YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

As the world’s second largest start-up nation, Israel has witnessed unprecedented success in this sphere. Israel is the go-to destination for big ideas, and Israeli start-ups are making tremendous strides in this direction. This Israeli start-up was established in 2017, with dual offices in Israel and California.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

And without sounding too schmaltzy, we’re grateful for the wisdom of many of the Israel ‘advocates’ in the UK who helped make our dreams of traveling with our company a reality. We learnt quickly that the Israel tech scene is a melting pot of emigration & assimilation. For me, this is the magic of Israel. The legacy.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

While Israeli startups successes are well known in the B2B space (cybersecurity, enterprise tech, devops…), B2C startups are unsung heroes… The landscape of B2C tech in Israel is blossoming, despite several challenges. B2C Venture Capital Investments in Israel To the most part, Israeli VCs shy away from B2C startup investments.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A founder asked me what makes a $2M round “pre-seed”? Data by Carta (mostly US companies) reveals that although on average startups saw a 50% reduction in funding in 2023 (the impact in Israel was closer to 65%) pre-seed funding rounds rose by 51%! especially if the startup already has a product and revenue?

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. In 2006, Moshe was promoted to corporate vice president and head of Israel Research and Development. By Ben Bakhshi. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il

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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.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Take, for example, Israel, whose rate of entrepreneurship is still growing tremendously, despite being the second-biggest startup hub in the world for the past several years. In the past decade, hundreds of interesting, innovative tech companies have emerged in and around Israel—and they’re worth learning from.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

The US and China are in the lead, but Israel has certainly earned itself a place as one of the leading centers of excellence in the global AI ecosystem with companies like AI21 Labs, which is developing a large language model Jurassic, which can be considered as an alternative to GPT. The talent pool for AI startups in Israel is deep.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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VC Cafe

APRIL 18, 2024

It was a one man operation and not so easy to keep up with the news, but one of my motivations for starting the blog was to provide news on Israel in English that show the incredible innovation taking place in the market… One day I ‘scooped’ a funding round in a company that has since been acquired.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

A s venture funds struggle to raise money in Israel, seed capital, one of the earliest and riskiest stages of investment, is becoming harder and harder to secure. based Angel capital with early stage technology companies in Israel, and do so in a way that substantially mitigates the risk of seed stage investing.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

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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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

In addition, Amazon launched two dedicated funds: Alexa Startups – The Alexa Startups team engages founders and investors through startup programs, business development, and technical support. AWS Builder Space (Israel) – A non-equity program for early stage startups who are looking to accelerate their speed to market.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2021

As the startup ecosystem in Israel scales, so must the teams leading the growing number of Israeli unicorns. Is there a marketing crunch in Israel? VC Cafe: The common case in Israel is founding teams flying solo without a marketer until it’s imminently necessary. The post Is there a marketing crunch in Israel?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The tech world has seen a shift away from Silicon Valley, with Israel now dominating the world’s startup economy. Yet, it’s not all rosy in Israel’s tech sector since multinational tech companies have realized that they could benefit from the emerging talent there as well. A Looming Talent Shortage. Wage Inflation.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Noreen Sablotsky is the founder and CEO of Imalac , a revolutionary company in the breastfeeding world. Her responsibilities included: strategic counseling, business modeling and deal negotiation for the various for medical startups in the portfolio and is a limited partner at NGT3 Medical Accelerator in Israel. Tell us your story.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

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 STATISTICS BUREAU FORECASTS 4% GROWTH IN 2010. For previous editions, click here.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. Today, Europe and Israel have generated 23 public companies worth $231B and private cloud financing reached c. Annualised, this would be 2.7x larger than last year!

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2022

We are excited to continue backing ambitious founders in this space with our second fund, especially in Israel and the UK. We share our learnings on VC Cafe , podcasts and the events we host (our next metaverse event is coming up on January 19th and you’re welcome to join our Israel Metaverse meetup).

