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VentureGeeks Unveils Pre-Seed Investments in Five Israeli Startups

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We wrote about the VentureGeeks incubator on VC Cafe a few months ago, and its plans to set up a $2 million early stage fund making pre-seed investments. They plan to scale by using ecommerce aggregators as affiliates. So far 500 artists signed up, mostly from Israel and the US.

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Going Down? Q3 VC Investments in US Tech Drop 14%

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It’s hard to establish that a decrease in funding in the aggregate level is an indicator for future trends in the market, as the graphs below clearly show the strong cyclicality of VC investments, at least in some of the tech segments. The average early stage round was $6.7 Overall, 343 US companies raised $1.8

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BizMe2 is Looking to Disrupt Conferences with Turnkey Solution (Interview)

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PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. All the peripheral services are profitable, but there was no place that aggregated everything under one roof. we today aggregate 30,000 conferences on the site. Tags: BeeTV BizMe2 Boaz Yehuda Boxee Israel Softier Yair Margolin.

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Startup Resources

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VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. NESTA : They invest in early-stage companies, inform and shape policy, and deliver practical programs that inspire others to solve the big challenges of the future. aggregation. California Israel Chamber of Commerce. Seed Startups.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

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A good example is the young firm Fifty Years , an entrepreneur-run early stage venture capital company based in San Francisco, which backs startups that aim to be both massively profitable and make a serious dent in achieving one of the SDGs. Israel, a hub for Impact Tech? Cecile Blilious and Leehe Skuler.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

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This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going.