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How the pre-seed round made a comeback in 2024

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Data by Carta (mostly US companies) reveals that although on average startups saw a 50% reduction in funding in 2023 (the impact in Israel was closer to 65%) pre-seed funding rounds rose by 51%!

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

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Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. In 2006, Moshe was promoted to corporate vice president and head of Israel Research and Development. By Ben Bakhshi. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il

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Janvest Wants to Fill the Seed Investment Gap in Israel (Interview)

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A s venture funds struggle to raise money in Israel, seed capital, one of the earliest and riskiest stages of investment, is becoming harder and harder to secure. investors the opportunity to participate in the Israeli high-tech market. VC Cafe: How do you plan to source new deals in Israel given how crowded the market is?

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How can startups engage Amazon and AWS

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The AWS teams are staffed by former startup founders and investors, as well as business development professionals who assist the efforts of startups, venture capital funds, angel investors, accelerators, incubators and startup-supporting organizations globally. These efforts range from physical infrastructure to content.

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Israeli venture capital broke new records in Q3 2020, but seed rounds are massively down

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As a whole, it looks like Israel is headed for another record breaking year. Q3 2020 venture funding in Israel broke new records ( source ). Seed investments in Israel ( source ). In September alone , Israeli startups raised $1.2 In the first 3 quarters of 2020, Israeli startups raised $7.5 billion) which was a record year.

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Monetizing Groupthink – Interview with Israel’s Gift Project

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For example, Dr Yossi Vardi , Israel’s most famous angel investor, provided the original seed funding in 2009. In January of this year it closed a $1million+ funding round led by Gemini Israel Funds which also included Index Ventures. The company takes a commission on every purchase. Others agree.

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

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He is also an active angel investor in companies like Klout and Meetup. 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. Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management.

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