cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link]. link] Security. ???????? ????????? ???????. ??????? ???? ?????????? ? ???????????. ????? ????????????. link] Stealth mode is back. Long live stealth mode!

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

I was in Helsinki this week and met a great number of European and US VCs, LPs and founders. Mazel tov Israel (Srulik) Dvorsky and team TailorMed on securing a $40M to connect patients with financial aid solutions! Way to go Itamar Golan and team Prompt Security on your $18M series A to help companies secure their generative AI tools!

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. Startups in stealth mode often have a false sense of security that they can take extra time to do the job right the first time.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Eliat Shemesh, Interdisciplinary Research Leader NEW VENTURE ROUNDS Now it’s confirmed, it’s time to congratulate Amiram Shachar and team Upwind Security on their $100M series B at a $900M valuation for their cloud security platform ! Mazel tov Or Israel and team bananaz on coming out of stealth with $5.3M

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. Within a few days, the site received thousands of user signups, according to its founder Mark Davis. It may not matter to you what Kohort is or isn’t, nor whether stealth is good or bad. To this day, the purpose of the site is still secret.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2014

It’s popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. Startups in stealth mode often have a false sense of security that they can take extra time to do the job right the first time. Marty Zwilling.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

The situation is untenable, leading all companies we spoke to have put cloud data security on their list of priorities for this year. Code42, Digital Guardian), data privacy (BigID, Privacera), encryption (Enveil, Protegrity) and data security platforms (Ionic, Varonis). You have to eliminate the headache.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In this post, I aim to take stock of the AI Agent ecosystem, compare incumbents versus startups, explore areas of opportunity for founders building in this space, and look ahead at the future of AI Agents. Management Layer : Critical functions include managing AI agents, securing permissions, and enabling payments.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Celeno Communications , an Israel-based provider of semiconductors for multimedia WiFi home networking applications, this morning announced that it has secured a $12 million funding round, which included a strategic investment by international cable operator Liberty Global. venturebeat ]. (Old Dear Entrepreneur, Are You Happy?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Celeno Communications , an Israel-based provider of semiconductors for multimedia WiFi home networking applications, this morning announced that it has secured a $12 million funding round, which included a strategic investment by international cable operator Liberty Global. venturebeat ]. (Old Dear Entrepreneur, Are You Happy?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Celeno Communications , an Israel-based provider of semiconductors for multimedia WiFi home networking applications, this morning announced that it has secured a $12 million funding round, which included a strategic investment by international cable operator Liberty Global. venturebeat ]. (Old Dear Entrepreneur, Are You Happy?

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Technical Review Matching Israel Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Celeno Communications , an Israel-based provider of semiconductors for multimedia WiFi home networking applications, this morning announced that it has secured a $12 million funding round, which included a strategic investment by international cable operator Liberty Global. venturebeat ]. (Old Dear Entrepreneur, Are You Happy?

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together. 2017 Recap. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx?

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Like a traditional capital fund, Kayweb Angels also has a board of directors that provides its startups with connections, guidance and help securing further funding. Since getting started in October, the board has already invested work in three startups (all in stealth mode): whoisgreen.com , burringo.com and doitinperson.com.

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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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VC Cafe

MARCH 14, 2025

Clarke NEW FUNDING ROUNDS Congratulations Arik Shtilman and team Rapyd on securing $500M series F at $4.5M Big Congrats Amitai Ratzon and team Pentera on securing $60M series D and unicorn status to boost security penetration testing for organisation! valuation to complete the acquisition of PayU ! on your $7.5M

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. AwesomeBox : AwesomeBox is currently in stealth mode so I’ll respect that. The team has experience in building startups (Doug Ludlow was formerly a founder in a TechStars company) and have all worked at local Los Angeles based startups.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

CrowdSpot -credit verification through your social graph, started by Yaron Samid – founder of TechAviv and former co-founder and CMO of Pando Networks. Self reported: Stealth-mode peronal finance security startup powered by the collective vigilance and wisdom of crowds.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

CrowdSpot -credit verification through your social graph, started by Yaron Samid, founder of TechAviv and former co-founder and CMO of Pando Networks, and Raphael Ouzan. Self reported: Stealth-mode peronal finance security startup powered by the collective vigilance and wisdom of crowds.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

