VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 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. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. The Israel/U.S. In addition to an initial 7.5

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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 8, 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. OCZ TECHNOLOGY BUYS ISRAEL’S SANRAD.

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VC Cafe

JULY 13, 2022

IVC/Leumi Tech Israel tech review Q2 2022. Viola published their own H1-2022 Israel tech ecosystem report (you can download it as a PDF here ). billion), Israel is incredibly well positioned to be a leader in gaming tech and infrastructure. Israel is home to some 190 gaming companies with around 14,000 employees ?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Pitchbook Data released a new report on the state of Private Capital in Israel 2020 , covering private equity and venture capital. In 2010, VC funds in Israel had over $10 billion of assets under management, by 2017, that number had grown to over $36 billion. Israel based startups raised $4.1 billion in 2019 and $1.5

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 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. ISRAEL TO TRADE FREELY WITH MERCOSUR; ARGENTINA – ISRAEL SIGN FTA.

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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 1, 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. Israel’s economy grew 4.7% In April, the Bank of Israel raised its 2011 growth forecast to 4.5%

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2016

Japan is the world’s #3 economy…but not for Israel. In September, NEC becomes the first Japanese multinational to launch an R&D Center in Israel, focusing on cyber security. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, keen to reassert Japan as a leading global player, and fearful of an ascendant China, is encouraging stronger ties with Israel.

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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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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 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. OCZ TECHNOLOGY BUYS ISRAEL’S SANRAD.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 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. GE CHOOSES ISRAEL’S KINROT VENTURES TO JOINTLY DEVELOP NEW WATER TECHNOLOGIES.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The landscape was officially published in Calcalist , Israel’s top business publication. Israel’s first Metaverse tech landscape (Source: Remagine Ventures and Calcalist ). Israel proptech and contech startup landscape (source: Deloitte ). Israel’s commerce tech landscape (Source: TLV Partners ).

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2020

Israel UP 40% ( Source ) ? “VC investors did not shy away from either first or follow-on investments, bringing the number of VC deals to a record in Q2/2020″ Israel tech fundning report Q2 2020, IVC. What might explain the record breaking deal activity in Israel? Israel’s record breaking Q2 2020 ( Source ).

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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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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

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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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 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. Israel’s index of leading economic indicators rose a preliminary 0.4%

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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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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. In effect, Silicon Valley needs to take a more global perspective.

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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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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The UK continues to attract the most capital, followed by Germany, Sweden, France and Israel. In Israel there’s also been an influx of fresh capital. The challenges is Israel are different than in Europe. Israeli VC funds launched in 2020 ??

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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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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Greenfield Partners published the latest HR (human resources) Israel startup landscape. Insurtech (or Insurance tech) has produced a number of unicorns in Israel: Lemonade, Hippo Insurance, Next Insurance, Earnix and AtBay to name a few. Investment in HR-Tech reached an all-time high totalling $12.5 Insurtech startup landscape.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The Internet sector in Israel heated up significantly – In this quarter, 13 companies raised $48 million, compared to 7 companies raising $27 million in the previous quarter and 4 companies raising $24 million in the corresponding quarter last year. See the full report: Israel MoneyTree™ Report Q3 2010.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The Internet sector in Israel heated up significantly – In this quarter, 13 companies raised $48 million, compared to 7 companies raising $27 million in the previous quarter and 4 companies raising $24 million in the corresponding quarter last year. See the full report: Israel MoneyTree™ Report Q3 2010.

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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

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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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Multinational Corporate involvement in Israel is breaking new records, reaching 77% of total invested capital in 2018. Large part of that activity is driven by MNCs. There are 368 multinational. This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 3, 2018

More than 1,200 AI startups (broadly defined) were created in Israel since 2010. 79% of which are still active, 6% have been acquired, and 15% have ceased to operate. With more than 667 of them. This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Israel is a nation full of booming tech startups. In fact, according to the 2018 Global Startup Ecosystem Report, Tel Aviv has more startups per capita than anywhere else in the world, earning it the reputation of being the Silicon Valley of the Middle East, or better known as Silicon Wadi.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

In this post I shine a spotlight on the consumer segment in Israel and explore the trends in consumer tech in Israel. What do you know about Israeli B2C startups? Continue Reading → This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

On Monday, Kevin Baxpehler and I hosted the UK Israel Business investor delegation to Tel Aviv, and today I spent the morning with the 8200 EISP startup delegation to London where I was joined by Kirsten Connell (Cylon Lab, Managing Director) Simon Menashy (MMC Ventures, General Partner). Is there too much money?

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VC Cafe

MAY 9, 2019

I caught up with Naomi Krieger Carmy on her new role as the head of societal challenges division at the Israel Innovation Authority and what initiatives should startups in Israel be aware of. This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!

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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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