Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

We loved the passion, drive and ambition of Yotam and Tamar, Cyera’s two founders, and could see that the data and security background from their service in the Israeli military uniquely equipped them to address this massive opportunity.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Breyer Capital continues to deeply plug into these exceptional academic communities and we’re eager to add value and work with some of the city’s best and brightest. On the entrepreneur side, founders like Brett Hurt and John Berkowitz have gone above and beyond for Breyer Capital.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link]. and an investor, has a great blog on entrepreneurship and venture capital. link] The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth | Trada Blog. [.]

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

Ideally each portfolio company would also report their own data to the data-trackers (except when they’re in stealth), but not all of them are diligent. HOF has to do this manually today with regard to our own investments into each company. This is roughly comparable to PRNewswire’s distribution service. Ethics Policy, Expenses policy).

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. Investors Need to Lose Their Egos and Founders Need to Gain Some Confidence – [link]. The Difference Between Stealth Mode and Quiet Mode – [link]. Want Venture Capital Funding? How Small Businesses Can Compete with Big Business – [link].

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are truly to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. boldstart kicked off 2021 by announcing the closing of $230M of funds, $155M fund V and $75M opportunities ii, to continue supporting developer first & SaaS founders from Day 1 to scale( ). What’s in Enterprise 2022.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together. 2017 Recap. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Communism being a bad science experiment) ESL’s founder Bill Perry was moving the chess pieces. One key difference: unlike HP, which had restricted stock ownership to the founders and top management, Perry made sure everyone at ESL had stock. There were no venture investors. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 16, 2015

A couple weeks ago my colleague Dimitri Dadiomov published a post on NextView’s “View From Seed” blog which answered the question “Should we take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders?” From the group, over 260 founders have launched around 90 startups, raising more than $2.5B in capital. Quite the contrary.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

by Brent Freeman , co-founder and president of Stealth Venture Labs. Brent is also an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Crosscut Ventures , a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, where he advises on customer acquisition, digital marketing, and consumer internet investments.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

Outside of life-sciences, we’ve noticed something interesting emerging: There is a huge dearth of seed capital for health care services and software-driven health-tech companies. Many of these founders are creating businesses that are an ambitious blend of data, software, and services.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

I was recently speaking with some founders about their fund raising process. I often tell people that raising venture capital is more difficult than getting married. Not so in venture capital. I list all of the companies (except one in stealth) on my blog and this includes both VC investments and angel ones.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. - We spoke briefly about why.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

We have over 20 years of experience backing bold founders with big visions. BOLDstart helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round. Entrepreneurship Venture Capital boldstart ethos investment strategy investment themes value add'

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

2016 was a banner year for boldstart , and we could not have achieved any of this without the amazing support of our boldstart family and the founders who have given us the opportunity to invest in and partner with them. 8 of our portfolio companies raised follow on Series A rounds with > $70mm raised and an average size of almost $9mm?

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia ( source ) Michael Eisenberg, co-founder of Aleph, an Israeli venture firm, said in a recent post: “What is the elevator pitch for investing in Israel for the next decade? credit rating forecast dropped in November, and since then the S&P 500 index has jumped by 15%.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We kicked it off Sunday night with a boldstart founders and execs dinner where we talked about what’s next in cybersecurity with some of our portfolio companies like security scorecard , bigid , snyk , stealth co and many friends from the industry representing strategic partners and IT buyers.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. How To Pick A Co-Founder , by Naval Ravikant (Venture Hacks).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

million in a second round led by previous backer Genesis Partners and joined by T-Venture , the venture capital company of Deutsche Telekom. SimpliVT , a new venture in stealth has raised $9.2 Innovid raised $4.1 This is the startup’s second round, coming to a total of $19 million to date.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

“Most of that money [from venture capitalists and angels] is used to build a product,&# explains Haig Kayserian, the CEO of Kayweb Angels. Like a traditional capital fund, Kayweb Angels also has a board of directors that provides its startups with connections, guidance and help securing further funding.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

As previously highlighted on VC Cafe (based on research by Sapphire Ventures) , while many funds avoid B2C investments, consumer startups can create extremely lucrative power-law returns for venture capital investors. B2C Venture Capital Investments in Israel To the most part, Israeli VCs shy away from B2C startup investments.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. And he and his co-founders Ziv and Ilan made it happen: Melio’s now processing multi-billion dollar payment volumes less than two years after launch.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

Hila spent 12 years as the VP Marketing for Israeli venture capital fund Viola before embarking on an independent CMO career for startups. A marketer will help the founders to create the larger vision and story for the company, craft the desired brand essence and values, and explore various go-to-market approaches.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. I mean, this is a big, big thing — big change for us, so we have a bunch of stealth investments — I mean, companies that haven’t talked about what they are doing yet. So that will be another enabler for a lot more of the Bring Your Own Device stuff.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

We know a lot of founders in this space choose to remain in stealth and expect the actual number of Israeli startups working on generative AI to be much larger and grow quickly. At Remagine Ventures we started investing in the generative AI space very early back in 2019. The talent pool for AI startups in Israel is deep.

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Haystack

JANUARY 14, 2019

4/ Technology And Startup Fatigue: I can’t prove it, but I do believe the constant barrage of technology and startup news has forced some founders and investors to avoid any attention, period. And, many of these firms would love nothing better than to cherry pick from the portfolios of the best venture brands out there. No big deal.

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

Legolas Media – Currently in stealth mode, The Legolas Media team is focused on innovating digital display media. The round will include participation from existing investors including Benchmark Capital, North Bridge Venture Partners, Pitango Venture Capital, and Cisco Systems. services developer Xconnect.

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 18, 2010

It is great to see that a conversation is finally evolving on the importance of gender diversity in the technology and venture capital sectors. My twitter stream and email inbox has been full of links to the NY Times article published yesterday — Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

This dynamic births serial entrepreneurs and motivates angels and venture capitalists to pull their friends into investment deals. For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 12, 2016

As a former entrepreneur, I have always viewed venture capital as a service business. When we started Flybridge over thirteen years ago, we developed a firm mission statement that we would treat early stage founders as our valued customers and have lived by this mission throughout our history.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2023

For years, investors asked founders “what if Google/Facebook/Amazon copy you?” Demis Hassabis, the founder of Deepmind, is urging we should proceed with caution. A shameless plug for Remagine Ventures In the generative AI landscape for Israel I published on Jan 13 2023, I listed 50 startups across various categories.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The first time I met Matan, Melio's co-founder and CEO, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small business stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. You raised four rounds within 18 months, waiting until your third round before coming out of stealth mode.

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