VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Funding news.

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Venture Capital Matching 79

VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

This is one of the largest funds raised in the first quarter of 2010 as VC funds struggle to raise money due to poor performance and low liquidity. 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.

North America 76

North America Silicon Valley Private Equity 76

VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

T he second quarter of 2010 has come and gone and despite the depleting VC and incubator capital in Israel, the quarter has brought approximately 40 deals with over $400 million invested. As a part of the round Rina Shainski, General Partner of Carmel Ventures joined company’s board. The company has raised $6.2

Private Equity 98

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity 98

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Funding news.

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Funding news.

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. Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Funding news.

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

T he second quarter of 2010 has come and gone and despite the depleting VC and incubator capital in Israel, the quarter has brought approximately 40 deals with over $400 million invested. As a part of the round Rina Shainski, General Partner of Carmel Ventures joined company’s board. The company has raised $6.2

Private Equity 98

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity 98

VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2010

A s every month, VC Ca fe 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. See the March 2010 edition after the jump. Domestic demand in Israel leaped 8.7

Switzerland 79

Switzerland New Zealand Europe 79

VC Cafe

JULY 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. ISRAEL RANKED 17TH MOST COMPETITIVE ECONOMY BY IMD. Israel was also rated first in several of the report’s sub-categories.

North America 68

North America Brazil Argentina 68

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 economy grew 7.8% ISRAEL SETS FAVOURABLE FISCAL POLICY ENCOURAGING GAS EXPLORATION.

Private Equity 90

Private Equity China North America 90

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2010

VSP partnered with Live Person and has been operating since 2006 as AEI Technology. Started by Jonathan (Yoni) Meiri in 2010 and has recently announced a $50,000 seed round. Touchoo publishing house for quality touch-screen book-apps for toddlers and preschoolers. GB over the web.

San Francisco 131

San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup 131

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

A big spread on Israeli startups and Venture Capital by Tobias Buck was published in the FT this morning , showcases what made Israel the startup nation, and what are the challenges ahead. In the first half of 2011, over $1 billion of VC funding was raised in Israel (according to IVC).

Startup 87

Startup Venture Capital Partner 87

VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2011

Clean tech is no longer the king of private equity in Israel, making room for industrials and infrastructure deals. Buyout deals (three) were valued at $82 million or 38 percent of aggregate deal value in Q1 2011, which compares with $621 million or 75 percent in Q4 2010 and $122 million or 13 percent in Q1 2010.

Private Equity 99

Private Equity Equity Mezzanine 99

VC Cafe

MAY 2, 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. The IMF also predicted that unemployment in Israel will drop to 5.5 in the fourth quarter of 2010.

Uganda 84

Uganda Norway Europe 84

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. the previous year.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

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. According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale.

Cofounder 20

Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

T erra Venture Partners, a $25 million fund made the most first investments in 2009 (6 deals) followed by Carmel, Giza, JVP, Magma, Pitango, Sequoia and TriVentures (another small fund with $25 million under management), who all made 5 first time investments.

Venture Capital 79

Venture Capital Seed Stage Partner 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 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. See the October 2010 edition after the jump. growth forecast for 2010 exports.

Bandwidth 79

Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

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.

Venture Capital 205

Venture Capital Agile Customer Development 205

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2011

According to the report, 137 startups raised $522 million in Q3 of 2011, up 53% from the equivalent period in 2010, but down 8% from the $549 million raised in Q2 2011. There are also the incumbent funds including Sequoia, Battery, Benchmark and so on, who have local reps in Israel. Ofer Sela, KPMG). " (Ofer Sela, KPMG).

Startup 106

Startup Europe Early Stage 106

VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2011

A joint report by IVC Israel and KPMG, surveyed 95 venture investors (48 in Israel and 47 foreign investors who are active in the Israeli market) summarizes 2010 in Israeli venture capital. billion in 2010, a 13% increase from 2009 ($1.12 There’s good news and bad news in last year’s trends.

Venture Capital 97

Venture Capital Early Stage Internet 97

VC Cafe

MAY 30, 2011

Zeev Holtzman, founding partner of Giza Venture Capital and founding member of the Israel Venture Association (IVA), cautioned that “ Israel’s venture capital and startup industry is heading for collapse. billion in 2000 to ZERO in 2010. What’s next for Israel’s VC industry? The change in focus.

Venture Capital 94

Venture Capital Early Stage Europe 94

VC Cafe

JANUARY 9, 2011

S ure, Israel is known the ‘Startup Nation’, but judging by the actual venture capital investments raised by Israeli startups in the last decade, Israel looks more like a continent. Billion dollars in the period of 2001-2010, says Globes in an article published today. Israeli startups have raised $11.1

Venture Capital 97

Venture Capital Early Stage Partner 97

Austin Startup

APRIL 11, 2020

As MassChallenge learned when it launched at the height of the recession in 2010, we must all take action and identify new paths to market and discover solutions that resonate with our teams and our customers. These innovations will make their way to commercial markets within the next 5–10 years.” The next decade of innovation starts today.

