VC Cafe

JUNE 9, 2010

T he birth of the Israeli venture capital industry was supported by government programs like Yozma. The proposal will enable investors in startups to receive tax write-offs on investments for high-tech companies who spend at least 70% of their salaries in Israel. Today, most of the LPs for Israeli funds are foreign investors.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! For pre-seed and seed companies based in the US and Israel with a focus on AI for social impact”. How Star Wars will help you raise capital for your company. Is Venture Capital Right for Social Ventures? *

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Is it because there are more worthy companies for investment all of a sudden, or are VCs driven by the need to deploy some of their capital before the end of the calendar year? Other venture capital links. Calcalist Hebrew ]. Dear Entrepreneur, Are You Happy?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Britain and Israel are inextricably linked by a profound and intimate history. In truth, the idea of growth through partnerships is nothing new to the State of Israel. With limited natural resources, Israel quickly turned to the potential of its human resource. Guest post By Daniel Saunders.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Is it because there are more worthy companies for investment all of a sudden, or are VCs driven by the need to deploy some of their capital before the end of the calendar year? Other venture capital links. Calcalist Hebrew ]. Dear Entrepreneur, Are You Happy?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Is it because there are more worthy companies for investment all of a sudden, or are VCs driven by the need to deploy some of their capital before the end of the calendar year? Other venture capital links. Calcalist Hebrew ]. Dear Entrepreneur, Are You Happy?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Is it because there are more worthy companies for investment all of a sudden, or are VCs driven by the need to deploy some of their capital before the end of the calendar year? Other venture capital links. Calcalist Hebrew ]. Dear Entrepreneur, Are You Happy?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This article first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. It is the “venture capital” of the Navy and Marine Corps. Other countries, e.g. Turkey and Israel, have proliferated systems that have been used to win a war. Admiral Selby is responsible for the Naval Research Enterprise.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

gazelle_CEO : Gazelle CEO Israel Ganot discusses gadget trade-in, smarter consumption, and reCommerce. FrancisBoulle : CEO of FundMine Francis Boulle talks angel investment and venture capital on @FrancisBoulle. This article was first posted in Online MBA.

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

This was reported as being untrue by British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) about a year ago. At 17, I wrote my first newspaper article about how much it sucked for my whole five years of high school effort to be balanced on one giant exam at the end of it all. You’ve been taught to fear failure.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

A big spread on Israeli startups and Venture Capital by Tobias Buck was published in the FT this morning , showcases what made Israel the startup nation, and what are the challenges ahead. In the first half of 2011, over $1 billion of VC funding was raised in Israel (according to IVC).

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. NEW LAW FOR CAPITAL INVESTMENTS OFFERS LOWER TAXES, HIGHER GRANT. Israel’s GDP rose 4.5%

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. ops team in NY, dev team in Philly and having dev teams in Israel). TechCrunch article. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 9, 2011

S ure, Israel is known the ‘Startup Nation’, but judging by the actual venture capital investments raised by Israeli startups in the last decade, Israel looks more like a continent. Billion dollars in the period of 2001-2010, says Globes in an article published today. Israeli startups have raised $11.1

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VC Cafe

MAY 30, 2011

Zeev Holtzman, founding partner of Giza Venture Capital and founding member of the Israel Venture Association (IVA), cautioned that “ Israel’s venture capital and startup industry is heading for collapse. What’s next for Israel’s VC industry? The Israeli VC decline by the numbers.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 23, 2021

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Lucy Wimmer, Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay. You can now put your company forward for Accel’s 2021 Euroscape , the list of the top 100 SaaS companies across Europe and Israel. Across Europe and Israel, 2021 is already set to become a SaaS record-breaker.

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2010

About a month ago I got a phone call from Alan Patricof of Greycroft Partners who saw the article about Lean Startups in the NY Times and invited me to talk at their CEO conference. As a country, Israel has the highest ratio of scalable startups per capita. (I’ll show you the slides a bit later in this post.).

