VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

Search /Assistant – search partnerships are more of a ‘catch all’ bucket and can range from social content (like tweets) to stocks information etc. Anything you’d expect to see called out in a search results page or an activation of Google home.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2016

I already use voice daily on Siri to send text messages while driving or search for directions and many friends are now raving about Amazon Echo (I think Father’s Day is coming up soon, Tania? The CTO, Tor Ivry , heads engineering out of Israel. Of course in recent years voice as I/O is becoming mainstream.

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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. Because the product and market can likely change in the search for product market fit. What should we keep and what should we change? What matters most?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Most importantly, is your site optimized for search engines and is it attracting the type and number of visitors you’d like? In the early days of the internet, while search engines were still in their infancy, search engine optimization was much simpler than it is today. SEO in the Early Days. Off-Page Optimization.

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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 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

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. Workflow automation – the reason Jasper.ai

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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. Kenshoo – Programmatic advertising in search engines and social networks (Raised $65M). Image credit: Kosher OC Magazine.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

More recently, as I sit as a Venture Partner at Lightspeed , their franchise model across Israel, India, and China lends even more credence to the fact that consumer-level and application-grade innovation now knows no geographical boundaries. people looking to move to Austin).

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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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Technical Review Technology Brazil Software Review 60

Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2016

Tal and his co-founders — some of the smartest technologists in Israel — asked themselves “ if we could build it from the ground up it, how would we build a better event management tool for the cloud era?” Some of the best companies are born out of frustration. This is exactly how Takipi was born. It took over 2.5

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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. As a result of the investment, Yandex’s CEO Arkady Volozh is now a member of Face.com’s board.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 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. LEADING US COOPERATIVE CHS BUYS ISRAEL’S SOLBAR.

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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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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

According to sources, Kenshoo has been growing 300-400% year over year and it is expanding its activities to include Display Advertising management as well as social network advertising campaigns, in addition to its core market of search text ads. Founded by CEO Meir (Iri) Zohar, eXalate has offices in New York and Kfar Saba, Israel.

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Up and Running

MARCH 5, 2018

They want information on how products are made before they buy them, and they’re likely to do several online searches before they buy.”. and Israel. Today, finding out what your competitors are (and aren’t) doing can be as easy as running a Yelp search. Our customers are generally not big impulse buyers.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ].

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Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ].

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ].

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Venture Capital Matching 79

YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

@gazelle_CEO : Gazelle CEO Israel Ganot discusses gadget trade-in, smarter consumption, and reCommerce. brrhodes : IceRocket search engine founder and CEO Blake Rhodes tweets about his insights into social media and the online world. RickM : Rick Myers is the founder and CEO of Talent Zoo, tweeting all about digital jobs searching.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 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 Central Bureau of Statistics also reported a higher-than-expected annual growth rate of 4.5

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

View All Search Results » Subscribe. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Israel Minister: No Change to Egypt Deal Israels foreign minister said Israel would not agree to re-evaluate its peace deal with Egypt. Advanced Search.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Users can discover content through a hierarchical navigation or textual search. Users are able to explore their content using a simple search feature, and can preview the content they are looking for in the application. It is also possible to preview search results within the application before cueing playback.

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Media Software Review Software 74

The Next Web

JULY 8, 2013

My startup is a B2B platform, we feel that we are the best in the world in creating social reviews and pushing the user-generated content to social media, emails and search engines to drive more sales and leads to the website. Currently we are based in Israel and we are making steps in establishing our US based HQ.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 23, 2013

The success of start-up accelerators like Y Combinator, Tech Stars and 500Startups has spawned hundreds of clones, including more than 15 in Israel. Demo Day last week at Microsoft Israel reflected some of the unique dynamics of corporate Accelerators- experienced founders, more funding, finished products and existing customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 10, 2012

Self serving research, but makes sense … Search Undervalued, Critical to Brand Campaigns – [link]. It’s Not (Just) the Culture, Stupid: 4 Reasons Why Israel’s Economy Is So Strong – [link]. Why McKinsey Says Social Media Could Add $1.3 Trillion to the Economy [link]. Want to eat more protein?

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Currently, I am the President of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF), which is a non-political, non-military organization that provides for the well-being of the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), veterans, and their family members. It showed me that large or small, giving back is something everyone can do.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Yair Geva is a partner at Herzog Fox & Neeman , one of the leading Israeli law firms that has helped facilitate some of the major exits and deals in Israel within the past few years. One of the evident signs of increased bilateral relationship between China and Israel is the lack of seats on flights to China.

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Intellectual Property China IP 143

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

SparkLabs belongs to the Global Accelerator Network , which includes Techstars , Australia’s PushStart and Microsoft’s Azure accelerator in Israel. Lateral (Search). The company behind search platform COGO , which automates search sessions — retrieving, indexing and organizing search data into a visual format.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Just do a search online and the VC’s job is done! We have three in Israel , two in Canada , one in the UK, and the remainder scattered all over the US. It might appear that origination is becoming much easier because of new tools like AngelList and the SEC moving toward adoption of rules that will allow equity based crowdfunding.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2010

Scalable startups in technology centers (Silicon Valley, Shanghai, New York, Bangalore, Israel, etc.) Also in common, each of their businesses initially were searching for a business model, and each was instinctively executing a customer discovery and validation process. All searching for a sustainable business model.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 3, 2006

I just got back from a week in Israel having spent some time in Jerusalem for an Answers board meeting and then making my way to the Ohalo Resort on the Sea of Galilee for Kinnernet 2006. At Kinnernet, I had the privilege to spend time with some great people from Israel, Europe, and the US.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

In searching for a suitable name for our new device, we came across a Koala orphaned after being caught in a bushfire (wildfire). I knew I wanted something search engine-friendly, and I’d always used the term photo safaris when inviting friends along to shoot around New York, so I went with that. 15 – Strong Ties to Israel.

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VC Cafe

MAY 22, 2011

The LinkedIn IPO this week may have opened the gates for an Israeli market thirsty for exits, but in the meanwhile, VC funding in Israel continues with business as usual. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Boston, MA with R&D offices in Israel. Co-founders Dani Golan and Ofer Dubovi are industry veterans in Israel.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 2, 2018

In books like Man’s Search for Meaning (one of my all-time favorites), you’ll understand why passion?—?a This is also why Israel has prospered. The book Start-up Nation explains Israel’s entrepreneurial genes well. at least modern Israel, post Holocaust?—?is Debra and I visited Israel for the first time last year.

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