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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

And we wanted a head of global marketing. He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. The company was called Red Beacon.

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Weekly FIRGUN Newsletter – March 7 2025

VC Cafe

Israeli tech funding remained stable in February, with 25 startups raising a total of $588 million and two new unicorns minted: Dream and Augury. and team Grain on coming out of stealth with $50M in funding ($33M series A and previously undisclosed seed) to help any business hedge against FX volatility! We must #BRINGTHEMHOME NOW ??

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Who’s watching the algorithms? 3 Israeli startups predicting performance of AI models

VC Cafe

It’s the opposite of an “AI winter” it seems, as investment levels in Artificial Intelligence continue to break records globally. Several Israeli startups understood there is a potential market in monitoring AI performance and are tackling this market. Deepchecks, still in stealth ( source ).

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

And in the tradition of great startups, on the way out Perry took 6 of his best managers with him. In five years, ESL went from a plucky startup to the market leader in Sigint and telemetry intercepts. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth. But this new strategy was more than making the bombs smarter.

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

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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10 Secrets of Successful Crowdfunding - From Scott Steinberg

ReadWriteStart

Serial tech entrepreneur, speaker and consultant Scott Steinberg , author of The Crowdfunding Bible , explains how to make crowdfunding work for your startup. Scott Steinberg: It’s best for [startups] with a strong consumer focus that can easily communicate their value proposition.

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. In the startup world, this itself perhaps isn’t uncommon, but what made Kohort’s story unique is the fact that those thousands of users had no idea what Kohort was when they signed up. Here are four tricks startups have used to make it happen.