Vee Founder May Piamenta on Selling Her First Company at 16, Smuggling a Computer Onto an Army Base, Laying Off Her Entire Company and Knowing When to Pivot
February 14, 2024
Adam Fisher, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, on What it Takes to be a Great VC, Lessons from Wix and Fiverr, and Why Israel Should Let Go of the “Startup Nation” Narrative
February 14, 2024
Harvard Professor Roland Fryer on Relentlessly Pursuing Truth, ‘Closing Social Gaps with Market Caps,’ and Celebrating Failure
February 14, 2024
Harry Stebbings on Starting 20VC, Being Underestimated, Investing, and Wealth vs. Happiness
February 14, 2024
Yasmin Lukatz on Investing in a Time of War, Founding ICON, How to Make a Difference, and Being on Shark Tank
February 14, 2024
Yonatan Adiri on Stepping Down as CEO of Healthy.io, the Future of Healthcare, and What’s Next for Him - Part Two
February 14, 2024
AI Expert Oren Etzioni on How Deepfakes are Influencing Global Events, Our Moral Obligations Around AI & the Fight Against Disinformation | Invested
February 14, 2024
Yonatan Adiri on Founding Healthy.io, Challenges in HealthTech, and Working with Shimon Peres - Part One
February 14, 2024
Izhar Shay on Losing His Son Yaron Oree, the October 7th Attack, an Initiative for the Fallen, and Moving Forward
February 14, 2024
Yoav Shoham on What Machines Understand About Us, Leading AI in Israel & Stanford, AI21 Labs Innovations, and How We’re Wrong About AGI
February 14, 2024
Sam Lessin on What Entrepreneurs Don’t Realize About VCs, When the State Should Intervene with Tech, the Future of Crypto and the Evolution of Truth
February 14, 2024
Ami Daniel on the October 7th Massacre, Rescuing Survivors Using Tech, and Managing a Company During War
February 14, 2024
Matan Bar on Melio’s Humble Beginnings, The Power of Storytelling, Making Tough Decisions as a CEO, and Meeting George W. Bush
February 14, 2024
Marc Rowan on Having the Courage to Speak Up, Apollo’s Investing Strategy, Commitment to Israel, and Looking Ahead
February 14, 2024
Palantir Co-Founder Joe Lonsdale on Fixing America, Disrupting Defense Innovation & Building the University of Austin
February 14, 2024
Lior Eshkol on How Wolt Israel Became a Cultural Icon, the Essence of the Israeli Consumer & Navigating the Company Through Crisis
February 14, 2024
Jacob Helberg on the China Doomsday Scenario, the Dangers of Wokeism, and What America Needs to Win the Technological Arms Race
February 14, 2024
Eyal Waldman on Building Mellanox, Employing Palestinians and Israelis Together, and The Future of AI
February 14, 2024
Eyal Waldman on What Went Wrong on October 7th, His Personal Loss and Plan for Peace, and Mellanox’s Impact on AI
February 14, 2024
Jon Pelson on China's Influence, TikTok, Huawei and Different Values
February 14, 2024
Kathryn Mayne on VC, Investing in People, Taking Risks and Why Israel is Special
February 14, 2024
Daniel Schreiber on Storytelling, Good vs. Bad Investors, Running a Public Company
February 14, 2024
Russ Roberts on the Difficulty of Giving Good Advice, Work-Life Balance, Our Obsession with Productivity, Storytelling and Wild Problems
February 14, 2024
Jeff Swartz on Timberland, Social Impact, Philanthropy, Having Too Many Words and Lots of Dreams
February 14, 2024
Ron Gura on Empathy, Grief and Scaling Humanity
February 14, 2024
Aryeh Bourkoff on Empathy, Digital Communities, Relationships vs. Transactions, Being Self-Aware, Dreaming about Being Shy and Lazy
February 14, 2024
Stefan Tompson on Founding Visegrad24, Fake News, Fighting for Israel and the West
February 14, 2024
Bradley Tusk on Investing Like a Politician in Regulated Industries, the Flaws of Elite Education, and the Fragmented Future of America
February 14, 2024
Bradley Tusk on How to Save Democracy Before it’s Too Late, the Problem With Our Political Structures, and the Power of Mobile Voting
February 14, 2024
Ben Lang on Being Early at Notion, How to Build Community, Angel Investing and Taking Risks
February 14, 2024
Beezer Clarkson on How to Get a “Yes” from Investors, Advice to Young VCs, Fund Mission vs. Returns, and What Diversity Means in Venture
February 14, 2024
Alon Arvatz on the Future of Israeli Cybersecurity, Exiting Multiple Companies, Leaving Money on the Table, and Making Financial Literacy Accessible
February 14, 2024
Michael looks back on the incredible and tragic stories from October 7th within the Israeli tech ecosystem that were shared on the Invested podcast over the past year.
