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Israeli Tech Rebounds Stronger Than Ever in H1 2025

VC Cafe

Israeli tech is back—and the numbers prove it. According to a mid-year analysis by Startup Nation Central, private capital investment in Israeli startups reached $9.3 billion in H1 2025 , the strongest half-year showing since the 2021 boom. That’s a 54% jump from H2 2024, marking a clear vote of confidence from global investors despite regional instability.

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Monday Motivation: Why Passion Fuels Entrepreneurial Success

Hearpreneur

Starting a business is tough, but having a strong “why” can help you push through roadblocks, stay focused, and build mental, emotional, and financial endurance. This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off inspired to become great.

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Q2 2025 Portfolio Review

Version One Ventures

It’s been an eventful quarter (when has it not?), and somehow we’ve already crossed the halfway mark of 2025. We wanted to take a moment to highlight just a few of the wins, milestones, and momentum we’ve seen this past quarter. As always, there’s a whole lot happening behind the scenes that can’t be shared just yet. Here’s a quick look at some of the Q2 action: Coinbase now makes it simple and easy to accept and adopt USDC for merchant payments, without blockchain complexity.

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The Quiet Fallout Of Control-Driven Workplaces

YoungUpstarts

A culture of control may produce numbers in the short term, but it’s no match for the level of performance possible in workplaces built on trust and empowerment. The post The Quiet Fallout Of Control-Driven Workplaces appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Is AI Just Software?

Feld Thoughts

I decided to ask Claude (Opus 4), Gemini (2.5 Pro), and ChatGPT a few personal questions. I’m tired of the excessive anthropomorphizing of “AI software”, so I thought I’d see what some of the different AIs had to say about … themselves. I warmed up each conversation with a few personal questions. My questions are in italics.

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5 Desi Children’s Books Celebrating Queer Joy, Identity & Self-Love 

Brandanew

You know those books that make you feel seen? The ones that say, “You don’t have to change”? With characters full of heart, humor, and courage, they remind us that being different isn’t something to hide. Here are desi books celebrating queer joy, identity and self love! They show us that there are no stereotypical rules […] The post 5 Desi Children’s Books Celebrating Queer Joy, Identity & Self-Love appeared first on Peerbagh.

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