Hunter Walker

APRIL 17, 2025

We hired a strong mid-market banker, Lightning Partners to help us with the process and got an introduction to Bending Spoons in April of 2024. In many ways, we fit their model, a primarily product led growth self service platform with good retention and a large global footprint of users. In other words, an exit of some sort is needed.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Finally, the Israeli stock market outperforms global peers despite war, surging 27% in 2024. Adam Fisher , Bessemer Venture Partners NEW FUNDING ROUNDS Congratulations Gal Moav and team Evinced on your $55M series C to provide accessibility tools to software developers! Truly inspiring.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

billion in funding so far in 2024, with Mergers and acquisitions reaching $9.6 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. Congrats Lia Cromwell on your promotion to Partner at UpWest !

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

Picking the right attorney in your startup is as important as picking the right business partner. My business partner and I made many mistakes in our first tech startup, and so many of them were the result of choosing a lawyer who was a terrible fit. My business partner and I were elated. We set off to raise our money.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Toronto’s Mark Attanasio , co-founder of Hillcrest Merchant Partners, has years of significant experience with advising clients on mergers and acquisitions raising capital and navigating the landscape of general capital markets. Hillcrest Merchant Partners with Donato Sferra. In 2017, he embarked on a new venture, founding.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). The most noteworthy of these is likely Upwork (*), a company that formed from the merger of Elance and Odesk.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

owing to projected weakness in the economies of Israel’s main trading partners, the United States and Europe. Pohang Iron and Steel Company, Korea’s fifth largest conglomerate also known as Posco, joined Israel’s Global Enterprise R&D Cooperation Framework. US CHIPMAKER PMC SIERRA ACQUIRES ISRAELI WINTEGRA.

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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. May their memories be a blessing. We must # BRINGTHEMHOME NOW. M&A deals set a new peak this year of $10.5 billion, 22% higher than the previous peak of $8.6 billion in 2021.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Scaling is the holy grail of every new venture – from local to global, from online to brick-and-mortar to partners to mergers and acquisitions, from a private company to a public company, from cash-flow-positive to the next unicorn. Others call it pushing boundaries and rising to the challenges of the market and competitors.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Congrats Lior Div and team Cybereason on the merger with Trustwave , LINKS FOR YOUR BROWSER ISRAEL Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire on why the venture capital fund has resumed operations in Israel since the start of the war, after closing its office here in 2016. Not all exits are happy, but nevertheless a result.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. It’s meant to support and grow a business until an “exit” in the form of an IPO, a merger or acquisition, or in less than ideal scenarios, a company shutdown. but globally.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

SXSW and Edelman have partnered to launch a special report of the Trust Barometer?—?Edelman’s learning and travel”) Eisenhower Fellowship, each person discusses their effort to create greater access to prosperity in a global economy and sustain diverse enterprises in education, economy, and civics. March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I trained the Startup Weekend Next Beijing mentors and instructors, presented to several hundred entrepreneurs, and had a great fireside chat with Zhen Fund founding partner Xu Xiaoping in front of another roomful of entrepreneurs. The <10% that decide to go global early do so by starting outside of China. In the U.S.

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www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

With 1,100 lawyers, 150 practice areas and a global presence, Holland & Knight offers the experience and resources to handle your most difficult legal challenges. August practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, commercial transactions, general corporate law and business bankruptcy.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

My partners and I have written extensively about this thematic approach on the Foundry Group blog: [link]. I’m extremely excited about the portfolio of companies my partners and I have put together at Foundry Group which includes some great ad tech companies which you list above.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

by Marek Danyluk, managing partner at Space Executive. Mergers and acquisitions with tech giants and corporates. Instead of expanding further, this group might be considered by corporates for mergers and acquisitions. There is a thin line between success and failure for startups, and that is usually determined by capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Of course articles like these are going to inflame people because not everybody who is running their own business (or aspires to) wants to believe that you need to go all out to compete and win on a global scale. But … global tech does require an absolute, singular commitment level. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The $130 million Series D investment round was co-led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital. The new Series D round includes $100 million in primary and $30 million in secondary funding, elevating Lightricks’s total funding to $335 million.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 14, 2025

Freepik partnered with Google to integrate Veo 2 , and now it supports image-to-video. EXITS Not exactly a startup merger but kudos Moti Gutman and team Matrix on the $2.1 billion merger with Magic Software Enterprises to create the leading IT services company in Israel. Captions dropped their Mirage model. on your $7.5M