I met a founder who’s sister was kidnapped (and later released). Way to go Ronit Belson and team Sawmills on coming out of stealth with a $10M seed round to transform telemetry data management with AI! Kol hakavod Arnon Heyman and IBI-Ag on securing a $6.1M There are still 73 Israelis held in G**a.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Going to business school and becoming a startup founder are often positioned as conflicting choices by the media and startup bloggers. Some go as far as stating, flat out, that MBAs don’t make for good founders. In fact, there are over 250 founders from the HBS classes between 2008 and 2014. Combined, they’ve raised over $2.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2016

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. Startups in stealth mode often have a false sense of security that they can take extra time to do the job right the first time.

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Stealth Startup Early Stage Social Media 120

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. What are some of the unique benefits and constraints from the point of view of a founder? .

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We kicked it off Sunday night with a boldstart founders and execs dinner where we talked about what’s next in cybersecurity with some of our portfolio companies like security scorecard , bigid , snyk , stealth co and many friends from the industry representing strategic partners and IT buyers. All is not lost!

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We kicked it off Sunday night with a boldstart founders and execs dinner where we talked about what’s next in cybersecurity with some of our portfolio companies like security scorecard , bigid , snyk , stealth co and many friends from the industry representing strategic partners and IT buyers. All is not lost!

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VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

A marketer will help the founders to create the larger vision and story for the company, craft the desired brand essence and values, and explore various go-to-market approaches. These steps are vital to securing initial funding and attracting pilots, design partners, and customers. .

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

But the key is to ensure your product has a strong differentiator, which is exactly how Ramaswamy and his Neeva co-founders positioned the search engine company when it launched last year. So as a founder, how should you respond to this competitive effect? And Sridhar, why don’t you start off with this one?

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

But the key is to ensure your product has a strong differentiator, which is exactly how Ramaswamy and his Neeva co-founders positioned the search engine company when it launched last year. So as a founder, how should you respond to this competitive effect? And Sridhar, why don’t you start off with this one?

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2011

Still in stealth mode, 6scan offers a SaaS security protection suite for websites through its main products: 6scan Patrol and 6scan Bodyguard. Small sites are potentially the most vulnerable, as the high price of entreprise security solutions like Cisco or Juniper forces small site owners to ignore security altogether.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 9, 2024

million in seed funding to address what its founders call a “home cost crisis.” Mesa also secured […] Mesa, an Austin-based homeowner membership platform, has officially launched, raising $9.2 ” The $7.2

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. boldstart kicked off 2021 by announcing the closing of $230M of funds, $155M fund V and $75M opportunities ii, to continue supporting developer first & SaaS founders from Day 1 to scale(?). helping founders from idea to ?

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are truly to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. boldstart kicked off 2021 by announcing the closing of $230M of funds, $155M fund V and $75M opportunities ii, to continue supporting developer first & SaaS founders from Day 1 to scale( ). What’s in Enterprise 2022.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

2016 was a banner year for boldstart , and we could not have achieved any of this without the amazing support of our boldstart family and the founders who have given us the opportunity to invest in and partner with them. Fortune 1000 companies continue their slow but steady march to the cloud unlocking significant $$$.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

OpenAI co-founder and former CTO, Ilya Sutskever and his new SSI Inc. NEW FUNDING ROUNDS Congratulations Ofir Ehrlich and team EON (still in stealth) for raising $80M at a rumoured $800M valuation 9 months from inception! Kudos Gal Sagie and team Hypernative on your $16M series A for your web3 security solution! on your $18.5M

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

We have over 20 years of experience backing bold founders with big visions. BOLDstart helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round. Here is our attempt and then I will break down how it all ties together: boldstart''s messaging.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2024

Great news Merav Bahat and team Dazz on your $50M series B to accelerate AI-powered cloud security remediation! Kol hakavod Itai Hayut and team Scopio Labs on securing a $42M series D for for AI-based blood cell analysis! 608 (27%) out of 2,321 unicorn founders with data on an undergraduate degree received it outside the US.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

2016 was a banner year for boldstart , and we could not have achieved any of this without the amazing support of our boldstart family and the founders who have given us the opportunity to invest in and partner with them. announced rounds include security scorecard , handshake , and wevr ?—?geographically data everywhere?—?can’t

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