VC Cafe

JUNE 10, 2022

While these prices are still high compared to what we see in Israel, Investors have putting a stronger focus on revenue growth (and in particular startups that can reach substantial revenue targets) especially before series A. That’s why Bessemer ventures coined a new term, reflecting that revenue is king.

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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. In addition to an initial 7.5

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ when it comes to Internationalizing their product.

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Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“The Centaur is a business that reaches $100 million of annual recurring revenue (ARR)—a rare breed of cloud business, part of an elite subset of the growing unicorn herd.” The term ‘Centaur’, coined by venture capital firm Bessemer, indicates companies that achieved $100M in annual recurring revenue (ARR).

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

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. Today, Europe and Israel have generated 23 public companies worth $231B and private cloud financing reached c. The Index added another $0.9T in Sept 2020. larger than last year!

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Global Europe Software Review 62

VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2021

As the startup ecosystem in Israel scales, so must the teams leading the growing number of Israeli unicorns. Is there a marketing crunch in Israel? VC Cafe: The common case in Israel is founding teams flying solo without a marketer until it’s imminently necessary. The post Is there a marketing crunch in Israel?

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Marketing Early Stage Seed Stage 179

VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

The panel included Erik Hersman (Kenya ,founder of iHub), Eden Shochat (Israel, founder of Face.com, VC at Genesis, founder of The Junction), Jon Bradford (UK/Ireland, founder of Springboard), Jeffery Paine (Singapore, Golden Gate Ventures) and Jehan Ara (Pakistan). We don’t care about short term revenue.

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VC Cafe

MAY 28, 2020

In 2019 we had $6 million in revenue. A report by analytics platform Digi-Capital explores the potential future of AR/VR in the aftermath of coronavirus, and predicts that the market will reach an estimated $65 billion revenue by 2024. We’re getting a lot of calls, as people from different sectors are looking for our technology.

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Technical Review Cloud Forecast 164

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Earlier this month I spoke at the 2022 Israel Gaming Summit by Calcalist, Playtika and Google. The conference took place during a challenging time for gaming startups: in the same week Playtika, the largest gaming employer in Israel, announced it was laying off 615 people globally, of which 180 are in Israel.

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Generative AI Cloud Acquisition 173

VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2014

Despite the momentum with India, Israel-China (including Hong Kong) trade is on-track to hit $10 billion this year, representing 13% of total Israeli exports (Bank of Israel). Mobile Data as a percentage of total revenue is about 7.5%. The largest player is Airtel, with a revenue market share of 31%.

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India Indonesia China 74

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

So, as an entrepreneur, you need a contingency plan for everything from your revenue stream and the supplies to financial records and customer data. Pratik has spoken at NextBigWhat’s UnPluggd, IIT-Bombay, SMX Israel, and other major events across Asia.

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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. Generally speaking this breakdown applies to Israel as well, with a number of huge outcomes in fintech (Melio, Rapyd, eToro, Papaya Global, etc) and of course Cybersecurity.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A combination of competition for top talent and an effort to bring employees back to the office drove startups in Israel to throw extravagant parties and all-inclusive retreats abroad. A founder should know (more or less) what milestones she can achieve with the current round (in terms of product, revenue, etc).

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Founder Startup Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 187

VC Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2011

Daily deal sites like have taken root in cities all over Israel, with over 80 currently running deals. Back in January 2011, Groupon bought out Grouper.co.il , Israel’s first to market daily deal site for an estimated $8-15 million US dollars. Groupon Israel).” By Benjamin Bakhshi. and BUY2 is succeeding.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2018

Open to early stage and growth technology start-ups, applications are welcome from companies at concept through to revenue-generating stage, as long as the product or service is applicable to the legal industry. Advisors currently are from the UK, US, Canada, Asia Pacific and Israel. I don’t live in the UK – can I apply?

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Technical Review Startup Early Stage 83

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

We were strong in the UK and they were strong in Germany and Israel (where they had a development office). iScraper Israel shut down and another UK competitor took on their UK assets). million in recurring revenue of which $600k came from Germany. And for all of this we had no dilution and paid no money. But we did $2.1

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Germany Entrepreneur Merger Los Angeles 298

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2021

As a fund that covers entertainment and media tech in Israel, we at Remagine Ventures keep a close eye on interesting developments in the Creator Economy. It has since built a lucrative business and crossed the $100M in annual revenue. Value of the global entertainment and media market (Source: Statista ).

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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. Growth at all costs is no longer an option.

