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10 Takeaways for Israeli founders considering the UK

VC Cafe

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

David Teten

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth.

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Startup Resources

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Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? About VC Cafe.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

Based on Pitchbook data, $2 billion have been invested in impact tech startups in 2019 alone — a 10X increase in the past 5 years — and the industry has been growing by 50% accordingly (as opposed to 20% growth of the traditional VC industry). Standardized impact tech tools, how to evaluate a startup and their potential impact, 3.

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VentureGeeks Unveils Pre-Seed Investments in Five Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

In a nutshell, the program provides startups with $20,000, office space, account and legal help as well as a small network of mentors, all of which are aimed to help the companies get to a proof of concept. The cost for the startups is 10% of their equity, which is taken by the fund GeekVentures I as payment.

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Live Stream from the TWS 2010 Conference, 10 Startup Finalists and 2 Winners

VC Cafe

If you’re reading this on Monday the 18th, tune in to the live stream of the conference at [link] and watch the demos of the 10 startups that were chosen amongst dozens of applicants. UPDATE: Touchoo won the most promising startup award! Monetization is done through affiliates and the expert gets to keep 70% of the income.

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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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