Cofounder Israel Reputation 
ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 19, 2019
While Silicon Valley has the advantages of a self-sustaining entrepreneurial reputation and proximity to multiple major universities, other countries have natural advantages that make them highly supportive of new tech entrepreneurs. These are some of the most innovative and interesting tech startups to emerge from Israel in the recent past.
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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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?
The Next Web
MARCH 2, 2014
However, in October of last year the European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs reported that risk averseness is now so extreme in Europe that the discrepancy in investment between USA and EU investors is massive: The numbers for VCs were even more astounding: apart from Israel, investments by EU VCs were only 10 percent of their US counterparts.
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.
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
David Teten
OCTOBER 6, 2014
Capital On Stage – an invitation-only conference about funding that runs annual events in the US, Israel, South-East Asia, and Europe since 2011– is tackling this issue. I wrote last year about their unconventional format that allows venture capitalists to pitch themselves to growth-stage startup founders in under 5 minutes.
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