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Europe Balance Sheet Valuation 97

VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

billion in annualised revenue , an a myriad of new companies were born, from open source LLMs to application layer startups that were able to move fast and do much more with less. Companies can do more with less with generative AI, and Israel remains a major AI hub in terms of talent, capital and ideas.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

At today's roundtable, we had entrepreneurs presenting from Brazil, Israel and India. Siddhesh has already validated his business and is catering to home buyers, sellers, and brokers, generating revenues from advertising and sponsorships as well as brokerage revenue sharing. Estate Lister.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

The Israel Mobile Monetization Summit took place a few weeks ago and I went in with the intent of learning all I could about business models on mobile. Recurring revenue. Freemium model would be an upgrade for recurring revenue. If your app doesn’t show enough value quickly – you will lose people and they will not come back.

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Mobile Software Review Channel 163

VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

Spotlight on Israeli unicorns in 2024 Israel is home to 131 unicorns, over 10% of the global total. Decacorns – the top of the crop, still private but perhaps not yet ready for IPO, these unicorns have all achieved north of $100 million in revenue, but must show significant growth to justify up round valuations.

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IPO Valuation Private Equity 88

VC Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2020

Lets start with some numbers: Newzoo estimates the gaming market revenue will reach $189.6 Global games market is projected to grow in revenue and usage. In attendance there will also be the top esports startups and investors in Israel. billion in 2020, up from 148.8 billion in 2019. billion) and Newzoo ($1.79 billion).

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Philadelphia Cloud Cofounder 132

VC Cafe

JULY 2, 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. PERRIGO TO INVEST $40 MILLION IN ISRAEL.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

billion according to the 2022 Israel high tech ecosystem report by Viola Ventures. In terms of sectors, in 2022 cycber, fintech and devops remained the most active investment sectors in Israel. Top graph: number of layoffs, bottom graph: number of companies who conducted layoffs (source: Tech12 ). billion to $17.1 ” Fred Wilson.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Thoughts on the consumer startup space in Israel. Israel is primarily known for it’s cybersecurity, semiconductors and perhaps devops, all in the enterprise space. For my latest thoughts on this subject, I invite you to check out the podcast episode I recorded with Mike Gelb at the Consumer VC.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 3, 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. MOODYS REITERATES “A1 – STABLE” RATING FOR ISRAEL.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It’s not hard to imagine what this could look like by using a simple idea generation exercise: Tech jobs: Developer + AI – coding autocomplete tools like Github’s copilo t or Israel’s Tabnine , AI for QA. CFO + AI – AI for book keeping, predictive analytics for revenue.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence API Vertical 195

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2011

For the 12th consecutive year, the Deloitte Brightman Almagor Zohar Technology Fast 50 Program annually recognizes and honors the 50 private and publicly held fastest growing technology companies in Israel, based on percentage revenue growth over a five-year period. 5 year Growth %. Type of Business. Telecommunications/Networking.

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Intellectual Property Jordan Software 106

VC Cafe

MARCH 28, 2011

The Gifts Project can point to analytics which show that it helps e-retailers generate higher revenues, to the tune of 5x higher and more, by increasing the total amount of money users end up spending overall. For example, Dr Yossi Vardi , Israel’s most famous angel investor, provided the original seed funding in 2009.

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Widget eCommerce Early Stage 97

VC Cafe

MARCH 28, 2011

We rarely hear of such a large round amongst Internet startups in Israel, which is why Wix’s founding round is particularly interesting. Wix , the Israel-based flash website platform, has announced a D round of $40 million. That would require $100 million in revenue, which is NASDAQ’s minimum threshold for IPO.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 25, 2020

Overall, Tel Aviv went down one spot from 2019 but faired relatively well: Tel Aviv ranked as #6 Startup Ecosystem Globally Israel’s regional sub-sector strengths include AI, Big Data & Analytics and Cybersecurity The National pre-seed fund and Density of Startups & R&D hubs are cited as reasons a startup should move to Tel Aviv.

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Global Los Angeles Silicon Valley 120

VC Cafe

JUNE 9, 2014

Median revenue per app. 62% of revenue occurs after the first 7 days and 35% of revenue occurs after the first 30 days. In-app purchases generated 53% of revenue in Apple’s US App Store in January 2012. One year later, it generated a record 76% of all mobile revenue. More Time = More Money. CTR by Ad Format.

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Mobile Revenue Advertising 151

VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

Anecdotally, when I first installed the app I struggled to find colleagues from Israel or the UK, but that’s now changing rapidly. The Ugly: Hard to stop abuse/harmful content – we had the equivalent of a Zoombombing when I user came in to the Israeli startup session and started cursing everyone.

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Audio Silicon Valley Europe 169

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

It is interesting to note the role that the nation has played in the development of other economies, notably that of Israel. For a very long time, China has been Israel’s most significant export market. By this time, consumption will have already risen and a significant portion of the population will have had a steady revenue growth.

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Russia China United Kingdom 113

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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