VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2021

At the time of this writing Israel and Hamas just signed a ceasefire. I wanted to take a few moments to reflect on what was going on in Israel. Hamas is a radical islamic terror movement, which took charge of Gaza in 2007, a year after Israel unilaterally withdrew its settlers. But, this is also not exactly new to Israel.

Iran 148

Iran Cofounder Germany 148

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Israel, Singapore and now China are the three countries that have successfully put that theory into practice. In 2007 the Ministries of Science and Finance raised the stakes to get VC’s focused on funneling more VC money into growing startups – they set up a Venture Guiding Fund. Venture Guiding Fund.

Programming 278

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2010

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. They offer option trading platforms, skill and casual games as well as their own development studio. via TheMarker ).

South Africa 89

South Africa Product Incubator 89

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

However, for the past eight years, my partners and I at Foundry Group haven’t once scaled vertically (we haven’t added any partners since 2007 when we started) until we added Lindel Eakman as part of Foundry Group Next. Our reach, network, visibility, and impact has grown significantly since 2007. Techstars Berlin (Berlin).

South Africa 70

South Africa Vertical Los Angeles Minneapolis 70

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.

San Francisco 90

San Francisco New Jersey Private Equity 90

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Israel, Singapore and now China are the three countries that have successfully put that theory into practice. In 2007 the Ministries of Science and Finance raised the stakes to get VC’s focused on funneling more VC money into growing startups – they set up a Venture Guiding Fund. Venture Guiding Fund.

Programming 170

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I n its first investment in Israel, Russian search engine Yandex is rumoured to invest $3.4 million in Israel’s Face.com , a startup developing face recognition technology. This is Face.com’s second round, after previously raising about $1 million from Rhodium and local angels Yaniv Golan (AOL, ex Yedda) and Yariv Gilat.

Finder 94

Finder CTO Hire Widget 94

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.

Architecture 92

Architecture Dividend Minneapolis 92

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ].

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ].

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ].

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ].

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Venture Capital Matching 79

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

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.

LP 150

LP Technical Review Deal Flow 150

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. Wix, the Israel-based flash website platform, has announced a D round of $40 million.

Flash 142

Flash IPO HTML 142

Cracking the Code

JULY 23, 2021

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. The Accel 2021 Euroscape will be presented at SaaStock in October.

Europe 62

Europe IPO Cloud 62

VC Cafe

JULY 20, 2010

D eloitte Touche in Israel produces a Venture Capital and Private Equity survey every other quarter in an attempt to identify trends within the venture capital arena, give a summary of VC expectations of the Israeli VC community for the next six to twelve months. Clear cut: VC activity in Israel will become difficult.

Mezzanine 92

Mezzanine Venture Capital IPO 92

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

The term “impact investment” was coined in 2007 — an approach that deliberately builds intangible assets alongside tangible, financial ones. Israel, a hub for Impact Tech? Israel has the highest number of startups per capita in the world, making it a potential global leader for positive impact via technology excellence.

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Global South Africa 174

Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

Based in Israel, Outbrain has been around since 2006 solely focuses on solving the content discovery problem for publishers. Taboola was founded in 2007 in New York City, and has been competing with Outbrain head-to-head almost from day one. 8 Platforms to Supercharge your Content Marketing with Paid Advertising. Outbrain. . .

Advertising 100

Advertising Distribution Marketing New York City 100

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.

North America 68

North America Brazil Argentina 68

kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

alt-net-israel(8). Dec, 2007 (16). Nov, 2007 (15). Oct, 2007 (22). Sep, 2007 (11). Aug, 2007 (14). Jul, 2007 (11). Jun, 2007 (12). May, 2007 (22). Apr, 2007 (2). Mar, 2007 (4). Feb, 2007 (6). Jan, 2007 (6). Sorry for forgetting that. Statistics. Comments: 930.

Technology 40

Technology Architecture Startup .Net 40

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

In the Lucky7 post on the similarity of the DNA of 1776, Steve Jobs, and Israel (see links below for further reading), the point is made that there is an entrepreneur in all of us?—?and how to win over the ‘cool kids’ The tale of Bazaarvoice, as told through the shirts on our backs (2007–2009)?—?part part two ?—?the

Las Vegas 48

Las Vegas Green Sales 48

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. They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ).

