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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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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 ). TLV partners published this handy map of Israeli ecommerce startups.

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AUGUST 3, 2024

Israel must #BRINGTHEMHOME. APPOINTMENTS Congrats Sarai Bronfeld on your promotion to partner at NFX ! Two arch te *ists were sent to “rest in pieces” and the subsequent imminent threats of retaliation. But there are also still 115 Israelis held in G**a and their time is running out.

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NOVEMBER 11, 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. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. The Israel/U.S. In addition to an initial 7.5

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JULY 29, 2016

Japan is the world’s #3 economy…but not for Israel. It is not even a top 10 trading partner. In September, NEC becomes the first Japanese multinational to launch an R&D Center in Israel, focusing on cyber security. A series of high profile business delegations to Israel ensued in 2016. Our history is similar.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Greenfield Partners published the latest HR (human resources) Israel startup landscape. Credit: Ortal Sasson, Greenfield Partners. Insurtech (or Insurance tech) has produced a number of unicorns in Israel: Lemonade, Hippo Insurance, Next Insurance, Earnix and AtBay to name a few. HR Tech Landscape.

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JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ when it comes to Internationalizing their product.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

During these nearly two decades, I’ve had the extraordinary privilege of being a front-row witness to Israel’s incredible startup scene. While it is going through a challenging period now, Israel continues to stand as a powerhouse of innovation and technology, ranking 6th in global innovation according to Global Finance.

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APRIL 26, 2023

The US and China are in the lead, but Israel has certainly earned itself a place as one of the leading centers of excellence in the global AI ecosystem with companies like AI21 Labs, which is developing a large language model Jurassic, which can be considered as an alternative to GPT. The talent pool for AI startups in Israel is deep.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We’ve deployed more than $10B across 400+ AI & cloud companies in the past four decades and have been fortunate to partner with many exceptional cloud & AI founders globally. We can’t wait to see what the next decade will bring.

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OCTOBER 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 , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. ISRAEL’S WEF RANKING IMPROVES TO 24TH PLACE, BOOSTED BY INNOVATION.

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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. To learn more, VC Cafe interviewed Brian Rosenzweig, one of the managing partners in the new fund and the former marketing director at 21Ventures.

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MARCH 31, 2021

As the startup ecosystem in Israel scales, so must the teams leading the growing number of Israeli unicorns. Is there a marketing crunch in Israel? VC Cafe: The common case in Israel is founding teams flying solo without a marketer until it’s imminently necessary. The post Is there a marketing crunch in Israel?

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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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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Investors include Zeev Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, and Vertex Ventures Israel. Yanai Oron, General Partner at Vertex, has said that his firm invested in DataRails because of the profile and strength of the platform’s positive reviews. DataRails has already raised $53.5

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Scaling to $100 Million from Bessemer Venture Partners. I’m excited for the talent that will spin out of those companies to create the next generation of B2C stars coming out of Israel. Here’s the benchmarks Bessemer uses to measure this growth. Meet the Israeli Centaurs. Israeli startups raised a record of $26.6

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APRIL 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. Foreign direct investment in Israel reached $3.8 See the March 2010 edition after the jump.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The UK continues to attract the most capital, followed by Germany, Sweden, France and Israel. In Israel there’s also been an influx of fresh capital. Grove Ventures – $120M TLV Partners – $210M (across two funds) Aleph VC – $200M Next gear ventures – $30M. Israeli VC funds launched in 2020 ??

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NOVEMBER 3, 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. ISRAEL’S STATISTICS BUREAU FORECASTS 4% GROWTH IN 2010. For previous editions, click here.

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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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JANUARY 12, 2022

As investors in gaming, entertainment tech and consumer, this is a topic my partner Kevin Baxpehler and I have been actively researching and investing in at Remagine Ventures for the past few years. . We are excited to continue backing ambitious founders in this space with our second fund, especially in Israel and the UK.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Data by Carta (mostly US companies) reveals that although on average startups saw a 50% reduction in funding in 2023 (the impact in Israel was closer to 65%) pre-seed funding rounds rose by 51%!

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

Voice AI applications will unlock $10B of new software TAM over the next five years Bessemer Venture Partners Remember when talking to machines felt like science fiction? At Remagine Ventures, we invest in pre-seed startups in Israel and UK. Well, that future is now knocking on our door.

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AUGUST 17, 2024

A study by the Israel Innovation Authority shows that tech employees pay over a third of all income tax in Israel. Finally, Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire says he wants to raise his kids in Israel so they learn resilience and grit American venture capital legend @shaunmmaguire on why he will raise his kids in Israel ??: “I

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JULY 29, 2024

It’s impressive to see what the self described ‘little red dot’ accomplished in its 65 years of independence and I couldn’t avoid comparing and contrasting to Israel. Congratulations Barrel Kfir on joining Dell Technologies Capital as partner, focusing on early stage enterprise tech in Europe and Israel!

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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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JULY 5, 2017

Alon Sahar , Partner at law firm Meitar Liquornik Geva Leshem Tal, stated in a press release : “The current report, covering the first half of 2017, alongside the second half of 2016, indicate a clear trend – a decrease in the number of merger & acquisition deals, which requires an explanation.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

So for the sixth time, together with our partner Adyen, TNW is on the hunt for the fastest-growing startups in Europe and Israel to showcase at TNW Conference 2019. Every day, startups prove individuals can harness the power of technology to actually create change and have a positive impact on society.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2021

In a new book, “ The Unstoppable Startup ,” by Uri Adoni, a widely respected venture capitalist from Israel, I was pleased to see real specifics on how you can successfully demonstrate the right level of confidence and boldness, without stepping over the line into arrogance and insolence.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Her responsibilities included: strategic counseling, business modeling and deal negotiation for the various for medical startups in the portfolio and is a limited partner at NGT3 Medical Accelerator in Israel. In the startup accelerator in Israel, I saw people of all ages participating in this vibrant community.

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JULY 21, 2020

I believe I am qualified to talk about this as I spent ~6 years at Google in strategic partnerships (commerce), as head of Campus London (Google’s first physical startup hub), Head of Google for Entrepreneurs Europe (now called Google for Startups) and eventually general partner for Google Ventures.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

A new landscape by Greenfield Partners mapped 25 startups (and several unicorns) operating in this space was published by Calcalist in Jan 2023. The Israeli open source startup landscape (credit: Greenfield Partners). Since then, we’ve seen an explosion in the number of generative AI startups worldwide, as well as in Israel.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

And finally Israel, the market I cover primarily with Remagine Ventures , was also down 36%, resembling the 2020 levels. The figure is below the heights of 2021 and early 2022 but above historical averages—representing a durable, positive trend in the industry. As IVC reports: In Q1–Q3/2022, Israeli high-tech companies raised $12.3

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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. However, luckily for us, we had a widespread network of mentors and partners who helped us arrange meetings with small/medium online publishers.

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DECEMBER 27, 2022

Earlier this month I spoke at the 2022 Israel Gaming Summit by Calcalist, Playtika and Google. The conference took place during a challenging time for gaming startups: in the same week Playtika, the largest gaming employer in Israel, announced it was laying off 615 people globally, of which 180 are in Israel.

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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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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. “Mark, I’m an Associate Partner. The only person who could carry you on his budget is the lead partner, Cory Van Wolvelaere.&#. He was a senior partner, I was a peon.

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