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Israeli High Tech Exits On First Half of 2017 Slowdown and Potential Explanations
According to the IVC Meitar exits report for H1 2017, Israeli high-tech exits total $1.95 billion in the first half of the year in 57 deals, at a five-year low, both in terms of deal number and total amount.
30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are eating the world. We are at a pivotal moment in technology. The proliferation of machine intelligence startups in Israel is growing - this post includes a list of 30 artificial intelligence and machine learning startups to watch.
Thank you Israel for welcoming our British startup (Guest post)
Guest post by Daniel Abrahams, founder of CurrencyTransfer. I’ve always been intrigued by the success of the ‘Startup Nation.’ In this post, I want to share my story. That of a British startup which naively arrived for three months in Tel Aviv and hasn’t looked back since.
UK and Israel – Growth through Partnership (Guest Post)
One can clearly see a close and compelling partnership between Britain and Israel, specifically in business and trade, where both countries recognising their partner’s strengths, seek to use it to encourage and enhance their own potential.
Invest In Israel Newsletter – January 2013 Edition
As 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. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here.
A Look Back On VC Cafe’s Journey Since 2005
VC Cafe turned seven! in this post I cover the journey of starting VC Cafe, the highs and downs along the way, and the path I followed to evolve it from a news reporting blog to a site that provides founders with practical advice.
Israeli Tech Funding & Exits in 2012: Lots of Chutzpah but Show Me Your Instagram
Groucho Marx could have been talking about the Israeli hi-tech sector when he said “I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago…I shot my broker”. In 2012, as Israeli exits topped $5.5 billion, there was reason to celebrate but plenty of cause for concern.
PWC MoneyTree Report Q3 2012: Israeli VC Investments Down 33%
Last week PWC released its quarterly moneytree report on the state of the venture capital industry in Israel. The top line figures indicate a 33% decline in VC investments in Q3, reaching $171 million compared to $255 million in the previous year. The main reason stated is the decline in availability of local VC funding. Overall in the first 3 quarters of 2012, Israeli companies raised $591 million, compared to $904 million in the equivalent period in 2011.
Invest in Israel Newsletter – September 2012 Edition
As 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. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. Large US tech companies continue to open innovation and R&D centers in Israel - Apple with the acquisition of Anobit, eBay with the acquisition of the Gifts Project, Yahoo who bought Dapper and so on... See the headlines below.
Allen Lew, CEO, Group Digital life at SingTel: “Let Someone Else Be the Dumb, Fat, Pipe”
SingTel is the world’s second largest wireless group, owning all or part of 8 APAC wireless carriers and 462 million subscribers. In April, the company restructured into three business units- Consumer, ICT and Digital- naming Allen Lew to transform SingTel into a multimedia market leader. At the HTIA conference in Jerusalem last week, Allen discussed reinvention, Asian markets and areas of strategic opportunity.