VC Cafe
MARCH 4, 2024
Since I’ve started writing about Israeli startups in 2004, there has never been any event like October 7 and the war that followed. In the last 3 months of 2024, Israel’s GDP shrank by 20% in annualised term s and Israel’s credit rating was downgraded by Moodys.
VC Cafe
APRIL 18, 2024
“All that any honest review actually does is just accelerate whatever was already going on” It’s hard to do the right thing for everyone Allow me to take you back to Dec 2004, when I started this very blog, VC Cafe. I used to cover every single round of funding of Israeli startups.
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David Teten
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Back in July, I wrote an essay in Geektime on “ The Anti-Israel BDS Movement Will Fail “ Little did I know how quickly that would prove true! However, Israel and the United Arab Emirates recently announced that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship. If I’m missing any, please contact me.
VC Cafe
JUNE 11, 2010
Hopefully you haven’t heard of them before… Jivy Group - a mini-conglomerate of companies founded in 2004. Our games studio has created the first RPG advergame in Israel for Bamba. To date, Calpers has invested $63 million in six Israeli funds including Carmel, Pitango, JVP, Gemini, Israel Seed and Ipax Israel.
David Teten
MARCH 5, 2021
Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.
VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 1, 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 2010 GDP GROWTH WELL ABOVE OECD AVERAGE. Israel’s GDP rose 4.5% for the year.
VC Cafe
OCTOBER 26, 2010
S econdMarket , the marketplace for alternative investments such as company options and private company stock trading, announced yesterday that it has launched operations in Israel (the Israeli site is live already here ). Given Israel’s active private company sector, the move makes perfect sense.
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