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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

VC Cafe

In the last 3 months of 2024, Israel’s GDP shrank by 20% in annualised term s and Israel’s credit rating was downgraded by Moodys. But here comes the narrative violation: despite the challenges, Israeli tech continues to power on. What is important for them now in the context of Israel is a permanent ceasefire.

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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

The Startup Magazine

Heralding a new era of digital transformation, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being infused exponentially into the world around us. Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution. Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Congratulations!

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DataRails Hires David Rosenberg as New VP of Customer Success

The Startup Magazine

In his 17-year career, Rosenberg has developed key insights into the minds of CFOs and FP&A teams, with strengths in both customer-facing leadership and data analytics itself. Investors include Zeev Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, and Vertex Ventures Israel. Rosenberg will be based in DataRails’s NYC headquarters.

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America’s Entrepreneurial Innovation Needs Help

Startup Professionals Musings

The $30 billion trade surplus in advanced technology products that America enjoyed just one decade ago has now become a $56 billion deficit. Nothhaft, in his new book “ Great Again: Revitalizing America's Entrepreneurial Leadership ” are already calling these last ten years the “Lost Decade.” The innovation engine that powered the U.S.

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

Like virtually the entire tech industry, I am particularly in favor of Startup Visa , which has the goal of stimulating our domestic startup community through acts to keep our foreign-born entrepreneurs in the United States. Organizations like Worldwide Investor Network and the US-Israel Business Council are helpful in this area.

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Yet the copper companies import nearly 100% of the advanced technology they use.