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VC Cafe

MAY 20, 2022

The updated retail tech Israel 2022 report by Deloitte with very interesting nuggets on the sector. But founders sometimes don’t know how to best approach. I wrote in the past about the improvements in creative automation, including AI that can generate creative images based on text input. See for yourself. Amazon link.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 10, 2022

As a result, founders are accepting increased dilution of the stakes they hold in their own companies. While these prices are still high compared to what we see in Israel, Investors have putting a stronger focus on revenue growth (and in particular startups that can reach substantial revenue targets) especially before series A.

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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.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

About a year and a half ago, we got accepted to the Elevator accelerator program in Tel Aviv, Israel. For us, being specifically based in Israel, these were our four main advantages. Sometimes, it was a technical issue that other founders helped us to solve. Coworking space.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Back in July, I wrote an essay in Geektime on “ The Anti-Israel BDS Movement Will Fail “ Little did I know how quickly that would prove true! However, Israel and the United Arab Emirates recently announced that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship. If I’m missing any, please contact me.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

From day one, the founders believe that their vision can change the world. Scalable startups tend to group together in innovation clusters (Silicon Valley, Shanghai, New York, Boston, Israel, etc.) Social entrepreneurs are no less ambitious, passionate, or driven to make an impact than any other type of founder.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

If you’re a startup founder, you’re probably looking at Google in some way, maybe in terms of partnership or acquisition, but maybe some level of suspicion and fear. A relationship with Google can take many forms, which I will detail in this post as a guide for founders exploring their relationship with big tech.

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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. Generally speaking this breakdown applies to Israel as well, with a number of huge outcomes in fintech (Melio, Rapyd, eToro, Papaya Global, etc) and of course Cybersecurity.

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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. * This post was written by Kevin Baxpehler, Amit Revivo and Eze Vidra, and originally published in Calcaslist on September 21st, 2023. billion, a 2.5x

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

by Pratik Dholakiya , Co-Founder of E2M and MoveoApps. Pratik Dholakiya is the Co-Founder of E2M , a full service digital marketing agency and MoveoApps , a mobile app development company. Pratik has spoken at NextBigWhat’s UnPluggd, IIT-Bombay, SMX Israel, and other major events across Asia.

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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. London and Tel Aviv are home to the most founder nurturing unicorn startups.

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VC Cafe

MAY 28, 2020

Indeed, some AR/VR startup founders are especially optimistic. There’s a big opportunity here, because everyone is shopping from home during COVID-19,” Evan Gappelberg, the founder and CEO of NexTech AR Solutions, told Haaretz newspaper. This is the time to build. EchoAR works with developers to deliver 3D content in the cloud.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2021

This is a guest post by Kevin Baxpehler , co-founder and Managing Partner at Remagine Ventures. At the time of this writing Israel and Hamas just signed a ceasefire. I wanted to take a few moments to reflect on what was going on in Israel. But, this is also not exactly new to Israel.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

My talk was about the 7 lessons I’ve learned on the journey from founder to CEO. I started off my talk emphasizing that the journey matters most in your transformation from founder to CEO. Debra and I recently went to Israel for the first time and we found it to be very similar?—?because where I am now a Venture Partner?—?in

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2023

As a participant of Onward Israel , I had the incredible opportunity to intern in Tel Aviv and gain valuable experience over my two month stay. After spending just two months in the industry, I recognize the importance of venture capital for spurring innovation, especially in Israel.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

The common case in israel is founding teams flying solo without a marketer until it’s imminently necessary. A marketer will help the founders to create the larger vision and story for the company, craft the desired brand essence and values, and explore various go-to-market approaches. There’s a rise in community led startups.

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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 co-founder / marriage analogy is apt.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2020

As a whole, it looks like Israel is headed for another record breaking year. Q3 2020 venture funding in Israel broke new records ( source ). Seed investments in Israel ( source ). In September alone , Israeli startups raised $1.2 In the first 3 quarters of 2020, Israeli startups raised $7.5 billion) which was a record year.

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