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

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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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund. Innovation Clusters.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2020

We ( Remagine Ventures ) and our friends at Fusion LA are happy to invite founders, investors and media experts to the inaugural Media and eSports Online Annual Conference. The event will highlight startups and technologies in the media, entertainment, gaming and esports domains, with a spotlight on Israel.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 19, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The image to the left is an ad created by Yehoshua TBWA, Israel for betili. 99 more fun ads in the Social Media & Marketing section below.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 98

YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

timoreilly : Founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media Tim O’Reilly shares the stories of the alpha geeks on Twitter. gazelle_CEO : Gazelle CEO Israel Ganot discusses gadget trade-in, smarter consumption, and reCommerce. artpapas : CEO and founder of Bullhorn, @artpapas is an authority on recruiting technology.

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Cofounder Technical Review Social Media PR 239

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund. Innovation Clusters.

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 176

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. We’ve seen new foundational models, open source LLMs and all sorts of new companies building the co-pilots for every category. billion, a 2.5x

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2013

mobile health is taking off in Israel. Tomer Levy, VP of Cardiology and CEO of McKesson Israel, discusses their first mobile product. “It In our second attempt (Mobile ECG), we needed to jump over the gimmick hurdle and understand where can technology really add value? MST- Medical Surgical Technologies ([link].

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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

AUGUST 14, 2011

Daily deal sites like have taken root in cities all over Israel, with over 80 currently running deals. Back in January 2011, Groupon bought out Grouper.co.il , Israel’s first to market daily deal site for an estimated $8-15 million US dollars. Groupon Israel).” By Benjamin Bakhshi.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2024

2023 was a rough year for Venture Capitalists and startups alike Plummeting deal volume (US down 40%, UK %50, Israel 60%) back to 2017 volumes. The 2023 open source generative AI survey by the Linux Foundation found that 41% of organisations expressed a clear preference for open-source generative AI technologies over proprietary solutions.

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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. We had built an impressive technology and a really cool product in less than three months, and we tried keeping it “lean” in every way we could. For us, being specifically based in Israel, these were our four main advantages.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

Not so long ago, we were all posting AI profile pictures on social media, but very quickly we’re now seeing an emergence of generative AI tools and LLM applications to assist almost every role in the organisation, across industries and verticals. This shift is particularly significant in the realm of Large Language Models (LLMs).

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Geography : The Company invests throughout the world, with most investments are made in North America, Europe, Israel and India. Tags: Battery Ventures Israel venture capital. Maturity : Battery invests in companies at all stages – from seed to later stage private equity buyouts.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

A new wave of Israeli marketing technology startups, including Insightera (acquired by Marketo), Kenshoo , Tracx , Oktopost and others are helping CMOs get more bang for their digital buck. In 2014, those bucks will flow toward content marketing, social media lead-gen and analytics tools. CMO budgets, prestige and tenures are rising.

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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. What best practices have you seen in Israel when it comes to community building? There is an impressive pool of marketing talent in Israel, including brilliant community managers. Is there a marketing talent crunch?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2016

One of the most obvious to me was Nanit, that was brought to our firm by my colleague Jordan Hudson who met them team, fell in love with their founders & technology, and encouraged us to invest. The CTO, Tor Ivry , heads engineering out of Israel. He and I attend board meetings together in this NYC-based (and Israeli) company.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

The state of Generative AI startups in Israel According to The Global AI Index by Tortoise Media, the first index to benchmark nations on their level of investment, innovation and implementation of artificial intelligence, Israel is the 7th most attractive AI hub globally. Generative AI for media and entertainment.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Thoughts on the consumer startup space in Israel. Israel is primarily known for it’s cybersecurity, semiconductors and perhaps devops, all in the enterprise space. Whatever the category, what is certain is that in order to generate venture returns, exits are necessary, and ideally IPOs.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Technology and viral engagement is encouraging companies to give back in more non-traditional ways and employees are jumping on board, as well. Today’s workers look to social media channels to make decisions about what causes support and which employers are leading the charge. Everyone should have access to a quality education.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

The founders of Quigo ( an enterprise search company based in Israel that was competing directly with AdSense ) tracked Mike down while doing a CEO search. Overture became intrigued by Quigo’s AdSonar technology and wanted help targeting ads for their content business. Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer.

