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Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – July 26 2024
The Firgun newsletter is published weekly on LinkedIn. Subscribe here. The word “Firgun” (Hebrew: ??????/ pronounced ‘feer-goon’) is an informal…
What’s a better return on investment: Enterprise or consumer tech?
Venture Capital is driver by power laws, meaning that a small percentage of companies drive the majority of…
Five year record for Israeli exits in the first half of 2019
According to a new report by IVC Research Centre and law firm Meitar, Israeli exits in the first half of 2019 (H1 2019) reached a record of $14.48 billion ($7.58 billion excluding $6.9 billion Mellanox Technologies acquisition). This represents 123% growth compared to H1 2018 at $6.49 billion.
What do you know about Consumer startups in Israel?
What do you know about Israeli B2C startups? In this post I shine a spotlight on the consumer segment in Israel and explore the trends in consumer tech in Israel.
B is for BUBBLE: Venture Capital in 2013
The BUBBLE came to Israel too, with a record $4.2 billion in exits, averaging $83 million. While there were IPOs (notably Wix in November), most of the acquisitions were made by global technology companies with R&D Centers (and their corporate M&A teams) in Israel, including Apple, Google, EMC, AOL, Cisco, IBM and now Facebook.