VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

In the past 6 months, exits comprised 46 merger & acquisition (M&A) deals, seven initial public offerings (IPOs) and four buyouts, totalling $1.51 Although we took part in a number of significant M&A deal negotiations that were not carried out due to price gaps, we believe that there are more mature companies in Israel than ever.

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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. Israel was historically known for semiconductors and cybersecurity but it’s now punching above its weight in consumer (B2C), gaming and commerce.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2012

Reports on the drop of local VC financing in Israel don’t tell the whole story. Let’s take a look at how VC money was deployed in Israel 2011. In 2011, Israeli venture capital funds invested $525 million in Israeli companies, an increase of 42% from 2010, and a rise of 28% from 2009 levels.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The 2022 Founders Factories report by DealRoom and Accel shines a spotlight on the startup clusters that produced most unicorns across Europe and Israel, and then tracks the alumni of those unicorns to test where the talent goes to found their next companies. Companies have raised record amounts of venture capital money in 2020 and 2021.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

McLaren Strategic Ventures, the Sajan Pillai promoted business acceleration platform offers comprehensive business solutions to take small and medium enterprises to a global scale and McLaren Strategic Capital has made some key acquisitions in the deep tech segment in the US and India.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

Israeli venture funding dropped 40% compared to 2021, from $28.7 billion according to the 2022 Israel high tech ecosystem report by Viola Ventures. The ten biggest exits of the year included a mix of IPOs and acquisitions. The case for US venture capital outperformance ( source ). billion to $17.1

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

As of January 20, 2016, based on the “CrunchBase Unicorn Leaderboard,” there are 157 unicorns (companies with $1 billion+ valuations) which have not IPOed or been acquired—and more start-ups reaching unicorn status every day. Unicorns have been over-hyped during the past few years, and nowadays frequently attacked by skeptics. that of GSB).

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

billion in exits in 2019 alone, Israel punches above its weight. What’s less discussed, is that Israel also, has one of the highest number of unicorns, aka privately owned startups worth more than $1 billion, globally. As of now, Israel has 42 Unicorns, or (technically 40, now that Lemonade and JFrog went public).

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Venture Capital is driver by power laws, meaning that a small percentage of companies drive the majority of the returns. A recent report by Sapphire Ventures took a data-driven approach to answer that question. Thoughts on the consumer startup space in Israel. or a mix of both? appeared first on VC Cafe.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

last year, more than any other major index), and the IPO market is booming. The BUBBLE came to Israel too, with a record $4.2 The fastest growing exit category in Israel last year was digital media, so the performance of the sector will help determine whether or not the party continues. Seed-stage deals now require $5.1

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

At zero interest rates with a seemingly never ending flow of capital to fuel growth, Unicorn creation rate hit a peak in 2021, but fast forward 3 years and justifying a billion dollar valuation seems more like a liability. They need to either raise, become profitable (default alive) or exit (M&A or IPO).

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2012

Reports on the drop of local VC financing in Israel don’t tell the whole story. Let’s take a look at how VC money was deployed in Israel 2011. In 2011, Israeli venture capital funds invested $525 million in Israeli companies, an increase of 42% from 2010, and a rise of 28% from 2009 levels.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2011

The latest Global Trends in Venture Capital report, compiled by the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) and Deloitte, asks the question: “Is a an active IPO market in your home country essential for the success of the venture capital industry in that market?&#. Continue reading →

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2021

It doesn’t quite have an English equivalent but it’s commonly used in the day to day in Israel. This week was particularly festive as Israeli startups celebrated an IPO ( Taboola , at $2.6 A relatively modern addition to Hebrew, the word was initially used in the 1970s, and gained momentum in subsequent decades.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I had the good fortune to moderate a panel at last week''s IBA Silicon Valley from Start-up to IPO / Exit Conference. start-ups that turn into “Unicorns” - businesses with exits via IPO or acquisition of greater than $1 Billion - emanate almost exclusively from the United States, and far more specifically from Silicon Valley.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 23, 2021

You can now put your company forward for Accel’s 2021 Euroscape , the list of the top 100 SaaS companies across Europe and Israel. By comparison, the US had seen around 60 SaaS IPOs with a combined market cap of close to $140 billion. Across Europe and Israel, 2021 is already set to become a SaaS record-breaker.

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2010

He started a new venture firm when he realized that that the rules had changed for the venture business – VC’s could no longer expect the same kind of returns they got in the past through an IPO. As a country, Israel has the highest ratio of scalable startups per capita. They are agile, resourceful and aggressive.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 So how do Israeli ventures scale up? billion, compared to just $1.2

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This year, in addition to unveiling the Euroscape, our list of top 100 Cloud companies started in Europe and Israel; and our Champions League, the high-growth unicorns from the region; we’ll also unveil the Accel Euroscape Public Index, the index of the European and Israeli-born public cloud companies, and its performance.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.” .

