Venture Capital

20 stories about Venture Capital
Bobby Demri

ROCH Ventures to invest €20 million in Israeli travel and tourism startups

15.06.22|CTech
The fund aims to invest a total of €100 million over the next four years, focusing on sustainable travel, digital nomadism and the future of business travel
מימין: השותפים בקרן ISF ג'וש שיר , דרור גלס , אווה הובשמן , שמואל שילה ו ניר לינצ'בסקי

ISF raises $312 million for 3rd secondary fund focused on Israeli high-tech market

13.06.22|Meir Orbach
Israel Secondary Fund has invested directly and indirectly in approximately 220 companies, including MyHeritage, Aidoc, WSC, Innovid, Valens, Pixellot, Verbit, Waze, Glilot, and Vertex
עומר שלוס ובן טופור, מייסדי טיטאן

Titan announces $100 million fund, looking to buy positions in Israeli growth companies from Russian investors

07.06.22|Meir Orbach
Alongside Titan's flagship fund, the company manages a number of co-investment vehicles through which it plans to deploy an additional $100 million or $200 million in total, over the next three years
Aviv Barzilay Ayal Itzkovitz Pitango First

Pitango launches Web 3.0 venture lab, setting up DAO

07.06.22|CTech
The venture capital firm is aiming to create bridges between Web 3.0 and Web 2.0 via partnerships with ventures that have sustainable growth models through equity and/or token based investments
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
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
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
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
Yonatan Mandelbaum BiblioTech TLV Partners

CTech's Book Review: Measuring and understanding the 80/20 rule

29.03.22|Yonatan Mandelbaum
Yonatan Mandelbaum, Principal at TLV Partners, shares insights after reading “The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future” by Sebastian Mallaby
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
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
מגזין כלכליסט טק מימין רננה אשכנזי יעל אלרואי נופר עמיקם עדי גוזס מנהלות קרנות הון סיכון

"Women in venture capital is still a big deal"

20.03.22|Sophie Shulman
Four female representatives of the next generation of executives in venture capital funds met for an open discussion on entrepreneurship, risks, technological trends and the bugs in Israeli high-tech
גל גיטר שותף מנהל ב- Ibex Investors יצטרף לדירקטוריון Blue Dot

The reshaping of the venture capital landscape

16.03.22|Gal Gitter and Daniel Cohen
"The era of easy money and non-discriminating investors is likely coming to an end," write Gal Gitter and Daniel Cohen of Ibex Investors
ליאור סיימון שותפה חדשה ומנכ"ל סייברסטארטס Cyberstarts גילי רענן

Cyberstarts raises $200 million to double down on its Seed companies

28.02.22|CTech
The new Opportunity Fund will focus on follow-on investments in the cybersecurity-focused VC’s portfolio companies that are raising Series A and Series B
טדי ווארדי קרן אינסייט

Insight Partners announces new $20 billion fund, remains buoyant on Israeli software

24.02.22|Meir Orbach
The U.S. VC has invested in around 75 Israeli companies to date, including the likes of Armis Security, monday.com, JoyTunes, and Lightricks