VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

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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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 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 WEF RANKING IMPROVES TO 24TH PLACE, BOOSTED BY INNOVATION.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The top 20 tech billionaires globally have lost $480 billion on paper in the past year. This is largely due to several major stock market crashes and global economic uncertainties. And finally Israel, the market I cover primarily with Remagine Ventures , was also down 36%, resembling the 2020 levels. billion in 538 deals.

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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. According to CB Insights there are currently 832 unicorns globally, valued at a total of $2,702 billion. Global unicorn breakdown by category (Source: CB Insights ).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

So much has happened in the generative AI space globally, and in Israel since we published the previous version of the Israeli generative AI landscape, back almost exactly five months ago. * This post was written by Kevin Baxpehler, Amit Revivo and Eze Vidra, and originally published in Calcaslist on September 21st, 2023. billion, a 2.5x

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. Israel, Singapore and now China are the three countries that have successfully put that theory into practice. These incubators are mostly clustered in the eastern coastal regions, and disproportionately target TMT (Technology Media and Telecom) and Biotech.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Readers of VC Cafe already know that we’re fascinated by the creator economy and its potential to completely disrupt the $2 trillion media and entertainment industry. Value of the global entertainment and media market (Source: Statista ). The post 5 Israeli Creator Economy Startups to Watch appeared first on VC Cafe.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

timoreilly : Founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media Tim O’Reilly shares the stories of the alpha geeks on Twitter. gazelle_CEO : Gazelle CEO Israel Ganot discusses gadget trade-in, smarter consumption, and reCommerce. Chad_Hurley : Follow social media heavy hitter @Chad_Hurley, the CEO of Delicious and co-founder of YouTube.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2013

mobile health is taking off in Israel. Tomer Levy, VP of Cardiology and CEO of McKesson Israel, discusses their first mobile product. “It Concurrently, Mr. Shapiro provides strategic advisory to global technology, media and telecom companies as a Senior Partner at TMT Strategic Advisors. It was not a success.

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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. Generative AI for media and entertainment. Workflow automation – the reason Jasper.ai

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2011

Daily deal sites like have taken root in cities all over Israel, with over 80 currently running deals. Back in January 2011, Groupon bought out Grouper.co.il , Israel’s first to market daily deal site for an estimated $8-15 million US dollars. Groupon Israel).” By Benjamin Bakhshi.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

Not so long ago, we were all posting AI profile pictures on social media, but very quickly we’re now seeing an emergence of generative AI tools and LLM applications to assist almost every role in the organisation, across industries and verticals. Overall, Israeli startups raised $7.3 But I’m generally optimistic.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2014

Israelis Value Online Media 1.5x More Than Offline Media- Highest in Global Survey. Digital media is a recent phenomenon in Israel. Today, 60 percent of Israeli adults carry a Smartphone, spurring 2x growth in mobile media consumption just in the last two years, to 93 minutes per day (Shiluv Millward Brown).

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VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

The common case in israel is founding teams flying solo without a marketer until it’s imminently necessary. What best practices have you seen in Israel when it comes to community building? There is an impressive pool of marketing talent in Israel, including brilliant community managers.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. Israel, Singapore and now China are the three countries that have successfully put that theory into practice. These incubators are mostly clustered in the eastern coastal regions, and disproportionately target TMT (Technology Media and Telecom) and Biotech.

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

VC Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2020

As the global gaming industry continues to grow in 2020 and beyond, Quantum Tech Partners projects esports revenues will grow to $4 billion the outlook for esports revenues, as it expects the industry to reach $4 billion in revenues by 2022, much higher than predicted by Goldman Sachs ($2.96 billion) and Newzoo ($1.79

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2018

Market opportunities for your new venture are now immediately worldwide, thanks to the pervasive access to the Internet and social media communication. For example , Starbucks’ first efforts to expand to Israel and the Middle East failed miserably due to a totally different “coffee culture” there, not accommodated adequately.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This round was led by the prestigious global funds of Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital. At a time when we are seeing content creators monetize content on social media at new levels, it is clear that Lightricks’ platform has the ability to create a one stop shop that will be meaningful to its users.” .

