VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ when it comes to Internationalizing their product.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

AWS Builder Space (Israel) – A non-equity program for early stage startups who are looking to accelerate their speed to market. Some of the past participants in the AWS Builder Space program in Israel (Disclosure: Novos is a Remagine Ventures portfolio company).

Technical Review 174

Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174

VC Cafe

MAY 20, 2022

The updated retail tech Israel 2022 report by Deloitte with very interesting nuggets on the sector. Bonus link: I always say that startups should avoid paying people for VC introductions at all costs. I wrote in the past about the improvements in creative automation, including AI that can generate creative images based on text input.

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Early Stage Email 159

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 22, 2024

This is particularly evident in initiatives like Volunteers for Israel, where individuals like Marco Bitran can contribute to positive change through volunteer efforts. These efforts can benefit the environment and help businesses save money on waste disposal and energy costs in the long run.

Global 121

Global Community Differentiation 121

VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

The panel included Erik Hersman (Kenya ,founder of iHub), Eden Shochat (Israel, founder of Face.com, VC at Genesis, founder of The Junction), Jon Bradford (UK/Ireland, founder of Springboard), Jeffery Paine (Singapore, Golden Gate Ventures) and Jehan Ara (Pakistan). Bridgette:- In Israel there’s lot of money.

Pakistan 113

Pakistan Community Bulgaria 113

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A combination of competition for top talent and an effort to bring employees back to the office drove startups in Israel to throw extravagant parties and all-inclusive retreats abroad. The press took notice, especially since just a few months later startups were laying off employees en-masse to cut costs.

Founder 187

Founder Startup Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 187

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

And finally Israel, the market I cover primarily with Remagine Ventures , was also down 36%, resembling the 2020 levels. The figure is below the heights of 2021 and early 2022 but above historical averages—representing a durable, positive trend in the industry. As IVC reports: In Q1–Q3/2022, Israeli high-tech companies raised $12.3

Founder 174

Founder Technical Review Down Round Liquidation Preference 174

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

When the first microwave oven hit the market in 1955, it cost roughly $12,000 in today’s dollars; today you can pick one up for $64 on Amazon. He led the company’s global business operations through its centers in the US, the UK, Spain, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Mexico, Australia, Poland, and Israel.

Artificial Inteligence 141

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Global Technology 141

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Scalable startups tend to group together in innovation clusters (Silicon Valley, Shanghai, New York, Boston, Israel, etc.) To date, Israel is only country that has engineered a successful entrepreneurship cluster from the ground up. When they find it, their focus on scale requires even more venture capital to fuel rapid expansion.

Government 335

Government Silicon Valley Startup Venture Capital 335

VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2024

2023 was a rough year for Venture Capitalists and startups alike Plummeting deal volume (US down 40%, UK %50, Israel 60%) back to 2017 volumes. Many startups extended runway, cut costs and took on painful down rounds or expensive debt to avoid raising in 2023. Global venture funding fell 42% year over years to $248.8

Generative AI 172

Generative AI Global Venture Capital Valuation 172

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2018

Advisors currently are from the UK, US, Canada, Asia Pacific and Israel. Transactional Law : Clients are constantly challenging lawyers to work quicker and more cost effectively. I don’t live in the UK – can I apply? Mishcon de Reya is a global firm and global companies are encouraged to apply. Legal Tech Innovation Categories.

Technical Review 82

Technical Review Startup Early Stage 82

VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

As Viola points out, there are 5 main barriers to adoption: Security, privacy, intellectual property, performance, and cost. Theory Ventures 2024 predictions Israel remains one of the major AI hubs globally In terms of funding, it’s safe to say that Israeli generative AI startups have yet to live to their full potential.

Generative AI 109

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Open Source 109

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). The agreement was that both sets of investors would fund the combined entity, we would reduce overlapped costs and become a healthier company. We committed to cost focus, customer adoption and delivering our numbers.

Germany 298

Germany Entrepreneur Merger Los Angeles 298

VC Cafe

MAY 28, 2020

Given it eliminates distance, travel time and costs, “this technology will likely stick around long after COVID-19 fears pass,” according to the Forbes article. The Tradeshows and events industries have also begun to incorporate AR and VR to enable participants to join large conferences virtually. And not just healthcare.

Technical Review 164

Technical Review Cloud Forecast 164

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Earlier this month I spoke at the 2022 Israel Gaming Summit by Calcalist, Playtika and Google. The conference took place during a challenging time for gaming startups: in the same week Playtika, the largest gaming employer in Israel, announced it was laying off 615 people globally, of which 180 are in Israel.

Generative AI 174

Generative AI Cloud Acquisition 174

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The 2022 Founders Factories report by DealRoom and Accel shines a spotlight on the startup clusters that produced most unicorns across Europe and Israel, and then tracks the alumni of those unicorns to test where the talent goes to found their next companies. Growth at all costs is no longer an option.

Europe 97

Europe Balance Sheet Valuation 97

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Israel, Singapore and now China are the three countries that have successfully put that theory into practice. But the theory is that you can artificially create a cluster by concentrating resources, finance and competences to a critical threshold, giving the cluster a decisive sustainable competitive advantage over other places.

Programming 278

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

VC Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2011

Daily deal sites like have taken root in cities all over Israel, with over 80 currently running deals. Back in January 2011, Groupon bought out Grouper.co.il , Israel’s first to market daily deal site for an estimated $8-15 million US dollars. Groupon Israel).” By Benjamin Bakhshi. and BUY2 is succeeding.

