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Investing in resilience: The Israeli startup ecosystem in 2024
As a venture capital investor (previously at Google Ventures and now with my firm, Remagine Ventures), I’ve always…
Israeli tech defies the odds in H1 2024
A month ago, the Israel Innovation Authority published a report on the state of the tech ecosystem (also…
State of Israeli tech in Q4 2023
Two new industry reports paint the picture of the Israeli tech ecosystem in 2023. The picture that emerges…
State of Israeli tech ecosystem 2022 and what to expect in 2023
Happy New Year! 2022 is behind us now and the end of year reports are trickling in. 2022…
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.
Israeli tech exits hit $6.94 Billion in 2014
A new report by IVC Research Center and law firm Meitar Liquornik Geva Leshem Tal found that 99 Israeli high tech exits reached $6.94 billion in 2014 up 5 percent from $6.59 billion of 2013 (90 exits). The IPO activity in 2014 reached a 10 year peak, to $2.1 billion. 18 companies sold in the range of $100 million to $500 million, compared to 12 in 2013 and the M&A equity ratio is up sharply.
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.
HTIA 2012 – 18 startups present in Israeli accelerators demo day
During HTIA 2012, for the first time ever, 18 startups from three of Israel's all-star startup accelerators (DreamIt, The Junction and Microsoft Accelerator) gave five minute pitches to a full house of technology enthusiasts and the like.
HTIA 2012 – The Current VC Vibe in Israel
On a macro level, VC funding for the most part hasn’t really changed. We’ve seen some pretty good years recently, with VC funding in Israel reaching an all-time high in 2011 at a record $2.2 billion in VC investment. While overall this is quite impressive, only 24% of VC investment in Israel actually came from Israeli VCs.
Zeev Holtzman: Israeli VC is on the verge of collapse [but wait, there’s more]
Zeev Holtzman, founding partner of Giza Venture Capital and founding member of the Israel Venture Association (IVA), cautioned that “Israel’s venture capital and startup industry is heading for collapse. The industry, which is the economy’s growth engine, is liable to be irreversibly damaged", in a recent interview to the Venture Capital Journal