Category Archives: startups

Best of 2019: The Global Restructuring of Startup Funding

Posted on January 12, 2020 by GilPress

[April 15, 2019] The venture capital industry is under attack. Prominent VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is “blowing up the venture capital model,” transforming itself into a “financial adviser” so it can beat “antiquated rules about what is and isn’t a … Continue reading →

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Cybersecurity Startup Closes the Gap Between Security and DevOps

Posted on December 11, 2019 by GilPress

Cybersecurity startup Rezilion emerged from stealth today, announcing $8 million in seed funding, led by Jerusalem Venture Partners. JVP was joined by Kindred Capital, LocalGlobe, Samsung NEXT, and a number of angel investors. Founded by serial cybersecurity entrepreneurs Liran Tancman and Shlomi … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Cities for Startups

Posted on November 21, 2019 by GilPress

Crunchbase: StartupBlink has launched the Startup Ecosystem Rankings Report 2019 that now ranks 1,000 cities and 100 countries worldwide. This is our first report to track both momentum and trends within the global startup ecosystem.

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2019: The Year Tech IPOs Defied Expectations

Posted on October 6, 2019 by GilPress

Of the 14 most prominent tech IPOs in 2019, only four newly minted stocks—Zoom Video, Pinterest, Fastly and Cloudflare—were above their first-day opens at the end of September. Source: WSJ On October 1, both Uber and Lyft’s stocks reached their … Continue reading →

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AI by the Numbers: 75 Countries are Using AI Technologies for Surveillance Purposes

Posted on September 19, 2019 by GilPress

Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the impact and progress of AI highlighted the strong state of AI surveillance worldwide, the lack of adherence to common privacy principles in companies’ data privacy statement, the growing adoption of … Continue reading →

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Fintech Funding Reached $8.3 Billion in Q2 2019

Posted on August 16, 2019 by GilPress

CB Insights: Funding to VC-backed fintech companies grew 24% QoQ in Q2’19 and neared previously quarterly funding highs.

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Data and AI Landscape 2019

Posted on August 7, 2019 by GilPress

Full Size Matt Turck: To try and make sense of it all, this is our sixth landscape and “state of the union” of the data and AI ecosystem.  For anyone interested in tracking the evolution, here are the prior versions: … Continue reading →

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The Industry 4.0 Startups Ecosystem In Israel

Posted on August 7, 2019 by GilPress

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AI Startup Funding At All-Time Quarterly High

Posted on August 6, 2019 by GilPress

During the second quarter of this year, the artificial intelligence startups brought in $7.4 billion in funding, the single highest amount ever in a quarter, according to CB Insights. The number of deals grew as well, rising in step with the … Continue reading →

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Find the Next Beyond Meat Among Israel-based Foodtech Startups

Posted on July 30, 2019 by GilPress

You will find more infographics at Statista Shares of Beyond Meat have soared over 800% since its IPO on May 2, leaving far behind other well-known “unicorns” that went public this year such as Uber and Spotify. Its main U.S. competitor, Impossible … Continue reading →

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