Category Archives: venture capital

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 well as Trivnet, a platform for mobile-based transaction management.  The terms of the deals were …

Continue reading “Amdocs Venture Announces Investments in Amobee and Trivenet”

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.

Deloitte Survey Shows VCs are Cutting Back On Start Ups

The annual Venture Capital global survey by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) and the NVCA shows that when it comes to investing in start ups, venture capitalists are cutting back. The survey gathered the opinion of 725 partners in venture capital funds worldwide, including Israel. Despite declining valuations and virtually no exits in 2009, VCs are …

Continue reading “Deloitte Survey Shows VCs are Cutting Back On Start Ups”

Israeli VCs Make Less and Smaller First Investments in 2009

The IVC research center has released the Summary of Israeli High-Tech Company Capital Raising for Q1 2009. $265 million were raised by start ups in the first quarter of 2009 from both local and foreign funds.

Nickels and Dimes in Israeli Venture Capital

The Israeli venture capital industry has experienced a $250 million decline in the past few months. Israeli venture capital funds have struggled to raise the target capital and the impact is likely to be felt on emerging technology companies in Israel.

Securing Funding from International VCs

There is no magic formula to secure funding from any VC, let alone one that is not in your home country. It’s almost like finding a relationship – if you’re lucky, you will find the partner of your dreams, but there’s going to be a lot of due diligence before you commit to anything serious. …

Continue reading “Securing Funding from International VCs”

IVC: Investment dollars in Seed Israeli start ups down 28%

According to IVC Research, 28% of the venture capital investments were made in seed stage companies in 2008, compared to 43% in 2007. More than 30% of the vc funds in Israel made no investments in seed companies in 2008. Greylock Israel was 2008’s most active fund ranking with nine First investments followed by Vertex with …

Continue reading “IVC: Investment dollars in Seed Israeli start ups down 28%”

Bitesize Monday: 10 Links on Business Models, Boxee, Search and more

Here’s a list of noteworthy links for the week starting on February 9th 2009. Some old, some new, but all GOOD. 1. How important is search for users? According to TNS, 81% of Internet users use search to find information. 2. Yahoo Finance lists 15 companies that might not survive 2009. 3. Do you know …

Continue reading “Bitesize Monday: 10 Links on Business Models, Boxee, Search and more”

Can the VC model work with virtually no exits?

The global economic crisis has brought IPO exits to a 30 year low and M&A activity is slower than previous year.  How do VCs cope with the new reality? The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) in the US has released the results of the Exit Poll report for Q4 of 2008.  The results are unsurprisingly …

Continue reading “Can the VC model work with virtually no exits?”

Exit mobile version