Rhode Island 87

Rhode Island St. Louis Texas Missouri 87

VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

Below are the headlines for the week of July 8 2010: Startups of the week. The company is headquartered in London, UK, with satellite offices in the US and Israel. Cellcom , the leading mobile provider in Israel, enters the financial services market with new “mobile wallet&# product. Miscellaneous.

Media 109

Media Stealth Venture Capital 109

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

According to comScore Media Metrix, out of the countries monitored by comScore Canada, Israel and the US are the top three consumers of Internet per capita and time spent online. hours online in May 2010, compared to 32.3 online in May 2010. In comparison, a typical Israeli over the age of 15 spent,on average, 38.3

Internet 138

Internet Canada Advertising 138

VC Cafe

APRIL 9, 2010

V enture capital funding of Israel companies opened strongly in Q1 2010, with 55 deals completed since January 1oth 2o1o, according to Capital IQ. Apr-8-2010. Apr-8-2010. Canaan Partners; Greylock Partners; Siemens Venture Capital GmbH; Warburg Pincus LLC;Wellington Partners Venture Capital GmbH.

Venture Capital 68

Venture Capital LLC LP 68

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

ops team in NY, dev team in Philly and having dev teams in Israel). Recent competitive financings closed by Gilt Groupe ($35mm in 05/2010), OKL (undisclosed value in 12/2009) and Ideeli ($20mm in 12/2009). Current round: $31.0mm in Series C by Insight Venture Partners (Jeff Lieberman). Total raised: $16.0mm. Other Deals.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Los Angeles Oakland Asia 217

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Jussi Laakkonen , CEO & founder of Applifie, summarized it well: We recently raised our seed round at Applifier and it was led by a silicon valley seed fund MHS Capital, whose general partner is Mark Sugarman. I’m from India and lucky to be part of the Winter Silicon Valley 2010 session. link] is another great one to apply.

Silicon Valley 104

Silicon Valley Startup Seed Stage Delaware 104

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This year, in addition to unveiling the Euroscape, our list of top 100 Cloud companies started in Europe and Israel; and our Champions League, the high-growth unicorns from the region; we’ll also unveil the Accel Euroscape Public Index, the index of the European and Israeli-born public cloud companies, and its performance.

Europe 71

Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

According to comScore Media Metrix, out of the countries monitored by comScore Canada, Israel and the US are the top three consumers of Internet per capita and time spent online. hours online in May 2010, compared to 32.3 online in May 2010. In comparison, a typical Israeli over the age of 15 spent,on average, 38.3

Internet 135

Internet Canada Russia 135

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

According to comScore Media Metrix, out of the countries monitored by comScore Canada, Israel and the US are the top three consumers of Internet per capita and time spent online. hours online in May 2010, compared to 32.3 online in May 2010. In comparison, a typical Israeli over the age of 15 spent,on average, 38.3

Internet 135

Internet Canada Russia 135

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

According to comScore Media Metrix, out of the countries monitored by comScore Canada, Israel and the US are the top three consumers of Internet per capita and time spent online. hours online in May 2010, compared to 32.3 online in May 2010. In comparison, a typical Israeli over the age of 15 spent,on average, 38.3

Internet 135

Internet Canada Russia 135

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Previous Celeno investors Pitango Venture Capital , Greylock Partners , Miven Venture Partners, and Cisco Systems Inc. Mobile gaming company Oberon Media raised a fifth round of $16 million – some of the funds raised are from previous investors Goldman Sachs, Infinity I-China Fund and Oak Investment Partners.

Flash 94

Flash Venture Capital Acquisition 94

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.

Venture Capital 74

Venture Capital Semantic New York 74

VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

As a result of this round, Harel Beit-On, Founder and General Partner at Viola Private Equity will be joining Zend’s board of directors. Zend has shown significant traction, having reached record revenue growth in 2010, while servicing large enterprise clients such as NYSE Euronext, GE and Cisco. Watch this space.

Private Equity 87

Private Equity Equity PHP 87

VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Facebook surprised with its first acquisition in Israel today (and its second acquisition outside of the US), with the announcement that it is buying Israeli startup Snaptu (previously known as Moblica) for an estimated $60-70 million. According to TheMarker (Hebrew), Sequoia will be making a six time multiple on its investment.

Sri Lanka 94

Sri Lanka Dominican Republic Saudi Arabia 94