VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

has acquired Israeli face recognition technology developer Face.com for $100 million. The two companies have collaborated for a long time, with Facebook using Face.com’s technology to help users tag the faces of friends in pictures they upload on the social network with Face.com’s Photo Tagger service. FACEBOOK BUYS FACE.COM FOR $100M.

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VC Cafe

MAY 3, 2012

The technology will be unveiled officially at the Drupa Print Media Fair in Dusseldorf in May. BGN Technologies, Ben Gurion University’s technology transfer company, has signed a licensing agreement for its V-Smart drug delivery technology with New York’s Lauren Sciences LLC. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY CENTER TO OPEN IN ISRAEL.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Thanks to Dr. Victor Allis, CEO and founding partner, Quintiq ! #4) has transformed from a small information technology components firm into a comprehensive and full-service IT computer hardware and support solution provider, servicing over 20,000 clients across the country. 4) Used to Reconnect. Today, Aventis Systems, Inc.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. In exchange the sponsors got access to fresh ideas, new technology and a new perspective on serious problems.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

TaKaDu , winner of the Technology Pioneer Award by the World Economic Forum annual meeting is helping London keep its water clean. The company has 25 employees and has raised $10 million so far – most recently $6 million in a round led by Emerald Technology Ventures. The company has raised $26.5 – full article.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 16, 2015

Bonus points for the fact that they partner with the social enterprise Vision Spring to facilitate training for optometrists and eye glass manufacturers in the same countries that they donate glasses to (India, Guatemala, and Bangladesh to name a few), so the communities also receive opportunities for sustainable income.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 23, 2015

That night I met Dave Jilk, my first business partner and one of my best friends. My royalty checks had stopped, but fortunately I had started Feld Technologies and 1986 was the summer of 2430 Denmark in Garland, Texas. My dad, a doctor, was a small partner in a bunch of real estate partnerships.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

run technology-focused programming, e.g., trade missions. The Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative is another very successful parallel initiative in New York and elsewhere. . In addition, HOF has backed 6 companies with roots in Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, India, and Russia. (In

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

It turned him instantly from an education technology expert--his day job is as VP of Growth at Course Hero--into a leading voice for how to move forward. You have a day job here in Silicon Valley at an education technology company. You're pulling data from public sources. Some people will want to do it, but many won't.

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