VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

The $349 billion aid package issued by the US Government and distributed in the form of SBA loans was quickly gobbled up by a large number of applications, many of which were from venture-backed or PE-backed startups. Israel – 500M NIS to cash strapped startups. This is part of Israel’s Ministry of Finance NIS 1.2

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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. Vertical AI is a stronghold.

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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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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

billion valuation ) to provide comprehensive cybersecurity protection for governments and national organisations! ? .” Bruce Lee NEW FUNDING ROUNDS Well done Shalev Hulio and team Dream on raising a $100M series B (at a $1.1 Sacra estimates that Perplexity hit $63M in ARR at the end of 2024, up 800% from $7M in 2023.

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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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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

Not so long ago, we were all posting AI profile pictures on social media, but very quickly we’re now seeing an emergence of generative AI tools and LLM applications to assist almost every role in the organisation, across industries and verticals. Overall, Israeli startups raised $7.3 But I’m generally optimistic.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. 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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