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 ]. Take more risks — sooner…&#.

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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 ]. Take more risks — sooner…&#.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Even during this global pandemic, I’ve found ways to reconnect with old friends here in Austin and Texas. Alongside top-tier co-investors like Bessemer Venture Partners, Capital Factory, Live Oak, Mark VC, Valar Ventures, S3, and so many others, we aspire to help these companies achieve their trailblazing potential.

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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. Mazel tov Or Israel and team bananaz on coming out of stealth with $5.3M We must # BRINGTHEMHOME NOW. M&A deals set a new peak this year of $10.5 billion in 2021.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

All of this is in addition to the macro challenges that Israeli startups had to deal with in 2023 even before October 7th, including international investor unease due to the proposed judicial reform (that has since been taken off the table), Ukraine war, global venture slowdown ( US VC investments were down 60% in 2023 ), etc.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Thumbs up Benny Porat and team Twine Security on coming out of stealth with a $12M seed round to automate security tasks starting with identity management! Great milestone Dvir Hoffman and team CommBox on your $15M series B to build the future of customer experience powered by AI! Not all exits are happy, but nevertheless a result.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

Latest estimates are that the 65 zettabytes (1 zettabyte = 1 billion terabytes) of global data in 2020 will have nearly tripled by 2025**. With the elite initial team they’ve assembled, they’ve managed to build their first product in record time and secure large six-figure deals while still in stealth mode.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

We think coaching is a key lever for doing this, with our own team or through outside partners. C ustomer Development – We have relationships with hundreds of large global corporations. If you know someone offering these services today, and/or are interested in partnering with us to deliver them, please contact me. .

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VC Cafe

MARCH 14, 2025

Freepik partnered with Google to integrate Veo 2 , and now it supports image-to-video. Well done Guy Flechter and team Sola Security on coming out of stealth with $30M in seed funding to offer cybersecurity protection to small and medium businesses! More and more startups are choosing to stay in stealth until after their seed rounds.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2018

This is of course assuming you are prepared to go out of ‘stealth mode’ – don’t laugh. Depending on the complexity of the idea, most entrepreneurs will do some sort of research that will include meeting with people who are either in the field, potential customers, partners etc. Develop Partnerships.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

ElevenLabs partnered with Spotify to launch AI voice audiobooks, competing with Audible. 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! The valuation of Safe Superintelligence Inc. OpenAI ChatGPT now has 400 million monthly active users.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

I was already Texas-bound to give my personal take on global trends in digital kid’s media, so when the Summit organisers opened applications for an integrated pitch event I filled out the form with a determined “pick me” focus. Sprung in stealth mode! You can never get enough practice and who knows what might come out of it?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Every opportunity is global, but so is the competition. In the past, companies avoided sharing knowledge or technology, preferring stealth mode and relying on internal expertise to stay safe. Growth has always been fundamental to business success, but it’s never been more critical than it is now, nor more difficult.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

These steps are vital to securing initial funding and attracting pilots, design partners, and customers. . Many founders concentrate on perfecting their product, adding revolutionary features, and staying in stealth mode to avoid the competition. Hila Shitrit Nissim. Hila Shitrit Nissim. Part time CMO for B2B and B2C startups.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

According to Juniper Research, mobile coupon redemption values to exceed $43 billion globally by 2016 from $5.4 We’ll be able to start partnering soon (we are currently under Alpha-stealth mode).” In addition, e-commerce and daily deals have been breaking all-time records with a rise sharp of redemptions on the mobile.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

VCs see Agentic AI as $4 Trillion Opportunity “A multi-trillion-dollar opportunity to reimagine software, services, and work” Insight Partners A new report by Battery Ventures is calling it the Coming AI Market “Supercycle”. This isn’t just automation ; it’s autonomous problem-solving.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

on coming out of stealth with $9.5M Mazal tov David Talinovsky and team Bluespine on coming out of stealth with a $7.2M APPOINTMENTS Congratulations Eran Westman on your appointment as Managing Partner at Planven to lead growth investments in Israel! Asaf Yanai and team Alison.ai on securing a $13.3M seed round (an $8.2

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2024

The CrowdStrike global outage is estimated to have cost Fortune 500 companies $5.4bn. Congratulations Israel Duanis and team Linx Security on coming out of stealth with a $27M series A (and previously undisclosed $6M seed round) for your identity security platform! Kudos Eyal Azoulay on joining Entrée Capital as the newest partner!

