Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

We were strong in the UK and they were strong in Germany and Israel (where they had a development office). The first came from the CEO of iScraper telling me that they would not be able to complete the deal – their investor, Apax Partners, had decided not to proceed despite verbal assurances that they would.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

million in a second round led by previous backer Genesis Partners and joined by T-Venture , the venture capital company of Deutsche Telekom. uTest , the crow sourced QA service on the cloud, raised $13 million in a C Round led by Scale Venture Partners. SimpliVT , a new venture in stealth has raised $9.2 Innovid raised $4.1

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Organizations like Worldwide Investor Network and the US-Israel Business Council are helpful in this area. New York has an extremely active Meetup culture; almost every night there are 3-10 tech-focused events. We typically do this by partnering with graduate student teams. HBS Angels will likely execute this in 2012.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Back in July, I wrote an essay in Geektime on “ The Anti-Israel BDS Movement Will Fail “ Little did I know how quickly that would prove true! However, Israel and the United Arab Emirates recently announced that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. Israel, Singapore and now China are the three countries that have successfully put that theory into practice. Innovation Clusters.

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2010

A lan Patricof, a veteran venture capital investor and partner in NY based Greycroft Partners, said that “an Israeli company has to come to New York to access advertisers and content&# , during the BootCamp Ventures Innovation Marathon in his recent visit to Israel.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

A midst a 72% decline in funds raised by Israeli venture capital funds in 2009, Battery Ventures announced the completion of its new fund, BV-9, totaling $750 million. In addition, Battery’s partners showed their commitment by putting more money into the fund themselves than in its past funds, among other moves, he said.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I n its first investment in Israel, Russian search engine Yandex is rumoured to invest $3.4 million in Israel’s Face.com , a startup developing face recognition technology. Face.com has offices in Tel Aviv and New York and currently has a headcount of 8.

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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2010

Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, Jason Calacanis , founder of Mahlo.com, and Mark Suster of GRP Partners, have all weighed in on the nature side – you’re born being an entrepreneur or your not. Mark Suster, Vivek Wadhwa and Patrick Chung, Partner at New Enterprises Associates will be debating. Or look at Israel.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

However, for the past eight years, my partners and I at Foundry Group haven’t once scaled vertically (we haven’t added any partners since 2007 when we started) until we added Lindel Eakman as part of Foundry Group Next. Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). Techstars Mobility (Detroit).

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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. Browse the headlines below for more news. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. Israel, Singapore and now China are the three countries that have successfully put that theory into practice. Innovation Clusters.

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

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). People are voting with their feet.). On question #2, it’s too early to tell.

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Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

Based in Israel, Outbrain has been around since 2006 solely focuses on solving the content discovery problem for publishers. Taboola was founded in 2007 in New York City, and has been competing with Outbrain head-to-head almost from day one. 8 Platforms to Supercharge your Content Marketing with Paid Advertising. Outbrain. .

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VC Cafe

MARCH 28, 2011

We rarely hear of such a large round amongst Internet startups in Israel, which is why Wix’s founding round is particularly interesting. Wix , the Israel-based flash website platform, has announced a D round of $40 million. Wix, the Israel-based flash website platform, has announced a D round of $40 million. million sites.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

gazelle_CEO : Gazelle CEO Israel Ganot discusses gadget trade-in, smarter consumption, and reCommerce. JimKnickman : Check out James Knickman to see what’s going on with health in New York, with his updates as the President and CEO of the New York State Health Foundation.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Over the past year I have become active on the Steering Committee of AIPAC ’s new Technology Division in New York. Described by The New York Times as “the most important organization affecting America’s relationship with Israel,” AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) advocates for U.S.

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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. The bad news is that Israeli startups are struggling to scale. For good reason: A tiny country of only 8 million people — 0.1%

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

Media companies and publishers, being at the forefront of content creation, possess and constantly create new high-quality repositories of such data, not just in text but in various multimedia formats. With Gen AI this is about to change, as production costs for games will come down drastically, reducing barriers to entry.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… New York. 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., New Hampshire.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2021

I first met Mark in Israel in 2003, when he offered me a job at GLG straight out of college. Sinai was able to handle Covid in New York because it is a great medical institution. Mark Gerson is a serial entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist (see his short bio below). Our answer: Mt. Please join us!

