The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

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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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ when it comes to Internationalizing their product.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Earlier this week YL Ventures announced a 7-figure USD investment in Israel-based Seculert , a new non-intrusive Security-as-a-Service that comprehensively detects cyber threats affecting corporate networks. And last September, Hewlett Packard acquired security-software maker ArcSight Inc. The exact sum was not disclosed.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2016

Over the past few years, there has been an incredible revolution in the way that software applications are built and run. The Cloud has simplified and accelerated time to development, Big Data has made applications smarter and more predictive, and Microservices are changing the way we think about our application architecture.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Today, with the decentralising nature of the Internet, distributed cloud technology and a growing sentiment toward entrepreneurship, the global startup ecosystem has never been so dispersed. Move over Bangalore, there’s a new Indian metropolis evolving with its finger on the pulse of cloud, mobile and digital technologies.

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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Yesterday was Israel’s 68th Independence Day, and to mark the occasion, Calcalist , a leading business publication in Israel, ranked the 50 most promising private Israeli startups. Ironsource – Software Discovery, Distribution and Delivery Platform (Raised $123M). Image credit: Kosher OC Magazine.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 19, 2013

ZeroVM is creating the world’s first cloud hypervisor, which is a piece of software that creates and runs virtual machines. The team from Israel has created an open source platform for cloud computing that is fast and efficient. The post ZeroVM Creates Software for Cloud Computing appeared first on SiliconHills.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

billion in exits in 2019 alone, Israel punches above its weight. What’s less discussed, is that Israel also, has one of the highest number of unicorns, aka privately owned startups worth more than $1 billion, globally. As of now, Israel has 42 Unicorns, or (technically 40, now that Lemonade and JFrog went public).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

uTest , the crow sourced QA service on the cloud, raised $13 million in a C Round led by Scale Venture Partners. uTest has established itself as the world’s largest marketplace for software testing services, with over 25,000 testers in over 160 countries. Led by Tal Halozin and Zvika Netter, Innovid raised $7.1

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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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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

Battery Ventures Open Cloud 2023 report included this comparison chart of private software unicorns (1000+) vs. Software IPOs in the past 10 years (176) which shows the juncture many companies are in. Spotlight on Israeli unicorns in 2024 Israel is home to 131 unicorns, over 10% of the global total.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We’d like to thank KeyBank and G2 for providing some of the data used in the report - * It’s an amazing time to be a cloud entrepreneur in Europe. The European cloud ecosystem is growing much faster than anyone could have anticipated: last year, we predicted that it would take another three years for Europe to generate its first decacorn.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

With this milestone, Europe has clearly established itself as a key center for software innovation in the world. When we started to take stock of this progress four years ago with the first Accel Euroscape , the list of the top 100 cloud companies from Europe and Israel, we had great hopes and Europe delivered beyond our expectations.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 23, 2021

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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VC Cafe

JUNE 4, 2012

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. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. Great for them, good for Israel.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 23, 2013

The success of start-up accelerators like Y Combinator, Tech Stars and 500Startups has spawned hundreds of clones, including more than 15 in Israel. Demo Day last week at Microsoft Israel reflected some of the unique dynamics of corporate Accelerators- experienced founders, more funding, finished products and existing customers.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The problem is widespread: creating a roster of shifts that takes into account people’s availability, hourly rates, holidays etc, can take hours from the shift manager in the business, unless the company has very expensive client software in place. Adir : I read a few articles about the shift management software.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The problem is widespread: creating a roster of shifts that takes into account people’s availability, hourly rates, holidays etc, can take hours from the shift manager in the business, unless the company has very expensive client software in place. Adir : I read a few articles about the shift management software.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The problem is widespread: creating a roster of shifts that takes into account people’s availability, hourly rates, holidays etc, can take hours from the shift manager in the business, unless the company has very expensive client software in place. Adir : I read a few articles about the shift management software.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 12, 2019

Nominations are now open for the 2019 Accel Euroscape, the annual list of the top 100 cloud companies originating from Europe & Israel. The growth of the cloud ecosystem in Europe over the past few years has been explosive. Fast forward three years – Europe has proven that it can produce amazing global software companies.

