VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

T he latest IVC report shows that Israeli VC funds were able to raise only $229 million in 2009 , a staggering 72% less than $803 million raised in 2008 and the third lowest amount raised per annum in the last decade. Other funds, including Apax Israel II, Israel Seed IV and JVP showed negative IRRs of 20-30%.

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IRR Venture Capital Institutional Investors 75

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). Ask any entrepreneur who has been through the recent washout that began in September 2008. We signed deals worth $1.2

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Germany Entrepreneur Merger Los Angeles 298

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Earlier this week YL Ventures announced a 7-figure USD investment in Israel-based Seculert , a new non-intrusive Security-as-a-Service that comprehensively detects cyber threats affecting corporate networks. The bad news are that such a attacks are on the rise. The exact sum was not disclosed. billion times per month. billion times per month.

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Cloud Intellectual Property Software Review 75

VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

Itamar Weisbord and I were introduced in 2008 by a mutual friend. where he now works as Director of product management, leading a team in Israel. He was the founder of Cellogic, an early stage of an Israeli startup that created a lock screen app (a bit ahead of its time) and I was a senior product manager at Ask.com.

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Bootstrapping Early Stage Matching 133

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

At today's roundtable, we had entrepreneurs presenting from Brazil, Israel and India. Next, Nir Savitzki from Israel, presented JobVoyage , a social CRM service for job seekers. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Estate Lister. Overall, I saw several promising businesses.

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Brazil India Entrepreneur 115

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

I saw this in 2001-2003 and in 2008-2010. In a way I think this is part of the magic of Israel. You find out those that have the fortitude to work out a new way forward, who can handle recapitalizations or downsizing or shutting down business lines or hiring whole new teams. I’m not sure.

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South Korea Italy Recapitalization Germany 150

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

3:27] What was startup life like in 2008? [5:16] So all their engineering is now based in Israel At that time they discontinued all the good SMB solutions. 02:55): And this was 2009, 2008 and not a, a lot had changed in the last 10 years. 02:55): And this was 2009, 2008 and not a, a lot had changed in the last 10 years.

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SMS Technical Review Channel Cofounder 91

VC Cafe

MARCH 29, 2011

With six first investment deals Evergreen Venture Partners was the most active VC fund in Israel in 2010, according to the latest IVC Research Center report. The second place was shared by Battery Ventures Israel and Pontifax, with five investments each. Evergreen started in 1987 by Jacob Burak, as one of the first VC funds in Israel.

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Venture Capital Incubator Seed Stage 97

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.

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Architecture Dividend Minneapolis 92

VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Eyeblaster pulled out of its initial IPO filing in October 2008 citing the “market conditions&# as a reason for the delay. This would be the seventh digital firm to go public in 2010 including Israel’s Vringo (see SEC filing ) as well as GameFly, Everyday Health, Motricity, Lulu, and Reply.com.

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IPO SEC Initial Public Offering Stock 68

VC Cafe

JUNE 14, 2010

Launched in 2008 by brother and sister Guy and Galia Ben Artzi, Mytopia offered a casual games community, where users can play against each other in real time. A month later, Calcalist broke the news that 888 let go 15% of its work force of over 1,000 worldwide, with approximately half in its development center in Herzliya, Israel.

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Stock Acquisition Global 75

VC Cafe

MAY 19, 2011

Israeli VC investments are picking up pace and have reached a record level since the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008. Don’t hate on government grants - Thirty six companies, representing 43% of all companies raising VC capital in the first quarter of 2011, are supported by the Office of the Israel Chief Scientist.

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Venture Capital Valuation Government 87

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

In 2009, Israeli VC funds made 77 first investments in technology companies, compared to 119 investments in 2008. 38% of first investments (29 firms) were made in Seed stage companies, compared to 28% in 2008. The dollar amount in each investment dropped by about 50% compared to the year before.

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Venture Capital Seed Stage Partner 80

VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2010

A s every month, VC Ca fe 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. Domestic demand in Israel leaped 8.7 See the March 2010 edition after the jump.

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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. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Herzlia Pituach, Israel. Infinity Israel-China Fund. ACW GREY Israel -.

Private Equity 99

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity 99

VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2022

If you’ve seen or read the Big Short by Michael Lewis, you may remember Dr. Michael Burry of Scion Capital, who predicted the financial crisis in 2008 and made billions of dollars betting against the US housing market, which looked rock solid. Is a recession looming?

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Valuation Cost Marketing Founder 148

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. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Herzlia Pituach, Israel. Infinity Israel-China Fund. ACW GREY Israel -.

Private Equity 99

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity 99

Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

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. SaaS remains one of the top categories for funding in Europe and Israel with $6.1B

Europe 71

Europe Cloud Valuation 71

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. As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013.

