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How the pre-seed round made a comeback in 2024

VC Cafe

especially if the startup already has a product and revenue? While the answers are somewhat semantic, the pre-seed funding round is making a comeback in 2024 startup financing. Pre-seed round tends to be the first ‘institutional’ round of funding in a startup. Seed is about showing initial product market fit.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

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. In 2016 alone, 300+ “machine intelligence” (AI + ML) startups in Europe raised over €1.4

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Covid-19 is a marathon, not a sprint, for startups in US, UK and Israel

VC Cafe

Source: NVCA , “Startup Ecosystem Faces Capital Crunch over Coming Months” USA – SBA Loans and PPP. The $349 billion aid package issued by the US Government and distributed in the form of SBA loans was quickly gobbled up by a large number of applications, many of which were from venture-backed or PE-backed startups.

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18 years of VC Cafe

VC Cafe

During these nearly two decades, I’ve had the extraordinary privilege of being a front-row witness to Israel’s incredible startup scene. I’ve seen the explosion of new unicorns created, from cybersecurity pioneers to AI disruptors and billion dollar revenue gaming startups.

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DataRails Hires David Rosenberg as New VP of Customer Success

The Startup Magazine

DataRails , the financial analysis and reporting software startup, has announced the hiring of David Rosenberg as the company’s new VP of customer success. million for the software startup to date, with the latest round, a two-part Series A, completing in June 2021. Investor Sees Opportunity. DataRails has already raised $53.5

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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

Not understanding and agreeing what “Entrepreneur&# and “Startup” mean can sink an entire country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Six Types of Startups – Pick One. Lifestyle Startups: Work to Live their Passion. Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family. Scalable Startups : Born to Be Big. There are 5.7

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth.