VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

As you may already know, I’ve always been a fan of startup landscapes. For previous editions, check out these posts from July 2021 , July 2020 and May 2019. Metaverse tech. Our team at Remagine ventures created the first landscape of Israeli startups building the Metaverse. InsurTech – Insurance + tech.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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. Pre-seed round tends to be the first ‘institutional’ round of funding in a startup. A founder asked me what makes a $2M round “pre-seed”?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The value of startup landscapes is in curating a vertical category, and showcasing the various themes and startups in one area. Readers of VC Cafe know that I passionately collect Israeli startup maps. You can find the previous editions from Q1-Q2 2022 , July 2021 , July 2020 and May 2019.I’ll

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The top 20 tech billionaires globally have lost $480 billion on paper in the past year. This is largely due to several major stock market crashes and global economic uncertainties. It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The tech world has seen a shift away from Silicon Valley, with Israel now dominating the world’s startup economy. Information Age mentions that the tech sector provides the backbone for the country’s economy. Israel’s tech sector and ecosystem has led to innovation on an unprecedented scale.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

Source: NVCA , “Startup Ecosystem Faces Capital Crunch over Coming Months” USA – SBA Loans and PPP. The $349 billion aid package issued by the US Government and distributed in the form of SBA loans was quickly gobbled up by a large number of applications, many of which were from venture-backed or PE-backed startups.

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VC Cafe

MAY 20, 2022

With time, perhaps due my own inhibitions, doing a post was more like writing a memo. The memo to YC startups advising startu ps to plan for the worst. I collated some of my favourite pieces of advice in my post ‘ advice for startups in a downturn ‘ On the importance of becoming ‘Default Alive. Amazon link.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

If you’re a startup founder, you’re probably looking at Google in some way, maybe in terms of partnership or acquisition, but maybe some level of suspicion and fear. For many CEOs, competition with the tech giants an existential concern. How can startups engage Google (credit: VC Cafe). Will they compete with me?

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VC Cafe

MAY 28, 2020

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. Indeed, some AR/VR startup founders are especially optimistic.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 12, 2017

And, if current technological trends and advances are anything to go by, there’s still a lot of potential for online gaming yet! And according to past research by the International Data Corporation , by 2020 one billion people will regularly be viewing and using VR and AR content. Fewer Market Competitors.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2014

However, the ex-COO of Indian wireless carrier Tata TeleServices , presenting at Axis Tel Aviv this week, has a decidely commercial objective- finding Israeli startups for investment. Although relatively few Israeli startups are focused on India, the market dynamics driving its mobile sector are worth a closer look.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

At today's roundtable, we had entrepreneurs presenting from Brazil, Israel and India. Next, Nir Savitzki from Israel, presented JobVoyage , a social CRM service for job seekers. Up last, Leandro Telles from Brazil, pitched ledface , a knowledge management technology company that still needs a business strategy. Estate Lister.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

In my experience, the Silicon Valley startup model, focused on disrupting established industries, has treated the USA well and created some great global businesses. It has played almost no role in the emergence of current non-US bred startups, including Alibaba in China, Waze from Israel, Paytm in India, and many more.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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MARCH 11, 2013

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