Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. Today, Europe and Israel have generated 23 public companies worth $231B and private cloud financing reached c. Annualised, this would be 2.7x larger than last year!

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Global Europe Software Review 62

VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

In the past I’ve covered the rise of corporate venture capital and the growing number of Fortune 500 companies who are actively launching CVC arms or investing in startups/funds. Applications for various programs in Europe and Israel are open. But investing is only part of the picture.

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Technical Review Startup Early Stage Cloud 131

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Pitchbook Data released a new report on the state of Private Capital in Israel 2020 , covering private equity and venture capital. In 2010, VC funds in Israel had over $10 billion of assets under management, by 2017, that number had grown to over $36 billion. Israel based startups raised $4.1

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Private Equity Venture Capital Europe 186

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. Deutschland.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. He led the department to 400% growth : MSN became the number one portal in Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and numerous Asian countries. By Ben Bakhshi.

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Venture Capital New Zealand Startup 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. The Europe goal was shaped by three random things: My father is from South America and his native language is Spanish (although his father was from Romania and escaped oppression there).

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Europe France San Francisco Chicago 352

VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2024

It’s easy to find bad news about venture capital these days. In other words, the venture capital bust has only just started. 2023 was a rough year for Venture Capital and for startups, and it might get even worse. Global venture funding fell 42% year over years to $248.8

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Generative AI Global Venture Capital Valuation 172

VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2020

A new report on global venture capital investment volume shows that H1 2020 investments in startups reached $129 billion (this includes all stages as well as CVC activity). On a regional basis H1 2020 VC investment activity shows varied impact: Europe down 20% ( Source ) ? Israel UP 40% ( Source ) ? It’s a 6.5%

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Global Venture Capital Europe 180

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

When I began investing a little over five years ago, it felt like the conventional wisdom was that one had to invest in the Bay Area to harvest venture-like returns. Of course, that was not 100% true, with innovative startups and large outcomes occurring in Europe, in Asia, and other parts of the USA.

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San Francisco Silicon Valley Seattle Venture Capital 116

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. for about $158.1

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Peru Technical Review North America 96

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Five international MBA programs also boast Unicorn founders, namely INSEAD (France / Singapore / UAE), IIM Calcutta (India), Vienna University (Austria), Tel Aviv University (Israel), and University of Otago (New Zealand) (Please note that I only included MBA programs, and excluded Masters in Science degrees). that of GSB).

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Programming St. Louis Cofounder India 120

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 2021, a new unicorn was created every 3 days.

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Europe Balance Sheet Valuation 97

The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

Many entrepreneurs claim that there’s just not enough money, and that investors in Europe fear failure. This was reported as being untrue by British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) about a year ago. The unfortunate state of affairs in Europe is that there is a lot of youth unemployment. Bill Gates.

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Europe South Korea San Francisco Portugal 163

VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

A midst a 72% decline in funds raised by Israeli venture capital funds in 2009, Battery Ventures announced the completion of its new fund, BV-9, totaling $750 million. Geography : The Company invests throughout the world, with most investments are made in North America, Europe, Israel and India.

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North America Silicon Valley Private Equity 76

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Ben Rooney just posted an analysis of VC and entrepreneurial activity in Europe which included the two charts above. The two other interesting things to note from this data are: That the UK continues to be the main centre for investment in Europe. That Sweden is doing amazingly well for a small country (emulating Israel).

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Sweden Europe Venture Capital 129

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

It has played almost no role in the emergence of current non-US bred startups, including Alibaba in China, Waze from Israel, Paytm in India, and many more. From my consulting with entrepreneurs in Europe and other countries, I’m convinced that we all could benefit from adapting to meet their environments.

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Global Silicon Valley Marketing Indonesia 345

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The picture that emerges is one of a major decline in venture activity (consistent, but a bit stronger than the declines in US and Europe), but on the other hand, we’re starting to see the signs of stability in the rate of decline. Two new industry reports paint the picture of the Israeli tech ecosystem in 2023.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Stealth 78

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. Out of the 12 IPOs, Mimecast is the only company from Europe. in Europe and $0.9B in Europe and $0.9B in India.

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Europe Cloud API 83

VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

To put things in context, global venture funding in Q2 2023 reached $65 billion, an 18% decline quarter over quarter, and a 49% drop compared to the second quarter of 2022, when startup investors spent $127 billion, according to Crunchbase. I tried to consolidate my thoughts as well as other perspectives from leading venture capital funds.

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Generative AI ChatGPT Startup 89

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. The rise of Europe Against this healthy backdrop, let’s drill down into Europe. Full presentation available here.

