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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

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In the last 3 months of 2024, Israel’s GDP shrank by 20% in annualised term s and Israel’s credit rating was downgraded by Moodys. Sophisticated investors and tech leaders are bullish on Israel But don’t take it from me. What is important for them now in the context of Israel is a permanent ceasefire.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

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Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

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Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – August 1st 2024

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Israel must #BRINGTHEMHOME. Good stuff Maya Cohen and team Monto for coming out of stealth with a $9M seed round for your e-invoicing platform to bring order to B2B payments! APPOINTMENTS Congrats Sarai Bronfeld on your promotion to partner at NFX ! Nice job Shmuel Bachinsky and team Quantum Transistors on securing $17.5M

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The ever growing Israeli Generative AI landscape April 2023

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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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Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – July 26 2024

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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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Bitesize Tuesday: Tracx, Innovid, Kenshoo, uTest and More Investment Rounds [recap]

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million in a second round led by previous backer Genesis Partners and joined by T-Venture , the venture capital company of Deutsche Telekom. uTest , the crow sourced QA service on the cloud, raised $13 million in a C Round led by Scale Venture Partners. SimpliVT , a new venture in stealth has raised $9.2 Innovid raised $4.1

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Israeli Startups and Marketing – 5 Questions with an Experienced CMO

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The common case in israel is founding teams flying solo without a marketer until it’s imminently necessary. These steps are vital to securing initial funding and attracting pilots, design partners, and customers. . What best practices have you seen in Israel when it comes to community building?

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