Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike is a no BS guy, has all the attributes I look for in a founder and says things like, openly shares knowledge and opines without a filter including this one, “whoever invented uncapped convertible debt should be spanked!&# This is an interview you’re not going to want to miss, I promise.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 29, 2008

Before joining as President & COO, Israel Ganot spent six years at eBay, where he was instrumental in the company’s international expansion. The CEO Rousseau Aurelien is a serial entrepreneur and former eBay PowerSeller. Today’s announcement of a $4.4M

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. And he and his co-founders Ziv and Ilan made it happen: Melio’s now processing multi-billion dollar payment volumes less than two years after launch.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 29, 2008

Before joining as President & COO, Israel Ganot spent six years at eBay, where he was instrumental in the company’s international expansion. The CEO Rousseau Aurelien is a serial entrepreneur and former eBay PowerSeller. Today’s announcement of a $4.4M

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Aside from needing to be conveniently located for your employees to get to (and potential clients to visit for meetings), Ori Goshen, co-founder and vice president of research and development at Tawkon , says staying close to good bars and restaurant options also give employees a sense of life outside the work space.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

Ohad Frankfurt is the cofounder and CEO of Swayy , a personalized content curation and management platform. About a year and a half ago, we got accepted to the Elevator accelerator program in Tel Aviv, Israel. For us, being specifically based in Israel, these were our four main advantages. Coworking space.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Though, this article is not a reflection on the fundamentals of unicorns—rather, I am using them as a proxy for situations in which founders have executed on big ideas. 38 unicorns, or 1 in 4 (24%), have at least one MBA founder. 63 MBA founders are represented among the 157 unicorns. Key Insights. Red Ventures (HBS, Wharton).

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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The Next Web

JUNE 19, 2012

Under the relatively fresh ‘TNW Profile’ banner, we regularly shine a light on great European entrepreneurs and startup founders, to learn more about their journey and their business, and what drives them personally. Me and my cofounders Joanna Socha and Mariusz Lusiak just got into Y Combinator. What are you currently involved with?

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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. I am now talking with some affinity groups in these domains about co-organizing such pitch nights under the umbrella of HBS Angels.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. This is not meant to be a negative post, but rather a temperature check of today’s market environment and the levers founders can pull on to survive this period. What is a founder to do? As IVC reports: In Q1–Q3/2022, Israeli high-tech companies raised $12.3

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The past year was a wild ride for startups and founders, giving a whole new meaning to the ”rollercoaster” aspect of being an entrepreneur. 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.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Startup Intelligence caught up with co-founders Zohar Dayan (CEO) and Yotam Cohen (VP Business Development) to find out more. Wibbitz was started in response to what its founders observed as a change in the way people consume content on the web today. Co-founders Zohar and Yotam are both business graduates from IDC Herzliya.

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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. Kinnernet is a techie geek camp organized and run by Yossi Vardi (cofounder of ICQ).

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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. Kinnernet is a techie geek camp organized and run by Yossi Vardi (cofounder of ICQ).

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Despite the war, Israels technology industry presented record figures for mergers and acquisitions according to a new report from Vintage Investment Partners. Microsoft launched co-pilot vision , a tool that read your screen and act as a personal helper (US-only). Mazel tov Or Israel and team bananaz on coming out of stealth with $5.3M

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VC Cafe

MARCH 28, 2011

Ron Gura, co-founder and CEO of The Gifts Project, believes his B2B platform solves this problem. For example, Dr Yossi Vardi , Israel’s most famous angel investor, provided the original seed funding in 2009. All too often, as a result of this commotion, the gift doesn’t get bought at all.

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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. His co-founder and COO, Andy Berman , made the smart move from being a young VC to becoming an entrepreneur.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2024

In Israel, the week’s news was mostly focused on the expectation from an impending attack by Iran and its proxies. tech #Israel #venturecapital #innovation #startups #founders Answer – the lady with the blue background is real. This #FIRGUN edition will be shorter than normal due to travel. Thank you for reading.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

It’s my hypothesis of why so many founding teams have 3-4 founders. I’ve seen many first-time founders who had fallings out with their co-founders, had lawsuits, had investors bail on them, lost market momentum. In a way I think this is part of the magic of Israel. I fund both types all the time.

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The Next Web

JULY 8, 2013

I recently stumbled upon this great read by Sam Altman, the co-founder of Loopt, and number 10 caught my eye: “ Growth solves (nearly) all problems.”. Currently we are based in Israel and we are making steps in establishing our US based HQ. The set of skills required from founders change and we have to adopt quickly.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Sierra AI , founded by Bret Taylor (former co-CEO of Salesforce, CTO of Facebook and current chairman of OpenAI) is currently raising hundreds of millions of dollars at $4 billion valuation, just a year or so from launch after unlocking AI voice agents for companies. billion to re-hire the founders of Character.ai Google paid $2.6

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Noreen Sablotsky is the founder and CEO of Imalac , a revolutionary company in the breastfeeding world. eld of marketing and sales for Ciba- Geigy Pharmaceuticals before co-founding Noven Pharmaceuticals in 1986. In the startup accelerator in Israel, I saw people of all ages participating in this vibrant community.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Ofir Beigel and Karin Levi, the co-founders of Capple Factory are both graduates of Israel’s Zell Entrepreneurship program , which is quickly gaining the reputation of Israel’s Y Combinator. The company is currently bootstrapped and the app is launching next week.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

percent) and co-founder Osfer Zadikario (6.2 This would be the seventh digital firm to go public in 2010 including Israel’s Vringo (see SEC filing ) as well as GameFly, Everyday Health, Motricity, Lulu, and Reply.com. Its main shareholder is Sycamore Technologies Ventures, which owns 33.9 percent of the company.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

In the eleventh hour of the due diligence process, we discovered a one-page agreement between a company founder (before incorporation) and a consultant, promising the latter 5% of the company’s capital. The consultant was no longer with the company and neither was the founder. In the end, you are the keeper of your destiny.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2016

This is the exact problem that Tal Weiss and his co-founders at Takipi faced a few years ago after selling their startup VisualTao to Autodesk. And as applications have trended towards a more distributed, data-centric, and segmented architecture, keeping them up and running reliably has become more of a challenge. It took over 2.5

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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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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this? I think having a co-founder is very important. I’ve seen people succeed as solo founders – but I think not having a co-founder makes an already hard journey that much harder. The rest is history.

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VC Cafe

MAY 30, 2011

Gil Rozenberg – co-founder and CEO of Ineze.com , an early-stage technology startup based in Israel, shares his lessons learned on starting a tech startup for first time entrepreneurs. The more, the merrier Surround yourself with as many co-founders as you can.

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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.

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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. About Guest Author: Garrett Gan is the Co-Founder & CEO of Thalamus , the largest research database of advertising vendors in the world. Outbrain. . .

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For Google AI for Social Good. Notley Ventures.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. This young, talented girl is given no chance of being the founder of the next Facebook.”. “I

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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

AUGUST 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. Investment Bank Morgan Stanley raised its growth forecast for Israel to 4.8% ValueClick Inc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Ben is the Chief Executive Olarker (CEO) and co-founder of Olark Live Chat. In this episode, CEO and co-founder of Olark, Ben Congleton, talks about the building of Olark and how they’ve differentiated themself in such a competitive industry. He's the chief executive o Larker and co-founder of O LA Live Chat.

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