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

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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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

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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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Investors include Zeev Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, and Vertex Ventures Israel. DataRails allows companies to manage their data in Excel, operating as a front end to a cloud database , which makes it far more agile and easier to create accurate models. DataRails has already raised $53.5

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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

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

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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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

APRIL 18, 2024

It was a one man operation and not so easy to keep up with the news, but one of my motivations for starting the blog was to provide news on Israel in English that show the incredible innovation taking place in the market… One day I ‘scooped’ a funding round in a company that has since been acquired.

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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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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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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

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. In the US, most software engineers enter the workforce following college.

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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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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

Amazon AppStore – The Amazon Appstore (mobile/tablet) for Android and Fire OS operated by Amazon.com. AWS Builder Space (Israel) – A non-equity program for early stage startups who are looking to accelerate their speed to market. Amazon Pay – For startup payment acceptance and collection.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Iran’s long-running conflict with Israel is a perennial potential flashpoint for a broader conflict in the region. Iran has been actively using cyber attacks and has attacked and harassed commercial shipping and Freedom of Navigation Operations in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.

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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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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 22, 2024

This is particularly evident in initiatives like Volunteers for Israel, where individuals like Marco Bitran can contribute to positive change through volunteer efforts. They might suggest implementing recycling programs, using renewable energy sources, or adopting more sustainable practices in their operations.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Next month, one of the leading European operators is expected to announce a dedicated, Israel-focused venture capital fund. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach to innovation clusters, some telcos are getting a better ROI from Israel than others. [[ This is a content summary only.

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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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VC Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2023

A new landscape by Greenfield Partners mapped 25 startups (and several unicorns) operating in this space was published by Calcalist in Jan 2023. Since then, we’ve seen an explosion in the number of generative AI startups worldwide, as well as in Israel. The Israeli startups building the Metaverse (credit: Remagine Ventures).

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VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2014

Despite the momentum with India, Israel-China (including Hong Kong) trade is on-track to hit $10 billion this year, representing 13% of total Israeli exports (Bank of Israel). Data services currently contribute only about 8-9 % of revenue for mobile operators, versus 52% in the US. 250 million Internet users.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2021

At the time of this writing Israel and Hamas just signed a ceasefire. I wanted to take a few moments to reflect on what was going on in Israel. Hamas is a radical islamic terror movement, which took charge of Gaza in 2007, a year after Israel unilaterally withdrew its settlers. But, this is also not exactly new to Israel.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

The group diversity was beneficial because it enabled participants to share their first hand experiences of working at companies operating in different domains and at different phases of development. Tags: Battery Ventures Celtel International Danny Warshay E-Ink Israel ProfitLogic Pursway R&R VC Cafe POCD. By: Geoffrey Mugliston.

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

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

This most likely involves a combination of an operational team (cloud, enterprise, commerce, etc) and the corporate development team, led by Don Harrison. Applications for various programs in Europe and Israel are open. Google Corporate Development – Google may sometimes invest in a company from the balance sheet.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Her responsibilities included: strategic counseling, business modeling and deal negotiation for the various for medical startups in the portfolio and is a limited partner at NGT3 Medical Accelerator in Israel. In the startup accelerator in Israel, I saw people of all ages participating in this vibrant community. Tell us your story.

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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

SEPTEMBER 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. ISRAEL 2ND LARGEST CENTER FOR TECH STARTUPS.

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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

JUNE 4, 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. Great for them, good for Israel.

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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Yesterday was Israel’s 68th Independence Day, and to mark the occasion, Calcalist , a leading business publication in Israel, ranked the 50 most promising private Israeli startups. Gett – Taxi hailing and deliveries in Israel, Russia and UK (Raised $102M). Image credit: Kosher OC Magazine.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2018

Advisors currently are from the UK, US, Canada, Asia Pacific and Israel. I don’t live in the UK – can I apply? Mishcon de Reya is a global firm and global companies are encouraged to apply. Legal Tech Innovation Categories. Previous Successes.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 12, 2017

As recently seen with the impending closure of William Hill’s Israel and Australia operations, large, respected brands are being forced to make tough decisions, either by closing gaming industry operations, or by taking steps to merge with other companies, just as Gala and Coral did back in 2016. Fewer Market Competitors.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 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. CISCO BUYS NDS FOR $5B. CISCO BUYS NDS FOR $5B.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2010

I ’ve recently came across a paper written by Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir , Israel’s 4th president and a successful scientist who founded Israel’s Chief Scientist Office (CSO). I would do what I could to help establish the State of Israel and contribute to its security and its social and economic development.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 9, 2010

While the intention was to fully privatize the venture capital industry, the drought of funds in Israel spurred the need a ‘bail out’ of the high-tech sector, in the form of by public sector programs to resuscitate investments in high-tech companies and retain innovative start ups in the country.

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