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

VC Cafe

Israel – 500M NIS to cash strapped startups. Earlier this week, Israel started with an alleviation of the self-quarantine measures that restricted people’s movement to no more than 100 meters from their house. This is part of Israel’s Ministry of Finance NIS 1.2 On the health front, there are signs of recovery.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

While I don’t have portfolio level stats for them, their new endeavor Foundry Next (to invest in smaller funds and then follow-on into key investments) has built up an LP basket of 23 positions in a variety of new VC funds. and seen the rise of absolute juggernauts with deeply global ambitions such as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi.

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Crisis Shmisis: 40 deals, more than $400 Million raised in Q2 2010 in Israel (Deal Summary)

VC Cafe

T he second quarter of 2010 has come and gone and despite the depleting VC and incubator capital in Israel, the quarter has brought approximately 40 deals with over $400 million invested. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Herzlia Pituach, Israel. Infinity Israel-China Fund. ACW GREY Israel -. Pontifax Ltd.;

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Crisis Shmisis: Q2 2010 Closes with 40 deals and more than $400 million raised in Israel (Deal Summary)

VC Cafe

T he second quarter of 2010 has come and gone and despite the depleting VC and incubator capital in Israel, the quarter has brought approximately 40 deals with over $400 million invested. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Herzlia Pituach, Israel. Infinity Israel-China Fund. ACW GREY Israel -. Pontifax Ltd.;

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Brexit: Why the EIF must remain

The Equity Kicker

Additionally, I know for sure that one UK fund which closed after the June 23rd referendum has the EIF as an LP. The good news is that there are precedents, as David notes Israel has a deal which allows the EIF to invest in their country and Norway has something similar.

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Bitesize Friday – Israeli Funding Recap

VC Cafe

V enture capital funding of Israel companies opened strongly in Q1 2010, with 55 deals completed since January 1oth 2o1o, according to Capital IQ. Israel Petroleum Company, Ltd. Cheetah Medical (Israel) Ltd. NGN Capital; Peregrine Ventures Buyer Funds: NGN BioMed Opportunity II LP. SICAR;Israel Cleantech Ventures.

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One Weird Trick to Build a Personal Brand

Both Sides of the Table

And we were just entering the “TechCrunch era” with a little known blogger named Michael Arrington hosting parties at his rental house in Atherton and Robert Scoble first appeared naked in a shower (in this case with Shel Israel – and this was the exact party. So many people I now know were there. I was Johnny NoMates.

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