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Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2011

It’s in this environment that Tel Aviv, Israel-based video technology company Giraffic is hoping to thrive in. Already, there are over 2 billion daily views in YouTube alone, while online movie service Netflix accounts for over 30-percent of total Internet bandwidth in the United States during peak hours.

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VC Cafe

MAY 3, 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. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY CENTER TO OPEN IN ISRAEL.

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 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. FITCH AFFIRMS ISRAEL AT “A” (OUTLOOK STABLE). DG FASTCHANNEL TO BUY ISRAEL’S MEDIAMIND.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I’ve shown below a case study of the geographic diversification of the largest late-stage technology venture capital / growth equity investors. These funds use a combination of cold-calling, travel, firm networks, paid expert networks, and technology to identify investment opportunities outside of their neighborhood.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Eyeblaster , an Israeli company headquartered in New York, develops several media-rich advertising formats (see examples here and here ) and interactive ad features , as well as MediaMind , campaign management software for agencies and online advertisers. Its main shareholder is Sycamore Technologies Ventures, which owns 33.9

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

The BUBBLE came to Israel too, with a record $4.2 While there were IPOs (notably Wix in November), most of the acquisitions were made by global technology companies with R&D Centers (and their corporate M&A teams) in Israel, including Apple, Google, EMC, AOL, Cisco, IBM and now Facebook. Seed-stage deals now require $5.1

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VC Cafe

JULY 11, 2011

The Israel Innovation Road Trip , is an effort to raise both funding and awareness. event, following 14 similar ones in Israel, Turkey and Europe. Israel Innovation Road Trip company list. You hear about them when they raise money, and then the news comes far and apart. This is the firm’s first U.S.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 18, 2011

The International Broadcast Convention (IBC) 2011 is the leading global tradeshow for broadcasting media and entertainment industry, covering the latest developments in broadcasting, mobile TV, IPTV, digital signage and forward looking R&D. The device is compact and lightweight and attaches easily to any handheld camera.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Ybrant Media , an large Indian Media portfolio of companies, has acquired Israeli startup PicApp for an undisclosed amount. This is Ybrant Media’s second acquisition in Israel. Founded in 2007 by Eyal Gura (CEO), PicApp was a spin-off Picscout , leading provider of tracking technology for copyrighted images online.

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Media Widget Angel Investor Acquisition 102

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

. “Boston has lost its previous leading position as the innovation and high-technology entrepreneurship center on the East Coast.” ” The problem: Boston got sidelined in the social media game. “They’re not so strong in social media, especially compared to New York and L.A. Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Up and Running

MARCH 5, 2018

New technologies can make nailing down your demographics and psychographics much easier (and cheaper) than in the past. If you run social media profiles for your business, most social sites provide a free demographic breakdown of your followers in the backend analytics area. and Israel. Researching your target market.

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Marketing Software Review San Diego Curation 136

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

For those of you who don’t know Terence Kawaja, he is one of the most influential (and funny) social media advisors around, and is also very experienced at investment banking. His opinion in social media makes waves across the investment world, influencing heavily where money will flow. Interactions have changed fundamentally.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

T he World Economic Forum in Dabos selected thirty-one companies from 13 countries and five continents to receive an award for visionary accomplishments in the fields of clean tech, health and information technologies/new media. Here’s the committee’s official nomination: Why the company is a Technology Pioneer?

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

The company is headquartered in London, UK, with satellite offices in the US and Israel. Legolas Media – Currently in stealth mode, The Legolas Media team is focused on innovating digital display media. Supersonicads was founded in 2008 by Gil Shoham (CEO) and Arik Czerniak (COO) and Nissim (Romi) Romano (CTO).

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VC Cafe

JUNE 8, 2011

miLAB is a research and prototyping lab that explores the future of media, technology, and human-computer interaction. degrees from the MIT Media Lab and Dr. Guy Hoffman , co-Director of miLAB, holds a Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab and an M.Sc. from the MIT Media Lab and an M.Sc. Yoni Elbaz, Moolie Puterman.

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