VC Cafe

JUNE 9, 2010

T he birth of the Israeli venture capital industry was supported by government programs like Yozma. The proposal will enable investors in startups to receive tax write-offs on investments for high-tech companies who spend at least 70% of their salaries in Israel. Tax incentives for investors in early stage Israeli high-tech companies.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Of all the Chinese government programs, the Torch Program is the one program that kick-started Chinese high-tech innovation and startups. This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. – The Torch Program.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 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. AMERICAN CHIPMAKER BROADCOM BUYS ISRAEL’S PROVIGENT FOR $350 MLN.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2013

mobile health is taking off in Israel. Even the government (CMMI- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) predict health expenditures will continue to outpace economic growth, jumping 7.4% Tomer Levy, VP of Cardiology and CEO of McKesson Israel, discusses their first mobile product. “It in 2014 to reach 20% of GDP by 2021.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 5, 2024

The high-tech industry, which has been a cornerstone of Israel’s economy, contributing over 40% of GDP growth from 2018-2023 and representing 53% of its exports, is now navigating through a period of adjustment and uncertainty. A new report from the Israel Innovation Authority paints the current state of Israeli high tech in 2024.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A combination of competition for top talent and an effort to bring employees back to the office drove startups in Israel to throw extravagant parties and all-inclusive retreats abroad. 2021 gave us plenty of examples for bad governance in both startups and venture capital. Eynat Guez, founder and CEO of Papaya Global.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Earlier this week YL Ventures announced a 7-figure USD investment in Israel-based Seculert , a new non-intrusive Security-as-a-Service that comprehensively detects cyber threats affecting corporate networks. The bad news are that such a attacks are on the rise. The exact sum was not disclosed.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2020

A new report on global venture capital investment volume shows that H1 2020 investments in startups reached $129 billion (this includes all stages as well as CVC activity). Israel UP 40% ( Source ) ? What might explain the record breaking deal activity in Israel? Israel’s record breaking Q2 2020 ( Source ).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Pitchbook Data released a new report on the state of Private Capital in Israel 2020 , covering private equity and venture capital. In 2010, VC funds in Israel had over $10 billion of assets under management, by 2017, that number had grown to over $36 billion. Israel based startups raised $4.1 billion in 2019 and $1.5

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VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2014

Despite the momentum with India, Israel-China (including Hong Kong) trade is on-track to hit $10 billion this year, representing 13% of total Israeli exports (Bank of Israel). Rapid Transition to Data Services : India’s mobile services market is more than US $30 billion per year, placing it in the Top 10 globally. 98- 1.15).

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Britain and Israel are inextricably linked by a profound and intimate history. In truth, the idea of growth through partnerships is nothing new to the State of Israel. With limited natural resources, Israel quickly turned to the potential of its human resource. Guest post By Daniel Saunders.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL. led liberal international order and replace it with its own neo-totalitarian model where China emerges as the dominant regional and global power. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s

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VC Cafe

MARCH 14, 2025

Great stuff Noam Maital and team Darwin AI on your $5M seed round to build the secure AI hub for governments! billion merger with Magic Software Enterprises to create the leading IT services company in Israel. EXITS Not exactly a startup merger but kudos Moti Gutman and team Matrix on the $2.1

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

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. Browse the headlines below for more news.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

As was Shel Israel. It globalizes. I don’t know if he’d agree or disagree with the book, but he’s always encouraging us to think more broadly about the definition of “entrepreneur&# is a global sense). Om Malik was also on the panel. In retrospect it was quite an established, senior and worldly panel.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

A new report by F2 Venture Capital, Google Cloud and Deloitte Israel shines a spotlight onto the buzzing emerging AI landscape in Israel so I couldn’t resist covering it. The country ranks 3rd globally in private AI investment, demonstrating its strong position in the global AI market.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

That’s of course part of a global trend. On a global level, venture financing of private companies dropped 33% year over year, from a record $733B in 2021 to $490B in 2022. billion according to the 2022 Israel high tech ecosystem report by Viola Ventures. 2022 is behind us now and the end of year reports are trickling in.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2011

T he Israel Ministry of Finance and the the ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor have launched a new incentive program to attract institutional investment to funds who focus on Israel’s knowledge-intensive industries. The total amount allocated to the program by the government is NIS 200 million ($50 million).

