VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Disclaimer: we have three portfolio companies in the consumer mobile space, still in stealth). Shopateinment – Shopping will become a top priority for social media companies – from TikTok to Facebook and Snap – video will be a big driver for product discovery, as Andreessen Horowitz partner Connie Chan points out.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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Technical Review Matching Israel Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Despite the war, Israels technology industry presented record figures for mergers and acquisitions according to a new report from Vintage Investment Partners. Mazel tov Or Israel and team bananaz on coming out of stealth with $5.3M What’s next for the early stage venture capital ecosystem? billion in 2021.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

“Most of that money [from venture capitalists and angels] is used to build a product,&# explains Haig Kayserian, the CEO of Kayweb Angels. Like a traditional capital fund, Kayweb Angels also has a board of directors that provides its startups with connections, guidance and help securing further funding. Have an account?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Thumbs up Benny Porat and team Twine Security on coming out of stealth with a $12M seed round to automate security tasks starting with identity management! Great milestone Dvir Hoffman and team CommBox on your $15M series B to build the future of customer experience powered by AI! Not all exits are happy, but nevertheless a result.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link]. Another benefit of talking freely, is that you may also find potential partners or future employees–other key components beyond investment money. link] Stan James.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

Fitness/life guru Tim Ferriss just posted my guest article on ff Venture Capital ‘s approach to building a fitness office. UPDATE: ff Venture Capital was recently profiled in The Roger, an online magazine that profiles creative workspaces. Thanks Tim!) Motion is better than no motion; stasis kills.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We had another solid year filled with learning, growth, laughter, and new projects and partners. Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. We are truly grateful for your support.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We had another solid year filled with learning, growth, laughter, and new projects and partners. Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. We are truly grateful for your support.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2024

Proud to support the ecosystem with Remagine Ventures as we are in the process of closing 4 deals right now. of global venture capital volume. 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! in Q2 2024 alone, which is 16.5%

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

I often tell people that raising venture capital is more difficult than getting married. Not so in venture capital. As in real life – those that rush into marriage often find out what their partner is really like after the fact. And in each firm you have partners who are different.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

In 2021 venture capital funds invested over $2 billion in 90+ Quantum technology companies. Quantum Cryptography/Quantum Key Distribution can distribute keys between authorized partners connected by a quantum channel and a classical authenticated channel. Over a $1 billion of it going to Quantum computing companies.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

I hope to announce the other investments soon, but I think this initial tranche is representative of the opportunities Breyer Capital is looking for in Austin and Texas. While obviously bullish on Austin, Breyer Capital remains excited to invest in and support current and future Silicon Valley portfolio companies.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 Recap 2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. We were first check leads in 8 founding teams including Wallaroo Labs , MState (fka hyperfab ), blockdaemon , and 5 in stealth. Our partners include IBM and one unannounced Fortune 50.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

We think coaching is a key lever for doing this, with our own team or through outside partners. If you know someone offering these services today, and/or are interested in partnering with us to deliver them, please contact me. . For example, we provide direct coaching on how to pitch investors. I’ve listed a few ideas below.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Graphcore (in stealth, see this video at 28:58) calls them Intelligent Processor Units. has partnered with the National Health Service in the UK to deliver personalised health assistance via an app. Machine learning in cyber security has already attracted a substantial amount of venture capital (e.g. Better search.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

With the elite initial team they’ve assembled, they’ve managed to build their first product in record time and secure large six-figure deals while still in stealth mode. Thank you Yotam and Tamar for choosing to partner with us! _ * See Accel 2020 Euroscape ** See Statista.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. We were first check leads in 8 founding teams including Wallaroo Labs , MState (fka hyperfab ), blockdaemon , and 5 in stealth. Our partners include IBM and one unannounced Fortune 50. 2017 Recap.

