Tag Archives: Innovation

Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

Since I’ve started writing about Israeli startups in 2004, there has never been any event like October 7 and the war that followed. Now, 150 days after October 7th, the Israeli startup ecosystem is once again in a tough spot. In February 2024, Israeli startups raised $293 million in 16 deals, a 60% decline from …

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Tel Aviv to London – Mind the Gap

Yesterday, UK Israel Business, a bi-lateral trade organisation promoting economic activity between the two countries, hosted Innovate 19’ – a half day conference that brought to London Israeli scaleups and startups across AI, BlockChain, Cyber Security, Computer Vision, HealthTech, Quantum Computing and Food tech hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS). I was asked to share my thoughts on how we can bring the UK and Israel closer together. I represented Remagine Ventures by sharing how we can bring the UK and Israel closer together by learning from each other’s strengths.

The Many Forms of Innovation and the Future of Work

Innovations comes in many forms and different parts of the economy are adapting to it differently. This post covers difference between a group of students and a group of industrialists and includes a video of the future work environment in 2025.

CES 2013 Preview: What Happens in Vegas, STAYS in Vegas

This week marks the annual orgy of PR excess known as the Consumer Electronics Show. More than 150,000 (mostly male) visitors, many sporting T-shirts with mysterious acronyms like “4K in HD3D”, will alternate between 2 million square feet of exhibition space and the craps tables. Unfortunately for the 3,200 exhibitors, their marketing dollars will be squandered. Although I will predict a few likely trends, when it comes to CES, what happens in Vegas really does STAY in Vegas.

Eyeview Raises $1 Million Round from Innovation Endeavors

In 2008, we covered the story of EyeView on VC Cafe. Three friends won the Harvard Business School business plan competition, carried on with the venture to raise money from respectable VCs in Israel and land clients like Yahoo and eBay. But since then, very little was heard about the company until now. Beet.tv reported that Innovation Endeavors, the VC fund led by Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt, has invested an additional $1 million in Eyeview, bringing the total investment in the company to $6 million to date from Gemini and Lightspeed ventures.

Weekend Reads: from Innovation to Recession

How Yahoo’s Latest Acquisition Stole & Broke My Heart  http://goo.gl/UXBv [the flip side of Dapper’s acquisition by RWW] Venture Funding Shrinks Leaving Scores of ‘Walking Dead’ Firms http://goo.gl/3yRL [founding firms are down, but IPOs might be coming back] Is the Valley Falling out of Love with Options? http://t.co/xJs0Ucu [interesting article on compensation at startups] Israel: An Economy Without a …

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