Semantic 302

Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

When Twitter first became popular with niche crowds in 2007 it seemed to take hold initially with bloggers. Shel Israel , famous tech blogger from Wave 1.0 And I’m enjoying being part of the two-way conversation again as I was from 2005-2007. I would argue it’s the exact opposite. Here is some anecdotal evidence: 1.

Social Network 219

Social Network Social Media Forecast 219

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.

Sri Lanka 94

Sri Lanka Dominican Republic Saudi Arabia 94

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

This brings Outbrain’s funding to $64 million total since its inception in 2007. Saul Klein, partner at Index, has been living in Israel for the past year or so, looking for the Israeli companies that have a potential to exit for $1 Bilion.

Startup 99

Startup Acquisition Partner 99

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The funds with sophisticated non-venture center outbound origination programs were almost all able to raise funds equal or larger than their preceding fund in the economically challenging period 2007-2010. We have three in Israel , two in Canada , one in the UK, and the remainder scattered all over the US.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2010

Scalable startups in technology centers (Silicon Valley, Shanghai, New York, Bangalore, Israel, etc.) Irfan started off with 100 such rickshaws in 2007 and have 300,000 today. Success for a scalable startup is a three-times (or more) return on the investor’s money – either by a public offering of stock or by selling the company.

Silicon Valley 328

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur United States New York City 328

VC Cafe

JUNE 8, 2011

by Israel-based MyHeritage.com. This is the 4th acquisition for MyHeritage: In 2007, MyHeritage.com acquired Pearl Street Software, a leader in genealogy software programs based in Colorado, USA. Techcrunch broke the news on the acquisition of Poland-based Bliscy.pl

Poland 87

Poland Germany Social Network 87

VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2011

Taboola raised approximately $15 million to date, since its inception in 2007. The company has 26 employees, in offices in New York and Israel. Israeli startup Taboola has announced a $9 million series B round led by Crescent Point Group , with participation by Evergreen Venture Partners. these are just a subset of Taboola's customers.

Video 90

Video Semantic New York 90

VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

This is Ybrant Media’s second acquisition in Israel. The company has previously bought Advertising startup Oridian in 2007 ( see coverage on VC Cafe ). Founded in 2007 by Eyal Gura (CEO), PicApp was a spin-off Picscout , leading provider of tracking technology for copyrighted images online.

Media 102

Media Widget Angel Investor Acquisition 102

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Founded in 2007 by Izik Kirshenbaum (chairman and president) Siklu has approximately 30 employees and is based in Petach Tikva, Israel. Anil Khatod, Managing Director of Argonaut Private Equity adds: “Data explosion, driven by growth of smart phones and tablets, necessitates need for cost-effective and reliable carriage of data.

Bandwidth 90

Bandwidth Private Equity Architecture 90

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

ops team in NY, dev team in Philly and having dev teams in Israel). Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Formed in 2007 by UPenn students, Nat Turner, Scott Becker, Michael Provenzano, and Zach Weinberg, in Philadelphia. We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Los Angeles Oakland Asia 217

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. The company was founded in 2007. Miscellaneous. See the Soho OS video demo below. services developer Xconnect.

Media 109

Media Stealth Venture Capital 109

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

M otorola Ventures, the corporate VC arm of Motorola, placed a strategic investment in Israel’s TuneWiki Series B (announced Feb 8 2010). TuneWiki’s main investor Benchmark Israel also participated in the round, along with a few new investors: Intellect Capital Ventures, HillsVen Capital and Novel TMT.

Database 68

Database Mobile Community 68

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Accel Euroscape: The 100 most promising Software-as-a- Service 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 top three regions for SaaS companies are the UK, France and Israel, with around 20 logos each in our top 100.

Europe 48

Europe Artificial Inteligence Vertical 48

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2010

The product is currently available for MS Office 2007 and plans to expand to other applications in the near future. Kryon Systems Enhanced help software application called “LEO&# in the form of a floating bar, to replace the tedious process of trying to find information in the help section. Founded in 2008 by Ms. Emma Butin.

San Francisco 131

San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup 131

VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

T he Commercial Office at the Embassy of Israel in London and the Israel Export Institute have organized a New Media delegation , taking place on the first week of July. PeerTV’s solution, in actual deployments since 2007, combines Peerstation Internet based Set Top Boxes and MX 3.0

Media 145

Media Social Network Flash 145