YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

@jack : Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is on Twitter as well, sharing updates from his work as the CEO of Square. dens : Co-founder and CEO of Foursquare Dennis Crowley gets personal on his Twitter account, sharing his interests in soccer and hidden urban art. MichaelDell : Follow Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

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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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For Google AI for Social Good. Summit Fellows.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The global rise in venture capital didn’t skip Israel, which has been breaking new records the amount of venture capital raised by companies in 2021. According to CB Insights there are currently 832 unicorns globally, valued at a total of $2,702 billion. Global unicorn breakdown by category (Source: CB Insights ).

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Aside from needing to be conveniently located for your employees to get to (and potential clients to visit for meetings), Ori Goshen, co-founder and vice president of research and development at Tawkon , says staying close to good bars and restaurant options also give employees a sense of life outside the work space.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2020

As the global gaming industry continues to grow in 2020 and beyond, Quantum Tech Partners projects esports revenues will grow to $4 billion the outlook for esports revenues, as it expects the industry to reach $4 billion in revenues by 2022, much higher than predicted by Goldman Sachs ($2.96 billion) and Newzoo ($1.79

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. 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. The founders have started companies before.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 29, 2021

Not being able to get together in person, particularly internationally, is a pure negative.” — Reed Hastings , co-chief executive of Netflix Inc., I’ve already started seeing ‘return to the office’ parties in Israel, the world leader in vaccinations per capita at the time of writing this post. on working from home. “I

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Breaking Up (With a Co-Founder) Is Hard to Do. For Twitter Founder, Its Hip to Be Square Inc.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

million, in part due to cost-cutting (Eyeblaster says it “focused on cutting costs given the uncertain global economic environment” during the first half of 2009). percent) and co-founder Osfer Zadikario (6.2 By contrast, sales had jumped 43 percent the year before. Net income did however increase to $9.8 The company has $15.4

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. SaaS remains one of the top categories for funding in Europe and Israel with $6.1B The Accel 2020 Euroscape will be presented at SaaStock in October. 2020 has been the best of times and the worst of times.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 3, 2006

I just got back from a week in Israel having spent some time in Jerusalem for an Answers board meeting and then making my way to the Ohalo Resort on the Sea of Galilee for Kinnernet 2006. Kinnernet is a techie geek camp organized and run by Yossi Vardi (cofounder of ICQ).

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Tim Schumann, Founder & CEO, Buddy Ventures , highlights that typically less investment capital is required to get into foreign startups at the same stage of development as a comparable US startup. . Founders’ determination. If you want to start selling abroad, an international founder is an advantage.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

” Another co-founder of a multibillion-dollar fund told me what it was like when, 10 years ago, most of their LPs abandoned them, and how they built the firm back up brick by brick. Harry interviews Barry Eggers , one of the four co-founders of Lightspeed.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 23, 2013

SparkLabs , the company behind the accelerator program in Korea , is expanding its scope with its first seed-stage fund that will “help great startups go global.”. The founding team totals six, and is spread across the US, Israel, Europe and Korea. The caliber of its founding team is impressive.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

We have three in Israel , two in Canada , one in the UK, and the remainder scattered all over the US. A number of the funds we studied use an origination approach that allows them to proactively co-create companies or opportunities. iv] Economist, Global Heroes: A Report on Entrepreneurship, March 14, 2009., May 3, 2009.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2010

S econdMarket , the marketplace for alternative investments such as company options and private company stock trading, announced yesterday that it has launched operations in Israel (the Israeli site is live already here ). Given Israel’s active private company sector, the move makes perfect sense.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. UiPath broke that milestone this summer, in just nine months, establishing Europe as a major global center for software innovation. The 2020 Accel Euroscape was unveiled earlier today at SaaStockEMEA.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Now that anyone can benefit from the global growth of entrepreneurial activity, venture capitalists need to show their true added value more than ever, in order to attract the most capable entrepreneurs. I asked Arjen for his top tips for VCs when pitching founders, based on his experience viewing lots of VCs competing with one another.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 12, 2019

