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Category Archives: Venture capital
Erel Margalit on the Future of Work and Life Post-Covid
It is by now conventional wisdom that work in the post-Covid “new normal” will shift for many to working-from-home most of the time. The new “hybrid virtual model,” says McKinsey, “promises greater access to talent, increased productivity for individuals and small teams, lower … Continue reading
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Tagged Erel Margalit, Future of Work, JVP, Post-Covid, UAE
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Startups Continue to Hire During the Pandemic
Jerusalem-based venture investing platform OurCrowd released the first installment of the quarterly OurCrowd Jobs Index showing that the number of open positions listed by OurCrowd’s portfolio companies rose from 350 in June 2020 to 912 in December 2020. The startups surveyed by … Continue reading
Pandemic Tech Trends and Startups
At the OurCrowd Pandemic Innovation Conference on June 22, 2020, Stav Erez and Dr. Jonathan Wiesen presented the top 10 tech trends emerging from the current global pandemic Read more here
Pandemic Innovation Fund to Raise $100 Million
Jerusalem-based OurCrowd, the world’s largest crowdfunded-venture investment platform, plans to raise $100 million for its new Pandemic Innovation Fund, investing in technological solutions for the medical, business, educational and social needs triggered by global pandemics and other health emergencies. Read more … Continue reading
Best of 2019: Avram Miller and Lessons for Corporate VCs
[June 18, 2019] Corporate venture capital (CVC) firms broke records last year. Funding increased 47% to $52.95 billion and 264 new corporate venture groups invested for the first time, a 35% increase over 2017. There were 773 active CVCs worldwide … Continue reading
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Tagged Avram Miller, corporate venture capital, DEC, Intel capital
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Best of 2019: The Global Restructuring of Startup Funding
[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
How Ordinary Investors Invest in Startups
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton is not happy with the limited access retail investors have to private companies. “If the growth opportunities have shifted… into our private markets and ordinary investors don’t have access to them, that’s … Continue reading
2019: The Year Tech IPOs Defied Expectations
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
AI and machine learning startups worldwide raised $13.42 billion so far in 2019
Crunchbase News: A Crunchbase News analysis of venture funding for companies tied to AI and machine learning finds that investment in U.S. startups continues to rise. Companies in the space raised $6.62 billion so far in 2019, which puts us … Continue reading
Fintech Funding Reached $8.3 Billion in Q2 2019
CB Insights: Funding to VC-backed fintech companies grew 24% QoQ in Q2’19 and neared previously quarterly funding highs.
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