February 14, 2024
Barak Herscowitz on TikTok’s Anti-Israel Bias, the Memo That Got Leaked, Resigning From TikTok, and the Story Israel Needs to be Telling
February 14, 2024
Antonio Garcia-Martinez on the Hippie Influence over Silicon Valley, Behind the Scenes at Facebook, Writing ‘Chaos Monkeys’ and Founding Spindl
February 14, 2024
Alex Konrad on Covering Israeli & Gazan Tech, the Forbes Midas List, & Civic Resilience
February 14, 2024
Orit Farkash HaCohen on AI Regulation, Burnout, Israel’s Natural Gas Exploration, and Diversity in High-Tech
February 14, 2024
New Space Meetup
Join us for a meetup featuring the latest developments in Space tech and ventures, with speakers from the IDF, Utilis, Effe
February 14, 2024
Apply to Aleph.bet B2B Pricing
February 14, 2024
The Future of Talent
Why is it so hard to recruit engineers? Maybe we’re going about it all wrong. Avishai Ish-Shalom, Aleph’s Engineer-in-R
February 14, 2024
HoneyBook Raises $28M Series C
Read Michael Eisenberg’s blog post about HoneyBook’s journey to cracking a new market, now servicing solopren
February 14, 2024
Firewall Podcast Comes to Israel
February 14, 2024
Usability Testing 101
February 14, 2024
What I Hate About High Tech
When Erica Marom joined Aleph, she fell in love with the energy of the Israeli high tech community. But as a for
February 14, 2024
Beyond Innovation Tourism
February 14, 2024
30 Time Management To-Dos
We all struggle to manage our time better, so Eden Shochat has prepared a cheat sheet to ease our path to producti
February 14, 2024
A Seat at the Table
As Nexar’s GM Mobility Solutions, Kate Balingit partners with the world’s largest auto manufacturers. She shares five le
February 14, 2024
Aleph III
We are pleased to announce the closing of Aleph III, a $200 million fund, to continue partnering with great Israeli entrepreneurs
February 14, 2024
Aleph DreamBuilders
Erica Marom shares the philosophy behind the creation of Aleph DreamBuilders, a new video series capturing our founders’
February 14, 2024
Don’t Bail Out Israeli Startups
In an op-ed in Israeli newspaper Calcalist, Adam Fisher of Bessemer Venture Partners, Rona Segev of TLV Part
February 14, 2024
Dear Entrepreneur
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Aleph Equal Partner Michael Eisenberg writes in an open letter that this is a time for empathy
February 14, 2024
The Houseparty Exit
A year on, Eden Shochat shares a personal perspective on the sale of Houseparty, why exits are not black and white, and
February 14, 2024
$LMND — Aleph’s First IPO
Lemonade is a meaningful company with values at its core, a reflection of its founders, Daniel Schreiber and Shai
February 14, 2024
Investing in Great People
Michael Eisenberg says investing in great people has always been his strategy, but keeping small business in busin
February 14, 2024
Branding for Founders
Uri Ar and Erica Marom, aka Urica™, share the 3-step practical guide they use as a basis for helping startups build th
February 14, 2024
Why You Need Sales Ops
Sales Operations is misunderstood, says Leore Spira, head of Sales Ops at Syte, and formerly of Anodot. Once consider
February 14, 2024
Melio Raises $250M
February 14, 2024
A Deal of Biblical Proportions
Michael Eisenberg attended the first-ever Business Summit of the Abraham Accords in Abu Dhabi, and says lsrae
February 14, 2024
Eran Shir, Nexar — Aleph DreamBuilders
Nexar CEO Eran Shir says he never met a pessimistic entrepreneur. Intrigued by the challenges of mobi
February 14, 2024
Aleph’s New Partner
February 14, 2024
Bringg Raises $100M at $1B Valuation
Bringg, a last-mile delivery platform for retailers, helps companies scale up and optimize their custom
February 14, 2024
Games and the Economy
Digital games teach us that economies should be expressions of culture, says Michael Eisenberg. He explores the econom
February 14, 2024
Michael’s New Book
The most successful companies of the 21st century are values-driven, because the best way to be successful is to make oth
