VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Jussi Laakkonen , CEO & founder of Applifie, summarized it well: We recently raised our seed round at Applifier and it was led by a silicon valley seed fund MHS Capital, whose general partner is Mark Sugarman. If you are in the very early stages with your company and there are no major reasons (e.g. If not, raise locally.

Silicon Valley 104

Silicon Valley Startup Seed Stage Delaware 104

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 1, 2015

IBM’s research center in Zurich, GM’s research center in Israel, Toyota in the U.S They enabled companies to comply with local government laws – for example to allow foreign subsidiaries to transfer manufacturing technology from the U.S. For example, a few years ago Mercedes partnered with Tesla in batteries for electric vehicles.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Incubator 120

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

On Monday, Kevin Baxpehler and I hosted the UK Israel Business investor delegation to Tel Aviv, and today I spent the morning with the 8200 EISP startup delegation to London where I was joined by Kirsten Connell (Cylon Lab, Managing Director) Simon Menashy (MMC Ventures, General Partner). Here they are in no particular order.

Founder 138

Founder Technical Review Early Stage 138

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I sat down with my partner and we brainstormed the name for our business. Instead, my producing partner suggester Corner Piece, Because we’re the piece you need to get everything started. Most law firms simply use the last names of the originating partners as the name of the company. 15 – Strong Ties to Israel.

Naming 48

Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48

VC Cafe

JULY 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. ISRAEL RANKED 17TH MOST COMPETITIVE ECONOMY BY IMD. Israel was also rated first in several of the report’s sub-categories.

North America 68

North America Brazil Argentina 68

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The Salon is Hong Kong’s first international pitching platform to connect start-ups with potential investors and business partners. Wibbitz, Israel ( www.wibbitz.com ) creates a text-to-video technology that automatically turns any text-based article, post or feed on the web into a video in 20 seconds. Building Silicon Valley in Asia.

Silicon Valley 157

Silicon Valley Artificial Inteligence Asia Singapore 157

Pascal's View

MARCH 8, 2009

This culture is either missing or less developed in Europe and Asia (except perhaps Israel). "The reality is that we are deflating the risk associated with early stage innovation and therefor deflating the exit values it spawns. One additional point: as a nation, we have had the advantage of a risk culture, and mobility.

Silicon Valley 28

Silicon Valley Harvest America Government 28

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

A s venture funds struggle to raise money in Israel, seed capital, one of the earliest and riskiest stages of investment, is becoming harder and harder to secure. To learn more, VC Cafe interviewed Brian Rosenzweig, one of the managing partners in the new fund and the former marketing director at 21Ventures.

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Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage 106

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

VC Cafe: Like any enterprise business run out of Israel, the challenge is distribution. We will partner with existing vendors of dev-test suites and obviously cloud providers. I can name Tescom and Tesnet in Israel. Some of our paying customers include banks, government agencies, TV channels, online newspapers, gaming and more.

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Cloud North America EC2 106

VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2022

In case you’re not yet familiar with us, we’re a seed/pre-seed venture capital firm investing in Gaming, Consumer and Metaverse/web3 tech with a spotlight on Israel (in fund I). Both me and my partner at Remagine Ventures, Kevin Baxpehler, are wrapping up busy weeks.

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Cofounder Venture Capital Equity 180