Learning from other people’s mistakes

Welcome to VC Cafe. If you’re new around here, you may want to subscribe to our feed and get daily updates for FREE. Talia Aben from Gemini funds caught my attention reading her blog -”Israeli VC on Sand hill Road“. In a recent post she listed five rules for entrepreneurs trying to reach VCs. I [...]

AfterDox – Former Amdocs Executives Form an Angel Investment Group

43 former and present executives from Amdocs have raised several million dollars and formed AfterDox, an angel group targeting early stage enterprise software and telecom companies. The group explicitly expressed that they will not invest in medical devices or hardware companies. The angel group has already met with 70 prospect companies and is getting ready [...]

ConteXtream Raises $9.6M in First Round

Israel based ConteXtream, developer of grid technologies for media server networks, has raised $9.6M from Gemini, Norwest Venture Partners, Sofinnova Ventures and Benhamou Global Ventures. The proceeds will be allocated to strengthen the company’s development team in Israel and finance further R&D activity.
ConteXtream is working on a new type of communication server, aimed to [...]

Hi-tech investments in Israel climb 4% in Q2 of 2007

Resource Shelf posted PWC’s latest report on High Tech Investment in Israel. According to the MoneyTree report, compiled by Kesselman & Kesselman (PricewaterhouseCoopers) , venture-backed hi-tech companies raised approximately $319 during Q2 of 2007, merely 6% higher than the comparable period last year.
Other interesting facts from the report:

The average investment per company was [...]

Winners of the best venture-backed competition

Last Month, Red Herring and the Israel Venture Association co-sponsored a competition in Israel, limited to early stage companies with revenues of up to $10 million in 2006 supported by venture funds associated with the IVA.
Three Israeli startups received first prizes as the best young companies in their respective sectors.
And the winners are:
Software Category: [...]

How to raise money from VCs?

The funny video below was posted on 5min.com, the Israeli life videopedia that aggregates thousands of ‘how to’ videos, and will likely be on every Israeli Venture Capital blog very soon as a ‘warning’ sign. Techcrunch also thought it was worthy of a post.
It’s a parody in Hebrew that provides entrepreneurs with tips on raising [...]

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