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. APPOINTMENTS Way to go Koren Gilbai on joining Founders Fund as Partner to cover Israeli investments! Congrats Lia Cromwell on your promotion to Partner at UpWest !

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Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

The content is ready and now post-publishing you’re on to emailing your list, reaching out to influencers, and distributing on your social channels. Sometimes, paid advertising tools and platforms can be a great supplement to these more traditional means of distribution. Outbrain. . . Content.ad. StackAdapt. LinkedIn Ads.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

The US and China are in the lead, but Israel has certainly earned itself a place as one of the leading centers of excellence in the global AI ecosystem with companies like AI21 Labs, which is developing a large language model Jurassic, which can be considered as an alternative to GPT. The talent pool for AI startups in Israel is deep.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

And finally Israel, the market I cover primarily with Remagine Ventures , was also down 36%, resembling the 2020 levels. TVPI = total value to paid in capital (paper gains) DPI = distributed to paid-in capital (real cash gains, paid out). As IVC reports: In Q1–Q3/2022, Israeli high-tech companies raised $12.3 billion in 538 deals.

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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. Also our app is integrated to Facebook so when you first connect with you partner you can post it to your profile.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Voice AI applications will unlock $10B of new software TAM over the next five years Bessemer Venture Partners Remember when talking to machines felt like science fiction? At Remagine Ventures, we invest in pre-seed startups in Israel and UK. Well, that future is now knocking on our door.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2016

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. Arif Janmohamed is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Needless to say, it’s a fun time to be a software developer. This is exactly how Takipi was born.

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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Yesterday was Israel’s 68th Independence Day, and to mark the occasion, Calcalist , a leading business publication in Israel, ranked the 50 most promising private Israeli startups. Ironsource – Software Discovery, Distribution and Delivery Platform (Raised $123M). Image credit: Kosher OC Magazine. 150M each).

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud). Raise here, but deploy elsewhere” is not a crazy strategy in today’s times.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Scale Horizontally (or “scale out”): Add more nodes to a system, such as adding a new computer to a distributed software application. My entire world functions as a large and wide distributed network. Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). Techstars Mobility (Detroit). Techstars Berlin (Berlin).

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. of 3,981 VC funds below $2b in size returned at least 2X Distributions to Paid-In Capital (2X) or more. Thanks to Janet Bannister, Managing Partner, Real Ventures , and Erika Cramer , Co-Managing Member, How Women Invest, for thoughtful comments.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Evangelos has spent the last 15 years as a Venture Capitalist, first at Apax Partners and later at Trident Capital. and concentrated on a single part of the supply chain – importing, distribution, wholesale, retail. He’s now helping companies get the most out of their relationships with Silicon Valley.

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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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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 Central Bureau of Statistics also reported a higher-than-expected annual growth rate of 4.5

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VC Cafe

MAY 3, 2012

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. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY CENTER TO OPEN IN ISRAEL.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Yair Geva is a partner at Herzog Fox & Neeman , one of the leading Israeli law firms that has helped facilitate some of the major exits and deals in Israel within the past few years. One of the evident signs of increased bilateral relationship between China and Israel is the lack of seats on flights to China.

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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. Domestic demand in Israel leaped 8.7 See the March 2010 edition after the jump.

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

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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. In comparison, a typical Israeli over the age of 15 spent,on average, 38.3 hours online in May 2010, compared to 32.3 hours in the UK. online in May 2010.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

T he Commercial Office at the Embassy of Israel in London and the Israel Export Institute have organized a New Media delegation , taking place on the first week of July. VC Café is privileged to support the event as the main media partner. Tickets for the mini-show case event on July 6th are limited.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. ops team in NY, dev team in Philly and having dev teams in Israel). Current round: $31.0mm in Series C by Insight Venture Partners (Jeff Lieberman). We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston. Total: $41.0mm plus undisclosed Series A. Read more: TechCrunch.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

As Vintage Venture Partners put it in a recent presentation shared in Tel Aviv , 2022 started off well but fell of a cliff in the second half (the slides were shared on Twitter by Amitai Ziv from Tech 12 ). billion according to the 2022 Israel high tech ecosystem report by Viola Ventures. 2022 in Israeli tech and venture.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Earlier this month I spoke at the 2022 Israel Gaming Summit by Calcalist, Playtika and Google. The conference took place during a challenging time for gaming startups: in the same week Playtika, the largest gaming employer in Israel, announced it was laying off 615 people globally, of which 180 are in Israel.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2011

The round was led entirely by previous backers: the Israeli offices of Greylock Partners and Carmel Ventures , as well as US fund Opus Capital. Wanova is considered a ‘turnkey’ cloud solution, providing Distributed Desktop Virtualization solutions. is based in San Jose, CA and has offices in Netanya, Israel.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Takadu’s business model consists of charging a monthly fee from its clients, which already include the Thames Water company and other utility companies in Israel and Asia Pacific. It is also reducing energy consumption since water production and distribution require a lot of energy, so preventing water loss also prevents this waste.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Israeli startup Outbrain , one of the leading companies in the recommendations space, has completed a $35 million in Series D led by Index Ventures and joined by previous investors Carmel Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. This brings Outbrain’s funding to $64 million total since its inception in 2007.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Recently 5min has discovered its business model by providing video distribution. The new focus has been proving itself as the company reported 10 million views a month, across 800 partner sites with their library of 200,000 videos. 5min is based in Israel and led by founder and CEO Ran Harnevo.

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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. In comparison, a typical Israeli over the age of 15 spent,on average, 38.3 hours online in May 2010, compared to 32.3 hours in the UK. online in May 2010.

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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. In comparison, a typical Israeli over the age of 15 spent,on average, 38.3 hours online in May 2010, compared to 32.3 hours in the UK. online in May 2010.

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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. In comparison, a typical Israeli over the age of 15 spent,on average, 38.3 hours online in May 2010, compared to 32.3 hours in the UK. online in May 2010.

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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. The application works on 2,500 device models and is available to 80% of the world’s phones.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I sat down with my partner and we brainstormed the name for our business. Instead, my producing partner suggester Corner Piece, Because we’re the piece you need to get everything started. Most law firms simply use the last names of the originating partners as the name of the company. 15 – Strong Ties to Israel.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2010

VSP partnered with Live Person and has been operating since 2006 as AEI Technology. Velocee is a Content Distribution Network (CDN) for mobile which enables carriers to save money by predicting users mobile data usage trend. Touchoo publishing house for quality touch-screen book-apps for toddlers and preschoolers.

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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.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

I found a hidden gem in Israel. The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. I was a VP in one of the leading online marketing agencies (best seller in Israel) and am also an attorney, in online related law. VC Cafe: nice to meet you guys. Omer : I have been online since 2002.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

I found a hidden gem in Israel. The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. I was a VP in one of the leading online marketing agencies (best seller in Israel) and am also an attorney, in online related law. VC Cafe: nice to meet you guys. Omer : I have been online since 2002.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

I found a hidden gem in Israel. The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. I was a VP in one of the leading online marketing agencies (best seller in Israel) and am also an attorney, in online related law. VC Cafe: nice to meet you guys. Omer : I have been online since 2002.

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