VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 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. Foreign direct investment in Israel reached $3.8 See the March 2010 edition after the jump.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

The Unicorn’s struggle is a global phenomenon There are a total of 1,224 unicorns globally, with a combined valuation of $3.7 Spotlight on Israeli unicorns in 2024 Israel is home to 131 unicorns, over 10% of the global total. trillion, according to CB Insights.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

You need close partners in that journey and you get many sorts of partners - investors, employees etc. - I visited Israel and, after a bunch of meals together, they decided to join. The whole go-to-market motion is product-led and has naturally expanded globally so it’s been international from the beginning.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

To put things in context, global venture funding in Q2 2023 reached $65 billion, an 18% decline quarter over quarter, and a 49% drop compared to the second quarter of 2022, when startup investors spent $127 billion, according to Crunchbase. Amidst this bleak funding environment, AI has been a saviour, reports the WSJ.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ].

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

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. Browse the headlines below for more news.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Philippe Botteri, Bessemer Venture Partners. Their Partners all come from industry, where each has held senior level executive positions delivering industry-leading products. Lodestone Innovation Partners (IP) Ltd are spin-out specialists. Guide to Super Angels - Chubby Brain.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ].

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Evangelos has spent the last 15 years as a Venture Capitalist, first at Apax Partners and later at Trident Capital. and reorganized into operating divisions (by product, territory, brand, etc.), By the 1990’s corporate innovation strategies changed to a focus on startups—investing in, partnering with or buying them.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. Lowground Records was the easiest business I have ever named and I knew the name fit the second my business partner said it. Thanks to Graciela Tiscareno-Sato, Gracefully Global Group LLC ! #16- Thanks to Shaun Savage, GoShare ! #14-

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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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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

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. Here's what the data say about Israeli startups: They’re Israeli-run but with global footprints. Today, this thesis is less relevant.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The venture capital industry is continuing its evolution from an upside-down pyramid (typically 3-10 Partners, plus some administrative support) to a traditional hierarchical pyramid. Summit Partners and TA Associates have leveraged their origination programs to move into later stage buyouts.

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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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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Yair Geva is a partner at Herzog Fox & Neeman , one of the leading Israeli law firms that has helped facilitate some of the major exits and deals in Israel within the past few years. One of the evident signs of increased bilateral relationship between China and Israel is the lack of seats on flights to China.

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VC Cafe

JULY 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. ISRAEL RANKED 17TH MOST COMPETITIVE ECONOMY BY IMD. Israel was also rated first in several of the report’s sub-categories.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 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. The company is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel. For previous editions, click here. Oracle Corp.,

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc., Globaloney: Globalization Challenged.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 1, 2015

IBM’s research center in Zurich, GM’s research center in Israel, Toyota in the U.S They helped to globalize their innovation cycle and tap foreign expertise and resources. For example, a few years ago Mercedes partnered with Tesla in batteries for electric vehicles. Respond means, Invent, Invest, Incubate, Acquire or Partner.

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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. I was lucky to have great partners – Ziv and Ilan – who wanted to build a company around the same time I left PayPal.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Other New York initiatives include the World Innovation Tour to Asia organized by New York International and four Asian governments; Startup Global New York City ; and the GlobalNY program. . ” The role model for most of the international innovation communities I meet is Israel, the “ startup nation ”.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Liberty Global, the world’s second largest cable TV operator, participated in the round. Previous Celeno investors Pitango Venture Capital , Greylock Partners , Miven Venture Partners, and Cisco Systems Inc. also participated in the round. official announcement ]. source: Mythings PR]. Israeli startup Acquisitions.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The top 100 SaaS companies in Europe and Israel The European Software-as-a-Service world changed forever when Daniel Dines, the founder of UiPath, made the cover of Forbes as ‘Boss of the Bots’ last month. Bigger, stronger, faster: SaaS continues to eat software First, let’s zoom out and look at how SaaS companies have performed globally.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2010

million investment round led by Carmel ventures and joined by Cisco, Smac partners and StageOne ventures. Oversi, the global leader in OTT Internet Video and P2P caching solutions, announced today that it has completed a new investment round, totaling US$ 4.9 I sraeli company Oversi has announced a series C round of $4.9 About Oversi.

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David Teten

JUNE 12, 2014

I will continue to work closely with the group, while continuing to serve as a Partner at ff Venture Capital. HBS Alumni Angels is a global angel group, given our chapters in 15 cities. I’ve enjoyed working with our partners at VentureOutNY and Worldwide Investor Network. 3) Internationalization. 4) Inclusion.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2019

In my 15+ years managing operations and HR at several early-stage start-ups, where there was always way more to do than people to do it, I began to realize that many people around me were productive through brute force, and were burning out. Thanks to Yotam Alroy, Mindspace – Global boutique coworking provider ! #21-

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2011

million from Mangrove Partners. A bit old but still very relevant – Questions asked about Groupon’s acquisition of Israel’s Grouper for an estimated $8 to $15 million. See previous coverage of eToro on VC Cafe. eToro raised about $20 million to date, including this round. SohoOS raised $1.75 Macro News.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Simply fill in this form provided by the Israeli Foreign Trade Administration, Matimop and the Israel Export Institute. 3GVision is the global leader in mobile barcode services that use the camera phone to scan barcodes. Interested to meet any of these companies face to face at the WMC 2011? Aerotel Medical Systems. Craze Productions.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 8, 2011

in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, run the lab, mentors and advisors including: Meir Brand (head of Google Israel), Eden Shochat (partner at Genesis and founder of Face.com), Yair Goldfinger (entrepreneur and angel investor) and additional experts in user experience, through industrial design, algorithms, mobile technologies and more.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud). Global and Local. On the ground, I am seeing more hybrid solutions.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2020

Syte has partners such as Microsoft, SAP, and resellers in Japan who function as outsourced BDRs. At Syte, Gal built and trained the global sales team of enterprise AEs, Sales Engineers, Directors, SDRs, BDRs, Channels and Operations. As events are moving to virtual conferences soon, we will definitely participate. Partnerships.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. So I was always doing linear programming and operations research stuff, and regression models and whatever to try to solve corporate strategy problems. You can see why I'm known as an AI guy. We found each other. I've discovered this.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

I’ve been lucky to have seen the inside of a firm like GGV , operating across the U.S. Only a small handful of other venture firms have grown into such global powers, such as Sequoia and Accel. [ Only a small handful of other venture firms have grown into such global powers, such as Sequoia and Accel. [

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