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. ISRAEL’S STATISTICS BUREAU FORECASTS 4% GROWTH IN 2010. For previous editions, click here.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

gazelle_CEO : Gazelle CEO Israel Ganot discusses gadget trade-in, smarter consumption, and reCommerce. corbett3000 : Peter Corbett, CEO of iStrategyLabs discusses engaging communities through innovation on @corbett3000. Michels : Oren Michels, CEO of Mashery, offers insight into API management, services, and more.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2024

I was having lunch with a senior investor in London, who asked me: how long until business in Israel returns to normal? billion, according to a new report by PWC Israel. Finally, the Israeli stock market outperforms global peers despite war, surging 27% in 2024. It’s time to build. The answer is: it already has.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

It shows Kinneret Gat, 69, defiantly sticking her tongue out at a Hamas attacker, even as the community was being overrun. Every year, LinkedIn recognises the most in demand companies in each of the major startup hubs, but this year they failed to include Israel. Daniel Roth now said that Israel will be added next week. (h/t

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Square Global Facilities Manager Maja Henderson says moving to a large office space that is designed to feel small promotes synergy. Also remember that if your company has multiple locations, it is important to provide ways for employees to communicate effectively.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2024

LINKS FOR YOUR BROWSER Israel: Why investors are still bullish on Israel even in war time? ” ( source ) Global AI index country comparison Q1-Q3 2024 Israeli M&A – most Israeli companies get acquired by US corporates Overall venture investments in Europe were down 39% in Q3 2024. .” Keep on creating!

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

And so much more it’s genuinely hard to keep up… QUOTE OF THE WEEK Israel continues to draw investors seeking bold, determined solutions to global challenges. There’s so much to celebrate in our “small” community. Meta is on track to become the most used open source AI by the end of the year.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

This would not be as impressive during ‘normal times’ in Israel, but the fact that we’re seeing such level of activity in the middle of a war (with most airlines halting flights to Israel), this is not trivial. There’s much to celebrate in our “small” community. Keep on creating!

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

I needed someone who was all in with me in Israel and wanted them to be the opposite of what I had with Mike at Blaze – I wanted someone who’d drive the technology while I could evolve as a CEO and build out the go-to-market strategy. I visited Israel and, after a bunch of meals together, they decided to join.

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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. Mazel tov Or Israel and team bananaz on coming out of stealth with $5.3M Good news Justin Borus and team Ibex Investors on your new $40M secondaries fund dedicated to Israel!

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

I’m not sure if it has to do with me, but refreshingly, Israel didn’t come up at all apart from the occasional question of how’s my family. Mazel tov Israel (Srulik) Dvorsky and team TailorMed on securing a $40M to connect patients with financial aid solutions! Read my takeaways. Keep on creating!

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Unfortunately, over a year later, Israel is now defending itself from threats across 7 fronts and there are still 101 Israelis held hostage in G**a. Global funding also dropped. There’s a lot to celebrate in our “small” community! Funding for U.S. creator economy startups fell nearly 16% to $253.1

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VC Cafe

MAY 28, 2020

The technology, and the consumers, aren’t there yet, and not even a global pandemic can change that, he says. Its two Israeli Air Force veterans used to lead the R&D of the F-16 fighter jet simulator, and are now using VR tech to install life saving tools in hospitals in the US and Israel. And not just healthcare.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 14, 2010

Mytopia was funded by SK telecom ventures Innovation Fund, Benhamou Global Ventures and private investors. Launched in 2008 by brother and sister Guy and Galia Ben Artzi, Mytopia offered a casual games community, where users can play against each other in real time. by midday in London today to ?0.50, 0.50, giving a market cap of ?174

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 22, 2024

In recent years, there has been growing recognition of volunteering’s impact on sustainable business practices and community advancement. This is particularly evident in initiatives like Volunteers for Israel, where individuals like Marco Bitran can contribute to positive change through volunteer efforts.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

In an interview to Calcalist , Eyal Reshef, chairman of IMA said the rise in the number of Israeli start ups is largely thanks to a 70% sponsorship provided to the Israeli exhibitors by IMA, the Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute, the Israeli Foreign Trade administration and Matimop, the Israel Industry Center for R&D.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We’ve deployed more than $10B across 400+ AI & cloud companies in the past four decades and have been fortunate to partner with many exceptional cloud & AI founders globally.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

We have three in Israel , two in Canada , one in the UK, and the remainder scattered all over the US. However, as the millennials reach decision-making roles in companies, an increasing number of senior executives and investors are actively participating in gated online communities. ii] Aktihanoglu , Murat. May 3, 2009.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). These programs don’t run in isolation – rather they are part of a horizontal scaling strategy based on a premise that you can build startups, and a startup community, anywhere in the world. Techstars Mobility (Detroit). Techstars Berlin (Berlin). Techstars METRO (Berlin).

