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Eze Vidra started the Venture Capital Cafe (www.vccafe.com) in 2005, where he covers early stage companies, innovative technologies, and venture capital news with a spotlight on Israel.
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Event: Israel and the Global Economic Crisis
On Sunday November 15th, Said Business School at Oxford University is hosting a one day conference focusing on the impact of the Global economic crisis on Israel. It is a good opportunity to hear and meet prominent speakers: Prof. Zvi Eckstein: ...
IVC Report: VC Investments in Israeli Companies Decline 50% in Q3
108 Israeli high tech companies raised a total of $303 million in Q3 2009, according to the latest report conducted by the IVC Research Center. The amount is 50% lower than the whooping record of $600 million in Q3 of 2008. The Survey is based on rep...
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 ser...
An Amateur’s Take on The Broken VC Model
Lately there has been a lot of discussion about the broken VC model. Some blame the dry IPO market, LPs taking big hits on overvalued investment and running for safer asset classes and a heightened interest in liquidity. It’s no wonder than, th...
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...
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. Warning: include(/home/vccafeco/public...
Nicles 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 Israe...
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 ...
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...
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 Exi...
Venture Capital in Israel Down 22% in Q4 2008
IVC Research Center has released the findings of their quarterly survey, summarizing Israeli capital raising in Q4 2008. Israeli companies raised $394 million in the last quarter, a decline of 22% compared to the equivalent period in 2007. That sai...
Taboola Video Discovery Gets $4.5 Million From Evergreen and Angels
A message for entrepreneurs who want to get rich quickly: Be patient! It’s been a whole year since we first covered Taboola. Back then, Evergreen Venture Partners put a million and a half dollars to fund what they believed would be a ‘Stu...
EyeView’s Flash Tutorials Convert Better
Lock and load - that’s what five Israeli startups did this week announcing a total of $30 million from both Israeli and international funds. After almost a year and a half of no investments in Israeli startups, Ouriel Ohayon’s LGI Lab (a ...
2008 capital raising in Israel expected to reach an 8-year record high
IVC Online has recently released the Q3 quarterly survey on the state of the VC industry in Israel. Q3 2008 contributed $600 million to the capital raised by Israeli VCs, 45% above Q3/07 levels. These figures are not surprising, given that CalPERS, t...
Boxee Raised $4M today
A week ago VC Cafe covered the alpha release of Israel and San Francisco based boxee. Today Boxee has announced a $4 million A round from Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures to continue development of its social media center software. Boxee takes...
An Industry on “Life Support”: Notes from the BVCA Tech Spin Out 2008 in London
This morning I was invited to stop by Tech Spin Out 2008, a conference organized by the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA), with the goal of exploring the activities that help transform small companies into big companies. As I mentioned man...
Crying Wolf: Or what Broke the VC Investment Model?
Doom and gloom reports return to all the major tech blogs - this time the crisis hits the Venture Capital Industry - starting with TheFunded.com’s editor Adeo Ressi, and his presentation to the Finance and entrepreneurship faculty at Harvard Bu...