Aggregator 102

Aggregator Marketing Germany 102

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

With its high per-capita income, favourable tax system, sophisticated infrastructure and low business set-up costs the possibilities are prime in Cyprus. Lower taxes and living costs, in comparison to its English neighbour, are what urged this move originally. Tel Aviv, Israel?. Dublin, Ireland.

North Carolina 168

North Carolina Technical Review Cyprus Raleigh 168

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

In addition, due to Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations, accounting costs have gone up an estimated four times for all businesses, and 2008-2009 represented the worst IPO market in forty years. Germany, Ireland, Israel, and most other non-Asian nations also provide major tax incentives, and huge R&D tax credits.

Technical Review 230

Technical Review Taiwan Silicon Valley Ireland 230

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2013

mobile health is taking off in Israel. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) will evaluate and select programs that improve or maintain quality but reduce costs. In this environment, reimbursement will be tied to therapeutic outcomes that lower costs. in 2014 to reach 20% of GDP by 2021.

Azure 133

Azure Government Mobile 133

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Will the Bay Area’s cost structure compress the precious runway these newco’s have? More recently, as I sit as a Venture Partner at Lightspeed , their franchise model across Israel, India, and China lends even more credence to the fact that consumer-level and application-grade innovation now knows no geographical boundaries.

San Francisco 116

San Francisco Silicon Valley Seattle Venture Capital 116

VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

The common case in israel is founding teams flying solo without a marketer until it’s imminently necessary. What best practices have you seen in Israel when it comes to community building? There is an impressive pool of marketing talent in Israel, including brilliant community managers. Is there a marketing talent crunch?

B2C 145

B2C Marketing Stealth 145

VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

Most of the companies that raised these mega rounds are relatively early stage in terms of product and monetisation (if at all) and about half of the companies that raised large sums, are developing LLMs, which generally requires deep pockets to cover 1) cloud costs, 2) expensive deep learning engineers 3) get the data to train the models.

Generative AI 89

Generative AI ChatGPT Startup 89

VC Cafe

JANUARY 3, 2012

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. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. MOODYS REITERATES “A1 – STABLE” RATING FOR ISRAEL.

El Salvador 96

El Salvador Dominican Republic Peru 96

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Israel, Singapore and now China are the three countries that have successfully put that theory into practice. But the theory is that you can artificially create a cluster by concentrating resources, finance and competences to a critical threshold, giving the cluster a decisive sustainable competitive advantage over other places.

Programming 170

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

It has played almost no role in the emergence of current non-US bred startups, including Alibaba in China, Waze from Israel, Paytm in India, and many more. The distributed model draws on a diverse pool, helps manage costs, and captures regional insights and focus necessary to win local customers.

Global 345

Global Silicon Valley Marketing Indonesia 345

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

The Israel Mobile Monetization Summit took place a few weeks ago and I went in with the intent of learning all I could about business models on mobile. If your app doesn’t show enough value quickly – you will lose people and they will not come back.

Mobile 163

Mobile Software Review Channel 163

VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2022

In Israel at least, the trickle of layoffs has become a steady stream. In a market where corporates are also looking to reduce costs, startups can take advantage of their nimble size and ability to move fast and take risks. Unicorns weren’t an exception and public companies fared even worse. Source: The Economis t ).

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Marketing Startup 174

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. C yber attacks like the recent Stuxnet Trojan saga can be very costly for companies.

Cloud 75

Cloud Intellectual Property Software Review 75

VC Cafe

MARCH 28, 2011

When the cost of the gift is fully covered then the organizer can complete the purchase. 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.

Widget 97

Widget eCommerce Early Stage 97

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

They’ve been thinking hard and smart about the lessons to be learned not only from Silicon Valley, but with only 16 million people, they are also looking for lessons from other small innovation clusters such as Israel, Singapore and Finland. Perhaps because the cost of a public failure is so high in Chile. See below.).

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley Chile South America Venture Capital 335

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Army veterans and mid-career MBAs hailing not just from the United States but from countries including Saudi Arabia, India, France, Israel and Austria. The energy was also fed by the crowd of prospective students — a motley, enthusiastic and clearly wicked smart group including engineering PhDs and computer science whiz kids, U.S.

Lean 273

Lean Saudi Arabia Austria Silicon Valley 273

VC Cafe

JULY 4, 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. FITCH AFFIRMS ISRAEL AT “A” (OUTLOOK STABLE). DG FASTCHANNEL TO BUY ISRAEL’S MEDIAMIND.

Balance Sheet 90

Balance Sheet Acquisition Africa 90

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

If completed, the deal will potentially make Anobit and its 200 employees in Herzliya the first Apple R&D center in Israel. However, perhaps this acquisition was prompted while Jobs was Apple’s legendary CEO. ” For Apple, this means Apple faster and higher capacity memory for its iPhones, iPads and MacBooks.

Flash 102

Flash SEC Acquisition 102

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

It is interesting to note the role that the nation has played in the development of other economies, notably that of Israel. For a very long time, China has been Israel’s most significant export market. If you want to start a business in a specific country, Israel would be a good choice.

Russia 113

Russia China United Kingdom 113

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Israel went up one spot from last year in the latest report, ranking 29 among the 183 countries included in the study. The data summary page for Israel shows that on one hand, Israel has improved by one point in some categories like dealing with construction permits , trading across borders and closing a business.

Kazakhstan 102

Kazakhstan Suriname Syria 102