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How the pre-seed round made a comeback in 2024

VC Cafe

Data by Carta (mostly US companies) reveals that although on average startups saw a 50% reduction in funding in 2023 (the impact in Israel was closer to 65%) pre-seed funding rounds rose by 51%! Lower valuations and follow on valuation sensitivity – fundraising is a recurring event in the life of a startup.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

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Takipi – Real-time Event Intelligence for Modern Applications

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Over the past few years, there has been an incredible revolution in the way that software applications are built and run. Needless to say, it’s a fun time to be a software developer. Arif Janmohamed is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. But, as with every revolution, new problems emerge. It took over 2.5

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

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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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

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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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

I try not to go out to entrepreneur events in LA every night – I have work to get done and a family. years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. My mom organized a trip to take me to France & Israel. And Israel felt like home to me – somewhere familiar. It turned into this blog.

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. Organizations like Worldwide Investor Network and the US-Israel Business Council are helpful in this area. I wrote a blog post on this.