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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

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Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Jumpspeed invests exclusively in pre-seed and seed-stage startups from the Jerusalem startup ecosystem. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t?

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

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In late 2018, the company raised $75 million Series C from Sequoia, arguably the top VC firm in the world. When covering a story of a mishandled altercation between members of The Wing that involved issues of race, Jezebel referred to The Wing as “a glossy women’s coworking space we keep having to write about.” Also, it pisses me off.