Tel-Aviv, Israel, discussed GoodyTag , a neat concept about tagging photos of products differently than you would tag or 'like' a regular link or photo on social media. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

So, tell us more about the inspiration for Melio… At PayPal, I led the group responsible for peer-to-peer payments globally, and grew it to around $50 billion in payment volume, and more than a billion dollars in revenue. The round we did with Accel was in late February/early March 2020 – probably the worst time in the last 50 years to raise!

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