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. Israel, Singapore and now China are the three countries that have successfully put that theory into practice.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

The AWS APN Global Startup Program – for startup AWS Partner Network (APN) select and advanced technology partners looking to grow their products on AWS. AWS Builder Space (Israel) – A non-equity program for early stage startups who are looking to accelerate their speed to market.

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David Teten

AUGUST 1, 2020

The BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement) is a global attempt to persuade people not to do business with Israel or businesses that do business with Israel. All these technologies were developed primarily or entirely in Israel. . 40% of Intel’s sales are from chips developed in Israel.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

On Monday, Kevin Baxpehler and I hosted the UK Israel Business investor delegation to Tel Aviv, and today I spent the morning with the 8200 EISP startup delegation to London where I was joined by Kirsten Connell (Cylon Lab, Managing Director) Simon Menashy (MMC Ventures, General Partner). Is there too much money?

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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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

gazelle_CEO : Gazelle CEO Israel Ganot discusses gadget trade-in, smarter consumption, and reCommerce. kelkelly : Founder and CEO of Kel & Partners Kel Kelly discusses what it’s like to run an anti-agency agency that works in social media.

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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

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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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Yesterday was Israel’s 68th Independence Day, and to mark the occasion, Calcalist , a leading business publication in Israel, ranked the 50 most promising private Israeli startups. NSO – Offensive cyber espionage tools for governments (Raised $130M) – 60% of the company is owned by PE fund Francisco Partners.

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VC Cafe

MAY 3, 2012

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. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY CENTER TO OPEN IN ISRAEL.

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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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VC Cafe

MAY 2, 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. The IMF also predicted that unemployment in Israel will drop to 5.5 ISRAELI ECONOMY TO EXPAND 3.8

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VC Cafe

MARCH 14, 2025

Freepik partnered with Google to integrate Veo 2 , and now it supports image-to-video. 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.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Jussi Laakkonen , CEO & founder of Applifie, summarized it well: We recently raised our seed round at Applifier and it was led by a silicon valley seed fund MHS Capital, whose general partner is Mark Sugarman. Use your network #2: approach a corporate financier who advised a company we recently partnered.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2010

A s every month, VC Ca fe 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. Domestic demand in Israel leaped 8.7 See the March 2010 edition after the jump.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

As Vintage Venture Partners put it in a recent presentation shared in Tel Aviv , 2022 started off well but fell of a cliff in the second half (the slides were shared on Twitter by Amitai Ziv from Tech 12 ). billion according to the 2022 Israel high tech ecosystem report by Viola Ventures. 2022 in Israeli tech and venture.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 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. ISRAEL RANKED 17TH MOST COMPETITIVE ECONOMY BY IMD. Israel was also rated first in several of the report’s sub-categories.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

I was fortunate to attend the party over at WATEC Israel 2011’s Cleanvest Summit. In addition to the investor-entrepreneur socializing, the government of Israel was able to score two key contracts with two foreign nations. Both Taiwan and Kenya have made agreements to exchange water technology and data revolving with Israel.

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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

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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Pascal's View

MARCH 8, 2009

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! One additional point: as a nation, we have had the advantage of a risk culture, and mobility.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I sat down with my partner and we brainstormed the name for our business. Instead, my producing partner suggester Corner Piece, Because we’re the piece you need to get everything started. Most law firms simply use the last names of the originating partners as the name of the company. 15 – Strong Ties to Israel.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The Salon is Hong Kong’s first international pitching platform to connect start-ups with potential investors and business partners. Wibbitz, Israel ( www.wibbitz.com ) creates a text-to-video technology that automatically turns any text-based article, post or feed on the web into a video in 20 seconds. Building Silicon Valley in Asia.

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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. For example, a few years ago Mercedes partnered with Tesla in batteries for electric vehicles.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

VC Cafe: Like any enterprise business run out of Israel, the challenge is distribution. We will partner with existing vendors of dev-test suites and obviously cloud providers. I can name Tescom and Tesnet in Israel. Some of our paying customers include banks, government agencies, TV channels, online newspapers, gaming and more.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Dick Kramlich and Yoram Tietz at E&Y's Journey conference, Israel, Nov 2011. Y – Stats show that in Israel, in all exits over $50 million and above, 82% of the time the CEO was the founder. The Chinese government has invented a new form of social democracy. Y – This is your first time in Israel.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

ElevenLabs partnered with Spotify to launch AI voice audiobooks, competing with Audible. billion valuation ) to provide comprehensive cybersecurity protection for governments and national organisations! .” billion valuation ) to provide comprehensive cybersecurity protection for governments and national organisations! ?

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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. That’s why I also chose the quote of the week. BRINGTHEMHOME. billion raised between Jan. and mid-June + 12 exits. GenAI companies have raised $14.3B

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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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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Strikingly, there are now several state and city government programs specifically designed to make it easier for non-Americans to found companies in NYC. In addition to this, the NYC government recently entered into a partnership with B.New York City , a Dutch co-working space. Colorado and Massachusetts have similar programs.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

One of the main reasons why my partners and I started TopFire Media is to fill a void within the franchise arena. I am a big advocate of transparency in business and government and believe that many injustices in our society exist because people are ill informed. Thanks to Kyle Reyes, The Silent Partner Marketing !

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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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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The EIF hasn’t invested in our fund to date, but they might in the future, so there’s an element of self interest at play here, but this is bigger than Forward Partners and I would still be writing this post if that wasn’t the case. The UK’s formal influence over the EIF is limited.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc., a service for minimizing spam. the previous year.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Lowground Records was the easiest business I have ever named and I knew the name fit the second my business partner said it. That mind-expanding career led me to work for global companies after I left the service – a multinational corporation headquartered in Munich, Germany and a startup headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 24, 2013

If you can’t get yourself up and going early in the morning, consider getting your partner to help you out. Thanks to Hans Eberstar , Government-Auctions-Guide.com. Thanks to Dahlia Roth , Free Government Auctions At GovernmentBargains.com. Thanks to Eli Israel , ForeclosureMagic.com. Have Your Spouse Help Out.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Simply fill in this form provided by the Israeli Foreign Trade Administration, Matimop and the Israel Export Institute. MIND also offers its enterprise customers and partners a powerful tool that provides management decreases in network costs, increases in employee efficiency and control of the telephony budget in their organization.

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