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How can startups engage with Google?

VC Cafe

GV (formerly Google Ventures) – Started in 2009, GV is Alphabet’s venture capital fund, focused primarily on early stage in diverse fields: from life sciences and healthcare to robotics and entereprise tech. Gradient Ventures – an early stage fund backed by Alphabet, investing exclusively in AI first companies.

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How can startups engage Amazon and AWS

VC Cafe

After covering Google startup outreach and support (from first hand experience), today I’m happy to add Amazon and AWS, by looking into the variety of ways startups can engage with the commerce and cloud giant. The information in this post was provided and fact checked by AWS managers Moran Nir and Jonno Southam.

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Take Five – how shut are the venture markets right now?

VC Cafe

Until now, early stage startups were relatively unaffected. While these prices are still high compared to what we see in Israel, Investors have putting a stronger focus on revenue growth (and in particular startups that can reach substantial revenue targets) especially before series A. How important are margins?

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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

The Startup Magazine

Enabled by affordable advanced technologies, such as cloud computing, global access to digital solutions has never been higher, and we are only just realizing the power of connectivity to navigate change. The evolution of cloud computing has enabled public and private enterprises to track, analyze and adjust processes faster than ever before.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten

“For pre-seed and seed companies based in the US and Israel with a focus on AI for social impact”. Our 20 selected organizations will receive coaching from Google’s AI experts, Google.org grant funding from a $25 million pool, and credits and consulting from Google Cloud. Google AI for Social Good. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The

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Israeli venture capital broke new records in Q3 2020, but seed rounds are massively down

VC Cafe

As a whole, it looks like Israel is headed for another record breaking year. Q3 2020 venture funding in Israel broke new records ( source ). Much of the growth in funding is attributed to later stage rounds (Next Insurance $250M, Snyk $200M, Gong.io $200, Redis Labs $100M, etc etc). Seed investments in Israel ( source ).

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Accel 2021 Euroscape submissions are open - apply now!

Cracking the Code

You can now put your company forward for Accel’s 2021 Euroscape , the list of the top 100 SaaS companies across Europe and Israel. Last year saw an explosion of investment in private cloud companies founded in Europe and Israel, with funding hitting $13 billion. The Accel 2021 Euroscape will be presented at SaaStock in October.

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