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I trained the Startup Weekend Next Beijing mentors and instructors, presented to several hundred entrepreneurs, and had a great fireside chat with Zhen Fund founding partner Xu Xiaoping in front of another roomful of entrepreneurs. The <10% that decide to go global early do so by starting outside of China. In the U.S.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2015

was formed by the merger of Office Depot and OfficeMax. The whole business operates through a global network of franchisees, license holders, alliance partners, and self operated ventures. Office Depot is a dominant provider of products, services and solutions worldwide. Office Depot Inc.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Speakers: - Bob Dahl, HBS Alumni Angel, formerly head of Global Healthcare for the Carlyle Group. David Teten, Partner, ff Venture Capital ; Chairman, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York. Susan Balloch, Managing Director, Golden Seeds; formerly Executive Director and Principal, The Blackstone Group. Before joining Bridgewater, Ms.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2018

The success of luxury online fashion retailer Net-A-Porter and its merger with Yoox, as well as the increased visibility of platforms like Farfetch and the like, have proved them wrong. More importantly, Millennials and Generation Z consumers generated 85 percent of the global luxury growth in 2017.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2019

That year private equity firms initiated one of every five mergers globally and even more, 29 percent, in the United States. Blackstone’s partners, though, had decidedly mixed feelings about the bonanza. And, as we all know, the future for PE and the global economy was about to get really scary.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2014

Mergers & Acquisitions: Global mergers & acquisition activity totaled $710 billion (Thomson Reuters), up 54% from last year. Well, if you don’t, try on these IPO, M&A, and financing stats from 1st Quarter 2014: Initial Public Offerings: 72 companies went public in the U.S. Private Equity.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

The Unicorn’s struggle is a global phenomenon There are a total of 1,224 unicorns globally, with a combined valuation of $3.7 M&A/ Exits – This situation is compounded by a narrowing window for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offerings (IPOs). trillion, according to CB Insights.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Jenny Lee, a partner at venture capital firm GGV Capital which has a presence in both the US and China, also observes that in the US, the willingness to pay for an app is pretty high — especially for a utility tool, which is what CooTek’s TouchPal X Keyboard essentially is. But on the other hand they have more time.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

These areas include: Assessing risks Strategizing for the future Analyzing global trends Advocating legislatively Representing organizations publicly The role of general counsel is more prominent than in past years. In that way, they must partner together for the good of the organization.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Our acquisition involved bringing petabytes of precious customer and partner backup data under our company’s direct management. By being in a large public cloud with a global footprint like Microsoft Azure, it made the process of transfer much easier and secure than it would have been otherwise. Assume It Will Take Longer Than Planned.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 14, 2011

Calvoz has also served as In-house Counsel to 3M Company, where he acted as lead attorney to several 3M Divisions with over $1 Billion in revenue, and handled general corporate matters, high-level negotiations and mergers & acquisitions.

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Up and Running

JUNE 22, 2010

Lower startup capital costs, alternate financing strategies by angels and entrepreneurs, and early takeouts by mergers and acquisitions–hungry platform companies like Yahoo!, Lefteroff, global managing partner of the venture capital practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. Of course not.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 1, 2021

And that’s why I’m so excited that Reinvent Technology Partners (RTP) , the SPAC I co-founded with Mark Pincus and Michael Thompson, has proposed a merger with Joby. Which, of course, is the same dynamic underlying global platforms and marketplaces like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Airbnb. For example, Joby works with the U.S.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 18, 2019

It is prime time for European SaaS companies and the third edition of the Accel Euroscape, the list of the top 100 SaaS companies from Europe and Israel, shows the rising position of Europe on the global SaaS stage, benchmarks how European SaaS companies compare to their US counterparts and lays out five predictions for the European SaaS market.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

And one would become my mentor and partner in later companies.) Thank you, global meltdown! Reply mikev , on June 15, 2009 at 12:03 pm Said: What happened to Convergent Technologies work ethic and business ethics after the merger with Unisis? Two of my role models for my career were in this company. (And

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2019

This often means mergers and acquisitions, incremental innovation, marketing, and global expansion – which, over the long-term, only widen the gulf between the company and its customers. If you’re not focused on your customers, they will leave as soon as they find a viable alternative, and their departure is only a matter of time.

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