Investing In The Future Of Software Testing: CodiumAI’s Code Integrity Platform
The software testing market has undergone a major shift over the last few years, and we believe that it is on the cusp of another shift. In the past, software testing was primarily conducted by a team of Quality Assurance (QA) professionals who manually verified whether the application functioned as intended. As release times shortened, […]
Revolutionizing Open-Source Security: Our Investment in Oligo
The adoption of open-source solutions has increased in recent years as companies started to realize that rewriting already existing functionality is pointless. However, this growth has also led to a growing concern about the effective management and security of open source libraries. A few years ago, I came across a team with a solution for […]
Our Investment in Noble
Some Quick History Lending is one of the oldest financial mechanisms known to humankind. People always have, and always will, want access to capital that they currently don’t have, and people always have and will be willing to provide that capital in return for the upside that goes along with it. Understanding whether or not […]
Why Code-code will eat software that’s eating the world
Many professions throughout human history faced extinction and other evolution. Software programming is facing a revolution, not an evolution. AI is replacing mental labor like the industrial revolution replaced manual labor. We’re surrounded by software. It’s been coined (2011, Marc Andreessen) that software is eating the world and that every company is a software company […]
Israel’s eCommerce Era
Small businesses are the bedrock of the global economy. Whether it’s a corner coffee shop, a local bakery, an artisanal clothing store or the best blankets to assure a good night’s sleep, we are surrounded by small businesses that produce superior quality products. While historically these businesses may have only been discoverable while walking down […]
The State of Israeli Fintech
Last month, we hosted our annual LP meeting (unfortunately over zoom). During the meeting, we presented our LPs with updates on the TLVP portfolio, the state of Israel’s startup ecosystem and were privileged to have some of our founders present their companies. We also presented our thesis on the state of Israeli fintech. We thought […]
Sword making of a founder: What’s the value of value-add?
What’s the value of value-add?
The Fourth: Announcing $320m of new funds raised by TLVP
Six years after raising our first fund and two years after raising our third fund, we are happy to announce that we have raised our fourth fund, TLV Partners IV. Our fourth fund is $220m, and we are setting out to continue our strategy from the previous three funds: backing visionary Israeli entrepreneurs from the Seed, A, […]
Our investment in Unit
What happens when the right people are building the right company at the right time? read about Unit’s Seed and Series A Financing, and the Future of Banking Infrastructure
101 things that will kill your startup
A perfectionist product manager who believes s/he owns the truth (especially at the pre and early launch phases of your product) is just one of the things that could kill your startup.
The significance of AI in medical diagnosis and treatment
It is a privilege to have invested in companies that pave the way forward for medical advanced and to witness firsthand how improvements in the field that used to take decades now take years, and they continue to accelerate.
The interface Is the message (when you know the rules)
What Chess streamed on Twitch, AI, and seed-stage startup investments have in common A couple of days ago, the New-York Times published an article about the soaring popularity of chess on Twitch, giving Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura due credit. Of all things, this made me revisit past thoughts on how chess has helped me understand the critical […]
Maintaining a strong sense of urgency (and when to relax it)
One of the critical things a startup has vs. the more established incumbents is a sense of urgency. You cannot fake it
How Zencity got me excited about GovTech
For many years I was pretty sure that selling innovative products to governments is a slow and heavy process. This company proved me wrong Sitting in Zencity’s office 18 months ago I was skeptical about the company’s ability to scale its business and materialize its potential. When it comes to GovTech, the overall market size wasn’t […]
VC funds – with power comes responsibility
The rise of new industries and the disruption of old ones strongly rely on the venture capital paradigm. Hence, like corporates, we must acknowledge our influence on the markets and take responsibility Credit: Clark Tibbs Economies are dualistic creatures. On the one hand, they develop according to the current market forces in a given ecosystem. On […]
About dramatic changes to chessboards and startups
What can you do when one sudden mistake changes everything completely. Here are some valuable lessons you can learn from the Chess game
A call for Fintech companies
It’s currently the Golden Age for fintech companies worldwide. Is Israel keeping up? I always say that my role as a VC isn’t to be a prophet but rather to be an observer. No one (especially not investors) knows what “the next big thing” will be or what the upcoming trends are. But if anyone comes […]
The third
Announcing $210m of new funds raised by TLVP (From left) Rona, Eitan, Adi, Shahar Four and a half years after raising our first fund, and two years after raising our second fund, we are happy to announce that we have raised our third fund, TLV Partners III. Our third fund is the same size, $150m, as […]
Ushering in the future-of-work: Announcing our Investment in Stoke
“As the number of Professional Skilled Individuals who choose to work as freelancers continues to rise, the world’s leading enterprises are in need of solutions to facilitate their engagement with part-time workers in a scalable manner. Stoke is developing an end-to-end platform that allows enterprises to manage and monitor their flexible workforce, from sourcing, to […]
Seed stage sales in B2B enterprise
Often, out of fear of the unknown when it comes to sales, entrepreneurs resort to what I believe to be the worst possible solution: hiring a Vice President of Sales too early I focus on seed stage investments in B2B enterprise software companies. Most entrepreneurs I invest in are first-timers. A concern common among them is […]
Israel’s Machine Learning Infrastructure Map Part Deux
Israel’s machine learning infrastructure: Part Deux One year ago we published our outline of the Israeli startups in the machine learning infrastructure space. That article detailed what was still considered a burgeoning sub-sector of the overall machine learning industry, one of the defining technological trends of our generation. The simple thesis being that along with […]