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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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The Accel 2021 Euroscape was unveiled earlier today at SaaStock EMEA and you can view the full presentation here. * Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. Annualised, this would be 2.7x larger than last year!

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Global Europe Software Review 62

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

They’ve been thinking hard and smart about the lessons to be learned not only from Silicon Valley, but with only 16 million people, they are also looking for lessons from other small innovation clusters such as Israel, Singapore and Finland. Venture Capital. The country needs to build a deeper Venture Capital industry.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Prior to joining ff Venture Capital , I published the first-ever study of how private equity and venture capital funds originate new investments, with my coauthor Chris Farmer , CEO of SignalFire and an experienced VC. ff Venture Capital. First Round Capital. Acquirer/ Investor. 2009) [ii].

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Five international MBA programs also boast Unicorn founders, namely INSEAD (France / Singapore / UAE), IIM Calcutta (India), Vienna University (Austria), Tel Aviv University (Israel), and University of Otago (New Zealand) (Please note that I only included MBA programs, and excluded Masters in Science degrees). Red Ventures (2x Wharton).

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Programming St. Louis Cofounder India 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2010

Thirty plus years ago when I came to Silicon Valley Asian’s and Indian’s in high technology were a small minority and almost none were running companies or in venture capital. I’ve written and presented a bit on this subject.). Or look at Israel. Filed under: Customer Development , Venture Capital.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

AI has become the year’s venture capital buzzword. I covered my personal journey to venture capital, what makes our partnership work at Remagine Ventures , and gave an intro to Generative AI, a current theme that connects to our investment thesis (we made 3 investments in the space).

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VC Cafe

JUNE 9, 2010

T he birth of the Israeli venture capital industry was supported by government programs like Yozma. The proposal will enable investors in startups to receive tax write-offs on investments for high-tech companies who spend at least 70% of their salaries in Israel. Today, most of the LPs for Israeli funds are foreign investors.

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Technical Review Government Technology 88

VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

On a global level, venture financing of private companies dropped 33% year over year, from a record $733B in 2021 to $490B in 2022. 2022 in Israeli tech and venture. Israeli venture funding dropped 40% compared to 2021, from $28.7 billion according to the 2022 Israel high tech ecosystem report by Viola Ventures.

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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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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! For pre-seed and seed companies based in the US and Israel with a focus on AI for social impact”. How Star Wars will help you raise capital for your company. Is Venture Capital Right for Social Ventures? *

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Britain and Israel are inextricably linked by a profound and intimate history. In truth, the idea of growth through partnerships is nothing new to the State of Israel. With limited natural resources, Israel quickly turned to the potential of its human resource. Guest post By Daniel Saunders.

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David Teten

MARCH 13, 2015

I meet with a lot of people from the academic world, so I thought it would be helpful to summarize how ff Venture Capital works with universities. Present on campus as a guest speaker. Education ff Venture Capital Startup' Currently, our relationship works along several axes. Photo credit: Wikipedia).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

It is the “venture capital” of the Navy and Marine Corps. What threat this presents to U.S. Other countries, e.g. Turkey and Israel, have proliferated systems that have been used to win a war. Our first guest speaker was Rear Admiral Lorin Selby , Chief of Naval Research, United States Navy. Lessons Learned.

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Artificial Inteligence Russia Technology China 353

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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Generative AI ChatGPT Startup 88

David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Organizations like Worldwide Investor Network and the US-Israel Business Council are helpful in this area. We’ve created some but not all of these checklists for the tech industry; see our presentation notes and links on our resources page. What other policy initiatives should the venture community be working on?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

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. Browse the headlines below for more news.

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

This was reported as being untrue by British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) about a year ago. Few people really know how to approach investors , how to create a decent presentation of their idea , how to sell their idea in under a minute. Meetings.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Microsoft went a step ahead and integrated Dall-e in the Office Suite, enabling people to easily integrate AI generated images in their presentations. I often create images to go along with my blog posts using Dall-E as an example. We are starting to see more specific models being trained for better use-case-specific results.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 4, 2012

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. Great for them, good for Israel.