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VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 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. The company is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel. For previous editions, click here. Oracle Corp.,

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Austin Startup

MARCH 13, 2012

SailPoint, the leading provider of governance-based identity management solutions, continues its steady global expansion and has signed more than a dozen of Europe’s largest companies as customers in the last six months.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 8, 2009

My core point is that the fundamental nature of global competitiveness has changed. This culture is either missing or less developed in Europe and Asia (except perhaps Israel). It can be productive but only if the climate is right for innovators to innovate with a minimum of 'governing' by the government!"

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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. So who are the “Smartest&# startups in Israel? The next event on the list is taking place in Tel Aviv, Israel on September 21st.

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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. 69% of Israeli VCs want the government to provider additional incentives for high tech companies.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

. “I am delighted that Hong Kong is hosting this event which brings each of the key elements; capital, talent and ideas together in a great networking environment to support the entrepreneurial spirit,” says John C Tsang, the Financial Secretary of the HKSAR Government and the officiating guest at the Salon.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The second report, by Startup Nation Central (SNC) Policy Institute paints a similar picture but points a picture at the governments proposed judicial reform as the cause for reduced foreign investor activity (down 40% year over year up to Q3 2023). The proposed judicial reforms caused some short-term uncertainty.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 1, 2015

IBM’s research center in Zurich, GM’s research center in Israel, Toyota in the U.S They enabled companies to comply with local government laws – for example to allow foreign subsidiaries to transfer manufacturing technology from the U.S. They helped to globalize their innovation cycle and tap foreign expertise and resources.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T his week (Nov 15-21, 2010) is the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), and over 10 million participants in more than 100 countries will be taking part of some 40,000 events around entrepreneurship. In the UK, the theme this year is Make a Job, Don’t take a Job and the events enjoy heavy government support.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

The success of this technology hub has continued to influence global innovators around the world. For some examples of its influence, programming schools are springing up faster than ever in Vietnam with help from the government. Drone creators are springing forth all around the world even as far away as Israel.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

billion valuation ) to provide comprehensive cybersecurity protection for governments and national organisations! ? .” Bruce Lee NEW FUNDING ROUNDS Well done Shalev Hulio and team Dream on raising a $100M series B (at a $1.1

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This week (Nov 15-21, 2010) is the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), and over 10 million participants in more than 100 countries will be taking part of some 40,000 events around entrepreneurship. In the UK, the theme this year is Make a Job, Don’t take a Job and the events enjoy heavy government support.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

T his week (Nov 15-21, 2010) is the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), and over 10 million participants in more than 100 countries will be taking part of some 40,000 events around entrepreneurship. In the UK, the theme this year is Make a Job, Don’t take a Job and the events enjoy heavy government support.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 28, 2024

Despite the war in Israel over the past 9 months, both the rate of capital raising and exits of Israeli cyber startups in the first half of 2024 were the highest since 2021. Global: From VC Cafe : consumer startups still got Mojo! That’s why I also chose the quote of the week. BRINGTHEMHOME. billion raised between Jan.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

When we started to take stock of this progress four years ago with the first Accel Euroscape , the list of the top 100 cloud companies from Europe and Israel, we had great hopes and Europe delivered beyond our expectations. At the same time, the government adapted the legislative framework to make sure patients would be fully reimbursed.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

DeepSeek AI sparked a nationwide push in China to deploy its LLMs everywhere from hospitals to local governments. LINKS FOR YOUR BROWSER ISRAEL An interesting report and survey of 25 early stage venture funds in Israel (including us at Remagine Ventures ) shows the major trends in pre-seed and seed. Microsoft unveiled the 3.8B-parameter

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I spent last week visiting Israel with a group of fellow venture capitalists touring Start Up Nation - a trip sponsored and organized by CJP. The Times of Israel reports these success stories are inspiring Israeli start-ups to focus on the IPO path rather than M&A as a potential path to greatness.

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