Venture Capital

20 stories about Venture Capital
ועידת ברלין 2019 B2B יובל כהן STAGEONE

StageOne Ventures raising new $120 million fund

08.11.21|Golan Hazani
The Israeli VC has previously invested in the likes of Epsagon, sold to Cisco in August for $500 million, and Avanan, bought last summer by Check Point for $300 million
צוות UpWest

UpWest announces new $70 million seed fund

04.11.21|CTech
The fund is building on the success of its portfolio companies highlighted by the recent SentinelOne $10 billion IPO and is also expanding its presence in Tel Aviv with a new office
יונתן בן ארצי שותף ומייסד קרן Firstime

Firstime announces $100 million climate-tech fund, backed by Jonathan Kolber

01.11.21|Meir Orbach
The new fund has already made two inaugural investments, firstly in BeeHero, the precision agriculture and pollination company, and in digital healthcare and diabetes management company Hygieia
ביל פורד מנכ"ל ג'נרל אטלנטיק

General Atlantic looking to expand Israel investments

31.10.21|Sophie Shulman
The massive American fund, which has $78 billion in assets under management, is searching for a senior executive to head an Israel office focused on identifying promising early-stage tech startups
פיני אורבך ואלון לזרוס ארקין ביו קפיטל

Arkin Holdings raises $270 million for new biotech fund

27.10.21|Meir Orbach
The new fund, which will be named Arkin Bio-Capital, intends to invest in 8-10 companies that are developing innovative medicine and plan on going public in the near future
מימין מריוס נכט ו יאיר שינדל

aMoon raising new massive healthtech fund

21.10.21|Meir Orbach
The Israeli life sciences VC didn't reveal the magnitude of the new fund, but it is expected to be in the region of its previous $750 million fund
קו רקיע מרכז תל אביב Tel Aviv Business Center

Israeli tech continues to break records, raising $17.8 billion in first nine months of 2021

13.10.21|Meir Orbach
Local tech companies have already raised 71% more than in all of 2020, while exits also skyrocketed, reaching $18.92 billion in the first three quarters, almost doubling last year’s total
ג'ונתן מדבד ourcrowed כנס משקיעים 2019

OurCrowd remains Israel’s most active VC, according to Pitchbook

07.10.21|James Spiro
The venture investing platform made 28 deals compared with TLV Partners and Vertex Ventures Israel who were next on the list with 12 each
צוות NFX

Gigi Levy-Weiss’ NFX raises $450 million for largest seed-focused fund ever

05.10.21|Meir Orbach
Fund III, the VC's largest fund to date, will invest in a broad range of sectors including fintech, marketplaces, gaming, and proptech, as well as place a greater focus on crypto and tech-bio
צוות Eight Roads

Eight Roads launches $450 million fourth fund, allocates a third to Israeli scale-ups

05.10.21|Meir Orbach
"I believe that we will soon see Israeli companies that will be valued at $100 billion and not just $10 billion the way we see today," said Davor Hebel, Managing Partner and Head of Eight Roads Ventures Europe
TLV Partners פרטנרס

TLV Partners raises $320 million for new funds

03.10.21|Meir Orbach
The Israeli venture capital firm raised $220 million for its fourth fund for investments in early-stage companies as well as an additional $100 million for growth investments
Lotan Levkowitz Grove Ventures 20 Mins

"It's not necessarily financial value. It's really value to the world.”

28.09.21|CTech
Lotan Levkowitz, general partner at Grove Ventures, talks to Michael Matias about its values - mainly putting people first and changing the world
Ben Rabinowitz Amiti Ventures

A pretty simple way to promote gender diversity? A call to action for VCs and law firms

23.09.21|Ben Rabinowitz
“We need help from Israeli law firms to change the picture and make gender diversity a reality,” writes Ben Rabinowitz, founder and managing partner at Amiti Ventures
שר האוצר של ארה"ב סטיב מנוצ'ין ב ריאד סעודיה 22.2.20

SoftBank, Saudi Arabia's PIF backing Steven Mnuchin's $2.5 billion private equity fund

22.09.21|Reuters and CTech
The fund, Liberty Strategic Capital, which has an office in Tel Aviv and recently led a $275 million investment in Israeli company Cybereason, will be backed by SoftBank's $40 billion second Vision Fund and Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund Mubadala
מוסף שבועי 20.5.21 דיוויד בלאמברג

Blumberg Capital closes $225 million fifth fund

17.09.21|Hagar Ravet
The VC firm's portfolio includes numerous Israeli success stories, including Yotpo, IntSights, and DoubleVerify
מימין ירון אשכנזי ו דני גולד

Canada’s Awz Ventures raises $82.5 million for a joint fund with the Israeli Ministry of Defence

12.08.21|Udi Etsion and CTech
The joint endeavor aims to provide Israel with new security technology, but will also seek to commercialize it
Shay Seth Merlin

Israeli cyber companies are eyeing the U.S government

28.07.21|James Spiro
Private cybersecurity companies that want to expand their market to the public sector can turn to Merlin Ventures for help
מייסדות איי אנג'לס מימין: שלי הוד־מויאל ו מור אסיא

iAngels Ventures raises $55.5 million for first institutional fund

27.07.21|CTech
The fund is anchored by a $25 million investment from the European Investment Fund (EIF) under Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation
הקברניט חמאס רקטות כיפת ברזל

Ministry of Defense taps VCs to fund weapon development

06.07.21|Udi Etsion
MoD representatives have held talks with venture capital funds regarding making joint investments in startups that are developing technology that can be used both in the defense and civilian sectors
נועה מץ F2 Venture Capital

In the new age of VC, transparency is the name of the game

05.07.21|Noa Matz
"The new age of VC’s candor may have been brought on by a market shift and a need for VCs to focus on value add. But what it has created is a far healthier, far more beneficial framework for our founders and companies," writes Noa Matz of F2 Venture Capital