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VC Cafe

APRIL 9, 2010

Benchmark Capital and existing investors including Mangrove Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners funded the round for future product development, likely for iPad related Flash content (more here ). An undisclosed round in stealth startup ToyToyToy, which offers an online service that links websites for actual toys.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In fact, the food we waste is responsible for roughly 8% of global emissions, so wasting less food presents a key opportunity to address climate change. PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition. Global social impact campaigns focused on the environment. In a new category called Earth Functional Food?—?food

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

This post is part of Accel’s Secrets to Scaling series, where leaders from across our portfolio share their learnings and advice with the next generation of European and Israeli entrepreneurs building global winners. You raised four rounds within 18 months, waiting until your third round before coming out of stealth mode.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

AirPop hopes to connect with other entrepreneurs and partners in digital health who are exploring the potential of lo-fidelity/hi-value sensing in next generation wearables and smart city applications. Bruce Sterling’s closing keynote/rant where he talked about the internet in 2007 as “folk” technology.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2012

Steinberg, CEO of TechSavvy Global , answered ReadWriteWeb’s most pressing questions with these 10 insights into successful crowdsourcing: ReadWriteWeb: Are particular types of tech startups better suited for crowdfunding than others, and why is that so? SS: You have to be strategic because there’s no stealth mode.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 12, 2016

As part of our work leading into the new fund, we went on a listening tour - talking to founders about what they want and need from their venture capital partners. What has not changed is that the best founders want experienced guidance, support and value-add, but not interference from their investor partners.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. It may not matter to you what Kohort is or isn’t, nor whether stealth is good or bad. Kohort said the site was “stealth&# to play up the sense of mystery around its brand and to generate interest. Have an account?

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2024

of global venture capital volume. Good stuff Maya Cohen and team Monto for coming out of stealth with a $9M seed round for your e-invoicing platform to bring order to B2B payments! APPOINTMENTS Congrats Sarai Bronfeld on your promotion to partner at NFX ! In the wider tech world, Generative AI startups raised $14.4B

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 ” Let’s meet in the virtual world – Even as IRL events return, expect these virtual destinations to continue as a way to make events more accessible to a global audience, according to Ketchum. Fortnite alone made $1.8 social media.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

We have won vacations with the other companies we partner with. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #20- Thanks to Carrie Pasquarello, Global Secure Resources ! #25- The rise of social justice movements, the change to work/life balances, and the impact on the global economy was certainly felt by us all.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. So that will be another enabler for a lot more of the Bring Your Own Device stuff.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2025

All this in the middle of a war and with less connectivity to the global market. The venture market is healing: Insight Partners announced its new $12.5 George Mathew , Insight Partners NEW FUNDING ROUNDS Congrats Roy K. Mazel tov Ari Margalit and team TECTU on the acquisition by Global AI for an estimated $13M!

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VC Cafe

MARCH 28, 2025

Is it too early to congratulate Roi Tiger and his stealth team on securing $55M in funding for a new cybersecurity startup in stealth? Well done Roy Zur and team Charm Security on coming out of stealth with an $8M seed round to stop AI-powered scams before they happen! watch this space!

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Thermonuclear AI Google has announced a groundbreaking energy deal to power its AI operations using mini nuclear reactors, partnering with Kairos Power. Firstly, energy is a major cost in their business; secondly, incredible amounts of it are needed to power AI; and thirdly, it gives them a new market to enter by stealth—retailing energy.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2025

We must #BRINGTHEMHOME In the wider tech world, Trump’s global tariff’s erased $2.2 Well done Shay Levi and team Unframe AI on coming out of stealth with $50M in funding ($30M series A and previously undisclosed $20M seed round) to replace legacy software with rapid, tailored solutions!

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VC Cafe

APRIL 18, 2025

Needless to say, there’s still a war going on, it’s more difficult for startups to raising funding (globally and more so in Israel, where International investors are less frequently on the ground these days), Trump’s Tariffs uncertainty, reservists, rocket alarms (just this morning following a Huti missile launch, etc).

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Global VC hit a new high with $32 billion invested in October 2024, Bitcoin crossed the $75K mark since Trump became president, an all time hight. APPOINTMENTS Kudos Nofar Amikam on being appointed managing partner at the Glilot Capital Partners seed/pre-seed fund! YoY in global VC funding from $28.7B a year ago.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2024

. “The impact of new American leadership on the global high-tech industry and economy remains to be fully seen,” he added. Closely monitoring global trends. ? How will new American leadership affect the global high-tech industry or economy? Is Israel missing out on the AI revolution in the global arms race?

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