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. In the mobile era, the iPhone arrived in 2009 (two years after the US), followed by the iPad in 2011 and the iTunes store in 2012. For media companies, the future is NOW.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

However, the shift to mobile sparked a need for similar tools that could be accessed by anyone easily and in real-time.” This round was led by the prestigious global funds of Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital. Previously, content creation tools like Adobe were mainly used amongst professionals on desktops.

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Venture Capital Bootstrapping Valuation Social Media 168

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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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. This shift is particularly significant in the realm of Large Language Models (LLMs).

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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.

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Mobile Media IP Distribution 113

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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Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation IPO 155

The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

Free mobile messaging and VoIP service provider Viber today made a slew of announcements , including reaching the milestone of 200 million users, the roll-out of Viber 3.0 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? At the time mobile messaging was a novelty.

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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

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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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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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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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., which makes a mobile app that rewards shoppers for creating a personal shopping mall and following their favorite stores. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Management.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

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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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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Flash Venture Capital Acquisition 94

VC Cafe

MAY 31, 2011

The company quickly grew to have a global reach of 200 million users. The company has developed Personetics Digital Banker™, a self-service technology that uses customer profiles and automated intelligence to drive customer centric processes across multiple channels, including: Web, mobile and text banking. Personetics Secures $6.5M

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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. Onavo – reduce mobile data costs through compression. Israel's dollar volume of deals is up almost 100% compared to the previous quarter.

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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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Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T his week (Nov 15-21, 2010) is the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), and over 10 million participants in more than 100 countries will be taking part of some 40,000 events around entrepreneurship. Best Advertising, Marketing or Media Startup 2010. Best Mobile Startup 2010. Best Cleantech/Environmental Tech Startup 2010.

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Europe Advisory Board Aggregator Startup 79

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Oversi offers a multi-service platform for over-the-top (OTT) content, including Internet video, peer-to-peer (P2P) and other media applications. Oversi, the global leader in OTT Internet Video and P2P caching solutions, announced today that it has completed a new investment round, totaling US$ 4.9 PRESS RELEASE. About Oversi.

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Caching Venture Capital Private Equity 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T his week (Nov 15-21, 2010) is the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), and over 10 million participants in more than 100 countries will be taking part of some 40,000 events around entrepreneurship. Best Advertising, Marketing or Media Startup 2010. Best Mobile Startup 2010. Best Cleantech/Environmental Tech Startup 2010.

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Advisory Board Europe Aggregator Startup 74

VC Cafe

JUNE 8, 2011

miLAB is a research and prototyping lab that explores the future of media, technology, and human-computer interaction. degrees from the MIT Media Lab and Dr. Guy Hoffman , co-Director of miLAB, holds a Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab and an M.Sc. from the MIT Media Lab and an M.Sc. Oren Zuckerman , holds Masters and Ph.D

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Design Technology Cofounder 104

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

A bout 50,000 visitors from 200 countries are expected to attend the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, starting tomorrow February 15th. Green: low-energy consuming phones and products for using the mobile as an energy monitoring device in the house.

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Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

marketingland.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Social Media |. Mobile Browser Speed Battle: iOS Devices Faster On 3G, Android Faster On LTE Facebook Seeking To "Close The Loop" With Offline Sales Data Walmarts Local Facebook Strategy Isnt Working, Study Says Apple Maps Is This Years Google+ Up Close With Twitters New Header Photos For Profiles. SMX Social Media Marketing - Dec.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2023

trillion to the global economy, with $6.6 The global generative AI market was valued at USD 8.12 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. According to a new industry report by Skyquest , AI will contribute $15.7

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Techstars Mobility (Detroit). Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). Virgin Media Accelerator (London). If you reflect on one part of Techstars – the accelerator programs – we’ve added the following new programs in 2015. Techstars Berlin (Berlin). Techstars METRO (Berlin). Techstars IoT (NYC).

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South Africa Vertical Los Angeles Minneapolis 70

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

The Mobile World Congress , possibly the largest International technology conference and definitely the most important mobile conference of the year is taking place in Barcelona this February 14-17. Mobile Apps and App stores – a new ecosystem was created and it’s here to stay (Check out LogiaGroup, Waze and Cellint).

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This week (Nov 15-21, 2010) is the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), and over 10 million participants in more than 100 countries will be taking part of some 40,000 events around entrepreneurship. Best Advertising, Marketing or Media Startup 2010. Best Mobile Startup 2010. Best Cleantech/Environmental Tech Startup 2010.

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Advisory Board Europe Aggregator Startup 74

VC Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2011

A bit old but still very relevant – Questions asked about Groupon’s acquisition of Israel’s Grouper for an estimated $8 to $15 million. I’ve posted the question on Quora – and received an interesting answer from Etai Raz, founder of another Groupon clone in Israel named Groupli: It’s all rumors.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Media Temple. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Twilio : Need to call/txt get a phone number from your web/mobile application? Social Media Tracking/Marketing.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 20, 2012

Anthony Ha is a writer at TechCrunch, where he covers media, advertising, and startups. BRIGHT MEDIA CORPORATION. Company: Bright Media Corporation. Lead ASP.NET MVC Web Developer confidential Mobile App Developer WCNC-TV UI Engineers Meetup Product Designers Meetup Software Engineer Mobile Dev Yelp Inc.

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Search San Francisco Technical Review Artificial Inteligence 62

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 8, 2019

MassChallenge , a global network of zero-equity startup accelerators, today announced the top 14 finalist startups from its third MassChallenge Texas accelerator and second Austin-based program. 17 awards ceremony (AUSTIN, Texas?—?Sept. 19, 2019; source: Juice Consulting)?—? billion in revenue, and created more than 134,000 total jobs.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

She is an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, "Once Youre Lucky, Twice Youre Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham Books, May 2008) and "Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos" (Wiley, February 2011). Brag, Israel!

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