VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 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. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. The Israel/U.S.

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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. uTest , the crow sourced QA service on the cloud, raised $13 million in a C Round led by Scale Venture Partners. SimpliVT , a new venture in stealth has raised $9.2

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Move over Bangalore, there’s a new Indian metropolis evolving with its finger on the pulse of cloud, mobile and digital technologies. But now more and more tech companies cite a pool of talent and the Irish Venture Capital Association ’s investment tendencies as reasons for the city’s appeal. Tel Aviv, Israel?.

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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. At the time of funding, their revenue for the year to date had already exceeded $200 million.

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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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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Yesterday was Israel’s 68th Independence Day, and to mark the occasion, Calcalist , a leading business publication in Israel, ranked the 50 most promising private Israeli startups. Perfecto – Clound based mobile app testing (Raised $90M). Tabtale – Children mobile applications (Raised $14M).

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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? The Consumer VC.

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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. I tried to consolidate my thoughts as well as other perspectives from leading venture capital funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

The founders of Quigo ( an enterprise search company based in Israel that was competing directly with AdSense ) tracked Mike down while doing a CEO search. The Union Square Ventures partners started whispering in his ear that “it’s all about social now”.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

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. As a part of the round Rina Shainski, General Partner of Carmel Ventures joined company’s board. Infinity Israel-China Fund.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

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. As a part of the round Rina Shainski, General Partner of Carmel Ventures joined company’s board. Infinity Israel-China Fund.

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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. 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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VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 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. Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics also reported a higher-than-expected annual growth rate of 4.5

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VC Cafe

MAY 30, 2011

Zeev Holtzman, founding partner of Giza Venture Capital and founding member of the Israel Venture Association (IVA), cautioned that “ Israel’s venture capital and startup industry is heading for collapse. What’s next for Israel’s VC industry? billion in 2000 to ZERO in 2010.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. ops team in NY, dev team in Philly and having dev teams in Israel). Current round: $31.0mm in Series C by Insight Venture Partners (Jeff Lieberman).

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Yair Geva is a partner at Herzog Fox & Neeman , one of the leading Israeli law firms that has helped facilitate some of the major exits and deals in Israel within the past few years. They’re investing directly in Israeli companies and are also investing in domestic venture capital funds. Cross-continent relationship.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2011

A joint report by IVC Israel and KPMG, surveyed 95 venture investors (48 in Israel and 47 foreign investors who are active in the Israeli market) summarizes 2010 in Israeli venture capital. On the positive side, Israeli companies have continued to attract capital - both local and foreign.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Fabless semiconductor company Provigent is named the most promising startup in Israel by Globes and E&Y – The company had $25 million revenue in 2009 and expects $40 million in sales this year, and has been profitable for 18 months. It has 120 employees. – Learn more about its recent products: [link].

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Takadu’s business model consists of charging a monthly fee from its clients, which already include the Thames Water company and other utility companies in Israel and Asia Pacific. Other winners on the list include check-in site FourSquare (see excellent WSJ article ), mobile directory GetJar and the rest below. TaKadu Scribd.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Previous Celeno investors Pitango Venture Capital , Greylock Partners , Miven Venture Partners, and Cisco Systems Inc. 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.

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

The company is headquartered in London, UK, with satellite offices in the US and Israel. Cellcom , the leading mobile provider in Israel, enters the financial services market with new “mobile wallet&# product. On closing of this round the company would have raised $55 million in funding till date.

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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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VC Cafe

APRIL 9, 2010

V enture capital funding of Israel companies opened strongly in Q1 2010, with 55 deals completed since January 1oth 2o1o, according to Capital IQ. Canaan Partners; Greylock Partners; Siemens Venture Capital GmbH; Warburg Pincus LLC;Wellington Partners Venture Capital GmbH.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2010

million investment round led by Carmel ventures and joined by Cisco, Smac partners and StageOne ventures. million, led by Carmel Ventures together with Cisco(R), smac partners and StageOne Ventures. About Carmel Ventures. I sraeli company Oversi has announced a series C round of $4.9

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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. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Boston, MA with R&D offices in Israel.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Facebook surprised with its first acquisition in Israel today (and its second acquisition outside of the US), with the announcement that it is buying Israeli startup Snaptu (previously known as Moblica) for an estimated $60-70 million. The acquisition is supposed to close in a few weeks. source: [link].

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The proceeds of this round will be used to scale operations, continue building its platform for real-time location data and move its headquarters from Israel to Palo Alto, California, according to the CEO’s post on the company blog, By The Waze. In 2010, Waze has been experiencing significant growth, most recently reaching 2.2

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VC Cafe

MAY 17, 2011

For the third consecutive year, Israeli financial newspaper Calcalist put together a list of the top 50 startups in Israel (in Hebrew). The table doesn’t display on mobile and old browsers – see the text list below. VC Cafe took note, and now we bring you the full list of top 50 Israeli startups in English. Broadlight.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

As a result of this round, Harel Beit-On, Founder and General Partner at Viola Private Equity will be joining Zend’s board of directors. Zend was started in 1999 and is currently headquartered in Cupertino, CA with an R&D office in Israel. According to Linkedin , Zend has a headcount of 130. Watch this space.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 8, 2009

One additional point: as a nation, we have had the advantage of a risk culture, and mobility. This culture is either missing or less developed in Europe and Asia (except perhaps Israel). As a diasporic nation, everyone is from somewhere else, a generation or two removed. I believe this advantage will erode over time.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

The best way you can help them is build a big business with their backing, and that requires you to appear self-made. [I should mention that disclosure of participation in the Venture Capital Access Program is optional.]. When I was running an Israel-based company in 1999-2001, my location was a significant barrier.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The growth was incredible; we rode the wave with the PayPal brand and the different products we’d built as consumers shifted from cash to mobile payments. The reason I mention this is that our fundraising strategy involves first and foremost choosing partners who are human beings that we’d like to join us on our journey.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2011

million from Mangrove Partners. A bit old but still very relevant – Questions asked about Groupon’s acquisition of Israel’s Grouper for an estimated $8 to $15 million. Tawkon debuts its mobile phone radiation app on the Samsun Nexus S. See previous coverage of eToro on VC Cafe. SohoOS raised $1.75

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VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2022

Venture capital firms poured more than $32 billion into digital-asset startups last year and there’s plenty more dry powder out there: Haun Ventures – $1.5 In this post, I wanted to touch on some of these challenges from our vantage point as investors at Remagine Ventures. link] — jack??

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

When I got married I chose a woman who had bested me academically (Brown then Wharton) and went to work in great jobs at Google, Sky and Virgin Mobile. When I went to add partners at Upfront I called an LP of mine and told him I was trying to recruit a new partner named Kara Nortman. She’s a competitive athlete.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare? Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists. Every single thing.”

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