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5 Promising Israeli Startups In 2020

YoungUpstarts

Israeli startups have gained international recognition as cutting-edge enterprises with game-changing potential. As the world’s second largest start-up nation, Israel has witnessed unprecedented success in this sphere. As the world’s second largest start-up nation, Israel has witnessed unprecedented success in this sphere.

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Reducing the risk factors: Why first time founders should join an accelerator program

The Next Web

Ohad Frankfurt is the cofounder and CEO of Swayy , a personalized content curation and management platform. About a year and a half ago, we got accepted to the Elevator accelerator program in Tel Aviv, Israel. However, we quickly realized that building a product is only a small piece of the startup puzzle. Coworking space.

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Our Second Rotation Investment

Genuine VC

I am happy to share that we at Venrock have made an investment in a startup which directly addresses this problem. Before joining as President & COO, Israel Ganot spent six years at eBay, where he was instrumental in the company’s international expansion. You could sell them on eBay or Craigslist, but that’s such a pain.

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Our Second Rotation Investment

Genuine VC

I am happy to share that we at Venrock have made an investment in a startup which directly addresses this problem. Before joining as President & COO, Israel Ganot spent six years at eBay, where he was instrumental in the company’s international expansion. You could sell them on eBay or Craigslist, but that’s such a pain.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. That’s the good news.

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Kinnernet 2006 – geek camp

BeyondVC

I just got back from a week in Israel having spent some time in Jerusalem for an Answers board meeting and then making my way to the Ohalo Resort on the Sea of Galilee for Kinnernet 2006. Kinnernet is a techie geek camp organized and run by Yossi Vardi (cofounder of ICQ).