Venture Capital

20 stories about Venture Capital
מוני חסיד מיקרוסופט

Mony Hassid, Managing Partner at Microsoft’s M12, is stepping down

23.05.23|Meir Orbach
Hassid’s decision comes on the back of numerous personnel changes at Microsoft’s investment arm following the company’s decision earlier this year to develop a more focused investment strategy tightly aligned to Microsoft
AnD Ventures

AnD Ventures closes first fund at $70 million

11.05.23|Meir Orbach
The VC invests $1-3 million in Seed companies and up to $200,000 in pre-Seed through AnD Studio
מימין שותף בקרן קומרה קפיטל ארז שחר ושותפה בויולה צמיחה נטהלי רפואה

Pulling the plug: Growth funds halt investments in Israel

10.05.23|Meir Orbach
In the last 8 months, the local and foreign growth funds made almost no new investments in Israel. "Investors made it clear to me that during this period they were not investing and I had to fire dozens of additional employees," said one senior entrepreneur
CTech Tech on the beach Liron Azrant

“Generative AI has shuffled the cards on everything”

05.05.23|CTech
Liron Azrielant, Founder and Managing Partner at venture capital firm Meron Capital, spoke to CTech at Calcalist’s Tech on the Beach event about how AI is changing the technological landscape
Shlomi Hagai

JVP expands New York team, welcomes Shlomo Hagai as Partner

04.05.23|CTech
For the past four years, Hagai was the group CFO of Contentsquare
 CTech Tech on the beach Yaron Carni וידאו

“There will always be a need for tech startups. Tech has to prevail”

03.05.23|Ariela Karmel
Yaron Carni, Founder of Maverick Ventures Israel, spoke to CTech at Calcalist’s Tech on the Beach event about why Semperis was selected as the most promising Israeli startup for 2023
CTech Tech on the beach Boaz Zhaletsky

"The common thing about all our investments is strong differentiated teams going after big markets"

02.05.23|CTech
Boaz Shedletsky, Founder and Managing Partner at Mensch Capital Partners, was speaking to CTech during Calcalist’s Tech on the Beach event in Tel Aviv this week
Vesey founders

Vesey Ventures launches $78 million debut fund, eyes Israel as critical market

20.04.23|CTech
Former AMEX Ventures Managing Directors launch fund to invest in early-stage fintech companies
עדי דנגוט זוקובסקי שותפה בקרן הון סיכון 10

VC firm 10D appoints Adi Dangot Zukovsky as Partner

16.04.23|Meir Orbach
Dangot Zukovsky, who was most recently Vice President at Battery Ventures, will be leading investments in early-stage Israeli startup companies in various fields, focusing on Software as a service (SaaS) and Enterprise Software Infrastructure
אייל בינו Eyal Bino ICONIC Labs

Post-Israeli political chaos, can NYC change the Startup Nation as we know it?

09.04.23|Eyal Bino
"The city of New York has identified a new opportunity now - luring more Israeli startups to join its vibrant tech scene by making it even more attractive to build and grow their businesses," writes Eyal Bino, Founding Partner of 97212 Ventures
מימין שותפה בקרן Ibex ניקול פריאל מנכ"לית לאומיטק תימור ארבל סדרס

2023 started badly for Israeli high-tech and it may get worse

03.04.23|Meir Orbach
Despite the desire of industry executives to see light at the end of the tunnel, the next two quarters at least are expected to continue the downward trend
דורין בניאל מנהלת אזורית בקרן נייטדרגון

Dave DeWalt’s NightDragon opens first international office in Tel Aviv

03.04.23|Meir Orbach
The venture capital firm manages close to a billion dollars and invests in growth stage companies in the areas of cybersecurity, security, safety and privacy
Verizon Israel

Verizon Ventures shuts down Israel operations

06.03.23|CTech
Eyal Mamistvalov, Principal at Verizon Ventures, revealed that “the company’s new strategy is to primarily focus on the U.S. market.” Verizon Ventures invested in 13 Israeli startups during its five years of operations in Israel
קרן הון סיכון  Earth & Beyond Ventures EBV

New fund to invest $125 million in Israeli deeptech and space startups

09.02.23|Meir Orbach
Earth & Beyond Ventures, which will focus on investments in early-stage companies, is backed by the likes of Corning, Kyocera, Samtec, and Spacecom
פיונה דרמון

Fiona Darmon leaving JVP to set up new investment fund

29.01.23|Sophie Shulman
“I have a dream to do something that will be big and that I will create myself. Precisely because of the upheaval currently taking place in the global economy, there is now a possibility to do new things,” said Darmon
שותפים בקרן TLV Partners מימין שחר צפריר עדי יראל טולדנו איתן בק ורונה שגב

TLV Partners: “If Israel’s democracy is harmed, the hi-tech industry will wither or flee abroad”

17.01.23|Meir Orbach, Sophie Shulman
“We say these things with a heavy heart and great pain, and we hold hope that the destructive actions will be stopped before it's too late,” wrote partners Rona Segev, Shahar Tzafrir, Adi Yarel Toledano and Eitan Bek
כנס רודשואו - יודפת הראל־בוכריס שותפה מנהלת, Blumberg Capital

Yodfat Harel Buchris: "The legal reform and the 61-MK override proposal mean Israel will no longer meet ESG rules"

16.01.23|Yodfat Harel Buchris
הילה רום

RUNI Ventures raises $30 million

16.01.23|Sophie Shulman
Established five months ago, Reichman University’s venture capital fund (RUNI) aims to leverage the many ventures that are growing in the variety of entrepreneurship programs, innovation labs, and accelerators active on campus
מימין תות שני מאור פרידמן ו קרן קופילוב

VC crystal ball 2023: Crypto and HR-tech - out; Generative Tech and Climatech - in

11.01.23|Elihay Vidal
What sectors in high-tech should we look out for in the coming year - and why? Israel’s leading VCs reveal where they will be putting their money in 2023