VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

Amazon Corporate Development – Notable acquisitions include Whole Foods ($13.7B), smart doorbell system Ring ($1.2B, 2018) and autonomous mobility technology Zoox ($1.2bn). The AWS APN Global Startup Program – for startup AWS Partner Network (APN) select and advanced technology partners looking to grow their products on AWS.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 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. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. The Israel/U.S.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Scaling to $100 Million from Bessemer Venture Partners. I’m excited for the talent that will spin out of those companies to create the next generation of B2C stars coming out of Israel. Here’s the benchmarks Bessemer uses to measure this growth. Meet the Israeli Centaurs. Israeli startups raised a record of $26.6

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2016

Japan is the world’s #3 economy…but not for Israel. It is not even a top 10 trading partner. In September, NEC becomes the first Japanese multinational to launch an R&D Center in Israel, focusing on cyber security. A series of high profile business delegations to Israel ensued in 2016. Our history is similar.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

I believe I am qualified to talk about this as I spent ~6 years at Google in strategic partnerships (commerce), as head of Campus London (Google’s first physical startup hub), Head of Google for Entrepreneurs Europe (now called Google for Startups) and eventually general partner for Google Ventures. M&A – Acquisitions.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

A s 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. ISRAEL’S WEF RANKING IMPROVES TO 24TH PLACE, BOOSTED BY INNOVATION.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2021

As the startup ecosystem in Israel scales, so must the teams leading the growing number of Israeli unicorns. Is there a marketing crunch in Israel? VC Cafe: The common case in Israel is founding teams flying solo without a marketer until it’s imminently necessary. The post Is there a marketing crunch in Israel?

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 22, 2024

This is particularly evident in initiatives like Volunteers for Israel, where individuals like Marco Bitran can contribute to positive change through volunteer efforts. Similarly, volunteers working on social projects may help businesses develop more inclusive policies and practices.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

A s 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. Foreign direct investment in Israel reached $3.8 See the March 2010 edition after the jump.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats. — Sajan Pillai is the CEO and Managing Partner of Season Two Ventures, an early-stage venture fund based in Southern California.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Israel, Singapore and now China are the three countries that have successfully put that theory into practice. In recent years Business Incubators have developed into diverse models. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. I had two goals in mind: I wanted to be even more technical than I already was as a developer (I wanted to work on cutting edge stuff, which back then was the Internet – pre World Wide Web browsers) and I wanted to live & work in Europe.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Sablotsky continued her professional career as Vice-President of Portfolio Development for Jacobs Investments, LLC. Her responsibilities included: strategic counseling, business modeling and deal negotiation for the various for medical startups in the portfolio and is a limited partner at NGT3 Medical Accelerator in Israel.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

We were strong in the UK and they were strong in Germany and Israel (where they had a development office). I had developed a great relationship with the CEO whom I still admire (he left many years ago). I then flew from London to Los Angeles to meet with the partners of GRP. And then I got a few disturbing calls.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

million in a second round led by previous backer Genesis Partners and joined by T-Venture , the venture capital company of Deutsche Telekom. Innovid has developed an interactive pre-roll ad format called iRoll, that encourages users to click on moving objects with the interactive ads before watching the video. Innovid raised $4.1

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2016

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. Needless to say, it’s a fun time to be a software developer. Arif Janmohamed is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

About a year and a half ago, we got accepted to the Elevator accelerator program in Tel Aviv, Israel. For us, being specifically based in Israel, these were our four main advantages. Business development is an art of its own. Each market has different mentality, needs and values we had to consider when building our product.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Israel, Singapore and now China are the three countries that have successfully put that theory into practice. In recent years Business Incubators have developed into diverse models. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

Technical Review 170

Technical Review Programming SBIR China 170

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Britain and Israel are inextricably linked by a profound and intimate history. Common values and shared ideals have developed circumstance and a fledgling relationship into the close bond and firm friendship that we now enjoy. In truth, the idea of growth through partnerships is nothing new to the State of Israel.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Earlier this month I spoke at the 2022 Israel Gaming Summit by Calcalist, Playtika and Google. The conference took place during a challenging time for gaming startups: in the same week Playtika, the largest gaming employer in Israel, announced it was laying off 615 people globally, of which 180 are in Israel.

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Generative AI Cloud Acquisition 173

David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

We take tech experts, teach them the policy process through an in-residence fellowship program in the Bay Area, and encourage them to develop outside-the-box solutions to society’s problems. Their foci include addressing environmental sustainability, racial and gender equity, economic development concerns, etc.

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Technical Review SBIR Dilution Silicon Valley 60

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2013

mobile health is taking off in Israel. According to Susan Berson, Managing Partner for Mintz Levin (www.mintz.com) and an expert in Healthcare regulation, “Obamacare changes the equation. Tomer Levy, VP of Cardiology and CEO of McKesson Israel, discusses their first mobile product. “It in 2014 to reach 20% of GDP by 2021.

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VC Cafe

MAY 18, 2023

as a management consultant and in 1977, he co-founded Apax Partners, a private equity firm. Apax Partners became one of the most successful private equity firms in the world, and Cohen became a billionaire. He was born in 1946 to a working class immigrant family in London and attended a State school.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

The group diversity was beneficial because it enabled participants to share their first hand experiences of working at companies operating in different domains and at different phases of development. Tags: Battery Ventures Celtel International Danny Warshay E-Ink Israel ProfitLogic Pursway R&R VC Cafe POCD. By: Geoffrey Mugliston.

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Software Review Technical Review Community Due Diligence 116

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I n its first investment in Israel, Russian search engine Yandex is rumoured to invest $3.4 million in Israel’s Face.com , a startup developing face recognition technology. As a result of the investment, Yandex’s CEO Arkady Volozh is now a member of Face.com’s board.

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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. NSO – Offensive cyber espionage tools for governments (Raised $130M) – 60% of the company is owned by PE fund Francisco Partners.

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Software Review Analytics eCommerce 60

Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2010

Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, Jason Calacanis , founder of Mahlo.com, and Mark Suster of GRP Partners, have all weighed in on the nature side – you’re born being an entrepreneur or your not. Mark Suster, Vivek Wadhwa and Patrick Chung, Partner at New Enterprises Associates will be debating. Or look at Israel.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ].

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Technical Review Venture Capital Matching 79

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The venture capital industry is continuing its evolution from an upside-down pyramid (typically 3-10 Partners, plus some administrative support) to a traditional hierarchical pyramid. They have developed a broad network of 24 senior, focused deal originators to produce top quartile results in 8 of their 9 recent funds.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

billion round into inflection as well as smaller rounds, like the $105M seed round into 4-week old Mistral, a French startup developing LLMs to rival OpenAI. I covered this in my post on generative AI in gaming , and my partner Kevin Baxpehler wrote about the impact of generative AI in media and entertainment in this VC Cafe post.

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Generative AI ChatGPT Startup 88

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ].

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ].

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ].

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Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

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. Browse the headlines below for more news.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2020

According to a report by Quantum Tech Partners, approximately $1 billion was invested in the eSports category in 2019, M&A transactions in esports reached $475 million in 2019, across 33 deals. In attendance there will also be the top esports startups and investors in Israel. billion in 2020, up from 148.8 billion in 2019.

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 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. to JVP and Carmel, the highest performing funds. .

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