Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer. You can scale vertically and horizontally at the same time. Techstars Berlin (Berlin).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Evangelos has spent the last 15 years as a Venture Capitalist, first at Apax Partners and later at Trident Capital. For example, US Steel had integrated vertically and was involved in the mining of the iron ore all the way to the production of various steel products, e.g., nails.

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VC Cafe

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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VC Cafe

MAY 16, 2016

Startup landscape maps remain, in my opinion, one of the best ways to quickly scan an industry vertical and understand how it breaks down into sub sectors. In this post, I collected the top startup landscape visualizations for Israel, covering VR/AR, Fintech, IOT, DevOps and Cybersecurity. Virtual and Augmented Reality.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2020

The event will highlight startups and technologies in the media, entertainment, gaming and esports domains, with a spotlight on Israel. The event will be streamed via Zoom and Facebook live on June 23th, 16:00-20:00 Israel time (UTC+3). Join us (free). The speaker line up includes various industry leaders (Snap Inc.,

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

T he Commercial Office at the Embassy of Israel in London and the Israel Export Institute have organized a New Media delegation , taking place on the first week of July. VC Café is privileged to support the event as the main media partner. Tickets for the mini-show case event on July 6th are limited.

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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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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

I found a hidden gem in Israel. The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. I was a VP in one of the leading online marketing agencies (best seller in Israel) and am also an attorney, in online related law. VC Cafe: How many people are you in the company? AfterDownload: total of 7.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

I found a hidden gem in Israel. The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. I was a VP in one of the leading online marketing agencies (best seller in Israel) and am also an attorney, in online related law. VC Cafe: How many people are you in the company? AfterDownload: total of 7.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

I found a hidden gem in Israel. The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. I was a VP in one of the leading online marketing agencies (best seller in Israel) and am also an attorney, in online related law. VC Cafe: How many people are you in the company? AfterDownload: total of 7.

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Networking PPC Israel Advertising 111

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2010

eCommerce is the smallest vertical in the US tech venture investments, with only $39 million invested in Q3, in eight companies. A notable deal in the software vertical includes Israel-Massachusetts-based uTest ( CEO interview on VC Cafe ), who landed $13 million from Scale Venture Partners and others.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

The state of Generative AI startups in Israel According to The Global AI Index by Tortoise Media, the first index to benchmark nations on their level of investment, innovation and implementation of artificial intelligence, Israel is the 7th most attractive AI hub globally.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

Israel’s largest online portal) from inception to IPO as well as Oren Nauman, formerly CEO of Mobival , who serves as deputy CEO at Libox. Since we have APIs, we have opportunities for business models with media and content partners. Corporations and strategic partners, using the Libox platform.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This year, in addition to unveiling the Euroscape, our list of top 100 Cloud companies started in Europe and Israel; and our Champions League, the high-growth unicorns from the region; we’ll also unveil the Accel Euroscape Public Index, the index of the European and Israeli-born public cloud companies, and its performance.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2024

I was having lunch with a senior investor in London, who asked me: how long until business in Israel returns to normal? billion, according to a new report by PWC Israel. Mazel tov Israel Krush and team Hyro on the $15M series B extension to tackle healthcares AI needs! It’s time to build. The answer is: it already has.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

And so much more it’s genuinely hard to keep up… QUOTE OF THE WEEK Israel continues to draw investors seeking bold, determined solutions to global challenges. APPOINTMENTS Way to go Koren Gilbai on joining Founders Fund as Partner to cover Israeli investments! Congrats Lia Cromwell on your promotion to Partner at UpWest !

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. Lowground Records was the easiest business I have ever named and I knew the name fit the second my business partner said it. Since launching, our brand name has been one of the elements that prospects have referenced time and again in sales calls.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Back in July, I wrote an essay in Geektime on “ The Anti-Israel BDS Movement Will Fail “ Little did I know how quickly that would prove true! However, Israel and the United Arab Emirates recently announced that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship. If I’m missing any, please contact me.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

This positions them uniquely to leverage not just their archives, but also their new content on an ongoing basis to partner in developing more contextually aware and culturally sensitive AI models. Media companies can create their own smaller, specialised LLMs to boost vertical content creation. But is the opposite true as well?

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. That podcast is included here along with a transcript. Every single thing.”

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Earlier this week, Calcalist, Israel’s leading business newspaper launched their 2025 VC Survey with my thoughts on 2024 for Israeli startups and the tech industry at large, as well as and predictions for 2025. And where does this place Israel and its entrepreneurs? You can read the original piece here.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 20, 2024

From the founders who chose to start companies this year against the odds, to the new funds that managed to attract capital despite the news, and to all the participants in the Israeli tech ecosystem in Israel and abroad – keep on creating! Israel launches new programs to address AI talent shortage.

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