February 14, 2024
Invest in Relationships
In an era of transactional investing, Michael Eisenberg says relationships are both scarce and proprietary. Reflecti
February 14, 2024
Aleph’s Latest Investment
February 14, 2024
Announcing Fund IV
We are pleased to announce Aleph IV, a $300 million fund. We are humbled and honored by the ongoing support of our LPs, t
February 14, 2024
Trullion Raises $15M
Trullion raised $15M in a Series A funding round, as they continue to create business transparency by powering real-tim
February 14, 2024
Placer Raises $100M
February 14, 2024
anecdotes Raises $25M
February 14, 2024
RiseUp Raises $30M
February 14, 2024
Coralogix Raises $142M
February 14, 2024
Unit Raises $100M
February 14, 2024
Healthy.io Receives FDA Clearance
Healthy.io received landmark FDA clearance for Minuteful Kidney, holding promise to reduce dialysis rates
February 14, 2024
Raftt Emerges From Stealth
February 14, 2024
Agora Raises $20M
February 14, 2024
SecuriThings Raises $21M
February 14, 2024
AutoLeadStar Raises $40M
February 14, 2024
I am a very disorganized person. There. I said it. Whenever I make this point, though, people I work with smirk and say, “Yeah, right, sure
February 14, 2024
Almost all blogs on budgets begin with some statement on how tedious yet important budgets are. This one is no different (Budgets are tediou
February 14, 2024
The Community Factor
Tamar Abramson, Community Lead at RiseUp, shares how their community led to massive product adoption and real social ch
February 14, 2024
A few weeks ago, Eden prompted a casual Facebook conversation about a cap table he reviewed that was beyond repair. Our community expressed
February 14, 2024
This is a story about a spreadsheet that started on a whim. I keep a list of seed investors that I’d send to entrepreneurs when I thought th
February 14, 2024
This blog post was written with Yam Goddard following a meetup for the Aleph portfolio designers community.
February 14, 2024
Time spent on optimizing time is time well spent. I’m writing this post to share how I manage my time, which is usually split between managi
February 14, 2024
Most people do not have enough information to properly evaluate the offer they receive, compare it against industry benchmarks, negotiate it
February 14, 2024
In my previous post (see here) I discussed the ramifications of the Israeli 102 Section approach to taxation of stock option grants and its
February 14, 2024
An employer brand is defined as a company’s reputation as a place to work and its employee value proposition. Big firms spend millions of do
February 14, 2024
A How To Guide on how to maximize user testing for interpreting analytics and evaluating decisions.
February 14, 2024
Five lessons I learned from bringing new technologies to the world’s biggest companies
February 14, 2024
There are very few lawyers who actually love their job (or admit they do). I was one of them. Five years ago, I was working as a tech lawyer
February 14, 2024
Every couple months, we hold a workshop where executives of larger (10M+ users) companies share their experiences and best practices with a
February 14, 2024
Every time Aleph General Partner Tomer Diari dropped the words “crypto” or “Web3'’ into a conversation here at Aleph, he would be greeted wi
February 14, 2024
A year ago I returned from maternity leave with my second daughter, right in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. After months of homescho
February 14, 2024
We, Aleph, were the trigger for Sarah Lacy’s thought-provoking post on the premature celebration of Israel’s arrival as an internet/mobile “
February 14, 2024
As Aleph’s one year anniversary approaches, we wanted to publicly revisit our commitment to our limited partners and entrepreneurs. Our five
February 14, 2024
We are thrilled to announce that Eran Shir will be joining Aleph as an Entrepreneur In Residence.
