State of Seed Investing in Israel — 2018

We asked the country’s top seed VCs about their investment…

PropTech Market Map — November 2018

An overview of the Israeli startups tackling the world’s largest asset class

As a venture capital firm with deep ties to the real estate industry, we’ve been diving into the PropTech arena…

Why we invested in Neighborhood Goods

In honor of the biggest shopping day of the year and in celebration of the opening of their…

Active Seed Investors in Israel

Part of our mission at Ground Up Ventures is to make the process of raising a first round of institutional funding less painful and more transparent for pre-seed and seed stage startups. Not every company is a great fit for every investor and not every investor is a great…

My next adventure: Ground Up Ventures

Over the past few years, I’ve been fortunate to have a front-row seat to the exploding…

Cheers to the goalies: how to sneak your startup pitch past the venture capital gatekeepers.

With the conclusion of the World Cup this week, we want to take the time to celebrate the goalies. The ultimate gatekeepers. After being “gatekeepers” ourselves over the…

Growing the Ground Up team

When David and I started Ground Up, we weren’t sure what role we would look to fill with our first hire: a CFO, an admin, an office mascot…

But as a fund that is predicated on the belief that our companies should be able to view us as an extension of their…