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 […]
What is GitOps and why you should know about it
Building tech communities that scale
As developers become stronger in their organization, open source projects and developers communities are booming Jono Bacon, Former Head of Community at GitHub and Ubuntu, during a meetup in Tel Aviv “We began as an open source project, and we were completely embraced by the community. VCs, however, weren’t impressed”. These are the words of Fred Simon, […]
Reverse Due Diligence in Israel’s first Quantum Computing Investment: Quantum Machines
Investing in Quantum Computing is undoubtedly risky, though the market potential is astronomical — which is the exact recipe VCs should be looking for Co-founders: Nissim Ofek, Yonatan Cohen & Itamar Sivan Earlier this year on February 17th, we received an email from one of our portfolio companies offering an introduction to a group of entrepreneurs. This happens fairly […]
The Future of Real Estate Investing – Why We Invested in Skyline AI
It is no secret that the real estate investment market is huge. In 2017 there was $464bn of transaction volume in the Commercial Real Estate (CRE) market, however many of the integral processes that make up the day-to-day of CRE investors and operators are performed manually. This is a classic example of a large industry […]
Why we doubled down on Next Insurance
In early 2016 we first invested in Next Insurance alongside Oren Zeev and Ribbit Capital. That investment was an easy one for me to make, having known the founders for over six years and having the privilege and good fortune to be an investor in their previous company, Check, which was acquired by Intuit for […]
Mapping Israel’s machine learning startups
Firmly established as buzzwords, artificial intelligence (AI) and its subset machine learning are defining trends of the current startup era. The evolution of computing based on human instruction, to computing based on self learning has wide implications for every industry. This was demonstrated in dramatic fashion by Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai earlier this month when […]
TLV fund 1 as told through the numbers
As many of you may have heard, we recently announced our second fund. With every new beginning there comes a time for reflection. In that effort, we took a close look at the numbers from our first fund, and are excited to share them with you below. Deal Statistics In TLV 1, we invested in […]
Welcoming Silverfort to the TLVP Portfolio!
We are extremely happy to welcome Silverfort to the TLV Partners family. Good Luck! Silverfort’s revolutionary authentication platform delivers adaptive multi-factor authentication across entire enterprise networks and cloud environments without any modifications to endpoints and servers Silverfort, the first agentless multi-factor authentication provider, announced today a $11.5 million Series A round. The new funding was […]
What Chess has taught me about Life, Startups and Venture Capital
I’m no longer an active chess player, but I remain a huge chess fan. For me, being a fan means following the top players and top competitions; knowing a significant amount about the top players’ life and interests; playing through their games and trying to understand them, and when time permits, I travel to see […]
Why We Invested In Buildup
Why We Invested In Buildup The iconic image: “Lunch atop a skyscraper” taken during the construction of 30 Rock in NYC As venture capitalists, we search for a variety of key themes while evaluating potential investments. One such theme is markets in dire need of a technological face-lift. But it is not enough for an industry’s processes […]
First, tell me about the team
Whenever I get asked: “What do you love most about your job” I always give the same answer. The best part of my job is that I get to meet with incredibly smart and talented entrepreneurs and hear their latest and greatest ideas. The sheer number of talented entrepreneurs out there never ceases to amaze […]