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10 Takeaways for Israeli founders considering the UK

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On Monday, Kevin Baxpehler and I hosted the UK Israel Business investor delegation to Tel Aviv, and today I spent the morning with the 8200 EISP startup delegation to London where I was joined by Kirsten Connell (Cylon Lab, Managing Director) Simon Menashy (MMC Ventures, General Partner). Here they are in no particular order.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

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Requires Columbia affiliation. For pre-seed and seed companies based in the US and Israel with a focus on AI for social impact”. Innovation Prize seeks out innovators who are spearheading transformative early-stage projects in the fields of the environment, heritage conservation, and social justice.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

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A good example is the young firm Fifty Years , an entrepreneur-run early stage venture capital company based in San Francisco, which backs startups that aim to be both massively profitable and make a serious dent in achieving one of the SDGs. Israel, a hub for Impact Tech? Cecile Blilious and Leehe Skuler.

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Startup Resources

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VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. affiliate and referral marketing on the web. NESTA : They invest in early-stage companies, inform and shape policy, and deliver practical programs that inspire others to solve the big challenges of the future. Citigroup Israel.

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VentureGeeks Unveils Pre-Seed Investments in Five Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

We wrote about the VentureGeeks incubator on VC Cafe a few months ago, and its plans to set up a $2 million early stage fund making pre-seed investments. They plan to scale by using ecommerce aggregators as affiliates. So far 500 artists signed up, mostly from Israel and the US.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: A View Into Israeli Start-ups

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Israel Startup Network (ISN), led by Arlene Marom, one of our affiliate partners, organized the event with us. In fact, Saul Singer, author of Start-up Nation had also helped us promote the event, resulting in a massive turnout that offered us a very interesting view into the early-stage Israeli start-up scene.

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Exclusive: Enigmai Helps SMBs Simplify Complex Workforce Scheduling on the Cloud [Interview]

VC Cafe

B ootstrapping can be really hard for some early stage startups, but Israeli startup Enigmai , makes it seem easy. Our beta process was in Israel and we’ve approached VCs only in Israel. We are starting to think about business partnerships and affiliates. Financial reasons (israel has really expensive taxes).

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