VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

2021 Tech Trends: Israel is winning the global race for tech funding. Israel: $25.4 Shortage of talent – Israel is a country of 9 million people, and according to a recent report by the Israel Innovation Authority, only about 334,000, about 9.8% Israeli tech investments 2015-2021 (source: IVC ). US: $330 billion ??China:

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Despite the war, in the last nine months Sequoia , Greylock and Accel all opened offices in Israel, and Founders Fund appointed a partner to cover Israeli deals. Not bad, considering the that all of this happened while Israel is fighting a war on seven different fronts.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

Israel – 500M NIS to cash strapped startups. Earlier this week, Israel started with an alleviation of the self-quarantine measures that restricted people’s movement to no more than 100 meters from their house. This is part of Israel’s Ministry of Finance NIS 1.2 On the health front, there are signs of recovery.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

As the world’s second largest start-up nation, Israel has witnessed unprecedented success in this sphere. Israel is the go-to destination for big ideas, and Israeli start-ups are making tremendous strides in this direction. This Israeli start-up was established in 2017, with dual offices in Israel and California.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

My mom organized a trip to take me to France & Israel. And Israel felt like home to me – somewhere familiar. I felt I had missed out on something. From the moment we arrived at our hotel in Paris I was hooked. I loved the novelty of it, the architecture, the strange foods, stores, toilets – everything.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Take, for example, Israel, whose rate of entrepreneurship is still growing tremendously, despite being the second-biggest startup hub in the world for the past several years. In the past decade, hundreds of interesting, innovative tech companies have emerged in and around Israel—and they’re worth learning from.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The landscape was officially published in Calcalist , Israel’s top business publication. Israel’s first Metaverse tech landscape (Source: Remagine Ventures and Calcalist ). Israel proptech and contech startup landscape (source: Deloitte ). Israel’s commerce tech landscape (Source: TLV Partners ).

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VC Cafe

JULY 13, 2022

IVC/Leumi Tech Israel tech review Q2 2022. Viola published their own H1-2022 Israel tech ecosystem report (you can download it as a PDF here ). billion), Israel is incredibly well positioned to be a leader in gaming tech and infrastructure. Israel is home to some 190 gaming companies with around 14,000 employees ?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

We were strong in the UK and they were strong in Germany and Israel (where they had a development office). iScraper Israel shut down and another UK competitor took on their UK assets). There was only once in my career where I actually thought that I was going to go bankrupt. We signed deals worth $1.2

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

NEW FUNDS Congratulations Gil Dibner and team Angular Ventures on the debut of your $125M fund III to invest in Israel and Europe early stage B2B tech! – FinTechs make up nearly half of the top 15 highest-valued private tech companies in Israel, including Rapyd ($15 billion), Deel ($12 billion), and Tipalti ($8.3

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Investors include Zeev Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, and Vertex Ventures Israel. DataRails has already raised $53.5 million for the software startup to date, with the latest round, a two-part Series A, completing in June 2021.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Israel, Singapore and now China are the three countries that have successfully put that theory into practice. But the theory is that you can artificially create a cluster by concentrating resources, finance and competences to a critical threshold, giving the cluster a decisive sustainable competitive advantage over other places.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

Primetime for Israel’s Cloud ecosystem Melio’s meteoric journey is one more proof point that the Israeli Cloud ecosystem is at its prime. Israel produced three public cloud companies - Wix, Jfrog and Varonis - representing an aggregated market cap of more than $25b, c. over 190 rounds.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2016

Japan is the world’s #3 economy…but not for Israel. In September, NEC becomes the first Japanese multinational to launch an R&D Center in Israel, focusing on cyber security. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, keen to reassert Japan as a leading global player, and fearful of an ascendant China, is encouraging stronger ties with 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

JANUARY 12, 2022

We are excited to continue backing ambitious founders in this space with our second fund, especially in Israel and the UK. We share our learnings on VC Cafe , podcasts and the events we host (our next metaverse event is coming up on January 19th and you’re welcome to join our Israel Metaverse meetup).

