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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

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In the last 3 months of 2024, Israel’s GDP shrank by 20% in annualised term s and Israel’s credit rating was downgraded by Moodys. But here comes the narrative violation: despite the challenges, Israeli tech continues to power on. What is important for them now in the context of Israel is a permanent ceasefire.

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Israeli tech ecosystem reports H1 2022

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In the big picture, it’s needless to say that the market is going through a challenging economic period, but despite tech layoffs and a decline investments in Q2 2022 (as was seen in the US) the Israeli tech industry faired well. IVC/Leumi Tech Israel tech review Q2 2022. billion in 395 deals.

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How the pre-seed round made a comeback in 2024

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especially if the startup already has a product and revenue? Pre-seed rounds accounted for 14% of all seed stage deals in 2023, up from just 5% in 2020 according to Pitchbook data and I predict it will be even higher in 2024. A founder asked me what makes a $2M round “pre-seed”?

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

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According to the Covid-19 impact report by research firm Beauhurst: 5,070 UK companies are at a ‘severe’ or ‘critical’ risk 615K startup and scaleup jobs are at risk Later stage startups are at the most risk Across the board, tech sectors and verticals are the most likely to experience a positive or low impact.

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Will COVID-19 mainstream AR/VR?

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This brings back into the spotlight the technologies of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. Given it eliminates distance, travel time and costs, “this technology will likely stick around long after COVID-19 fears pass,” according to the Forbes article. In 2019 we had $6 million in revenue. With COVID-19, who knows?

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Accel 2021 Euroscape: On the path to global dominance?

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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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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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