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 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. FITCH AFFIRMS ISRAEL AT “A” (OUTLOOK STABLE). DG FASTCHANNEL TO BUY ISRAEL’S MEDIAMIND.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Eyeblaster , an Israeli company headquartered in New York, develops several media-rich advertising formats (see examples here and here ) and interactive ad features , as well as MediaMind , campaign management software for agencies and online advertisers. Eyeblaster is trying to raise $115 million by selling stock. million last year, from $6.2

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

The BUBBLE came to Israel too, with a record $4.2 While there were IPOs (notably Wix in November), most of the acquisitions were made by global technology companies with R&D Centers (and their corporate M&A teams) in Israel, including Apple, Google, EMC, AOL, Cisco, IBM and now Facebook. Seed-stage deals now require $5.1

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

” The problem: Boston got sidelined in the social media game. “They’re not so strong in social media, especially compared to New York and L.A. New York checked in at Number 5 in the Ecosystem Index but it’s the global capital of female tech entrepreneurship. Tel Aviv, Israel. Seattle, Washington.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Francois Hollande, President of France, led a delegation this week of 260 senior French executives and government officials to Israel for the 2 nd annual France-Israel Innovation Day. French President Hollande, Israel’s President Peres and Prime Minister Netanyahu hold a robot snake in Tel Aviv.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

We have three in Israel , two in Canada , one in the UK, and the remainder scattered all over the US. MCM Capital ( case study ) is a rare example of a lower middle-market private equity fund with a proactive social media strategy. Take advantage of social media and emerging platforms such as AngelList. ii] Aktihanoglu , Murat.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

It’s a global phenomenon, but to be successful in AI, startup hubs require a density of AI engineers, access to data and compute power and access to capital. While ChatGPT is most famously known, there are over 750 generative AI globally. The talent pool for AI startups in Israel is deep.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Media & Marketing. Media Agencies. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Israel Minister: No Change to Egypt Deal Israels foreign minister said Israel would not agree to re-evaluate its peace deal with Egypt.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 18, 2011

The International Broadcast Convention (IBC) 2011 is the leading global tradeshow for broadcasting media and entertainment industry, covering the latest developments in broadcasting, mobile TV, IPTV, digital signage and forward looking R&D. The PeerTV solution combines the Peerstation Internet based Set Top Boxes and the MX 3.0

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 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. ISRAEL RANKED 17TH MOST COMPETITIVE ECONOMY BY IMD. Israel was also rated first in several of the report’s sub-categories.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

and China, managing billions of dollars and driving returns for their LPs in being early investors in companies like Wish, Buddy Media, OpenDoor in the U.S. Only a small handful of other venture firms have grown into such global powers, such as Sequoia and Accel. [ and Didi, Qunar, and countless others in China.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

In fact, digital will drive growth this year in 10 of the 20 largest global music markets. Last year, 80 percent of Japanese music sales came from physical media vs. 34 percent in the US (IFPI). In the first half of 2013, 43 percent of all album sales were digital, up from 38 percent the year before (Nielsen). Levi Shapiro music $16.5

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2014

The catalyst was Coca Cola which last year held its global marketing pow-wow at CES, the first time ever outside of Atlanta. MEC, one of the Group M media agencies at WPP, brought more than just their entire Executive Committee to CES. They schmoozed their largest clients and closed fat advertising deals. Create Communities that Share.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Israel Startup Network (ISN), led by Arlene Marom, one of our affiliate partners, organized the event with us. New Global Markets. First up, David Nordell from Kfar Ya'avetz, Israel, pitched New Global Markets , a solution for making it easier for banks to offer their customers global banking facilities.

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VC Cafe

JULY 12, 2011

50% of them, believe that we’re about to enter a second bubble and 33% claim that Groupon, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Zynga are overvalued, according to the latest Israel VC Indicator Survey for Q2 2011, published by Deloitte. The recent wave of Internet IPOs seems to remind the Israeli VCs of the previous tech bubble.

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

TM: I was born in Israel, spent most of my adult life in the US. How, when and why did you co-found Viber Media? The company is based in Cyprus with development centers in Belarus, Israel and China. Viber is quite global. What has been your biggest challenge building Viber Media so far? Maybe someday. Eventually.

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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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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

Calibre One, an executive recruiting firm published an illustrated report of global VC investments in Q2 2011, highlighting the number and volume of deals in Israeli startups. Israel's dollar volume of deals is up almost 100% compared to the previous quarter. Onavo – reduce mobile data costs through compression.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Liberty Global, the world’s second largest cable TV operator, participated in the round. Mobile gaming company Oberon Media raised a fifth round of $16 million – some of the funds raised are from previous investors Goldman Sachs, Infinity I-China Fund and Oak Investment Partners. also participated in the round.

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