VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A combination of competition for top talent and an effort to bring employees back to the office drove startups in Israel to throw extravagant parties and all-inclusive retreats abroad. The press took notice, especially since just a few months later startups were laying off employees en-masse to cut costs. Team, product, market.

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VC Cafe

MAY 28, 2020

In 2019 we had $6 million in revenue. A report by analytics platform Digi-Capital explores the potential future of AR/VR in the aftermath of coronavirus, and predicts that the market will reach an estimated $65 billion revenue by 2024. We’re getting a lot of calls, as people from different sectors are looking for our technology.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

You can hire part-time employees or outsource some of your routine tasks such as bookkeeping, copywriting, and legal paperwork and contracts. When putting together a team of full-time employees, make sure to hire people with strengths that counterbalance your weaknesses. Make Excuses for Their Mistakes.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The global rise in venture capital didn’t skip Israel, which has been breaking new records the amount of venture capital raised by companies in 2021. Generally speaking this breakdown applies to Israel as well, with a number of huge outcomes in fintech (Melio, Rapyd, eToro, Papaya Global, etc) and of course Cybersecurity.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

Spotlight on Israeli unicorns in 2024 Israel is home to 131 unicorns, over 10% of the global total. Decacorns – the top of the crop, still private but perhaps not yet ready for IPO, these unicorns have all achieved north of $100 million in revenue, but must show significant growth to justify up round valuations.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The 2022 Founders Factories report by DealRoom and Accel shines a spotlight on the startup clusters that produced most unicorns across Europe and Israel, and then tracks the alumni of those unicorns to test where the talent goes to found their next companies. In London, 27 unicorns saw 168 new startups founded by former employees.

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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). But we did $2.1

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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

JUNE 25, 2020

Overall, Tel Aviv went down one spot from 2019 but faired relatively well: Tel Aviv ranked as #6 Startup Ecosystem Globally Israel’s regional sub-sector strengths include AI, Big Data & Analytics and Cybersecurity The National pre-seed fund and Density of Startups & R&D hubs are cited as reasons a startup should move to Tel Aviv.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 3, 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. MOODYS REITERATES “A1 – STABLE” RATING FOR ISRAEL.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 1, 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. ISRAEL 2010 GDP GROWTH WELL ABOVE OECD AVERAGE. Israel’s GDP rose 4.5% for the year.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

So all their engineering is now based in Israel At that time they discontinued all the good SMB solutions. Cause I'm pretty bad at, uh, monetization and revenue. You know, I, I think when we got to the point where we could hire our first employee was a pretty big milestone cuz OAR was o it was kind of a weird company.

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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. Despite hosting a rich startup ecosystem, Israel is simply too small a country for entrepreneurs seeking to build big companies.

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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. billion in revenues (growing 39% year-on-year) and $25B of market cap. These 12 have performed well, with an aggregate $2.6

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif.,

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Enigmai’s flagship product, Enigmai Business Suite (EBS) is a web based application generically designed for for dynamic working environments that need to manage many employees such as hospitals, restaurants, hotels, schools and manufacturing companies. Our beta process was in Israel and we’ve approached VCs only in Israel.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Enigmai’s flagship product, Enigmai Business Suite (EBS) is a web based application generically designed for for dynamic working environments that need to manage many employees such as hospitals, restaurants, hotels, schools and manufacturing companies. Our beta process was in Israel and we’ve approached VCs only in Israel.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Enigmai’s flagship product, Enigmai Business Suite (EBS) is a web based application generically designed for for dynamic working environments that need to manage many employees such as hospitals, restaurants, hotels, schools and manufacturing companies. Our beta process was in Israel and we’ve approached VCs only in Israel.

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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. Companies above that revenue threshold and with high growth rate have made our ‘Champions League’ (see full presentation).

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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 investors, employees, clients, and partners. For example, we recently hired Ryan Cush as our Chief Revenue Officer and he has been a game-changer for us. When you reach out to successful people in the U.S., I believe the U.S.

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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.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2011

Integrated with Brightcove, Kaltura and other video platforms, Taboola gets paid a revenue share from the amount of uplift they are able to generate through their recommendations service. The company has 26 employees, in offices in New York and Israel. In addition, we plan on opening more data centers in the U.S.,&#.

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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). Mo & I both have double majors with one being finance / econ. -Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Factoid: 99% of its employees are musicians. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g.

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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. million project - [link].

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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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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

We wanted to find a name that had meaning and that would keep every employee focused on what we are all about. 15 – Strong Ties to Israel. Both our families have strong ties to Israel and we thought it would be nice to incorporate a Hebrew word into the company name. Hence the simple name SilkRoll was born!

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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. A ccording to Calcalist ,Pudding Media, an Israeli mobile advertising startup, faces imminent shut down.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

Tom from Omaha, Nebraska, shared an update about what is going on in that part of the world, as did other audience members from New York City, Israel, and Columbus, Ohio. The challenges of bootstrapping a venture that is dependent on ad-revenue is, however, also quite significant. could be your companion. for their monetization needs.

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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. As the company announces its $530 million Series F at a valuation of $8.5

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

He could not keep his ego in check or respect his business’ greatest asset – his employees. By ignoring the advice of a successful CEO, with 6,000 employees in over 100 cities and an estimated $3 billion in sales in 2013 – an empire established in only 10 years – LA Dogworks is destined to continue its struggle.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Accel Euroscape: The 100 most promising Software-as-a- Service 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 top three regions for SaaS companies are the UK, France and Israel, with around 20 logos each in our top 100.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Last week Ernst & Young held their annual conference Journey 2011 at the Hilton hotel in sunny Tel Aviv, Israel. Stay private only if you can grow fast enough to pay your employees and investors. If you don’t have over 100-150 million in revenue, then stay private, it is quite hard in the public market with that little revenue.”

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 23, 2019

Now that my pursuits have changed from being an employee to one of entrepreneurship I am. Thanks to Eli Israel , ForeclosureMagic.com. My early to rise, early to generate revenue for my business has its roots in what my parents taught me. getting up earlier and start work with more gusto. and wake at 6 a.m.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2018

Now that my pursuits have changed from being an employee to one of entrepreneurship I am. Thanks to Eli Israel , ForeclosureMagic.com. My early to rise, early to generate revenue for my business has its roots in what my parents taught me. getting up earlier and start work with more gusto. and wake at 6 a.m.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 24, 2013

Now that my pursuits have changed from being an employee to one of entrepreneurship I am. Thanks to Eli Israel , ForeclosureMagic.com. My early to rise, early to generate revenue for my business has its roots in what my parents taught me. getting up earlier and start work with more gusto. and wake at 6 a.m.

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