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In Q4 2022, founders face tough choices

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It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. This is not meant to be a negative post, but rather a temperature check of today’s market environment and the levers founders can pull on to survive this period. What is a founder to do? As IVC reports: In Q1–Q3/2022, Israeli high-tech companies raised $12.3

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

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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 , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. ISRAEL’S WEF RANKING IMPROVES TO 24TH PLACE, BOOSTED BY INNOVATION.

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Takipi – Real-time Event Intelligence for Modern Applications

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And as applications have trended towards a more distributed, data-centric, and segmented architecture, keeping them up and running reliably has become more of a challenge. This is the exact problem that Tal Weiss and his co-founders at Takipi faced a few years ago after selling their startup VisualTao to Autodesk.

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The Israeli Generative AI startup Landscape (Sep 2023)

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So much has happened in the generative AI space globally, and in Israel since we published the previous version of the Israeli generative AI landscape, back almost exactly five months ago. We’ve seen new foundational models, open source LLMs and all sorts of new companies building the co-pilots for every category. billion, a 2.5x

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Five Questions with Mark Gerson

VC Cafe

I first met Mark in Israel in 2003, when he offered me a job at GLG straight out of college. Consequently, we concentrate around 80% of our giving in two organizations that I co-founded and Chair — African Mission Healthcare and United Hatzalah. Every investment has an impact. Please join us!

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Capple Factory Brings Couples Together Through Mobile Apps [Interview]

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The company’s first product is called “ Just Us &# – a romantic gift app to publicly display your relationship status on the iPhone, showing publicly that a couple is now exclusive and no longer “just dating&#. We wish to add our product to existing orders and utilize these already existing marketing channels.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Consumer Products. Paper & Forest Products. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Broadcasting & Entertainment.