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Venture capital Rounds. Footbo has been running since 2007 and is led by co-founder and CEO Mani Honigstein – full article on Techcrunch. The latest company news posted on its website are from November 2010 - full article. million in its third financing round led by Pitango Venture Capital.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Takadu’s business model consists of charging a monthly fee from its clients, which already include the Thames Water company and other utility companies in Israel and Asia Pacific. Other winners on the list include check-in site FourSquare (see excellent WSJ article ), mobile directory GetJar and the rest below.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Venture Funding Shrinks Leaving Scores of ‘Walking Dead’ Firms [link] [founding firms are down, but IPOs might be coming back]. link] [interesting article on compensation at startups]. Israel: An Economy Without a Diaspora&# – BusinessWeek on the economic power of few families in Israel. Share/Bookmark.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Now that anyone can benefit from the global growth of entrepreneurial activity, venture capitalists need to show their true added value more than ever, in order to attract the most capable entrepreneurs. Contributed Articles Fundraising Origination Venture Capital' Previously posted at Forbes.

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Up and Running

JULY 21, 2016

Rather than focusing on the cities that have less expensive labor and best overall business growth (as I did in my recent article on the 10 best U.S. Tel Aviv, Israel. Not only that, but Berlin raised more venture capital funding in 2015 than did London, a sure sign that the startup ecosystem there is growing. TechBerlin.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. SaaS remains one of the top categories for funding in Europe and Israel with $6.1B The Accel 2020 Euroscape will be presented at SaaStock in October.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The European Investment Fund (EIF) is an EU institution that exists to stimulate the startup ecosystem by investing in venture capital funds. They have made a huge contribution to the UK scene, backing 37% of UK based venture funds between 2011 and 2015. So the EIF has had a huge positive impact on the UK.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. You’ll also find the video recording of the presentation at the end of this article and t he slides are available here. In 2020, Europe and Israel minted seven new unicorns, taking the total number to 25.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 9, 2017

Nominations are now open for the 2017 edition of Accel SaaS 100 Europe, the list of the top 100 leading SaaS companies emerging from Europe & Israel.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 12, 2019

-This article was co-authored with my colleague Maxim Filippov and published initially on Tech.eu. Nominations are now open for the 2019 Accel Euroscape, the annual list of the top 100 cloud companies originating from Europe & Israel. You can apply HERE – applications will be open until 6 th September 2019.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Recent SaaS trends and the Accel Euroscape of the 100 most promising companies in Europe and Israel This article was co-authored with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne and published initially on Tech.eu. From a geographic standpoint, the UK and Israel lead the pack with 20 companies each, followed by France with 18 and Germany with 8.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

” The role model for most of the international innovation communities I meet is Israel, the “ startup nation ”. ISRAELIMappedinNY tracks all of the local activity, and people meet through such groups as Israeli Startups NYC and Israel Tech Meetup Group.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 8, 2009

I have received over 100 private emails with reactions to my DHS CATCH conference keynote address , and a number of public comments have been posted on blogs such as Mark Boslet’s TechPulse 360  and Alastair Goldfisher's article on Daniel Primack’s PEHUB.  I believe this advantage will erode over time.   Do your part. 

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

The best way you can help them is build a big business with their backing, and that requires you to appear self-made. [I should mention that disclosure of participation in the Venture Capital Access Program is optional.]. When I was running an Israel-based company in 1999-2001, my location was a significant barrier.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 6, 2016

I'd like to see more Impact Entrepreneurs (a concept I first saw coined in an article in Wired Magazine by Adam Levene) not just wealth-creating entrepreneurs. one from Israel came into my inbox this morning). I would like to see this trend continue. At its peak, Upromise helped over 10 million families save over $30 billion.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Accel Euroscape: The 100 most promising Software-as-a- Service companies in Europe and Israel -This article was co-authored with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne and published initially on Tech.eu. This concentration of capital in a limited number of champions will hopefully pave the way for a good number of IPOs in the coming years.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? Raising Venture Capital. Venture Hacks equity section. About VC Cafe. Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2021

This is a guest post by Kevin Baxpehler , co-founder and Managing Partner at Remagine Ventures. At the time of this writing Israel and Hamas just signed a ceasefire. I wanted to take a few moments to reflect on what was going on in Israel. But, this is also not exactly new to Israel.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists. He was named the venture capitalist of the year in 2016 at the TechCrunch’s annual Crunchy awards. .” It’s unbelievable, right?

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