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State of Israeli tech ecosystem 2022 and what to expect in 2023

VC Cafe

As Vintage Venture Partners put it in a recent presentation shared in Tel Aviv , 2022 started off well but fell of a cliff in the second half (the slides were shared on Twitter by Amitai Ziv from Tech 12 ). A report by Greenfield Partners puts the total fundraising of Israeli startups at $15.16 2022 in Israeli tech and venture.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

At one extreme is the sort of pork-barrel project wherea town gets money from the state government to renovate a vacantbuilding as a "high-tech incubator," as if it were merely lack ofthe right sort of office space that had till now prevented the townfrom becoming a startup hub. The problems are different in the early stages.

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. Their own ego is also a factor – will a down round signal weakness?

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