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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

You’ve got 8 weeks of cash left and one of your employees just asked you to fill out a form so she can buy a house. Your employees are looking in your eyes for signs of weakness and self doubt. We were strong in the UK and they were strong in Germany and Israel (where they had a development office).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

My mom organized a trip to take me to France & Israel. And Israel felt like home to me – somewhere familiar. “Mark, I’m an Associate Partner. The only person who could carry you on his budget is the lead partner, Cory Van Wolvelaere.&#. He was a senior partner, I was a peon.

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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 addition to the one in Beijing, China has set up 53 additional industrial parks and in them are ~60,000 companies with 8 million employees. This was the area I visited in this trip to China.)

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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 addition to the one in Beijing, China has set up 53 additional industrial parks and in them are ~60,000 companies with 8 million employees. This was the area I visited in this trip to China.)

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 175

VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

Spotlight on Israeli unicorns in 2024 Israel is home to 131 unicorns, over 10% of the global total. Discount Unicorns – Tiger Global opened its entire portfolio for individual bids in order to provide liquidity to its limited partners, often selling stakes in unicorns at steep discounts.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? Organizations like Worldwide Investor Network and the US-Israel Business Council are helpful in this area. We typically do this by partnering with graduate student teams.

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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. PERRIGO TO INVEST $40 MILLION IN ISRAEL.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 28, 2011

We rarely hear of such a large round amongst Internet startups in Israel, which is why Wix’s founding round is particularly interesting. Wix , the Israel-based flash website platform, has announced a D round of $40 million. Wix currently has 185 employees and plans to recruit an additional 100 in 2011. million sites.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2021

I first met Mark in Israel in 2003, when he offered me a job at GLG straight out of college. that develop among employees, public goods that are bought with the tax revenue generated by the company, economies that develop and grow from the spending of the employees (from restaurants to real estate, and a thousand other things).

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

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. According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale.

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Up and Running

MARCH 5, 2018

Our target customer is male-identifying, age between 28 and 45 with a relatively small family—a partner and 0-1 children. and Israel. Include basic demographic details such as age, gender, family size, educational level, and occupation. He works a white collar job and makes slightly more than the average median income.”.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2010

A s every month, VC Ca fe 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. Domestic demand in Israel leaped 8.7 See the March 2010 edition after the jump.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

where I am now a Venture Partner?—?in First Round has been an incredible partner in our journey from startup to public company. Debra and I recently went to Israel for the first time and we found it to be very similar?—?because investors, employees, clients, and partners. in our Series A. I believe the U.S.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc., a service for minimizing spam. the previous year.

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David Teten

MAY 3, 2019

My main goals are: to understand the cutting edge of new disciplines; meet potential founders/employees; and also to help the broader technology and research community. Partner with students to execute research on topics of mutual interest. Partner on promoting entrepreneurship.

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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.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 1, 2015

IBM’s research center in Zurich, GM’s research center in Israel, Toyota in the U.S Silicon Valley, Herzliya in Israel, Zhongguancun for software and Shenzen for hardware in China are examples of technology clusters, but so was Detroit for cars, Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion.). are examples.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

For the first time in my life, I saw what it was like to be a small employee in a large company – there was no transparency, no visibility, and no agility. Imagine a product where you onboard employees at one end and hiring managers at the other. The company focuses on the employee, and the employee focuses on their career.

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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.

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Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Fabless semiconductor company Provigent is named the most promising startup in Israel by Globes and E&Y – The company had $25 million revenue in 2009 and expects $40 million in sales this year, and has been profitable for 18 months. It has 120 employees. – Learn more about its recent products: [link].

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2011

Israeli startup Taboola has announced a $9 million series B round led by Crescent Point Group , with participation by Evergreen Venture Partners. The company has 26 employees, in offices in New York and Israel. Bloomberg, New York Times, CNN, USA Today… these are just a subset of Taboola’s customers.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Photo by israel palacio on Unsplash. You will need good partners, investors or sponsors who are willing to sustain your business in the long run. You need to set an organizational culture for your employees, to set a competitive advantage, to achieve creative and innovative results and so on.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This year, in addition to unveiling the Euroscape, our list of top 100 Cloud companies started in Europe and Israel; and our Champions League, the high-growth unicorns from the region; we’ll also unveil the Accel Euroscape Public Index, the index of the European and Israeli-born public cloud companies, and its performance. An impressive list!

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The proceeds of this round will be used to scale operations, continue building its platform for real-time location data and move its headquarters from Israel to Palo Alto, California, according to the CEO’s post on the company blog, By The Waze. In 2010, Waze has been experiencing significant growth, most recently reaching 2.2

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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). Is there too much money?

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Israeli startup Siklu Wireless Communications has raised a series B round of $19 million led by new investors Amiti Ventures , Qualcomm Ventures and joined by all existing investors: DFJ- Tamir Fishman Ventures , Evergreen Venture Partners and Argonaut Private Equity.

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David Teten

MARCH 13, 2015

Our main goals are: to understand the cutting edge of new disciplines; meet potential founders/employees; and also to help the broader technology and research community. We/I: Recruit star students as interns and employees. Partner with students to execute research on topics of mutual interest.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 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 STATISTICS BUREAU FORECASTS 4% GROWTH IN 2010. For previous editions, click here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

ops team in NY, dev team in Philly and having dev teams in Israel). Current round: $31.0mm in Series C by Insight Venture Partners (Jeff Lieberman). Factoid: 99% of its employees are musicians. We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Read more: TechCrunch.

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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. Who would have thought five years ago that a Romanian SaaS company would be valued at $7 billion and reach that valuation in record time?

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2010

S undaySky , an Israeli startup which provides e-commerce businesses a platform for dynamic videos), has raised a $9 million round led by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) joined by previous investors Globespan Capital Partners and Carmel Ventures. It currently has 31 employees, mostly creative producers, copywirters, etc.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

As an employee, I never waited for instructions to do something. You need close partners in that journey and you get many sorts of partners - investors, employees etc. - I visited Israel and, after a bunch of meals together, they decided to join. And I’ve always taken initiative. I was at IBM at the time.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 9, 2010

The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) and included participation from previous investors Blumberg Capital, First Round Capital, Genacast Ventures as well as private backers. DoubleVerify reportedly grew from 10 to 45 employees in 2 quarters and is currently serving 25 billion impressions per month.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 7, 2010

Pudding Media let go 25 employees this morning and announced it will cease its operations in Israel. The company’s assets will be put on sale as the company only retained five employees for maintenance reasons. The right partner from the advertising industry in Asia, should be able to extract more value.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The investors in DroidSecurity include Maayan Ventures (owned 39% for an investment of $100,000 + $500,000 from a grant by the Chief Scientist Offfice) and a group of private investors led by Shachar Efal, a partner in Quantumwave Capital (20%). It has five employees in Israel. According to Globes , Maayan Ventures made $2.2

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Security Cofounder Mobile 84

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The investors in DroidSecurity include Maayan Ventures (owned 39% for an investment of $100,000 + $500,000 from a grant by the Chief Scientist Offfice) and a group of private investors led by Shachar Efal, a partner in Quantumwave Capital (20%). It has five employees in Israel. According to Globes , Maayan Ventures made $2.2

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Security Cofounder Mobile 84