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ג'ף הורינג מייסד ושותף מנהל ב קרן אינסייט האמריקאית

Insight Partners’ Jeff Horing vows to support companies during crisis

02.06.22|Meir Orbach
Horing highlighted the crisis as an opportunity for growth during a video call with entrepreneurs and CEOs of Israeli companies in which his venture capital fund has invested
LACEWORK _alt BOLT

Cutback nation: Who’s afraid of layoffs?

31.05.22|Sophie Shulman
Mass layoffs at American unicorns Lacework and Bolt signals the hysteria that could turn out to be excessive and harmful in the venture capital industry. This panic could also spread to Israel and hurt companies whose situation is not necessarily bad
צוות Peak

Investment firm Peak opening investment in high-tech startups to general public

17.05.22|Meir Orbach
The firm, which is led by former Technology Minister Izhar ShaI, has begun its operations in Israel and will allow local non-accredited investors to invest in local tech companies
Amir Blatt Almeda Ventures

VCs can also be startups - The emerging public VC model

15.05.22|Amir Blatt
“Public VCs enable the entire public to participate in the success of Israeli high-tech. Any person can buy LP units at any time, and in any amount, in a vehicle that in the past was open only to accredited investors,” writes Amir Blatt of Almeda Ventures
אודי מוקדי מנכ"ל ומייסד-משותף סייברארק

CyberArk launches $30 million fund to invest in cyber startups

12.05.22|Sophie Shulman
The new fund, CyberArk Ventures, will invest in early-stage cyber startups (Seed and A round) and has already invested in three companies: Dig Security, Enso Security, and Zero Networks
צוות YL Ventures

YL Ventures announces $400 million fifth fund, the largest Seed stage cybersecurity-focused fund ever raised

10.05.22|Meir Orbach
The fund will be used to both lead the Seed rounds of approximately 10 startups at a pace of three startups per year, and to invest in the companies’ follow-on rounds
מייסדי לושה יוני צרויה ו אסף אייזנשטיין

Investment firm Plus Ventures suing unicorn Lusha, claims it was defrauded of holdings

08.05.22|Meir Orbach
The firm claims it invested in a previous reincarnation of Lusha. The unicorn, which raised $205 million at a $1.5 billion valuation last year, said it has no connection with the plaintiffs and that its product was built based on independent intellectual property
עומרי כספי ו דיוויד ציטרון

Former NBA player Omri Casspi launches early-stage $50 million VC fund

02.05.22|Meir Orbach
Casspi began investing during his career in the NBA, becoming an active angel investor in the likes of DocuSign and DayTwo
Liron Azrielant 20

“Continuous resiliency brings tremendous value. This is what we strive to bring.”

28.04.22|CTech
Rather than focusing on a specific part of the tech world to invest in, Meron Capital looks for founders who are strong and resilient, says Liron Azrielant, founder and managing partner
Liad Agmon ועידת פינטק Ctech וידאו

“We always talk about companies and technologies - but it is really a people business”

27.04.22|James Spiro
Liad Agmon, Managing Director at Insight Partners, describes the journey transitioning from entrepreneur to investor
Eyal Niv Pitango 20

“We focus on things that would really change the world.”

24.04.22|CTech
While many investors are on the lookout for disruptive technology, Eyal Niv, managing partner at Pitango, prefers to think of these world-changing ideas as enablers
eli rata

OurCrowd appoints Eli Rata as Chief Architect and Vice President

11.04.22|CTech
Rata, who immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia, will take the helm of the 50-member team, which supports over 200,000 investors
Jonathan Glazer Liron Wand Pitango

Liron Wand and Jonathan Glazer join Pitango as Venture Partners

10.04.22|CTech
Wand, formerly at Google and Facebook, joins Pitango Growth’s team, and Glazer, the former Head of the Ambulatory Care Service in Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center’s Emergency Department, joins the Healthtech team
דובי פרנסס Group 11

Group 11 strikes $50 million deal with StepStone Group for third fund holdings

06.04.22|Meir Orbach
Dovi Frances' fintech VC is selling 27% of its third fund which includes unicorns Tipalti, TripActions, Next Insurance, HomeLight, and Sunbit
Nadav Shimoni Arkin

Arkin Holdings is going all-in on digital health

04.04.22|James Spiro
“For us, digital health was at the beginning a lot of hype with buzzwords, but over the years the family essentially decided that it is a must,” Head of Digital Health Investments at Arkin Holdings, Dr. Nadav Shimoni, told CTech
אנטון לוי מנהל בקרן ג'נרל אטלנטיק

“We're not coming to Israel because it's hot or sexy, but because we look at it strategically,” says General Atlantic Co-President

04.04.22|Sophie Shulman
Anton Levy, the Global Head of the massive VC’s technology sector, is bullish on Israeli tech as the firm opens its local office. “Hopefully Israel will be one of our best performing markets not just on capital deployed, but on returns and quality of company,” he told Calcalist in an exclusive interview
צוות גלילות קפיטל

Glilot Capital raises $220 million for fourth Seed fund

28.03.22|Meir Orbach
Since its inception in 2011, Glilot Capital has carried out 12 exits, including CyberX, LightCyber and IntSights. The fund’s portfolio comprises dozens of active companies, including At-Bay, CardinalOps, Cider Security, Cyolo, Ermetic, Lightlytics, Lightrun and Upstream
צוות ורטקס

Vertex Ventures raises $400 million for two new funds

28.03.22|Meir Orbach
Vertex VI will serve as a $230 million early-stage fund, while Vertex Opportunity II is a $170 million fund designed to further support companies as they scale
Yonatan Sela SquarePeg יונתן סלע

VC Square Peg appoints Yonatan Sela as Partner as it expands its activity in Israel

21.03.22|CTech
The VC fund, which manages $1.2 billion across several different funds, invests primarily in Australia, Southeast Asia, and Israel
ג'ארד קושנר יועץ הנשיא טראמפ חברת נדל"ן The Kushner Cos

Jared Kushner coming to Israel in search of tech investments

20.03.22|Golan Hazani
Kushner and the three other executives of the Affinity Partners fund, which has already secured $3 billion in funding, plan to meet with Israeli companies worth between $300 million and more than $1 billion
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