IVC Report: VC Investments in Israeli Companies Decline 50% in Q3
08 Israeli high tech companies raised a total of $303 million in Q3, according to the latest report conducted by the IVC Research Center.
Eze Vidra
Eze Vidra is the founder of VC Cafe and the co-founder and managing partner of Remagine Ventures, a pre-seed fund investing in ambitious founders at the intersection of AI, technology, entertainment, gaming, and commerce with a spotlight on Israel.
He is a former General Partner at Google Ventures (GV) in Europe, former head of Google for Entrepreneurs in Europe, and founding head of Campus London, Google's first startup hub. Eze writes on Israeli tech, venture capital, artificial intelligence, and founder strategy.
He is also the founder of Techbikers, a nonprofit that brings together the startup ecosystem on cycling challenges in support of Room to Read.
Attention Israeli Entrepreneurs: TechAviv Angels Launches
Yaron Samid’s TechAviv, the most extensive Israeli start up meetup group in Israel and the US, has announced the launch of a new angel network today. TechAviv Angels is an informal group of Israel’s ‘top dogs’ media founders, that grouped together…
Bitesize Monday: Twitter links for your morning coffee
A few links to start the week: The power of Chartly as an idea generation tool: Why Freakonomics like geo-engineering and why they are wrong Begin with the gate of humility A good start AND a long way to…
Amdocs Venture Announces Investments in Amobee and Trivenet
Amdocs announced two investments in Israeli start ups in an event held yesterday in Sillicon Valley. The Israeli giant unveiled its Open Innovation program by disclosing its investments in Amobee Media Systems, which develops mobile advertising server solutions for telecommunications providers, as…
CopperGate Sells to Sigma Designs, Some Say Prematurely
CopperGate, the Fabless Semiconductor start up founded in 2000, was sold to Sigma Designs for $160 million in stock and cash. While this is one of the largest exits in Israel in recent months, critics say that it is yet another example of why high-tech companies can't become large in Israel.
Does Techcrunch Believe in Recycling News?
How Techcrunch posted old news and did not even bother to link to my original post, from three months back.
An Amateur’s Take on The Broken VC Model
I'm not expert, but the VC model seems to be broken. How can small start ups sustain the large exit expectations? An amateur tries to solve the problem.
The Battle for Attention: London Business School’s Media Summit 2009
Just think about it: we flip between a dozen news sources on our mobile while getting the morning coffee. We try to find that “undiscovered” travel destinations based on reviews, availability and location while simultaneously emailing and sitting on a…
Sponsor Love: Should QA Testers be Certified?
It has been a good quarter for crowdsourcing start up uTest: Expanded software testing marketplace by 30% quarter-over-quarter Acquired 37 new customers, and increased testing community to 18,000 Added application profiling and discussion threads to platform Complete website redesign, adding…
My6Sense Coming Out Of Stealth for the iPhone
My6Sense is coming out of stealth in the coming days. The Israeli start up offers an iPhone app that pushes content to the user in a signgle feed, from his chosen feed subscriptions (RSS of news, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc).…