February 14, 2024
Oona Rokyta (Image courtesy of Waggener Edstrom) I have a default setting. It’s to convey to people how they may be seen by others. For as l
February 14, 2024
What a beautiful coastline to host some of the greatest entrepreneurs out there today. On Israel Independence day last week, the press repor
February 14, 2024
If you are reading this and know who Conduit or Wix are for more than 2 years, you are probably Israeli. In fact, as I sat on their boards,
February 14, 2024
You have probably heard of Google I/O. Unless you are an Israeli “Maker” like me, you probably have not heard of Geekcon. So why was I invit
February 14, 2024
I have spent much of the last 20 years of my life investing in entrepreneurs trying to change the world through innovation. These entreprene
February 14, 2024
A few months ago, I talked about Geekcon and what a special experience it is every year for geeks to come together, learn from each other th
February 14, 2024
This post was written in light of the Aleph.bet: Creating your Startup Culture which took place in March 19th, 2015.
February 14, 2024
Some things take a while but are well worth the wait. We spent a year trying to convince Ron Gura to join the Aleph family as an entrepreneu
February 14, 2024
As you start down the path of growing a huge company that enters all sorts of markets successfully, you’re going to be thinking about all so
February 14, 2024
We are looking for a product & data buff for an internship role at Aleph. When Michael & I set out to create Aleph, we decided to make it an
February 14, 2024
There’s got to be a science to pitching that will secure you buckets of funding, right? Add x and y, multiply by 5 and divide by 2.7 to arri
February 14, 2024
We recently brought Marty Cagan over to Israel to work with some of our companies. Marty has a 30 year history in defining and building prod
February 14, 2024
For those still not familiar with Aleph.bet, it is our growth workshop. Every two months or so we hold a session where executives of larger
February 14, 2024
This week saw a remarkable display of action from Israel’s high tech entrepreneurial leaders to save our community’s reputation from irreput
February 14, 2024
I am sure any engineer or executive at a Unicorn company or a tech company valued at hundreds of millions of dollars is sitting around askin
February 14, 2024
I’m hardly a feminist. I admit that in law school I viewed all the feminist law/philosophy classes as “out-of-date” and targeted at angry wo
February 14, 2024
Aaron shares Aleph’s core values and hallmark qualities: a tireless work ethic on behalf of entrepreneurs; Zionism; business ethics; transpa
February 14, 2024
When I chose the name for my personal blog (sixkidsandafulltimejob), I looked for something that would be a conversation starter. I realized
February 14, 2024
We are a network in service of entrepreneurs. A network that builds services for entrepreneurs. Having just celebrated another anniversary a
February 14, 2024
In Pirkei Avot (“Ethics of the Fathers”, part of the Jewish oral tradition), there is an outline of some different ways that people acquire
February 14, 2024
Over the last decade, we have seen the “Startup Nation” story become a main Israeli narrative, worldwide. The world’s opinion of Israel is t
February 14, 2024
Please join me in welcoming two new members to the Aleph family: Nadav “Wiz” Weizmann as an Entrepreneur in Residence and Mor Sela as an Eng
February 14, 2024
Not long after news of Intel’s acquisition of Mobileye leaked, the inevitable melancholy about the selling out of scale-up nation hit my Fac
February 14, 2024
A few years ago, I dedicated my life to the first 2 years of the wonderful Onavo. I thought I knew what Founders, Startups and Venture Capit
February 14, 2024
In this new capacity, I’ll be joining the company’s global leadership team and among my many missions ahead I am establishing WeWork’s produ
February 14, 2024
In How to Castrate a Bull: Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business, NetApp founder, Dave Hitz, skillfully retells the ba
February 14, 2024
When I joined Google in 2010, I was shocked to learn that every secret project the company was working on, every strategy, almost every plan
February 14, 2024
Almost two years ago, my wife and I went to a highly enjoyable Bon Jovi concert in Park Hayarkon, Tel Aviv. The band was in top form and pla
February 14, 2024
Six weeks ago, Tzvika, our head of platform encouraged me to include a small link in my email signature asking “Can Aleph help you make Aliy
February 14, 2024
When I first entered the Israeli venture capital business some two decades ago, there were certain canonical beliefs about how to build a su
February 14, 2024
A year ago, we decided to pack our office on Rothschild 32 and move for one year to WeWork’s then recently opened office in Sarona. We wante
February 14, 2024
The last week has been a whirlwind at the Aleph portfolio. Lemonade, which is now a household name in insurance and not beverages, announced
February 14, 2024
Sometimes you need to get lucky. But as Jim Collins says in Good To Great, “The critical question is not ‘Are you lucky?’ but ‘Do you get a
February 14, 2024
This series was written in light of a talk I gave at the Aleph.Bet: Building a Successful SaaS Business workshop which took place on Februar
February 14, 2024
TLDR: After 4 years of activity, 4514 questions, 23856 answers and 6614 appreciations, we have decided to shutdown the Karma app as we know
February 14, 2024
This is the second part of our two-part series focused on exploring metrics for when you’re in the growth stage of building your start-up.