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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. Outbrain can reach a global audience of over 557M unique people per month, making over 200B recommendations to consumers monthly. billion Unique Visitors, on 3 million discussion communities.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and representatives from the UK digital sector will officially launch the British Embassy High-Tech Hub in Israel, in a 300 people event planned for Thursday this week and followed by an official visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Britain can help Israeli innovation go global.”.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Value of the global entertainment and media market (Source: Statista ). As a fund that covers entertainment and media tech in Israel, we at Remagine Ventures keep a close eye on interesting developments in the Creator Economy. Riverside streamlines the process online and is getting rapid adoption in the podcasting community.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 14, 2025

Firgun is all about genuinely feeling and expressing happiness, pride, or admiration for members of our community’s accomplishments, good fortune and wins. billion merger with Magic Software Enterprises to create the leading IT services company in Israel. There’s a lot to celebrate in our “small” community.

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 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. FITCH AFFIRMS ISRAEL AT “A” (OUTLOOK STABLE). DG FASTCHANNEL TO BUY ISRAEL’S MEDIAMIND.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

The common case in israel is founding teams flying solo without a marketer until it’s imminently necessary. There’s a rise in community led startups. What best practices have you seen in Israel when it comes to community building? Some of the largest communities on Facebook were created in Israel (i.e

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“Because COVID is shaking our habits and beliefs it opens the door to discussion to whether we should change our whole system,” says veteran investor Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and the man known as “the father of British venture capital” .

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 15, 2012

For the 2010 and 2011 Lean Startup conferences , we offered the complete conference for simulcast so that people could join in from their communities around the world. These simulcasts are important community-building opportunities. These simulcasts are important community-building opportunities.

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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. Here's what the data say about Israeli startups: They’re Israeli-run but with global footprints. Today, this thesis is less relevant.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Francois Hollande, President of France, led a delegation this week of 260 senior French executives and government officials to Israel for the 2 nd annual France-Israel Innovation Day. French President Hollande, Israel’s President Peres and Prime Minister Netanyahu hold a robot snake in Tel Aviv.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

We must #BRINGTHEMALLHOME August was a slow month in venture investment as globally startups raised $18 billion in August worldwide, a 37% decline MoM and 24% decline year over year. The company plans to have only 2 offices for now – Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, so many AI engineers are polishing their CVs in Israel. Keep on creating.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

IBM Global Entrepreneur , the computer giant’s entrepreneurship outreach arm is looking for the smartest early stage startups around the globe that will help solve tomorrow’s problems. type interconnectivity across people or communities, Google searches, and so on. So who are the “Smartest&# startups in Israel?

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VC Cafe

JULY 12, 2011

50% of them, believe that we’re about to enter a second bubble and 33% claim that Groupon, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Zynga are overvalued, according to the latest Israel VC Indicator Survey for Q2 2011, published by Deloitte. The recent wave of Internet IPOs seems to remind the Israeli VCs of the previous tech bubble.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2014

The catalyst was Coca Cola which last year held its global marketing pow-wow at CES, the first time ever outside of Atlanta. Carl Fremont, Chief Digital Officer at MEC and a keynote at the upcoming Marketing & Ad:Tech Israel (www.adtechsummit.com) conference, explains. Create Communities that Share.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2024

A study by the Israel Innovation Authority shows that tech employees pay over a third of all income tax in Israel. Finally, Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire says he wants to raise his kids in Israel so they learn resilience and grit American venture capital legend @shaunmmaguire on why he will raise his kids in Israel ??: “I

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

So much has happened in the generative AI space globally, and in Israel since we published the previous version of the Israeli generative AI landscape, back almost exactly five months ago. For example, Munch , providing automated vertical video clips from long form content or KwaKwa , the latest product by Piggy, powering communities.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 13, 2012

The city’s cultural vibe attracts global talent, and the UK enjoys far more public sector support than the US. Not enough founders are finding success and then investing it back into the startup community; not enough students are embracing entrepreneurship as a career path. Israel sets an impressive example here.

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