{"id":1455,"date":"2020-04-05T09:56:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T09:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2020-04-05T09:56:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T09:56:42","slug":"q1-sets-a-new-record-for-money-raised-by-israeli-start-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/2020\/04\/05\/q1-sets-a-new-record-for-money-raised-by-israeli-start-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Q1 Sets a New Record For Money Raised by Israeli Start-Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"936\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image-7.png 936w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image-7-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image-7-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image-7-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image-7-265x198.png 265w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image-7-696x522.png 696w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image-7-560x420.png 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel was on its way to another high in terms of startup growth and funding, until COVID-19 hit. During the first quarter, Israeli high-tech firms raised $2.74 billion, in a total of 139 deals. This represents an increase of 76% from the first quarter of 2019 and compares to $2.34 billion, in a total of 138 deals raised during the fourth quarter of 2019. The largest single deal was made by Via Transport, which raised $400 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, since the first signs of the looming COVID-19 crisis, only four seed rounds have been funded. It is too soon to know for sure, but, Israeli startups that have not recently raised significant funds, or are not near-cash positive, may find the coming months a considerable challenge. VC money is expected to become harder to obtain amidst the global pandemic and economic recession\/depression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel was on its way to another high in terms of startup growth and funding, until COVID-19 hit. During the first quarter, Israeli high-tech firms raised $2.74 billion, in a total of 139 deals. This represents an increase of 76% from the first quarter of 2019 and compares to $2.34 billion, in a total of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1456,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/1456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}