February 14, 2024
Hi everyone — my name is Uri Ar and I’m joining Aleph as an EIR. I think the E is supposed to stand for Experience Designer. Right now it st
February 14, 2024
They come from 10 different countries and speak 8 languages. Now they want to help Israeli startups succeed in the global market.
February 14, 2024
Startup founders often underestimate the importance of preparing for an announcement and think they can hire a PR firm to do all the heavy l
February 14, 2024
Once upon a time there was a girl who loved telling stories. Before she even knew how to write, she would dictate them into her father’s dic
February 14, 2024
As we enter 2019, I think we are on the cusp of a massive transformation in tech, communication and community. In my last blog post, Long Hu
February 14, 2024
The IPO Boom is Over. What Should Your Startup Do Instead?
February 14, 2024
Starting a vertical SaaS, or vertical software company, can be a great move for entrepreneurs who want to avoid fierce competition and crowd
February 14, 2024
“Companies are going to start running out of money," says Yael Elad, in the latest video of our Partner Perspective series. "And they are go
February 14, 2024
How did sales cycles change in the second half of 2022 and what was their effect on B2B businesses? “So all in all, the fact that sales cycl
February 14, 2024
“I’m trying to come up with the next generation Twilio, the next generation Auth0, the next generation Stripe…” says Tomer Diari, in the lat
February 14, 2024
“Companies should focus on capital conservation, which they can do in two ways,” says Yael Elad, as she discusses the short and long-term im
February 14, 2024
What could you accomplish with 100 super capable employees that have the full knowledge of the world, and that you can train to do anything
February 14, 2024
Contrary to popular belief, starting a horizontal SaaS sets your company up for all kinds of obstacles and challenges - not the least of whi
February 14, 2024
Businesses close. It's an unfortunate but common reality of entrepreneurship, and not something to be ashamed of. As Yael Elad, Operating Pa
February 14, 2024
Where to incorporate is a decades-old question, and it's been asked by Israeli founders since the tech industry has existed. In this Partner
February 14, 2024
Right now, every company thinks that having a separate AI group is the way to go. That's wrong, says Eden Shochat, VC and Equal Partner and
February 14, 2024
How I Raised $6.5M for My AI Startup: 4 Tips for Entrepreneurs
February 14, 2024
Web3 Experts on The Future of Web3 Security: How to Hack the Unhackable, and What We Can Do About it
February 14, 2024
Meet the CEO of the Biggest Ground & Sea Transportation Platform in the World: Travelier
February 14, 2024
Here's Your Playbook for Building a Vertical Software Company That Captures Your Market
February 14, 2024
Meet Ampliphy: Automating Serendipity at Scale
February 14, 2024
The State of Tech Investing in Israel, with Michael Eisenberg | CNBC Money Movers
February 14, 2024
The Future of AI
February 14, 2024
How to Cultivate a Startup Culture of Growth (Hebrew)
February 14, 2024
What it Really Means to be an Entrepreneur | Our Founders Share Their Stories
February 14, 2024
[Teaser] Aleph: Tales from the Crypto - Incentive Systems in Web3
February 14, 2024
[Full Panel] Aleph: Tales from the Crypto - Incentive Systems in Web3
February 14, 2024
Aleph – Urica Employer Branding Workshop Clip
February 14, 2024
Tamara Harel-Cohen, Yuval Samet, Iftach Bar, RiseUp - Aleph DreamBuilders
February 14, 2024
Eran Shir, Nexar - Aleph DreamBuilders
February 14, 2024
Michael Eisenberg Talks to Oxford MBA Students - April, 2020
February 14, 2024
Aleph in Shorts: Yael Elad - How to Extend Your Runway in Times of Crisis
February 14, 2024
Michael Eisenberg and Jonathan Medved at OurCrowd Summit 2020
February 14, 2024
Ami Daniel, Windward – Aleph DreamBuilders
February 14, 2024
Eden’s Guide to Time Management
February 14, 2024
Productivity Enemies
February 14, 2024
Productivity Friends
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