-This article was co-authored with my colleague Maxim Filippov and published initially on Tech.eu. Nominations are now open for the 2019 Accel Euroscape, the annual list of the top 100 cloud companies originating from Europe & Israel. You can apply HERE – applications will be open until 6 th September 2019.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this? I think having a co-founder is very important. I’ve seen people succeed as solo founders – but I think not having a co-founder makes an already hard journey that much harder. The rest is history.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 14, 2019

Micha Kaufman, Fiverr's founder and CEO What a great achievement for Micha Kaufman and the whole team at Fiverr, which made its debut on the NYSE today. Today the team supports a global network in more than 160 countries, and the platform has facilitated over 50 million transactions – between 5.5

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Gloat has pioneered the Talent Marketplace to solve that, and it’s now becoming a strategic tool for global enterprises. It was about this time I met my co-founder, Amichai, at IBM. How did you start building these relationships as a small company in Israel? And that made the decision for me.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

“We take a very board view of what make a difference can mean, because we believe ‘doing good’ should go mainstream and sustainability should be an integral part of every business,” explains Rachel Chan, Convenor of the MaD Venture Fellows Programme and Founder and Chief Catalyst of InnoFoco.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

At their heart, seed accelerators are defined length programs (usually 3 months) where early stage startups are provided seed capital, mentorship, co-working space (though not always) and other services in the hope of removing the barriers to startup success… or failure. Maybe it’s time to address that idea before we move on.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2020

By Lihi Pinto-Fryman, co-founder and CRO and Gal Aga, VP of Sales at Syte.ai , a visual search startup and Remagine Ventures portfolio company. In the beginning, the founders gave demos all day. For us, gone are the days when founders and even VPs are in the field daily. Do you plan to land and expand? Stay connected.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T his week (Nov 15-21, 2010) is the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), and over 10 million participants in more than 100 countries will be taking part of some 40,000 events around entrepreneurship. Best Startup Founder / Co-Founders 2010. OPPORTUNITY – 65% agree there are good opportunities for businesses right now.

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

We had a chat with Viber founder and CEO Talmon Marco to go beyond the facts in the press release and see how the company is faring. TM: I was born in Israel, spent most of my adult life in the US. How, when and why did you co-found Viber Media? Viber is quite global. Viber is pretty small given the scope of what we do.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T his week (Nov 15-21, 2010) is the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), and over 10 million participants in more than 100 countries will be taking part of some 40,000 events around entrepreneurship. Best Startup Founder / Co-Founders 2010. OPPORTUNITY – 65% agree there are good opportunities for businesses right now.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

How do you find co-founders who are willing to work for 18 months without getting paid? Also, Irit Dabby from Tel-Aviv, Israel, discussed GoodyTag , a neat concept about tagging photos of products differently than you would tag or 'like' a regular link or photo on social media. How much time do you budget for red ink financing?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 8, 2011

Co-Director Dr. Oren Zuckerman , holds Masters and Ph.D degrees from the MIT Media Lab and Dr. Guy Hoffman , co-Director of miLAB, holds a Ph.D. Guy Hoffman , co-Director of miLAB, holds a Ph.D. This October, the Media Innovation Lab is launching a very unique Global MBA program in Innovation & Entrepreneurship.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

When my co-founder and I began brainstorming company names, we knew we needed the word ‘influence’ in our name. That mind-expanding career led me to work for global companies after I left the service – a multinational corporation headquartered in Munich, Germany and a startup headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

After rapid international expansion across several continents, as the founding team brought Silicon Valley’s global ambition into Europe, and the extension of its offering to buses and multimodal transportation, BlaBlaCar is preparing for the travel rebound expected as the world reopens. How did you go from VC to founder?

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 6, 2016

They are typically mission-driven companies with founders who are passionate about the mission for its own sake rather than financially driven where the company's focus is a means to an end. The founders are focused on helping millions of people learn to code so that they can improve their job prospects and move up the income ladder.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

This post is part of Accel’s Secrets to Scaling series, where leaders from across our portfolio share their learnings and advice with the next generation of European and Israeli entrepreneurs building global winners. What advice would you give on choosing co-founders? Obviously, co-founders have to be good at what they do too!

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 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. Investment Bank Morgan Stanley raised its growth forecast for Israel to 4.8% ValueClick Inc.

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