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Guy Nirpaz

MAY 19, 2010

Guy Nirpaz Blog Thoughts from my startup journey I Choose Cloud This is a great video created by the innovative guys at Box.net with several other CEOs of companies creating very inspiring cloud services. Tags: cloud , saas This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 at 6:34 pm and is filed under software.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Events have already been held this year in Bangalore, Austin, Barcelona and New York, and the next event on the list is taking place in Tel Aviv, Israel on September 21st. So who are the “Smartest&# startups in Israel? Seculert - provides a cloud-based security software as a service model ( SaaS ).

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Guy Nirpaz

APRIL 9, 2010

Guy Nirpaz Blog Thoughts from my startup journey Life in enterprise software TechCrunch is surprised to hear that there is life in enterprise software, You can watch the video and listen to what Marc Andreessen has to say on the subject. link] Tweets that mention Life in enterprise software « Guy Nirpaz Blog — Topsy.com [.]

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The top 100 SaaS companies in Europe and Israel The European Software-as-a-Service world changed forever when Daniel Dines, the founder of UiPath, made the cover of Forbes as ‘Boss of the Bots’ last month. Full presentation available here. Today, the landscape is very different. billion collectively.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Debra and I recently went to Israel for the first time and we found it to be very similar?—?because I was very influenced by Marc Benioff’s book, Behind the Cloud , where he discusses his V2MOM model. And then Rafa Pereira, our Director of Software Engineering, really pushed us to embrace OKRs three quarters ago.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

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. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. OCZ TECHNOLOGY BUYS ISRAEL’S SANRAD.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Fun fact: it seems that I end up investing in a cloud HR company every seven years. How did you start building these relationships as a small company in Israel? The first one in 2007 was Cornerstone OnDemand, the second one was Peopledoc in 2014 and the third one is Gloat in 2021.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2011

T here aren’t too many Israeli companies that have reached this scale: Magic Software (NASDAQ: MGIC), a veteran Israeli software company specialized in cloud and on-premise application platform and business integration solutions, has raised $21.2 The company’s flagship products are uniPaaS and iBolt.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

We were launching a cloud-based document management into a space that was increasingly being called Enterprise 2.0. It just so happened that there was a conference coming up run by a guy named Ismael Ghalimi, a very well respected software executive who also was keeping a blog at the time for companies in the space.

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VC Cafe

MAY 9, 2011

Acceloweb develops technology that helps increase the load time of websites, a growing need as applications migrate to the cloud. Following the deal, Acceloweb will become Limelight’s development center in Israel. Following the deal Acceloweb will become Limelight's development center in Israel. Continue reading →

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

As the popularity of PHP application grows on the web (with sites like Facebook and WordPress running on PHP), so grew Zend’s revenues from its web application server product line, which enables companies to run their applications on the cloud. According to Linkedin , Zend has a headcount of 130.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

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. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. OCZ TECHNOLOGY BUYS ISRAEL’S SANRAD.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 18, 2011

MYTV is the all-inclusive software that reduces playlist production time and significantly improves the efficiency of Contents’ commercials and playlist management. Available as both an embedded and downloadable software application, the solution allows secure content streaming and downloading.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

That’s what I found most attractive about software development: building things. I needed someone who was all in with me in Israel and wanted them to be the opposite of what I had with Mike at Blaze – I wanted someone who’d drive the technology while I could evolve as a CEO and build out the go-to-market strategy.

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Guy Nirpaz

JUNE 1, 2011

This problem went on and on, and I had a very angry support call with Microsoft, as I figured these guys really can’t create a decent software for the Mac. But while we were troubleshooting the problem together, other software caused the same problem: Preview, QuickTime and other, and these are all Mac native software.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 11, 2012

I still remember reading this profound question on December 24, 2007 in BusinessWeek's cover article on Google and cloud computing like it was yesterday. At the start of my career as an enterprise software product manager, I was trained to think about the impact of disruptive, horizontal technologies and innovation on vertical industries.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The weapon which they can utilize are: software, devices, technology around location, cloud computing, payments, and AI. The incumbents are the “gatekeepers,” either partners or enemies. And so, the titans have to figure out a way to license new content, or pay for access to get customers.

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