Cofounder 20

Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

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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North America Brazil Argentina 68

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Poleg, Israel. A job board in Israel had long threads between engineering applicants, talking about the hard tests Hola! Do you know Hola!? Can you shed some light?

Networking 68

Networking Venture Capital Software 68

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This year, in addition to unveiling the Euroscape, our list of top 100 Cloud companies started in Europe and Israel; and our Champions League, the high-growth unicorns from the region; we’ll also unveil the Accel Euroscape Public Index, the index of the European and Israeli-born public cloud companies, and its performance.

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Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

2008) [iv]. We have three in Israel , two in Canada , one in the UK, and the remainder scattered all over the US. Annual Deal Pipeline for Selected VCs and Angel Investor Groups. Acquirer/ Investor. Angel groups using Gust. ff Venture Capital. First Round Capital. 2009) [ii]. TA Associates. 2006) [iii]. Investing focus. 10,000 [v].

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

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. billion) and 39% below the 2008 investments of $2.08 There’s good news and bad news in last year’s trends.

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Venture Capital Early Stage Internet 97

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Recently several funds increased their funding activity in Israel including Index Ventures (who has partner Saul Klein living in Israel), Greylock Ventures (who raised a $150 million fund dedicated to Europe and Israel) and Innovation Endeavors (who added Doron Alter to focus on Israeli investments this year). Ofer Sela, KPMG).

Startup 106

Startup Europe Early Stage 106

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. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Boston, MA with R&D offices in Israel. 3) VideoSurf raised $16 million in a C round led by Pitango.

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Metadata Cofounder IPO 92

VC Cafe

JANUARY 9, 2011

S ure, Israel is known the ‘Startup Nation’, but judging by the actual venture capital investments raised by Israeli startups in the last decade, Israel looks more like a continent. The amount was calculated by the Israel MoneyTree Report for 2001-2010, conducted quarterly by PricewaterhouseCooper Israel.

Venture Capital 97

Venture Capital Early Stage Partner 97

VC Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2011

To date, Wanova has raised a total of $23 million since its inception in 2008. is based in San Jose, CA and has offices in Netanya, Israel. Together with Israeli startup Gizmox (renamed Visual Web GUi), Wanova is considered a ‘hot’ cloud company coming out of Israel.

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San Jose Cloud Startup 99

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Waze is headquartered in Israel, has another main office in Palo Alto and recently opened a UK office in London. So it is very important for Waze to continue its growth and reach critical mass, as it has in Israel. million Waze users in Israel alone, or roughly 1/6 of the country’s population. There are over 1.3

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China Global Video 92

VC Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2011

The keynote was given by Zvi Eckstein, the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Israel , on “Israel present and future”. First, here are some of the key takeaways: Israel’s high-dependence on high-tech industry. The employment rate in Israel, not the unemployment rate, needs to go up. Zvi is impressive.

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Lebanon Mexico Spain 87

VC Cafe

JUNE 13, 2012

Israel sets an impressive example here. Despite having only seven million citizens, Israel has one of the largest number of startups per capita in the world, the most NASDAQ-listed companies outside the US and the highest amount of venture capital raised per capita: $237 in Israel versus $32 in the UK.

Silicon Valley 99

Silicon Valley Europe Venture Capital 99

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. Tags: Gemini Israel Fund Gemini Israel Funds giza venture capital MEND. Tendril SecondMarket. Topell Energy Spotify.

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Technology Venture Capital SMS 95

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. The pace of SaaS company creation in Europe is growing even faster, up from 200 companies in 2008-10 to 670 in 2014-16.

Europe 83

Europe Cloud API 83

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. ops team in NY, dev team in Philly and having dev teams in Israel). Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia.

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Venture Capital Los Angeles Oakland Asia 217

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 2, 2018

I wrote this letter to our clients in October of 2008. This is also why Israel has prospered. The book Start-up Nation explains Israel’s entrepreneurial genes well. at least modern Israel, post Holocaust?—?is Debra and I visited Israel for the first time last year. Israel is very entrepreneurial, like the U.S.,

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Cofounder San Francisco 48

VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

The company is headquartered in London, UK, with satellite offices in the US and Israel. Supersonicads was founded in 2008 by Gil Shoham (CEO) and Arik Czerniak (COO) and Nissim (Romi) Romano (CTO). Cellcom , the leading mobile provider in Israel, enters the financial services market with new “mobile wallet&# product.

Media 109

Media Stealth Venture Capital 109

VC Cafe

JULY 12, 2011

50% of them, believe that we’re about to enter a second bubble and 33% claim that Groupon, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Zynga are overvalued, according to the latest Israel VC Indicator Survey for Q2 2011, published by Deloitte. The recent wave of Internet IPOs seems to remind the Israeli VCs of the previous tech bubble.

Internet 84

Internet Venture Capital IPO 84