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San Francisco New Jersey Private Equity 90

Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2010

My summer has circled around serendipity and three presentations I’ve given. He became the first venture investor and “present at the creation.” Recently, Shawn invited me to share the Customer Development story at Menlo Ventures annual CEO conference. Full Circle from Yosemite. He’s lived it and gets it.

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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. Our generative AI portfolio includes HourOne , a text to video solution that enables companies to create high quality presenter-led video from text without the need of a camera.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT 78

David Teten

MAY 3, 2019

See Please don’t pitch a venture capitalist without this checklist and then contact me. Present on campus as a guest speaker. I’ve posted here my presentations to founders and to students specifically. Back in July 2016, ff Venture Capital partnered with NYU to launch a lab focused on artificial intelligence.

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Artificial Inteligence Angel Groups Private Equity New York 60

Cracking the Code

JULY 23, 2021

The Accel 2021 Euroscape will be presented at SaaStock in October. You can now put your company forward for Accel’s 2021 Euroscape , the list of the top 100 SaaS companies across Europe and Israel. Last year saw an explosion of investment in private cloud companies founded in Europe and Israel, with funding hitting $13 billion.

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Europe IPO Cloud 62

David Teten

OCTOBER 23, 2012

On November 7 th evening at our fitness office in midtown, Michael Petrucelli and I will present to members of the NY Tech International Meetup regarding US visa regulations for startups and international venture capital. RSVP: NY Tech International Meetup.

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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. Despite hosting a rich startup ecosystem, Israel is simply too small a country for entrepreneurs seeking to build big companies.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 13, 2012

Of course, the European venture capital industry is filled with challenges, including a negative average return of 1.9 That said, talent, money and ideas, the trinity of startup success, are all present in the UK. London has the largest venture capital and private equity industries in Europe.

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Silicon Valley Europe Venture Capital 99

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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Venture Capital Semantic New York 74

Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

The Accel 2020 Euroscape will be presented at SaaStock in October. When we started to take stock of this progress four years ago with the first Accel Euroscape , the list of the top 100 cloud companies from Europe and Israel, we had great hopes and Europe delivered beyond our expectations. Stay tuned and see you in October.

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Europe Cloud Valuation 71

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. This month’s presentation was truly mind boggling so I wanted to be sure to share the entire presentation with all of you. All have been fascinating.

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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. The present.

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San Francisco Venture Capital Europe 88

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

You’ll also find the video recording of the presentation at the end of this article and t he slides are available here. Today, we’ve reached the point where Europe deserves its own Index, and we’re very happy to announce the creation of the Accel Euroscape Public Index, the Index of public cloud companies born in Europe and Israel.

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Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

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. From a geographic standpoint, the UK and Israel lead the pack with 20 companies each, followed by France with 18 and Germany with 8.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Dick Kramlich and Yoram Tietz at E&Y's Journey conference, Israel, Nov 2011. Dick Kramlich is an old school businessman who has been active in venture capital since 1969 with Arthur Rock and Co. Y – Stats show that in Israel, in all exits over $50 million and above, 82% of the time the CEO was the founder.

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China IP Singapore 87

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. Full presentation available here. billion collectively. These 13 companies have $19.5

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Both Sides of the Table , July 22, 2010 An updated Digital Trends presentation - Jeff Hilimire , June 2, 2010 I do what I hate - Jessica Mah , January 7, 2010 Startup Equity Allocation - charliecrystle.com , January 11, 2010 When good investment decisions end up backing more women CEOs: Conversation with Cameron Lester at Azure Capital.

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Silicon Valley Startup Term Sheet Venture Capital 378

VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

This is Ybrant Media’s second acquisition in Israel. If you are a PicApp publisher you will be hearing from us soon, and should expect great things to happen on the product and monetization options we will present. The company has previously bought Advertising startup Oridian in 2007 ( see coverage on VC Cafe ).

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