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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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Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – October 18 2024

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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. EXITS Big congrats to Zohar Vittenberg and team Trail Security, developer of Data Loss Prevention tech, which was acquired by Israeli unicorn Cyera for $162M BEFORE coming out of stealth!

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

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Noteworthy Machine Intelligence startups in Israel ?? There’s been a proliferation of Machine Intelligence companies in Israel. Below are 30 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) startups to watch in Israel (Part 1). Voyager Labs (2012) – cognitive computing for understanding human behaviour.

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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! Two arch te *ists were sent to “rest in pieces” and the subsequent imminent threats of retaliation.

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Meet the new Cloud Unicorn from Israel: Melio raises $110m to transform B2B payments

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just months after it came out of stealth. When Accel led Melio’s series B last year, we had high expectations for the company and its vision but didn’t imagine it would become one of Israel’s cloud unicorns in such a short space of time. 25% of the value of the 10 public cloud companies born in Europe and Israel.

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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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The State of Consumer Tech in Israel in 2023

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While Israeli startups successes are well known in the B2B space (cybersecurity, enterprise tech, devops…), B2C startups are unsung heroes… The landscape of B2C tech in Israel is blossoming, despite several challenges. B2C Venture Capital Investments in Israel To the most part, Israeli VCs shy away from B2C startup investments.

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