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Israel’s startup ecosystem powers ahead, amid a year of change

TechCrunch

It wasn’t long before venture capital firms started up and major tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Samsung had R&D centers and accelerators located in the country. Jerusalem’s economy and therefore startup scene suffered after the second Intifada (the Palestinian uprising that began in late September 2000 and ended around 2005).

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How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years

Y Combinator

The only model of institutional seed funding was the “business incubator” model, where VC firms would fund well-connected founders they knew and incubate them in their office. Many traditional biotech investors are still looking for the controlling legal terms that went out of vogue in tech in the early 2000’s.