Venture Capital

20 stories about Venture Capital
רותי אדר סמסונג אלקטרוניקס כנס משקיעים 2019

Venture Capital Is a People Business, Says Samsung Investment Director

18.06.19|Tofi Stoler
Rutie Adar, a director at Samsung, spoke at a panel Tuesday with Intel Capital investment director Yair Shoham and Justine Zwerling, head of primary markets Israel at the London Stock Exchange, as part of Calcalist’s investor event in Tel Aviv
סופי שולמן בשיחה עם מייקל אייזנברג מ קרן אלף כנס משקיעים 2019

Investors Should Back Entrepreneurs Who Are Willing to Learn, Says Venture Capitalist

18.06.19|Tofi Stoler
Aleph Venture Capital Managing Partner Michael Eisenberg spoke Tuesday at Calcalist's investors' event It Tech Two to Tango, held in Tel Aviv
מאיר אורבך בשיחה עם אדם פישר שותף bessamer venture partners כנס משקיעים 2019

Despite U.S. Trade War, Chinese Money Still Critical to Israeli Tech, Says Venture Capitalist Adam Fisher

18.06.19|Adi Pick
Venture capitalist Adam Fisher, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, spoke Tuesday at Calcalist's investors' event It Tech Two to Tango, held in Tel Aviv
ספנסר מוהן קרן Finistere

Venture Capital Firm Finistere Is Committed to Israel, Says Founding Partner

11.06.19|Omer Kabir
On Tuesday, the San Diego-Based VC, along with several local partners, won a government tender for the establishment of a foodtech startup hub in Israel’s northern Galilee region
קרן NFX גיגי לוי פיט פלינט ג'יימס קורייר

NFX Raises Second, $275 Million Fund

22.05.19|Meir Orbach
NFX's first fund, closed with commitments of $175 million in October 2017, has yet to see an exit but some of its more mature startups already raised hundreds of millions of dollars
The view from SOSA TLV

As Market Matures, Israeli Tech Valuations Continue to Climb

20.05.19|Meir Orbach
More Israeli startups raising capital in 2018 did so at higher company valuations than their last round, compared to 2017, according to a new report
מימין לשמאל: גרגורי קובאקס דדה גולדשמידט שאנקאר צ׳נדרן ליפ-בו טאן ו רותי אדר

In 2018, A Quarter of the Companies Samsung Catalyst Invested in Were Israeli Startups

13.05.19|CTech
Samsung's multi-stage venture fund invested $300 million in total in 2018, according to Samsung Catalyst head Shankar Chandran
קרן אמון מימין ד"ר תומר ברקוביץ ד"ר יאיר שינדל טוד סון איציק דבש

Life Sciences Venture Fund aMoon Appoints Fourth Partner

02.05.19|Hagar Ravet
Tomer Berkovitz, who served as aMoon’s managing director and CFO, was appointed partner
מנהלי New Era מימין רן שמחה איילת פריש ו גדעון ארגוב

Venture Firm New Era Capital Raises a $60 Million Fund

04.04.19|Meir Orbach
New Era focuses on startups touting a positive environmental and social impact
קרן אינטל קפיטל יאיר שוהם רועי בר־קט עדי כספי זפקוביץ' ו נועם קייזר

Intel Capital Reorganizes Israeli Team After Investing $120 Million in Local Startups in 2018

02.04.19|Golan Hazani and Lilach Baumer
The Israeli team intends to collaborate with other corporate investment funds such as Samsung and Qualcomm
The view from SOSA TLV

OurCrowd Tops List of Most Active Israeli Venture Capital Firms, Says Pitchbook

25.03.19|Lilach Baumer
The market research firm has compiled a list of the ten most active Israeli players in the local venture capital scene since 2014
שינוע מכולות איי פי מולר מארסק A.P. Moller Maersk

Maersk’s Investment Arm Sets Sights on Israel’s Tech Ecosystem

28.02.19|Lilach Baumer
Set up in 2017, Maersk Growth invests mainly in the domains of food waste management, smart logistics, and next generation trading
כנס כלכליסט ניו יורק גף הורינג

Insight Venture Buys Portfolio From Israel-Based Venture Firm Genesis Partners

26.02.19|Amarelle Wenkert
Genesis Partners’ portfolio includes several startups that are also backed by Insight, including Monday.com and Sisense
ועידת ברלין 2019 חמי פרס 2

Israel Is an Island, and Innovation Is Our Ship, Says Venture Capitalist Chemi Peres

20.02.19|Hagar Ravet
The Israeli venture capitalist and Pitango co-founding partner spoke at Calcalist’s WeTechBerlin conference on Tuesday
סייברטק 2019 בנימין נתניהו סייבר 1

Israeli Companies Bagged a Fifth of All Cyber Venture Capital Investments in 2018

30.01.19|Lilach Baumer
Israel and Lithuania signed a declaration of intent to increase cybersecurity cooperation on Monday
משרדי חברת ביטוח AXA מילנו

AXA's Venture Arm Launches Second Early Stage Fund With $150 Million

22.01.19|Mair Orbach
The fund will invest up to $6 million apiece in startups in North America, Europe, and Israel
וינסנט צ'נגוויז Vincent Tchenguiz

New Israeli Medical Technologies Fund Aims to Close $150 Million in Commitments by End of Year

21.01.19|Tzally Greenberg
CBG Asset Management, an investment firm owned by U.K.-based businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, is one of the partners in the venture
מדרחוב ב פאלו אלטו

Eclipse Ventures Raises a Third, $500 Million Fund

16.01.19|Amarelle Wenkert
Eclipse Fund III will focus on early-stage full-stack companies in the fields of data, hardware, and software
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2018 Saw a Drop in the Number of Israeli Tech Companies Acquired

15.01.19|Lilach Baumer and Hagar Ravet
Three of the four largest deals included in the list aggregated by IVC and Meitar for 2018 concern publicly traded companies, one involves an Israeli subsidiary of an American corporation that was sold as part of a larger deal, and two of the buyers were hedge funds
אורי ישראלי רן לויצקי הירושי טקאוצ'י אצושי מיזונו Magenta קרן מג'נטה

Magenta Venture Partners Announces Early Stage Fund Targeting $100 Million

14.01.19|Lilach Baumer
The Israel-based fund, founded in October 2018, is a partnership between two Israeli venture capitalists and Japanese trading company Mitsui & Co.