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

Legolas Media – Currently in stealth mode, The Legolas Media team is focused on innovating digital display media. Cellcom partnered with Citi Bank to offer its customers a mobile payments solution and money transferring, to be launched by the end of 2010. Miscellaneous. The company was founded in 2007.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

Here are a few hand-picked deals by VC Cafe: June 22, 2010 – Moblica , the parent company of Snaptu , developer of a free mobile app for non-touch phones, announced that it has raised $6 million in its series B round of funding led by new investor Carmel Ventures and joined by existing investor Sequoia Capital. Pontifax Ltd.;

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

Here are a few hand-picked deals by VC Cafe: June 22, 2010 – Moblica , the parent company of Snaptu , developer of a free mobile app for non-touch phones, announced that it has raised $6 million in its series B round of funding led by new investor Carmel Ventures and joined by existing investor Sequoia Capital. Pontifax Ltd.;

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Israel Private Equity Venture Capital Equity 98

VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

Hila spent 12 years as the VP Marketing for Israeli venture capital fund Viola before embarking on an independent CMO career for startups. These steps are vital to securing initial funding and attracting pilots, design partners, and customers. . Are brand and storytelling important before product-market-fit?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

VCs see Agentic AI as $4 Trillion Opportunity “A multi-trillion-dollar opportunity to reimagine software, services, and work” Insight Partners A new report by Battery Ventures is calling it the Coming AI Market “Supercycle”. At Remagine Ventures we’re active deploying in this space.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 16, 2015

On the number of founders and companies: Some people are likely in stealth mode, and haven’t self-identified themselves currently as founders, which is merely a known bias in the study. Quite the contrary. Rather, as Dimitri noted, we’re at the beginning of the cycle for these recent classes.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

Outside of life-sciences, we’ve noticed something interesting emerging: There is a huge dearth of seed capital for health care services and software-driven health-tech companies. We’ll likely tread a little more slowly here and partner extensively with our friends in the ecosystem.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Finally, we try to prewire the Series A investment by getting our portfolio companies to meet with the right partners at the right firms early on before they even need money. Entrepreneurship Venture Capital boldstart ethos investment strategy investment themes value add' focus on the mobile, agile, and smart enterprise".

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VC Cafe

APRIL 9, 2010

Benchmark Capital and existing investors including Mangrove Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners funded the round for future product development, likely for iPad related Flash content (more here ). Genesis Partners Ltd. Benchmark Capital; Bessemer Venture Partners; Mangrove Capital Partners.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. I mean, this is a big, big thing — big change for us, so we have a bunch of stealth investments — I mean, companies that haven’t talked about what they are doing yet. So that will be another enabler for a lot more of the Bring Your Own Device stuff.

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Haystack

JANUARY 14, 2019

5/ Copycat Culture And Stealth Mode Back En Vogue: I’ve alluded to this above and below, but now when a category gets hot, founders and capital flood it. Nowadays, I keep a dynamic list of LPs and partners that I share our deal information with, and I don’t publish it on my site.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. Day one lead/co-lead in 14 founding teams: (most still in stealth) representing ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ?? We are truly ?? And our portfolio continued to grow: ?

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are truly to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. Ab Gupta , Operating Partner and former VP Strategy & Ops at Kustomer. 1/ We started @boldstartvc in 2010 w/ $1m. We added 3 team members: Ellen Chisa , Founder-in-Residence and former co-founder of Dark.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We kicked it off Sunday night with a boldstart founders and execs dinner where we talked about what’s next in cybersecurity with some of our portfolio companies like security scorecard , bigid , snyk , stealth co and many friends from the industry representing strategic partners and IT buyers.

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Security Artificial Inteligence Stealth SEC 78

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We kicked it off Sunday night with a boldstart founders and execs dinner where we talked about what’s next in cybersecurity with some of our portfolio companies like security scorecard , bigid , snyk , stealth co and many friends from the industry representing strategic partners and IT buyers.

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Security Artificial Inteligence Stealth SEC 74

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Finally, we try to prewire the Series A investment by getting our portfolio companies to meet with the right partners at the right firms early on before they even need money. We also help our teams find key engineers, and sales and marketing folks who can help build and refine the gotomarket strategy for the entrepreneur.

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