VC Cafe

JUNE 1, 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. Israel’s economy grew 4.7% In April, the Bank of Israel raised its 2011 growth forecast to 4.5%

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We just completed the sixth week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape the character and employment of all instruments of national power. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s

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JULY 5, 2010

A s venture funds struggle to raise money in Israel, seed capital, one of the earliest and riskiest stages of investment, is becoming harder and harder to secure. based Angel capital with early stage technology companies in Israel, and do so in a way that substantially mitigates the risk of seed stage investing.

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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. Nevertheless, there are two foundational models represented in Israel with AI21 Labs on the LLM side. AI & Data Ops is a key area for growth.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

Amazon Corporate Development – Notable acquisitions include Whole Foods ($13.7B), smart doorbell system Ring ($1.2B, 2018) and autonomous mobility technology Zoox ($1.2bn). The Alexa Fund also provides up to $200 million in venture capital funding to fuel voice technology innovation. AI startups in the Alexa Fund portfolio.

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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. Israel’s index of leading economic indicators rose a preliminary 0.4%

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. 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.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. 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.

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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

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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

The $30 billion trade surplus in advanced technology products that America enjoyed just one decade ago has now become a $56 billion deficit. Germany, Ireland, Israel, and most other non-Asian nations also provide major tax incentives, and huge R&D tax credits. The innovation engine that powered the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2011

A couple of startup founders commented that government grants “pretend to be helpful but actually suck&# , to which Dr. Tan – who chaired the National Research Foundation (NRF) , an agency which disburses grants for innovation – replied that civil servants aren’t exactly the best when it comes to “picking winners&#.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

ambassador to the United Nations and a Stanford professor of political science; Zvika Krieger , the State Department’s representative to Silicon Valley and senior advisor for technology and innovation; retired U.S. How to bring together technology, government, and communities to combat violent extremist messaging.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Yet the copper companies import nearly 100% of the advanced technology they use.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2010

I ’ve recently came across a paper written by Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir , Israel’s 4th president and a successful scientist who founded Israel’s Chief Scientist Office (CSO). I would do what I could to help establish the State of Israel and contribute to its security and its social and economic development.

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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). If your company is interested in showcasing your technology to an audience of Indian technology buyers, contact me for a possible five minute interstitial.

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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

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. Kudos Keren Leshem and team OCON Therapeutics on securing a $10M seed round for your revolutionary drug delivery technology for women! BRINGTHEMHOME.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 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. CISCO BUYS NDS FOR $5B. CISCO BUYS NDS FOR $5B.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

Much like mobile technology became a de facto part of every startup, AI is no longer a category but the core or a component of every product. As the technology evolves, we’ll continue to see an increase in new data products and data teams. This shift is particularly significant in the realm of Large Language Models (LLMs).

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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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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. Vivek Wadwha - Campus Entrepreneurship , November 19, 2010 Best Practices for Introduction Emails - Israel Venture Capital 2.0 , March 25, 2010 Weekend Reading - The Mogul Mom , October 1, 2010 Make informal advisors part of the team.

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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 exact sum was not disclosed.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

ambassador to the United Nations and a Stanford professor of political science; Zvika Krieger , the State Department’s representative to Silicon Valley and senior advisor for technology and innovation; retired U.S. How to bring together technology, government, and communities to combat violent extremist messaging.

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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). See the June 2011 edition after the jump.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2020

Pooled testing, combined with a switch to saliva instead of nasal swabs, could massively increase testing capacity without waiting for a new technological breakthrough. No individual samples at the workplace or school means no one has to worry that their employer or government might test them for something other than this virus.

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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

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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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 19, 2011

The image to the left is an ad created by Yehoshua TBWA, Israel for betili. Warren Buffet tells the government to Stop Coddling the Super-Rich - [link]. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The payback for downgrading U.S.

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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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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. are examples. These remote R&D labs offered companies four benefits.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Silicon Valley is undoubtedly the world’s technology epicentre. 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. Europe has not been left behind.

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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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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 1, 2009

CompStudy publishes an annual report of equity and cash compensation that provides compensation data on top management positions and Boards of Directors at private companies in technology and life sciences. Head of Technology/CTO 1.19%. 2008 CompStudy Report in Technology. President/COO 2.58%. Head of Engineering 1.32%.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Scalable startups in innovation clusters (Silicon Valley, Shanghai, New York, Bangalore, Israel, etc.) Changes in customer tastes, new technologies, legislation, new competitors, etc. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. When they find it, their focus on scale requires even more venture capital to fuel rapid expansion.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Events have already been held this year in Bangalore, Austin, Barcelona and New York, and the next event on the list is taking place in Tel Aviv, Israel on September 21st. 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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