The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Rosenberg comes fresh from managing the growth of Keyrus, a data consulting company, from 35 to 120 employees. Others in that cohort included Zviki Shimon (CFO), Yair Areli (senior VP of global sales), Nir Mandel (VP of product management), and Aviv Canaani (VP of marketing). DataRails has already raised $53.5

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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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Peru Technical Review North America 96

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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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Silicon Valley 179

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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Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

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. Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il

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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

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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Japan IP China 60

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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Switzerland Japan Technical Review 79

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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Technical Review Global Startup 90

VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

The information in this post was provided and fact checked by AWS managers Moran Nir and Jonno Southam. AWS EdStart – is the AWS educational technology (EdTech) startup accelerator, designed to help entrepreneurs build the next generation of online learning, analytics, and campus management solutions on the AWS Cloud.

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174

VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2022

From consumer level applications such as blockchain gaming like our portfolio company Rebel Bots , to infrastructure level of 3D content management systems in the cloud like our portfolio company Echo3D. We are excited to continue backing ambitious founders in this space with our second fund, especially in Israel and the UK.

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Technical Review Non-Compete IP 217

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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Global Venture Capital Europe 179

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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Global Europe Software Review 62

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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Marketing Early Stage Seed Stage 179

VC Cafe

MAY 20, 2022

The updated retail tech Israel 2022 report by Deloitte with very interesting nuggets on the sector. I wrote in the past about the improvements in creative automation, including AI that can generate creative images based on text input. The results a few months post-launch are stunning. See for yourself.

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Technical Review Early Stage Email 158

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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I’m excited for the talent that will spin out of those companies to create the next generation of B2C stars coming out of Israel. Sorry for the humbrag, but I’m proud to see Minute Media , our Remagine Ventures portfolio company (and our only later stage investment) on this prestigious list.

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Software Review B2C Open Source 109

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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OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I work with the FIDF where I sponsor 13 current and former soldiers who are in need of four year scholarships to universities in Israel. You support many Jewish causes and recently traveled to Israel. I was fortunate enough to meet some wonderful people as part of my recent trip to Israel. Thomas Kane: I did.

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Chicago Management Viral 136

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

But with great power comes …inflation and this is a concern now also for European fund managers (less so for entrepreneurs). 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. Israeli VC funds launched in 2020 ??

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Europe Sweden Germany 152

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

by Melissa Lincoln, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Leadspace. Leadspace was founded in 2010 and maintains offices in both San Francisco and just outside Tel Aviv in Hod HaSharon, Israel. The nation of Israel, on the other hand, provides an ideal pillar of technical expertise to support a growing B2B software company.

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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.

Technical Review 83

Technical Review Venture Capital Later Stage 83

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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Technical Review Venture Capital Later Stage 83

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Companies like Warehouse Now have developed digital platforms leveraging AI to help warehousing and supply chain businesses streamline their capital-expenditure (capex) intensive, highly underutilized real estate warehouse assets to operational expenditure (opex) based, just-in-time, highly efficient supply chain management assets.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Global Technology 147

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A combination of competition for top talent and an effort to bring employees back to the office drove startups in Israel to throw extravagant parties and all-inclusive retreats abroad. A board meeting should be a discussion, or even a white board session, where the founder and management team can have a sounding board on strategy and tactics.

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Founder Startup Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 187

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Scalable startups tend to group together in innovation clusters (Silicon Valley, Shanghai, New York, Boston, Israel, etc.) To date, Israel is only country that has engineered a successful entrepreneurship cluster from the ground up. When they find it, their focus on scale requires even more venture capital to fuel rapid expansion.

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Government Silicon Valley Startup Venture Capital 335

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

And finally Israel, the market I cover primarily with Remagine Ventures , was also down 36%, resembling the 2020 levels. Generally speaking, emerging managers who invest early stage, are potential hedge for this as they’re less correlated with the public market, according to Cambridge Associates. billion in 538 deals.

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Founder Technical Review Down Round Liquidation Preference 173

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

A total of 22 Countries : from the countries present in the report, the one that is surprising is Israel. Although Israel has been appearing in various studies on innovation, it had a small part here, with only one representative, EverCompliant , which focuses on cyber risk and fraud detection.

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Artificial Inteligence Disintermediation San Francisco 127

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

Time management is the most critical element of entrepreneurial success. Pratik has spoken at NextBigWhat’s UnPluggd, IIT-Bombay, SMX Israel, and other major events across Asia. Try to Do It All. Though entrepreneurs are supposed to wear multiple hats, doing it all yourself is a huge mistake.

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Entrepreneur Cofounder Asia 203

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

We believe that the possible change in taxation regime in United States forces American acquirers to rethink their capital management strategies, which greatly affects modelling the deals in process. ” Another explanation offered by Adv. .” These companies are just starting to grow, and haven’t reached maturity yet.

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Technical Review Merger Initial Public Offering 94

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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Lock-up Period Merger IPO 218

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2018

Advisors currently are from the UK, US, Canada, Asia Pacific and Israel. MDR Lab is particularly interested in innovations that relate to one of the following categories: Litigation : Lawyers have seen an explosion in the amount of information they need to manage through the litigation process. Legal Tech Innovation Categories.

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Technical Review Startup Early Stage 83

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. My mom organized a trip to take me to France & Israel. And Israel felt like home to me – somewhere familiar. Sure, you can get away with less, but why? You got it.

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Europe France San Francisco Chicago 352

VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

Theory Ventures 2024 predictions Israel remains one of the major AI hubs globally In terms of funding, it’s safe to say that Israeli generative AI startups have yet to live to their full potential. Companies can do more with less with generative AI, and Israel remains a major AI hub in terms of talent, capital and ideas.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Open Source 109

VC Cafe

MAY 28, 2020

From video conferencing tools to project management platforms, companies, institutions and individuals are becoming adjusted to remote environments. Its two Israeli Air Force veterans used to lead the R&D of the F-16 fighter jet simulator, and are now using VR tech to install life saving tools in hospitals in the US and Israel.

Technical Review 164

Technical Review Cloud Forecast 164

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

Each case study raised a different set of management challenges that the participants were asked to consider, including dilemmas relating to business model shifts and financing decisions. Tags: Battery Ventures Celtel International Danny Warshay E-Ink Israel ProfitLogic Pursway R&R VC Cafe POCD. By: Geoffrey Mugliston.

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Software Review Technical Review Community Due Diligence 116

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Earlier this month I spoke at the 2022 Israel Gaming Summit by Calcalist, Playtika and Google. The conference took place during a challenging time for gaming startups: in the same week Playtika, the largest gaming employer in Israel, announced it was laying off 615 people globally, of which 180 are in Israel.

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Generative AI Cloud Acquisition 173