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David Teten

MAY 3, 2019

I have presented at universities including Columbia Business School, UC Berkeley Haas, National University of Singapore, New York University, Technion Israel Institute of Technology MBA Program, Wharton School, and Yale School of Management. Partner with students to execute research on topics of mutual interest.

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Artificial Inteligence Angel Groups Private Equity New York 60

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. In December 2010, Richard Kane, then-President, Harvard Business School Club of New York , asked me if I’d like to found an HBS alumni-affiliated angel group in NY. in 27 companies. 4) Inclusion.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

New York is now the second-most-active tech ecosystem in the US on all key metrics, after the Bay Area. New York venture capitalists like HOF Capital recognize this trend, and more and more of us are opening our doors to invest in startups with international roots. Colorado and Massachusetts have similar programs.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2011

Bloomberg, New York Times, CNN, USA Today… these are just a subset of Taboola’s customers. Israeli startup Taboola has announced a $9 million series B round led by Crescent Point Group , with participation by Evergreen Venture Partners. The company has 26 employees, in offices in New York and Israel.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2010

As immigrants their biggest dream was opening a small grocery store on the Lower East Side of New York City, which they did in 1939. Unlike my parents, Fred Durham and his partner Maheesh Jain started the now $100+ million CafePress , knowing they wanted to build a large company. Scalable Startup Entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2010

One of those students, Shawn Carolan , is now a partner at Menlo Ventures. About a month ago I got a phone call from Alan Patricof of Greycroft Partners who saw the article about Lean Startups in the NY Times and invited me to talk at their CEO conference. The Greycroft team and Mark Suster of GRP Partners provided lots of local color.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2010

S tartup headlines for the week of October 26th 2010: 80 schools in New York are testing Time to Know’s computer-based curriculum in the class room as part of a $7.2 million project - [link]. The company recently raised $4 million in its latest investment round, and since its inception, has raised $30 million.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I sat down with my partner and we brainstormed the name for our business. Instead, my producing partner suggester Corner Piece, Because we’re the piece you need to get everything started. Most law firms simply use the last names of the originating partners as the name of the company. 15 – Strong Ties to Israel.

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The Next Web

JUNE 19, 2012

My partners are making all that possible, it’s pure teamwork. Future Simple was one those successful “side-projects” we started with Uzi Shmilovici, an amazing designer and entrepreneur from Israel and now the CEO of Future Simple. What are you currently involved with?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

May you have many Eureka moments with brilliant ideas, find your perfect partner, sign amazing deals, prosper from fat exits and make the world a better place. It was hard for Israeli startups to get professional coverage in English, and reach international investors and partners that would help the company scale, unless you got on a plane.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

They require help to clarify their business proposition, evaluate their value, and identify key partners. The missing link is finding the right channel and investment partner. For the entrepreneurs who are in Israel, Turkey, Europe (CEE or Western), New Zealand, Singapore, and other markets: understand your limitations.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

I sat down with Matan to discuss his tips for hyperscaling with teams across two continents, the importance of focus, why the team set up a bookkeeper in New York, and much more… Let’s start with your journey before starting Melio. On a short-term project, you should probably pick partners based on skills and capabilities.

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B2B Cofounder Small Business 62

David Teten

MARCH 13, 2015

Partner with students to execute research on topics of mutual interest. I view Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York , now the largest angel group in the NY tri-state region by headcount, as a template for what other schools and organizations can build. We’re more than happy to act as a matchmaker.

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Venture Capital Angel Groups Private Equity New York 60

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Israel Startup Network (ISN), led by Arlene Marom, one of our affiliate partners, organized the event with us. New Global Markets. First up, David Nordell from Kfar Ya'avetz, Israel, pitched New Global Markets , a solution for making it easier for banks to offer their customers global banking facilities.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 9, 2010

The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) and included participation from previous investors Blumberg Capital, First Round Capital, Genacast Ventures as well as private backers. Tags: Bloomberg Capital DoubleVerify First Round Capital Genacast Ventures Institutional Venture Partners CEO IVP CTO.

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