Venture Capital

20 stories about Venture Capital
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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
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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.
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In 2018, Investors Doubled Down on Israeli Artificial Intelligence Startups

10.01.19|Hagar Ravet
Israel-linked AI companies brought in $1.89 billion in funding in 2018, according to a new report
מריוס נכט 1

Life Sciences Venture Fund aMoon Raises $600 Million for Second Fund, Report Says

09.01.19|Hagar Ravet
The Israel-based firm first announced in April it was raising a second fund with a hard cap of $750 million
צביקה נטר מנכ"ל ומייסד שותף ב אינוביד

Goldman Sachs Backs Video Advertising Startup Innovid With $30 Million Investment

07.01.19|Meir Orbach
Innovid lists Disney, Fox, Bank of America, and Loreal among its customers
מייסד סופטבנק מאסיושי סון

SoftBank Ventures Invests in Fourth Israeli Startup, Venture Partner Says

03.01.19|Meir Orbach
Once completed, the transaction will bring the fund’s total investment in Israeli companies to about $20 million, according to Benjamin Weiss, venture partner at SoftBank Ventures Asia
 JFROG שלומי בן חיים יואב לנדמן פרד סימון

The Ten Biggest Investment Rounds in Israeli Tech in 2018

31.12.18|CTech
As the year comes to a close, CTech takes a look at the biggest funding rounds of the past 12 months