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Europe IPO API 48

Cracking the Code

APRIL 9, 2017

Nominations are now open for the 2017 edition of Accel SaaS 100 Europe, the list of the top 100 leading SaaS companies emerging from Europe & Israel. Do you think you are ready to join the ranks of Europe & Israel’s most promising SaaS Leaders?

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Europe Hosting Global 63

VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

Spotlight on Israeli unicorns in 2024 Israel is home to 131 unicorns, over 10% of the global total. Founder Factories , a study by Accel and Dealroom found that Israel ranked #1 in Europe with 181 spinout startups, with former employees that originated from 45 different unicorns.

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IPO Valuation Private Equity 88

Cracking the Code

JULY 23, 2021

You can now put your company forward for Accel’s 2021 Euroscape , the list of the top 100 SaaS companies across Europe and Israel. It’s now five years since Accel launched its inaugural Euroscape report - SaaS Wars: Europe Awakens. Across Europe and Israel, 2021 is already set to become a SaaS record-breaker.

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Europe IPO Cloud 62

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

It has played almost no role in the emergence of current non-US bred startups, including Alibaba in China, Waze from Israel, Paytm in India, and many more. From my consulting with entrepreneurs in Europe and other countries, I’m convinced that we all could benefit from adapting to meet their environments.

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Silicon Valley Indonesia Venture Capital Global 312

VC Cafe

MAY 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. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY CENTER TO OPEN IN ISRAEL.

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Denmark Ireland Europe 96

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

3, 2010) —Venture capitalists from around the world invested $7.8 Europe, Canada, Israel, Mainland China and India, according to industry tracker Dow Jones VentureSource. Venture investment in some major investment hubs, such as Europe, has not regained its footing following the economic downturn in 2008.

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China Europe North America India 75

Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

Last year, we predicted it would take three years for Europe to mark its first Decacorn. With this milestone, Europe has clearly established itself as a key center for software innovation in the world. SaaS remains one of the top categories for funding in Europe and Israel with $6.1B

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Europe Cloud Valuation 71

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We’d like to thank KeyBank and G2 for providing some of the data used in the report - * It’s an amazing time to be a cloud entrepreneur in Europe. The European cloud ecosystem is growing much faster than anyone could have anticipated: last year, we predicted that it would take another three years for Europe to generate its first decacorn.

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Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at the Cities Summit Tel Aviv, in a session moderated by Mr Yossi Vardi. The topic was the "Innovative code" of cities. My talk focused on London and its. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Europe Global Startup Venture Capital 135

VC Cafe

MAY 2, 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. The IMF also predicted that unemployment in Israel will drop to 5.5 ISRAELI ECONOMY TO EXPAND 3.8

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Uganda Norway Europe 84

Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2010

He built APAX Partners into one of the largest VC firms on the East Coast and in Europe. He started a new venture firm when he realized that that the rules had changed for the venture business – VC’s could no longer expect the same kind of returns they got in the past through an IPO. They are agile, resourceful and aggressive.

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Venture Capital Agile Customer Development 175

VC Cafe

MARCH 2, 2017

Part 2 of a series about machine learning in Israel, originally posted on VC Cafe. Outside of the US, Europe is the largest hub, with approximately 630 machine intelligence startups , followed by Asia with approximately 300 (according to Crunchbase data). Within Europe the UK is in the lead.

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Artificial Inteligence San Francisco Europe 60

David Teten

OCTOBER 23, 2012

On November 7 th evening at our fitness office in midtown, Michael Petrucelli and I will present to members of the NY Tech International Meetup regarding US visa regulations for startups and international venture capital. RSVP: NY Tech International Meetup.

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New York Canada Europe 114

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. NEW LAW FOR CAPITAL INVESTMENTS OFFERS LOWER TAXES, HIGHER GRANT. Israel’s GDP rose 4.5%

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Architecture Dividend Minneapolis 92

VC Cafe

JUNE 13, 2012

Of course, the European venture capital industry is filled with challenges, including a negative average return of 1.9 London has the largest venture capital and private equity industries in Europe. London has the largest venture capital and private equity industries in Europe.

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Silicon Valley Europe Venture Capital 99

VC Cafe

MAY 30, 2011

Zeev Holtzman, founding partner of Giza Venture Capital and founding member of the Israel Venture Association (IVA), cautioned that “ Israel’s venture capital and startup industry is heading for collapse. What’s next for Israel’s VC industry? The Israeli VC decline by the numbers.

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Venture Capital Early Stage Europe 94

VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2011

Facebook Expands Credits Offers to Europe Via SupersonicAds – a huge deal for the Israeli startup, perhaps thanks to its UK office? Facebook users in Europe will soon have the opportunity to earn Facebook Credits by completing hard offers through the offer walls of social games. VentureTech Alliance, and Taiwan’s CIDC.

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United Kingdom Venture Capital Taiwan 107