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

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. Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

AWS Builder Space (Israel) – A non-equity program for early stage startups who are looking to accelerate their speed to market. Some of the past participants in the AWS Builder Space program in Israel (Disclosure: Novos is a Remagine Ventures portfolio company).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

Germany, Ireland, Israel, and most other non-Asian nations also provide major tax incentives, and huge R&D tax credits. We now produce only 14% of the world’s supply of semiconductors, and even less of other things. We need to make a strong manufacturing base a national priority.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2011

He points to Israel as an example of a country with a limited population that does have a thriving startup scene. An investor commented that many of them had difficulty attracting investment funding due to the small size of the market, which also limits the support they can extend to startups – a typical vicious cycle.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The tech world has seen a shift away from Silicon Valley, with Israel now dominating the world’s startup economy. Yet, it’s not all rosy in Israel’s tech sector since multinational tech companies have realized that they could benefit from the emerging talent there as well. A Looming Talent Shortage. Wage Inflation.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 5, 2024

The high-tech industry, which has been a cornerstone of Israel’s economy, contributing over 40% of GDP growth from 2018-2023 and representing 53% of its exports, is now navigating through a period of adjustment and uncertainty. A new report from the Israel Innovation Authority paints the current state of Israeli high tech in 2024.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

Leadspace was founded in 2010 and maintains offices in both San Francisco and just outside Tel Aviv in Hod HaSharon, Israel. The nation of Israel, on the other hand, provides an ideal pillar of technical expertise to support a growing B2B software company. In the US, most software engineers enter the workforce following college.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

They’ve been thinking hard and smart about the lessons to be learned not only from Silicon Valley, but with only 16 million people, they are also looking for lessons from other small innovation clusters such as Israel, Singapore and Finland.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

Mention that you do “Consumer tech” as a startup founder and you’d be limiting your funding options to one third of the venture capital funds (in Israel that figure is probably closer to 10%). Until now, consumer tech was perceived as a risky binary investment.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

About a year and a half ago, we got accepted to the Elevator accelerator program in Tel Aviv, Israel. For us, being specifically based in Israel, these were our four main advantages. Ohad Frankfurt is the cofounder and CEO of Swayy , a personalized content curation and management platform. Coworking space.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

This would not be as impressive during ‘normal times’ in Israel, but the fact that we’re seeing such level of activity in the middle of a war (with most airlines halting flights to Israel), this is not trivial. There were also 7 exits reported, exceeding $1 billion. EXITS No exits reported this week.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

A total of 22 Countries : from the countries present in the report, the one that is surprising is Israel. Although Israel has been appearing in various studies on innovation, it had a small part here, with only one representative, EverCompliant , which focuses on cyber risk and fraud detection.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2010

Or look at Israel. Or is it something about those locations (network effect, risk capital, nurturing network) that makes entrepreneurs in other parts of the country start small businesses or even spend their lives in a 9 to 5 job? (I’ve I’ve written and presented a bit on this subject.). Is it their DNA?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

Pratik has spoken at NextBigWhat’s UnPluggd, IIT-Bombay, SMX Israel, and other major events across Asia. He regularly speaks at various conferences about SEO, Content Marketing, Growth Hacking, Entrepreneurship and Digital PR. He has been named one of the top content marketing influencers by Onalytica three years in a row.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Greenfield Partners published the latest HR (human resources) Israel startup landscape. Insurtech (or Insurance tech) has produced a number of unicorns in Israel: Lemonade, Hippo Insurance, Next Insurance, Earnix and AtBay to name a few. Investment in HR-Tech reached an all-time high totalling $12.5 Insurtech startup landscape.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Pitchbook Data released a new report on the state of Private Capital in Israel 2020 , covering private equity and venture capital. In 2010, VC funds in Israel had over $10 billion of assets under management, by 2017, that number had grown to over $36 billion. Israel based startups raised $4.1 billion in 2019 and $1.5

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VC Cafe

JUNE 10, 2022

While these prices are still high compared to what we see in Israel, Investors have putting a stronger focus on revenue growth (and in particular startups that can reach substantial revenue targets) especially before series A. As a result, founders are accepting increased dilution of the stakes they hold in their own companies.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2024

More about Firgun and why it matters on VC Cafe : [link] Yahya Sinwar, a key figure behind the deadliest terror attack on Israel, is dead. LINKS FOR YOUR BROWSER Israel: Israeli tech review Q3 2024 – report by IVC Data and Insights ? His death could mark a significant shift in the ongoing war.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2024

LINKS FOR YOUR BROWSER Israel: Why investors are still bullish on Israel even in war time? EXITS Kudos Oren Becker and team Upstream Bio on your IPO, valuing the company at $830M! Upstream bio developed treatments for advanced respiratory conditions! A year of war: How has the Start-Up Nation’s hi-tech sector been impacted?

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Tel Aviv, Israel?. Once an industrial town transformed into a nucleus of young innovation, Malmö has attracted startups such as live video-streaming service Bambuser , stock photography platform Foap and micro-donation tool Flattr. It has the highest density of startups in the world and 61 companies in NASDAQ.

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VC Cafe

MAY 20, 2022

The updated retail tech Israel 2022 report by Deloitte with very interesting nuggets on the sector. I wrote in the past about the improvements in creative automation, including AI that can generate creative images based on text input. The results a few months post-launch are stunning. See for yourself.

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