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Venture Funding Shrinks Leaving Scores of ‘Walking Dead’ Firms [link] [founding firms are down, but IPOs might be coming back]. Israel: An Economy Without a Diaspora&# – BusinessWeek on the economic power of few families in Israel. Israel’s Internet Scene Comes of Age [link] [Giza blog].

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VC Cafe

JULY 12, 2011

The recent wave of Internet IPOs seems to remind the Israeli VCs of the previous tech bubble. 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.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Recent SaaS trends and the Accel Euroscape of the 100 most promising companies in Europe and Israel This article was co-authored with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne and published initially on Tech.eu. Out of the 12 IPOs, Mimecast is the only company from Europe. But, first, let’s take a look at the overall health of the SaaS industry.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The top 100 SaaS companies in Europe and Israel The European Software-as-a-Service world changed forever when Daniel Dines, the founder of UiPath, made the cover of Forbes as ‘Boss of the Bots’ last month. The 2018-19 cohort were valued at a combined $126 billion in market cap on their IPO day, which is 4.3x billion collectively.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

V C Cafe wishes you, the Israeli start up and venture capital industries, a very healthy, successful and prosperous new year. I started VC Cafe in 2005 to expel the notion that there were too many dollar bills chasing too few ideas, as my ‘labor of love’ after my own experience with a startup in Israel.

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

The company is headquartered in London, UK, with satellite offices in the US and Israel. Co-founded by Yiftah Frechter, Yoav Arnstein and Ran Cohen, all former execs of recently IPO-ed Eyeblaster. Cellcom , the leading mobile provider in Israel, enters the financial services market with new “mobile wallet&# product.

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VC Cafe

MAY 22, 2011

The LinkedIn IPO this week may have opened the gates for an Israeli market thirsty for exits, but in the meanwhile, VC funding in Israel continues with business as usual. Below are three recent founding rounds in Israeli venture-backed companies. Co-founders Dani Golan and Ofer Dubovi are industry veterans in Israel.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 12, 2019

Nominations are now open for the 2019 Accel Euroscape, the annual list of the top 100 cloud companies originating from Europe & Israel. Calling the leaders Applications for the 2019 Accel Euroscape, spotlighting the top 100 Cloud companies from Europe and Israel, are now open, and you can apply HERE.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I spent last week visiting Israel with a group of fellow venture capitalists touring Start Up Nation - a trip sponsored and organized by CJP. The success of Waze ($1B sale to Google), Wix ( IPO filed ), Outbrain ( IPO rumored to be quietly filed or in process) have entrepreneurs on the ground thinking big.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 14, 2019

From an SEO and web analytics expert in Spain relying exclusively on Fiverr to sell its services in 80 countries to a logo designer in Israel who increased her income about four times by selling her services on the platform, Fiverr has opened new horizons for the growing new generation of freelancers across the world.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2013

Groucho Marx could have been talking about the Israeli hi-tech sector when he said “I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago…I shot my broker”. In 2012, as Israeli exits topped $5.5 billion, [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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VC Cafe

JULY 20, 2010

D eloitte Touche in Israel produces a Venture Capital and Private Equity survey every other quarter in an attempt to identify trends within the venture capital arena, give a summary of VC expectations of the Israeli VC community for the next six to twelve months. fund raising in Israel.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Accel Euroscape: The 100 most promising Software-as-a- Service companies in Europe and Israel -This article was co-authored with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne and published initially on Tech.eu. To date, there have been only four major European SaaS exits (all IPOs), including QlikTech in 2010, Wix in 2013, Zendesk in 2014 and Mimecast in 2015.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

And that indeed is a downside of being a public company, but there are many upsides too (including the $281 million of stock we sold in our IPO and follow-on offering, which significantly strengthened our balance sheet from the around $12 million of cash we had in the bank right before we had the public fundraising event?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? Raising Venture Capital. Venture Hacks equity section. Pingback: The Entrepreneur’s Wish List from VCs [part 1] | Venture Capital Cafe.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2021

This is a guest post by Kevin Baxpehler , co-founder and Managing Partner at Remagine Ventures. At the time of this writing Israel and Hamas just signed a ceasefire. I wanted to take a few moments to reflect on what was going on in Israel. But, this is also not exactly new to Israel.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“Because COVID is shaking our habits and beliefs it opens the door to discussion to whether we should change our whole system,” says veteran investor Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and the man known as “the father of British venture capital” . A Global Impact Tech Alliance.

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